In the series of "Beautiful England" (Blackie and Son, 2s.
net per vol.) we have before us three volumes, The English Lakes, Oxford, and Canterbury. The drawings, which are in colour, are all by Mr. E. W. Hazlehust, and there are twelve in each volume. On the whole, we prefer those in which the English Lakes are pictured, and among these Bassenthwaite Lake and Derwent- water, with their very different schemes of colour, seem the best. We doubt whether the selection of subjects in the Oxford volume is the best. The High Street, pronounced by excellent judges to be the finest street in the world, might have replaced the Clarendon Building or Iffiey Mill, which, beautiful as it is, has nothing academic about it: The description in this volume is written by Mr. F. D. How, and serves its purpose well,—Mr. How, we see, does justice to Merton as being practically the earliest of the Colleges. Mr. A. G. Bradley writes about the Lakes, a subject which suits him exactly, and Canon Danko gives us a very interesting account of Canterbury.
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