23 DECEMBER 1916, Page 21

Beautiful Buildings in Frame and Belgium. With Notes by 0.

Harrison Townsend, F.R.I. B.A. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. Oci. net.)— This is an attractive collection of old drawings and engravings of famous buildings in the war zone, with brief and judicious notes. Some of the drawings, such as Stanfield's " Namur " and Prout's " Malines," are reproduced in colour, but the patient studies of the Ypres Cloth Hall and of the west front of Reims Cathedral by lesser artists like Coney and Simonau have now in some ways a greater value than the mannered impressions of their eminent colleagues. It may be true that the Hun, in destroying the fine architecture of France and Flanders, is moved by envy. Certainly there is nothing made in Germany to compare with these wondrous churches and town halls,