5 JANUARY 1889, Page 34

Specimens of Antique Carved Furniture and Woodwork. Measured and drawn

by Arthur Marshall. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Mr. Marshall has figured on fifty plates a number of fine specimens of chairs, chests, tables, bedsteads, cabinets, and the like. They date from the fifteenth to the early part of the eighteenth century. We quite appreciate Mr. Marshall's motive, his desire to preserve some reliable records of artistic creations which may be either lost to this country by foreign purchasers (for England, which for a long time accumulated treasures of this kind, is now beginning to give them out again), or may perish by accident or lapse of time. We commend this handsome volume to the notice of those who are interested in the solid and handsome work which our ancestors did in the way of house furniture.