26 DECEMBER 1908, Page 27

• The Colour of Paris : Historic, Personal, and Local.

By Members 'of the Goncourt Academy. Illustrated by Yoshio Markin°. (Chatto and Windus. ' 20s. net.)—We are already acquainted with this Japanese artist's version of London, and in the book before us he gives an account of how the diversities of the two cities strike him. The illustrations are not specially Japanese in style, save only perhaps in their remarkable neatness of execution, the artist having adopted a European manner of painting, though some traces of the art of Japan are discoverable in the frontis- piece of the Eiffel Tower. •