24 APRIL 1897, Page 11

A Venetian June. By Anna Fuller. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—

Miss Fuller makes us realise very thoroughly the Venetian atmo- sphere. And the place, with all its varied interests, is peopled for us by her imagination with some remarkable figures. Perhaps the finest study among them is Nanni, the brother of the gondolier Vittorio, whom the Colonel has helped to rise from the humble rank in which he was born to a professional standing. He has not lost his skill with the oar, and, returning for a holiday to Venice, he takes his brother's place, not a little to the perplexity of his old patron's kinswomen. The Colonel himself is a pathetically picturesque figure.