26 SEPTEMBER 1908, Page 24

The Important Pictures of the Louvre. By Florence Heywood, B.A.

(Herbert Clarke, Rue St. Honore, Paris. 7 f. 50 c.)-This book is something more than a catalogue raisonni of the famous pictures in the Louvre (a collection which greatly wants for its appreciation some help of the kind); it is a contribution to the history of art. We have in it a "Survey of the Evolution of Painting," illustrated by the Louvre collection. The visitor to the Louvre may use it as supplying the immediate service of a guide, but it will repay him to study its teaching on the painter's art.