Etchings on the 3fosel. With Descriptive Letterpress. By Ernest George.
(Murray.)—This is a very beautiful book. From the preface we learn that these views on the Mosel are nearly, if not quite, the artist's first published etchings, though Mr. George is not unknown to the public, having given us some views of German towns, repainted from pen-and-ink sketches by the "anastatic " process. We congratulate him on his success with the copper-plate. These etchings seem to us singularly fine, at once delicate and effective. It is difficult to select any where all are so attractive, but perhaps our greatest favourites are Plates 2, 5, and 19. The last, the Ferry at Aiken in harvest time, is uncommonly good ; the clear reflections in the water and the distant mountains are given very happily, while, too, the old Rothes-Hans at Trier (or Treves) (Plate 5)—of the market-place with the fountain, and the Rothes-Haus, we retain affectionate recollections—form a very pretty picture. But it is impossible to enumerate the beauties of this volume. The reader with a taste for art must get it for himself, and study minutely and at his leisure its various plates, a not impro- bable ending to which would be a desire to follow in the artist's steps next summer, and compare notes with him. It is quite one of the most attractive of the Christmas volumes that we have seen.
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