Show LITERATURE titteU8 laving Age The numbers of The Living Age for August 29th and September 5th contain The French in North America Edinburgh Edin-burgh The Huguenot Reformation in the Norman Isles London Quarterly An Appeal to Men of Wealth by Lord Bra bazon National Footprints llackwood A Walking Tour in the Landes Macmillan Mac-millan Morning Calls in West Country Seljraiia From Some Reminiscences of My Life by Mary Howitt Goad Words The Krakatoa Eruption Leisure Hour The Princesse de Lamballe and A Margate Grotto Temple Bar The Crown Diamonds of France All the Year Round GroundRents Estates Gazette with instalments of A House Divided Against Itself and Mrs Dy mond and poetry Littell S Co Publishers Bedford Street Art Notes Amateur work of all kinds accompanies accompan-ies the growing taste for art Home decoration more particularly which atone at-one time was limited to small articles of domestic manufacture has broadened and deepened and now includes panel and wall painting It is not unusual find rooms in which all the decoration is the work of home artists This is so well recognized that designs are executed execu-ted by leading painters to serve as models for amateurs Large panel studies exquisite groupings of flowers berries ferns and grasses are specially prepared for lithographic reproduction with this end in view Among Prangs publicationsare landscapes by the late A F Bellows and by J F Murphy ad admirably adapted to this purpose An interesting exhibition is now at the Boston Muesum of Fine Arts Messrs L Prang R Co have set up a comparative exhibit of original watercolor water-color paintings and their cbrotnolitho graphic reproductions showing the remarkable re-markable perfection to which the reproductive repro-ductive art has been brought A complete com-plete series of plates representing the different stages in the printing of a chromolithograph in twenty colors is not the least interesting part ot the exhibition ex-hibition |