Show THE Century for April is an interesting number and is equal to its predecessors inmost in-most respects save that the illustrations to the war articles are not so good as heretofore They look somewhat like a symphony in black and white as Mr Whitler would term them and the portrait por-trait of General Butler recalls Dick Dead I eye A Florentine Mosaic by Mr W D Howells is continuedand the illustrations I to it recall Florence rather more vividly than the former articles illustrations As it is word painting by Mr Howells so it I be of the impressionist may be said to I rather than of the realistic school and To seems more a dream than reality walk in Florence is to walk in beauty and the atmosphere in which she is bathed seems of paradise more than of earth The daily lifo f that fair city is an enchantment to those who come from colder climes and to sit in the gardens by the Arno in early summer is only surpassed sur-passed by lounging among the flower gardens at Seville |