The Danes of Death. (Bell and Sons.) — This is
a little book reproducing Holbein's famous designs. In an intro- ductory note Mr. Austin Dobson tells us that the earliest known edition was printed at Lyons in 1538 by the Trechsel Brothers. The woodcutting of the originals is held by experts to be of extraordinary excellence, and it is, therefore, to be re- gretted that in the present reprint the copies engraved fot
Douce's edition (1833) have been used instead of photographic reproductions of the originals.
Three volumes of reprints of Mr. Ruskin's works have been received from Mr. George Allen. They are The Art and Pleasures of England ; Our Fathers have Told Us, The Bible of Amiens; and The Stones of Venice, Vol. L (10s.) These well-known works reprinted in cheap form will not alter the estimate already formed of their author. This estimate is usually extreme, whether it be favourable or the reverse.
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