Mr. Percy M. Stone is engaged on a work of
very considerable interest, The Architectural Antiquities of the Isle of Wight from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries. (The Author, 16 Great Marl- borough Street.) We have received two parts, the first taking in "The East Medine," the names of Arreton, Bonchurch, Godshill, Quarr Abbey, Whippingham, and Wootton, with others ; the second " The West Medine," with Appuldurcombe, Nunwell, and Saynham. Both civil and ecclesiastical buildings are dealt with, being described with copious illustrations and carefully collected information, historical and arch teological.—We have also received the last series of a very handsome work, Bush Friends in Tasmania, by Louisa Anne Meredith. (Macmillan.)— By "Bush Friends," are meant natives, flowers, fruits, and insects." These Mrs. Meredith describes with pen and pencil, both skilful, though it is in the latter that her special gift may be said to lie. Here are some of her verses :- " We have no • daisies pied' to pick,No cowslips to make wine of, We see not a on the blessed stars Onr childhood loved the shine of.
I yearn for distant dear ones here, Pot Old World art and beauty, But guardians twain still cheer my heart, God's love and woman's duty.
That sheddeth mercies o'er our path, Bow far beyond deserving!
This .bindeth in content this heart Too prone to errant swerving."
Another handsome illustrated work is In the Days When We Went Hog-hunting, by J. Moray Brown. (John Haddon and Co.)
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