19 DECEMBER 1896, Page 24

The Book of Ruth. Illustrated by W. B. Macdougall. (Dent

and Co.) —This book is filled with exquisite decorations. Patterns of great beauty flow round the pages, and testify to the power of invention possessed by the illustrator. Of the actual pictures in the book the success is not so certain, for while they show great beauty of arrangement. both of line, mass, and landscape detail, the figures are weak and jar upon the surrounding parts.