EASTLAKE'S EDITION OF KUGLER'S ITALIAN SCIIGOL8. * A third edition of
this standard art guide oomes opportunely to remind one of Sir-Charles Eastlake's literary services to the cause of painting, now that he holds his third important office in the world of British art. 'Whether considered on its own intrinsic merits in respect of copious in- formation and critical standing, or simply as one of "hurray's Hand- books," the work is too familiar -already to call for any characterisation. The present edition is distinguished chiefly by the appearance of upwards of twenty additional illustrations—chiefly of the first period of Christian art and of the early fifteenth-century masters; and by a well-written concluding essay on the First Century of Italian Engraving, from the pen of Mr. Francis Turner Palgrave ; to whom also we suppose that various scattered notes with the signature " l'.".belong. The increase of engravings —the total want of which in the first edition, published in 1841, left it con- siderably inferior to the second edition, and still more so to the third— shows the intelligent care bestowed upon the getting-up of the work : most of. hose in which some advance has been made upon the style of strict outline bear a very close resemblance to Mr. Harvey's renderings of the same subjects in a little compilation made by Mrs. Jameson. The index, nominally of "places referred to"—in which the pictures mentioned • Handbook of Painting. The Italian Schools. Translated from.the German of .FLu$ler, by a Lady. Edited, with Notes, by Sir Charles L. Eastlake, F.B.S., P,R.A. Third edition. With more than one hundred Illustrations from the Works of the Old Masters; drawn on Wood by Geo. Scharf junior. Published by Murray.
in the text as examples of the several masters appear arranged under the rutmes of the cities and buildings containing them—is a very convenient one for the traveller.
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