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The Temple Bronte, in twelve volumes. (London :
J. M. Dent & Co.) Price it. 6d. net per volume.
—This series includes Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette
and The Professor by Charlotte Bronte, Wild-
fell Hall by Anne Bronte, Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte, and a collection of Poems by
various members of the Bronte family. It is

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issued in the dainty fashion and with the good
taste common to the productions of its publishers,
and is sure to gain the popularity it deserves.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream.—By William
Shakespeare. (London: Freemantle & Co.) In
addition to a chatty introduction Mrs. Herbert
Railton has supplied a number of dainty drawings
which add considerably to the attractive-
ness of the book.

From the numerous handbooks re-
lating to the Arts and Crafts which are
now being or about to be published,
it may be inferred that the public are
becoming more alive to the advantages
of an artistic training than was the case
a few years ago. Mr. W. R. Lethaby
is editing an “ Artistic Crafts Series
of Technical Handbooks,” to be pro-
duced by John Hogg of London. The
first volume, which has already ap-
peared, relates to Bookbinding and the
Care of Books, and is written by Mr.

Douglas Cockerell, than whom no one is more
able to do justice to the subject. Bookbinders
and librarians will find much to interest them in
this lucid, well-illustrated, and valuable little
treatise. Dr. G. C. Williamson has in charge for
Messrs. George Bell & Sons a series of “Handbooks
of the Great Craftsmen,” the initial volume of which
is devoted to The Pavement Masters of Siena, by
Robert H. Hobart Cust, M. A. It may be advis-

able to explain that the work of the Siena Masters
had no relation to that of the modern pavement
artists of London, but consisted of the inlaying of
coloured marbles upon the floor of the great
Cathedral of Siena. The author has more par-
ticularly confined his attention to a description of
the examples there existing, the pictorial character
of which places them, to our thinking,
among the numerous specimens of mis-
applied art to be seen in Italy as well as
elsewhere. When considered as examples
of graffito and inlay, and not as floor
covering, the Siena pavements become un-
doubtedly more attractive, and may be
studied to advantage by the modern wall
decorator, especially if he confines his atten
tion to their peculiar technical qualities
which are indeed worthy of admiration.
Progressive Design for Students, written
by J. Ward and published by Chapman
& Hall, at 55'. net, is a really admir-
able little work for the would-be decora-
tive designer. The chapter devoted to
Brush-drawing is of especial excellence and value to
the student. Plant and Floral Studies, by W. G.
Paulson Townsend (London and New York :
Truslove, Hanson & Comba), is full of powerful line-
drawings of plant-form that may worthily be taken as
models of how rightly to treat the subject. Messrs.
George Bell & Sons have commenced a “ Minia-

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ture Series of Painters ” — illustrated pocket
editions, prettily bound in cloth, sold at one
shilling each, net. Volumes upon Velazquez, Fra
Angelico, Burne-Jones, Romney and G. F Watts
have already appeared, and others are in pre-
paration. The same publishers’ more important
series of “ Great Masters in Painting and Sculp-
ture ” is now reaching the proportions of a
veritable library in itself. Among the latest

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