22 MARCH 1902, Page 23

C URRENT LITERATURE.

ART BOOKS.

The Monastery of San Marco. By G. S. Godkin. (J. M. Dent and Co. 35. 6d. net.)—This is a well-written popular account of the wonderful monastery which produced the saintly Antonino, the great artists Angelico and Bartolommeo, and, above all, the great Puritan reformer and saint Savonarola. The author tops the story of this good man's marvellous influence, and his tragic end, in a very interesting manner. One hardly knows which to abhor more, the fickle Florentines or the infamous Pope Alexander. The author does not mention the fact, creditable to Julius IL, that Raphael was allowed to put Savonarola's portrait among the Saints on Earth in his fresco of the Disputa in the Vatican only thirteen years after the martyr's death.