16 FEBRUARY 1924, Page 22

SHORTER NOTICES.

Mr. Walker, it appears from his explanation, is preparing a catalogue and bibliography of Aubrey Beardsley. The pre- sent volume is a preparatory supplement to compete "with an unfriendly quarter" who again, it appears, is stealing his finds. We do not think the material wholly, entrancing. The photographs of houses in Brighton and Pimlico, even if Beardsley once lived in them, remain dull'; nor are we fasci- nated by a bad drawing of Surgeon-Major William Pitt, even if he was Beardsley's maternal grandfather. Scattered in the book are several excellent drawings, actually by Beardsley, and many portraifs of him. The whole production has the true bibliophile pertinacity..