CURRENT LITERATURE
ROUND ABOUT THREE PALACE GREEN By Estella Canziani Miss Canziani is an artist, the daughter of an artist (her mother), and the friend of artists—among them G. F. Watts, Holman Hunt and Alma Tadema. Of her own best-known picture, "The Piper of Dreams," 250,000 copies were sold by the Medici Society in the first year. Her father, a native of Milan, settled in England in 1882, and her mother, a well- known portrait-painter, was born in Liverpool of American parentage. Number Three Palace Green, where the family settled in 1885, and from which Miss Canziani's book (Methuen, 15s.) takes its title, is built on the site of Queen Anne's laundry, and parts of the original building remain. Miss Canziani has touched many circles—among them the artistic, the Quaker, and during the War the surgical—and her memories make a pleasant and very readable volume. One chapter of unusual interest describes the important original work she undertook during the War, mainly at the 'Star and Garter' at Richmond, in painting pictures of wounds, and taking plaster casts of fractures and other injuries as basis for the construction of special splints. That, with the chapters on student days in Campden Hill, the writer's Italian home, and holidays in Iceland and Morocco and elsewhere, make the gist of an agreeable book, which might perhaps have been a little briefer but should certainly not have been left unwritten.
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