30 APRIL 1910, Page 49

Students of architecture will no doubt be interested in Mr.

Ward's volume, French Chdteaux and Gardens in the Sixteenth Century (B. T. Batsford, 25s. net). Mr. Ward found in the British Museum a collection of drawings by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, which are the originals of the engravings in the books he published in 1576 and 1579. The drawings are not only larger but much richer in detail than the engravings, and form a remarkable series of plans, elevations, and bird's-eye views of the chiteaux of France. The precision and beauty of the drawings are very great, and Mr. Ward has added to them notes and explanation&