27 NOVEMBER 1875, Page 22

Leaves from a Sketch-book. By S. Read. (Sampson Low, Marston,

and Co.)—All these pencil sketches have appeared before in the Illustrated London News, and gain in excellence by being printed on. fine paper. They comprise quiet bits of scenery and architecture is England and Scotland, France and Belgium, Germany and. Spain, and though unpretentious, are artistically drawn. Mr.•R. Acton limpsup- plied brief historical and Antiquarian notices of the localities. The volume is handsomely got up and bound.