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Mr. Willard's History Of Modern Italian Art (longmans And...

18s.) is somewhat depressing. In turning over the pages and in looking at the illustrations, it is impossible not to exclaim, "How are the mighty fallen." It seems sad that the......

The Frank Lockwood Sketch Book. (edward At Gold. 10e 6d

)- The sketches which the late Sir Frank Lockwood poured out with such facility have undeniable humour. They are not like the drawings of many caricaturists, where the humour is......

Short Sketches Of Long Romances. (simpkin And Co. 6d.) —...

author has compressed the Arthurian Legend, the Nibelungenlied, the Song of Roland, the Cid, Amadis of Gaul, and Orlando Folios° into a book of thirty-six pages, measuring 4 in.......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this Heading we intend to notice such Hooks of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Volcanoes: their Structure and Origin. By T. G. Bonney,......

Chinese Porcelain. By W. G. Gulland. With Notes By T.

J. Larkin. (Chapman and Hall. 10s. 6d.)—This is a fully illus- trated handbook treating the subject technically from the earliest known specimens of the art down to the present......

Ruskin : Rossetti: Preraphaelitisin — Papers 1854 To...

6d.)—These letters and extracts from diaries have been arranged by Mr. W. M. Rossetti. who has supplied interesting notes wherever they were wanted. There are a number of D. G.......

The Story Of Marco Polo. By Noah Brooks. (john Murray.

6s.)—Mr. Brooks has given us Marco Polo's adventures in a thoroughly readable form. He says that he " has made use of the erudite notes of fo rm. Henry Yule, C.B., whose......

The Catalogue Of The T - Eguare Club.—it Is With Great...

that we have looked at the architectural drawings in the Catalogue of the exhibition of the T-Square Club of Philadelphia. The interest of American architecture is great. In......

George Markham : A Romance Of The West. By Mrs.

Mayne Reid. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 2s. 6d.)—This is the story of an excellent young man who in a misguided moment married an elderly adventuress, and was wretched ever......