14 SEPTEMBER 1901, Page 23

A Short History of Renaissance Architecture in England, 1500 - 1900. By

Reginald Blomfield. (G. Bell and Sons. 73. Gd.) —This is a reduced form of a former work in two volumes by the same author. The writer points out that the Italian workmen who came over in such numbers in the reign of Henry VIII. were succeeded after the Reformation by Germans. This was unfor- tunate, as instead of the Renaissance style coming direct from Italy, it came distorted through the German mind, which has never been able to feel truly the classic style in art.