21 FEBRUARY 1863, Page 22

The Industry, Science, and Art of the Age. By John

Timbs, F.S.A. (Lockwood and Co.)—Under this title the indefatigable Mr. Timbs has produced a succinct ticcount, divested of dry official detail, of the rise, progress, and completion of the great International Exhibition of 1862 The book is another example of its author's well-known skill in com- pressing a large amount of information into a marvellously small space. We are not quite sure that Mr. Timbs's hope that his work will prove 4i attractive and entertaining as a volume of recreative reading " is likely to be entirely realized ; but we have no doubt that he has suc- ceeded in producing a book which, as a cheap and compact memorial of the great Exhibition, can scarcely fail to be acceptable to a large section of the public.