Hussey's National Cottage Architecture.

This large quarto volume, issued in same style as Woodward's National Architect, contains twenty-seven designs for buildings and sixty-two plates of details. The mechanical execution of the volume is without fault, and a large proportion of the designs are quite acceptable, and almost all uniformly of moderate prices, from $1,900 to $6,000. Several designs were exceedingly pleasing to us, because of their interior arrangement, which was admirably contrived. The artist's fancy for the Mansard roof, and windows let in midway, or rather the eaves coming down half the length of the window, does not seem to us very tasteful, and is not destined to be very popular. Published by O. Judd Co. Price $8.

Suburban and Rural Architecture, By Innac H.

Hobbn & Son.

This volume contains eighty-four designs of cottages and villas, with about 200 pages of descriptions. It is printed in admirable taste by Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia, and is very attractive in exterior appearance. Most of the designs were originally engraved for Godey's Magazine, and seem to have been very poorly executed. A few designs are excellent in idea, but a large proportion of them are very plain in appearance, and designs decidedly mediocre. It is better to have a fine volume of a few very tasteful designs than an omnium gatherum of old and new engravings, some of which are sure not to please. Price $3. New York: O. Judd & Co., agents.

The Joy - It's History and Charactcrintice - Iuns-trated by Slairley Hibbard.

The author, well known to the horticultural public as editor of the Gardener's Magazine, London, has contributed this beautiful brochure to the list of really useful rural publications of the day.

The mechanical execution of the volume, binding, paper and illustrations, are really tasteful and a pleasure to look upon.

Two chromo lithographs of the ivy in various colors, yellow and white variegated on green background, with borders of the ivy in its autumn crimson colors, are the frontispieces. Both together represent nine different varieties.

Opposite page 62 is another colored plate, representing seven other varieties, and most beautiful to look upon, with its tasteful print, the best in the volume. Opposite page 78 is still another.

The author, in summing up the contents of the book, discusses the history and literary curiosities of the ivy; then its characteristics, uses, cultivation, species and varieties. Two chapters are devoted to a descriptive list of Garden ivies, green leaved or variegated, and the selections of ivies, comprising the most distinct and beautiful in the several sections.

The volume is still further embellished with about sixty wood engravings, and there seems nothing lacking to make the book a success in every particular, and the most complete one ever issued on the subject. Its only fault is too much matter, rendering it difficult for the reader to obtain a correct idea of the differences which distinguish the varieties.

The editor of The Horticulturist, in thus writing a candid review of a very worthy book, desires to have the horticultural public contrast "American liberality of sentiment" with a recent specimen of English cynicism, as recently appeared in the columns of the Gardener's Magazine, wherein the editor, without a particle of liberality, condemns an American volume, which is declared by the Gardener's Chronicle, the leading English horticultural journal, to be the best, without exception, on that subject, ever published in England or America, viz: Window Gardening.

Corresponding Editors: Josiah Hoopes, James Taplin

Vol.29. June, 1874. No. 336