66 Etchings by Members of the Print Society. Edited by
E. Hesketh Hubbard. With an Introduction by Kineton Parks. (The Print Society, Woodgreen Common, Breamore, Hamp- shire.) 66 Etchings by Members of the Print Society. Edited by E. Hesketh Hubbard. With an Introduction by Kineton Parks. (The Print Society, Woodgreen Common, Breamore, Hamp- shire.) Mr. Parks has written a stimulating introduction, but, when we turned over the sixty-six etchings, we could not bring ourselves to his enthusiasm. Always, looking at this medium, we recall a wit's description of a certain dilettante as " one who does not care for pictures, but likes etchings." Etchings in quantity irritate us—but there are, of course, those whom Ruben in quantity irritates. But, surely, in the stronger mediums there is not that level of dull competence and slightly weak delicacy which this volume reaffirms to be the qualities of etching ? There is a Legros-like strength of subject and treatment in Mr. Percy Smith's The Dying Tramp, an individual atmosphere in Mr. Leslie Moffat Ward's London from Waterloo Stairs, and an exquisite lightness in Mr. Hugh Paton's Aqueduct. We feel as if we had seen most of the others before—and so often.
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