A PICTURE-BOOK OF NUREMBERG.
Nuremberg. Painted by Arthur G. Bell. Described by Mrs. Arthur G. BelL (A. and C. Black. 75. 6d. net.)—This is an attractive specimen of Messrs. Black's smaller series of books illustrated in colour. Many are the tourists who have been drawn to Nuremberg by the old city's mediaeval fame--" Niirn- berg's Hand geht durch alle Land "—and have been more or less
disenchanted. Manufacturing suburbs, a cloud of smoke, modern streets and buildings, the full swing of modern commercial life,— all this does away with illusions, and some people have been known to wish that Nuremberg had remained, for them, a city of the imagination. But Mr. Bell's pretty drawings and Mrs. Bell's interesting and intelligent descriptions are reassuring. They prove that there is enough left of old Nuremberg, of the city of Kaiser Max, of Adam Kraft, Peter Vischer, Veit Stoss, Michael Wolgemut, Hans Sachs, Albrecht Darer, to make it still a fitting place of pilgrimage. Artists can yet find plenty of material with which to brighten the work of historians. Mrs. Bell gives an excellent account of the city from its earliest days, and it is a truly romantic history, for she has wisely included all those legends and traditions which account for so much in the life of an old German town. The very atmosphere is heroic, from Frederick Barbarossa to the Burg-graves, the early Hohenzollern, and that ideal prince, the Emperor Maximilian
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