13 AUGUST 1881, Page 22

We have received Parts 1, 2, and 3 of a

new and extended series of Vere Foster's excellent series of Drawing Books (Blackie and Son), the water-colour sketches and instructions in which are contributed by Messrs. Richardson, Leitch, Houston, Rowbotham, Duncan, and Needham. The same publishers send the first three parts of a series of Easy Studies in Water-Colour Painting, by R. C. Leitch and J. Callow.