Venezia. By Henry Perl. Adapted from the German by Mrs.
Arthur Bell (N. D'Anvers). With Introduction by H. D. Traill, D.C.L. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a chatty, pleasant book about Venice and things and persons Venetian. History, art (pictorial, architectural, and other), social life, every subject, in fact, that an observer who keeps his eyes open to see what is going on about him, and a reader well acquainted with the Italian shelves of his library, would naturally deal with, is represented here. As for the style, there is a gaiety and lightness .about it, well represented in the translation, which one would hardly expect, considering the nationality of the author. And here occurs a curious consideration. The illustrations, which are both good and abundant, are the work of Italian artists (with, we imagine from the name, one exception). Among these are Signori Ettore Tito, M. Pagani, C. Laurento. But though the art is Italian, it is indebted for an adequate exposition, literary and mechanical, to the once hated Tedeschi. The writer of the letterpress is, sis we have said, a German, and " the illustrations are printed in Vienna" by Emil M. Engel.
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