A Dictionary of British Sculptors. By Colonel Maurice Harold Grant.
(Rockliff 50s.) This is a useful book, which records our sculptors from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries and will astonish most of its readers by the number of its entries. In a modest introduction, Colonel Grant excuses himself for imperfections; but he has done a great deal of research and deserves general gratitude. Chantres and Flaxman are here, of course; but so, too, are John Bacon the Elder and Carlini. The judge- ments are charitable—too charitable, per- haps, in the case of Thomas Thornycroft and other inferior performers—but Colonel Grant does a useful service in drawing attention to the merits of Behnes and Durham, among the forgotten Victorians, and to Alfred Stevens, "perhaps the most naturally gifted of all our sculptors." D.H.
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