6 APRIL 1907, Page 26

Quite a different style of book is The MaeTVhirter Sketch-book

(Cassell and Co., 5s.) This is' a collection of small water- colour and pencil sketches reproduced in colour and black-and- white for the amateur to copy.' Mr. East is scientific and modern ; but here we are reminded of the tea advertisement which states that the goods advertised "recall the delicious blends of thirty years ago." This book, we feel, dates back to the epoch. Of Miss Cann and the receipts she imparted to "J. S." In spite of this flavour of a bygone time, there are one or two sketches which have in them that freshness and charm which are so often worried out of finished Exhibition pictures. Notably is this the• case in the second "Moonlight on the Lake of Como," and the distant view of Mont Blanc.