19 DECEMBER 1896, Page 24

A Handbook of Anatomy for Art Students. By A. Thomson.

(Clarendon Press.)—This work is a model of its kind. The author being the lecturer on anatomy at the South Kensington School of Art, has ample knowledge of the wants of artists with regard to this subject. A special and altogether admirable feature of the book is the plan of giving a photograph from a living model, together with an anatomical diagram, so that it can be seen at once which muscles are used to effect a given position of the body. The work is very well arranged and the information clearly con- veyed. The chapter on the proportions of the body has some in- teresting tables. Altogether the book is one which cannot fail to be useful.