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HANDBOOK OF PAINTING: the Italian
Schools. From the German of Kugler. &W.!, wi b
Notes, by Sir CHARLES EASTLAKE, R.A., Preside' t
of the Royal Academy.

"By far the best manual we are acquainted with, for every
one who, without the opportunity of foreign and particulady
aaliati travel, desires to make a real study of art. Its method,
its chronological arrangement, and its generally judicious mu-
CIISID. make it most instructive to a learner."—The Ecclesiastic.
"Those who require a succinct compendium of the history rf
Italian painting, will find what they need in Kugler's Handbook
of Painting, edited by Sir Charles Eastlake, with numerous at d
well executed illustrations of the most celebrated painting, re,
ferred to in it."-3f array's Handbook of Italy.

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
ITALIAN PAINTERS. Edited by RALPH N. WOE.
NUM. With a Chart of Contemporary Schools. Post
Bvo. Bs. 6d.

" This book contains a eFort sketch of the lives and works ci
each artist. A useful tabular view of contemporary painters is
appended. We recomiuend the book as a rade-mecum for Con-
tinental tourists, as necessary as the famous guide in the rad
livery."— Atheneum.

As a portable compendium on Italian painters the traveller
will find no work in a small space so useful as this; indeed it
may be considered as a necessary companion or supplement to
the Handbooks of Italy; except in rare cases, the artist even
will find in it all the biographical details necessary for his par.
pose, with indications of the principal works of cash painier,
and a very clear view of the connection of the different Rahn
schools of painting with each other."—Murrag's Handbook of
Italy.

HANDBOOK FOR YOUNG PAINTERS.
By C. R. LESLIE, R.A. With Illustrations. Post Bvo.
10s. 6d.

" Mr. Leslie adds one more to the number of accomplished
men, who, like Sir Joshua Reynolds. write as admirably as they
paint. Though the title of his 'Handbook ' might lead to the
inference that it was only attapted for artists, it will be read
with delight and instruction by every person wbo has any enjoy.
went in pictures."--Quarterly Review.

HANDBOOK OF ARCHITECTURE.
Being a Concise anti Popular Account of the different
styles of Architecture prevailing in all ages and all
countries. By JAMES FERGE SSON. With 8.50
trations. 2 vols. Bvo., 38s.

"We needed a manual which should give us a succinct
account of all the principal buildings of the world ; which should
be intelligible to the general reader, and yet informing to the
professional artist ; which should be profusely illustrated with
specimens of all the styles known to have existed; and when
we And that it answers perfectly its intended purpose. Ss
treat it as a valuable and welcome addition to our current lite-
rature."—Tigies.

" Mr. Fergusson's beautiful ' Illustrated Handbook of Arcbi•
beture.' "—Marsay's Handbook of Italy.

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ART AND ARTISTS IN ENGLAND;
Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings,
Sculpture, Drawings, ctn. By Da. WAAGEN, Director of
the Royal Gallery at Berlin. 3 vols. Bvo.

"The work before us we unhesitatingly pronounce to contain
more of the essence of true connoisseurship than any other of
the same class that has yet come before the public. Dr.
Weagen's name is too familiar to the art-world to require act
introduction'"—Quarterly Review.

THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A. His Life
and Personal Reminiscences. By Mrs. BRAY. With

Portrait and Illustrations from his chief works. Fcap,
ito. 21s.

" In Mrs. Bray the painter has found a suitable biographer.
one who with a sufficient knowledge or art and literary taste.
possesses a hearty enthusiasm for the subject of her memotr.
It is a worthy monument to the memory of one whom Ws re'
specs as a man and admire as an artist."—Literary

JOHN MURRAY,

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