ENGLISH COSTUME.
English Costume. Painted and Described by Dion Clayton Calthrop. " Tudor and Stuart." (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.) —Mr. Calthrop follows up his volumes describing " Early English" and " Middle Ages " costume with a third. It is as painstaking, as well illustrated, and, when one thinks of what it all means, as suggestive as its predecessors. On the whole, we seem to see an advance. There is more meaning in the extravagances. The trunk breeches, stuffed out so that special seats had to be pro- vided in the Houses of Parliament for Members who wore them, were absurd, but not so absurd as the shoes with curling toes more than a foot long which were one of the fashions of an earlier age. The women's fashions were somewhat more extravagant than those of the men, but not in the proportion that one would expect. And man has now reached a simplicity which indicates a development of good sense ; woman's advance has been much less.
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