Royal Palaces ancl,Gardene. By Mime Nixon. With an Introductory Essay
by Dion Clayton Calthrop. (A. and C. Black. 20s. net.)—" I have often dreamed that I have met a king," so Mr. Calthrop begins his introductory chapter, and then takes his readers, some of whom are perhaps less magnificent in their .dreams, into a series of gardens in the company of a talkative monarch. There they proceed to discuss *and compare Italian, French, and English gardens. After this -we come to the actual Royal Palaces, with Miss Nixon's sixty full-page illus. *rations and short descriptive letterpress by various pens. The three- colour process is rampant in all its freakishness, and the lawns of .Buckingham Palace or the roses and einerarias of .Corfu are allgarishly travestied. The Hun and the Austro-Hun gardens are here with the rest, and we wonder what has been the fate of the-Queen-of the Belgians' I attractive-looking - orangery at Laeken. The original sketch of the Danish Castle of Frederikaborg must have been an interesting piece of colour, with its red brick, blue water, and gorgeously fading :trees, and is striking even in its present state. .Miss Nixon's profits will be devoted to Queen Alexandra's Field Force Fund, and besides the ordinary edition there is an edition de luxe at £2 2s.
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