NEW Enmoms.--The Bayeux Tapestry. By Frank Reds Fowke. (George Bell
and Sons. 55)—This book was well worth reprinting in " Bohn's Antiquarian Library." Mr. Fowke first gives an interesting historical sketch of the vicissitudes through which the tapestry has passed, and then minutely discusses each pictured episode. The excellent plates by which it is illustrated show the tapestry in all its curious and outspoken detail, bringing the manners and customs of the Middle Ages vividly before us.—Samplers and Tapestry Bmbroideries. By Marcus B. Huish, LL.B. (Longmans and Co. 108. 6d. net.)—Mr. Huish is to be congratulated on this second edition of his book. Besides being much cheaper and more handy, it has some additional matter and illustrations of American and Indian samplers, and as the coloured plates have not been reduced in size, they have gained rather than lost by their narrower margins. The black-and-white illustra- tions, also, are as good as they were before.
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