The Cresset Press will earn the gratitude of all garden-
lovers and fishermen who can secure one or both of its delicious reprints of William Lawson's A New Orchard and Garden (12s. 6d.) and Gervase Markham's The Pleasures of Princes (12s. 6d.). Such books are the everlasting flowers of literature ; but we grow no more of them now, for, to mis- riuote. a well-worn line, " none has got the seed." Lawson called bees " sweet and tender," and it is only by dwelling on such a phrase that one realizes how entirely right he is. So with all his advices and descriptions : " Your Gardner can frame your lesser wood to the shape of men armed in the field, ready to give battle ; of swift-running Grey-Hounds, or of well- seated and true-running Hounds to chase the Deer, or hunt the Hare. This kind of hunting shall not waste your Corn, nor much your Coyn." Markham's discourse of the generall art of Fishing " has the same mature and inimitable charm, with plenty of sound information, and indeed it only fails of being the most delightful angler's handbook in existence because The Compleat Angler goes one better. If any books have the power of making one's mouth water, here they are. A very beautiful reprint of The Compleat Angler, illustrated from engravings on wood by Mr. E. Fitch Dogfish, is published by Thornton Butterworth at two guineas—the best production of this indispensable book we have yet seen.
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