VENICE AND SAN FRANCISCO.
Venice: the City of the Sea; and San Francisco : the City of the Golden Gate. By Joseph Pennell. (T. N. Foulis. le. 641. each net in wrapper; 2e. 6d. each net bound in Japanese vellum.)—Mr. Pennell's pictures are reproduced in photogravure in both these attractive little volumes. In the ease of Venice the illustrations are "accompanied by notes from the writings of John Ruskin, Lord Houghton, John Addington Symonds, Byron, Beaconsfield, D'Annunzio, and others." The result is pleasing, for the notes are well chosen ; and though most of them are as familiar to us all as is, at any rate, the pictured outline of the façade of St. Mark's, we are glad to read them again while we enjoy these examples of Mr. Pennell's art. The San Francisco is, perhaps, a less engaging little volume, as the literary flavour is wanting, but the artist shows us the city under many interesting aspects of light and shade.
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