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tion of this kind, but the proportion of first-rate works

is large. The reproductions are extremely good, the lines of the screen being so small as to be practically invisible, and the paper has not that offensive white polish of so much process work, but is dull of surface and of a pleasant cream colour. The reproductions of the Ansidei Madonna and "The Age of Innocence" are as good as possible. W a heartily wish that some enterprising publisher, instead of adding to the vast quantity of inferior books on the Renaissance which now pour from the printing presses, would issue a series of cheap but well-executed reproductions of the works of the masters. A complete collection of the works of Michelangelo, Titian, or Leonardo, if of a good size, would be of much more interest than are the never-ending number of" mono- graphs" and "series " of great plinters.