10 FEBRUARY 1923, Page 14

The main constituents of Mrs. Peers's book are detailed descriptions

of what certain pictures quite obviously represent, and extracts from the lives of the saints. There is no sugges- tion that Mrs. Peers has ever enjoyed a true aesthetic experi- ence, and, although she does turn aside for a moment from her gossip to explain the difference between a picture and an illustration, she does so quite inadequately, and leaves the feeling that she is not very clear herself. She certainly never suggests any other function in a picture except to represent