ART-BOOKS.
Turner and Ruskin. By F. Wedmore. (George Allen. E7 'Zs.) —The principal feature of these two large volumes is the number and excellence of the ninety-one reproductions in photogravure of Turner's pictures. To each of these has been added an extract from Ruskin, while a brief account of the life ot the painter is given by Mr. Wedmore. What a wealth of imagination there is in these few selections gathered from out of the amazing treasure-house of Turner's work. The resource of the artist seems endless; the passion is volcanic in its outpouring. How small and shallow seems the stream of modern landscape art, with its commonplace realisation of common things. Mr. Wedmore is to be congratulated on the very interesting choice of pictures be has made, many coming from private collections, and thus doubly welcome from their unfamiliarity.
We have already noticed at length the first two volumes of the National Gallery Catalogue, edited by Sir E. J. Poynter (Cassell and Co., a7). The present volume consists of the English School, and includes the Tate Gallery. Every picture is repro- duced, from the masterpieces of Reynolds to the mistakes of the Chantrey Bequest purchases.
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