30 MARCH 1867, Page 23

A. Handbook of the Art of Illumination as Practised during

the Middle Ages. By Henry Shaw, F.S.A. (Bell and Daldy.)—Mr. Henry Shaw has produced a volume which, though sumptuous in its way and beautiful in every way, is comparatively cheap and modest. He has been content with wood engravings, and admirable ones, which repro- duce the delicacy and the careful drawing of the illuminated missals, but do not give an exact idea of their gorgeous colours. Yet we shall be surprised if Mr. Shaw's readers do not rise from his pages and adjourn to the British. Museum.