The Little Towns of Flanders. By Albert Delstanche. (Chat - to and
Windus. 3s. 6d. net.)—M. Emile Verhaeren has written a prefatory letter to the author of this book. In it he says that the artist working in London from sketches made in happier days does not know if the subject of his choice still exists, or whether at the moment while he is working a German shell may not have destroyed the beautiful monu- ment of his choice. M. Delstanche has dealt with his material with gi:eat taste and originality, and his woodcuts are valuable in them- selves, and not merely for the tragic interest they possess. The great gabled houses on the quay at Ghent, the tower of Malines, the light on the water at Nieuport, and the very original orchard in the country are all fine examples of black-and-white work whose motive is artistic and not merely topographical.
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