The many people who like old furniture and collect it
in a modest way will be uncommonly pleased with the superb - picture-book which Mr. Oliver Brackett has just edited for Messrs. Ernest Bean. He calls it .4n Encyclopaedia of English Furniture (42s.), but his sub-title, A Pictorial Review, is more accurate, for the three hundred photographic plates almost fill the volume, and the text, though sound, is very brief. Asi furniture can only be judged by the trained eye, it follows that the more one sees of first-rate specimens, if only in photographs, the less likely is one to be deceived by the unscrupulous. In any case, Mr.. Brackett's astonishingly large and Varied col- lection of fine pieces will delight the amateur and interest the expert. The Treasury and the City Companies own some of the best things here illustrated. •
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