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The Church Towers Of Somerset. A Series Of Fifty-one...

by E. Piper. With Descriptive Articles by J. L. W. Page (Frost and Reed, Bristol.)—The church towers of Somerset have been long recognised as of exceptional beauty. Often,......

Arm-books.

The half-yearly volume of the Architectural Review (Effingham House, Arundel Street) is a pleasant collection of well-illustrated articles. The account of the great Abbey Church......

Pictures Of Classic Greek Landscape And Architecture. By...

H. Dent and Co.)—The artist has travelled over Greece, and painted many places. The result of his pictures, reproduced in black and white, is not very pleasant. A same- ness of......

The Royal Gallery Of Hampton Court. By E. Law. (g.

Bell and Sons. 30e.)—Mr. Law has done a very useful work in making a critical survey of this collection of pictures. The Hampton -Court pictures, eight hundred and eighty-five......

Parsons And Weavers : A Study In Lancashire Mental Work.

By the Rev. F. B. Smith. (Skeffington and Son.)—Much of this volume is of general application. Good sense, the resolution to do every- thing as well as you can—as, e.g., to......

John Sebastian Bach. By Sedley Taylor, M.a. (macmillan...

Cambridge.)—This is the reprint of an interesting lecture, put together from Spitta's biography of the musician, on Bach in relation to his work as a church musician and......

The Actor's Art. Edited By J. A. Hammerton. (g. Redway.)—

Five and-twenty actors and actresses—the list is headed by Sir Henry Irving and Mr. J. L. Toole—give us their views on their own art, Mr. Hammertozt leading them on, so to......

Publications Of The Week.

Allen (W. 0. B.) and Another, Two Hundred Years : History of S.P.C.K.. 8vo (S.P.O.K.) 10/6 Ashley (T.), Sir Tristram, or 8vo (Ward & Lock) 3/6 Auden (H. W.), Greek Unseens for......