Oriental Carpets, Runners, and Rugs. By Sydney Humphries. (A. and
C. Black. 42s. net.)—We cannot attempt to give an artistic or technical estimate of this book, but must be content with a brief description. Among the illustrations we have repre- sentations of carpets, &c., either actually Oriental or Jacquard reproductions (of these there are twenty-four), and also various cognate subjects, portraits, for instance, of Colbert and Jacquard, drawings of the Taj Mahal, a portrait of Shah Abbas the Great, &c. As for the letterpress, it is of the most varied character, decidedly more readable than what we sometimes find in books of this kind. It is full of history and anecdote. (We may mention, it propos of what Mr. Humphries says about Persia, that there are definite statements about the wealth of that country. There never was such an accumulation of gold as Alexander found at Persepolis and Susa,—except, it may be, in the Bank of France at the present moment.)
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