SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this hrading we notice such 33004 of the week as have sot NM retorted for review in other forms.} The Mansions of England in the Olden Time. By Joseph Nash'. With Introduction by Reginald Blomfield. (W. Heinemann. 30s. net.)—This is a book well known by name, and many, we are sure, will be glad to have this reproduction of it. There are 104 plates, thirty-two of this number being in colour. Among them we see Levens in Westmorland (fierce plates), Littlecote (the Hall with its rare specimen of a shovel board), Haddon Hall (five plates), Hatfield, Kenilworth, Knowle (six plates), Penshurst, Bmmhalt, Compton Winyatos, Spoke Hall (four plates), Hampton Court, and the Mote, Ightham. All the halls and chambers are peopled with men and women who may bo supposed to have come out of Sir Walter Scott's novels.
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