How to Collect Old Furniture. By Frederick Litchfield. (George Bell
and Sons. 5s. net.)—Mr. Litchfield divides his subject in a convenient manner. The first two chapters are given to kinds of furniture which are likely to come in the way of an English collector,—Jacobean and Renaissance. He goes on to speak of the subject under the headings of various nationalities,—French, Italian, and Dutch. In chap. 6 we hear about English furniture of the eighteenth century, as connected with the familiar names of Chippendale, Sheraton, &c. This is followed by a chapter on nineteenth-century work, and this, again, by some seasonable cautions on "faked" furniture, and other devices for entrapping the unwary. The general purport of his counsel is this : employ an agent to buy for you, or get what you want from an agent after the sale is over.
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