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present, and where occasion offers and space permits, some quotation

bearing on artistic matter, some criticism on the artist, or other appropriate matter. We are somewhat tired of this particular form of literature; but " The Birthday-book of Art," giving, as it does, plenty of information, is better than many of its kind. It has the merit of a "supplementary list" of artists of whose birthday no record has been foetid, a list of writers on art, and a fall index.