3 NOVEMBER 1883, Page 23

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a very stately

volume, Art. and Letters,1883. Edited by J. Comyns Carr. (Remington and Co.) —There are more than three hundred and fifty folio pages, and a not far inferior number of illustrations, some of them of great merit. The literature is chiefly represented by a tale by Mrs. Comyns Carr, "La Fortunina," the scene of which is laid among the Italian folk whom the writer knows so well how to describe. All this is enclosed between covers gorgeous with colour and gold.