SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bc.n reserved for review in other forms.]
Gardens, Old and New. (G. Newnes and Co. 42s. net.)—This is a sew volume of "The Country Life Library." Its contents are sufficiently indicated by the title, but it requires inspection to appreciate their quality. The illustrations are as beautiful as they are abundant. They are, of course, reproductions of photo- graphs. No other method could have been applied. Indeed, no more convincing proof that the photograph is indispensable :ould have been found. Such a book as this would have been a aheer impossibility in earlier times. And now the photograph is made so artistic that it does not need an apology. In this volume they are the work of Messrs. Hudson and Kearns, whose reputa- tion in this respect is well established.—Another book of photo- graphs, of a very different kind, but not less significant of the value of the art, is Pictures from China, with Notes by Mrs. .1. F. Bishop (Cassell and Co., 3s. 6d.) Some have already appeared in books of travel by Mrs. Bishop. The notes are in all cases from her dictation. •
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