15 OCTOBER 1864, Page 22

The Rained Castles of North Wales. With photographic illustrations by

Sedgfield, Bedford, and Ambrose. (Alfred W. Bennett.)—This pretty little drawing-room volume contains some half-dozen photographs on a small scale, but of quite extraordinary clearness and beauty. The points of view, too, are well selected and display considerable artistic ability on the part of the photographers ; especially we would notice Mr. Bedford's Carnarvon Castle. There is a concise and perspicuous account of the castles which are the subjects of illustration, and a des- cription of an Eisteddfod from the pen of Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt which. no one will object to as an excrescence. Paper and print are excellent, and the binding is very elegant. The whole volume would make a pretty present.