• Miss Anna M. Berry admirably realizes her purpose is
Animals in Art (Chatto and Windus, 7s. 6d.). She has chosen a limited domain of art, animal paintings, and sculpture, and keeping strictly within it has illustrated its principles with a breadth and range of idea. Knowledge and enthusiasm go to the making of her volume, the eighty pages of which are packed with true economy of statement, while its thirty- two plates have been chosen in artful relation to its theme. Beginning with an Altamira Cave drawing of a Bison, Miss Berry has found her examples in the work of artists of widely differing race and vision : Masaccio, Pisanello, Rembrandt, Stubbs, Degas, Seurat ; Gaudier Brzeska, John Skeaping, Cedric Morris ; and the Asiatics above all, beauty, whatever its idiom, making its appeal to which emotion responds.
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