Our Sunday Book of Reading and Pictures. By Thomas Archer.
(Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—Mr. Archer has made his extracts, which are more than a hundred and twenty in number, from a wide range of books, and with considerable judgment. They are both in prose and in poetry ; they are serious and gay, instructive and entertaining, and touch on religion, history, geography, art, and we know not what besides. The first of all, appropriately enough, is George Herbert's " Sunday." Among the early papers is a highly interesting account, written by Count Moltke, of a visit paid by the Emperor Frederick, then Crown Prince of Prussia, to Napoleon III. The Royal party was lodged in the Tuileries. It is satisfactory to find that the Count preferred Windsor Castle. He had a whole suite of rooms to himself ; but "people here," he says, " have not got to the real comfort, like that in my turret at Windsor." But we cannot describe the contents of Mr. Archer's volume. It must suffice to say that they are well chosen, on a principle which seems to us neither too frivolous nor too austere.
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