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French Architects and Sculptors of the Eighteenth Century. By Lady

Dflke. (Bell and Sons. 28s.) —The present volume continues the study of French eighteenth-century art, Lady Dilke having devoted a former volume to the painters. The dominating characteristics of the architects and sculptors as illustrated in this book may be said to be skill, elegance, ability, clearness of conception ; all unwarmed by the fire of genius. Their minds, within certain limits, seem to have worked like well-oiled machines, and we long for the unexpected without being satisfied.