3 JANUARY 1863, Page 58

• Flower and Fruit Decoration. By T. C. March. (Harrison.)—Most

of the visitors to the International Exhibition will doubtless remember some I very beautiful specimens of table decoration, composed of fruit and , flowers, exhibited by Messrs. Dobson and Pearce. A very useful little treatise has just been published by the inventor of these designs, which their construction is explained so clearly that it can hardly faq to be intelligible even to the most ordinary capacity. The materials( employed by Mr. March in his decciratione are; for the most part, iery' simple and readily procurable ; and he has certainly shown how the commonest flowers arranged on a plain glass stand may be made more, effective for purposes of ornament than the rarest exotics exhibited in massive silver. Mr.-March deserves the thanks of the flower-loving and economical public,' not only for his invention, but also for the very clear description of it which he has just placed within their reach.

We have also received the fourth volume of Chambers's Encyclopeedia, extending from " KIX " to " GON ;" Signor Volpe's Italian Grammar (Trebner and Co.), published for the use of Eton College ; A First English Course, by W. Martin (Longman and Co.), an elementary Eng- lish grammar, based upon the analysis of sentences ; A Letter from Mr. Samuel Crompton to the Bishop of Manchester (Simpkin and Marshall), charging him with having alienated a private chapel-belonging to the Manchester Deaf and Dumb School and Blind Asylum, and havingmade it a parish church; and a entail pamphlet entitled A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf (W. and R. Chambers), reprinted from " Chambers's Information for the People." Among reprints and new editions we have White's Natural History of Selborne, a beautifully printed little book, which forms one of Bell and Daldfe series of pocket volumes; the eleventh volume of the new edition of De Quincey's Works (A. and C. Black) ; the second edition of Sir G. C. Lewis's Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages (Parker, Son, and Bourn), scarcely altered from the first edition, which was published, thirty years ago ; a Christ- mas book, published by Sampson, Low, and Co., containing all Shake- speare's songs and about a dozen of his sonnets, with illustrations by John Gilbert ; and a two-shilling edition of Lever's O'Dbnoghue (Chap- man and Hall).