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Days With Sir Roger De Corerley, Illustrated By Hugh Thomson

(Macmillan), is a reprint of the famous papers, the spirit of which the artist has caught with success, though his pictures sometimes look too much like caricatures. "Sir......

Amateur Work. Edited By The Author Of "every Man His

Own Mechanic." Vol. V. (Ward and Lock.)—This new volume of Amateur Work is likely to be as useful as its predecessors. Not Quid- quid agunt, but Quidquid faciunt homines, is its......

Current Literature.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. The Art Journal, 1886. (J. S. 'Virtue and Co.)—The Art journal is, we believe, the oldest of its class of periodicals, and still holds its own against younger......

We Have Received, And Gladly Commend To The Attention Of

our readers, a new edition of Rome : its Churches, Monuments, Art, and Antiquities. (Virtue and Co.)—Mr. Way's book was noticed on its appearance some time ago in this journal.......

English And American Art.*

THE first of these works is very elaborately got up, each of the fifteen numbers in which it is issued being contained in a pale-pink portfolio designed with great daintiness......

Well - Worn Roads In Spain, Holland, And Italy. By F....

Smith. (J. C. Nimmo.)—Mr. F. H. Smith is an American artist (if he did not tell us his nationality, it would be revealed by the curious phrase, "the voice of an angel, and an......

Reminiscences Of The Indian. And Colonial Exhibition....

Cundall. (Clowes and Sons.)—This handsome volume, brought out with the sanction of the Royal Commission, will doubtless meet with a welcome. It seems a pity that so curious a......

More "graphic" Pictures. By Randolph Caldecott....

some seventy pages of sketches in colours,— " How Tankerville Smith took a Country House with a Fixture,'" "How Mr. Oakhall found Consolatiorr at-Florence," and others which......