24 FEBRUARY 1906, Page 25

The Old Testament in Art. Edited by W. S. Sparrow.

(Hodder and Stoughton. 5s. net.)—.This is a strange medley. Pictures of all times and all nations jostle each other, making the oddest contrasts. Martin and Poussin face each other, and Rembrandt and the most anaemic German "Christian art" of the " sixties " make an incongruous mixture. There seems little to commend such confusion.