11 FEBRUARY 1893, Page 23

Handbook of House - Property and Fine - Art. By Edward Lance Tarbuck. (Crostry

Lockwood and Son.)—The popularity of Mr. Tarbuck's curious melange of house-property and fine-art (in cer- tain of its applications), of matter-of-fact and sentiment, is testi- fied to by the fact that it has reached a fifth edition, in which form it is, owing to the revision and correction that have taken place, practically a new book. The author has added a new chapter entitled "Retrospective and Prospective," which is not less effusive than its predecessors, and is so far encouraging, for we are told that "in this country various signs seem to promise the likelihood of future development of sensible architecture, beginning with private endeavours in domestic habitations."