The Portfolio, October. Edited by P. G. Hamerton. (Seeley and
Co.)—The monograph this month is on "Bookbinding in France," and is from the pen of Mr. William G. Fletcher. Probably the public to which it is addressed is less extensive than that which is interested in some of its predecessors,—in "Wedgwood," for instance, or "Malta." (Why not give a list In each of the previous numbers, which are far too good to pass into oblivion with most periodical literature P) But then this public is enthusiastic and appreciative, and it will certainly value very highly this work on their hobby. The illustrations are marvellously good. The coloured plates, in particular, are so good that to look at them gives almost the same delight as to look at the volume which they represent. The text illustrations -are admirable in their way also ; but the figuring of the " Prin- cipe " of Machiavelli by Grollier, and of " Dionysius the Areo- pagite," from the library of Catherine de Medici, is extraordinary.
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