27 JANUARY 1912, Page 10

Stein/en and Ms Art. (Chat° and Windus. 10s. 6d. nob.)—

No other artist at the present time, perhaps, can show a certain seamy side of life with the dazzling power of Steinlon, the Swiss who as a young man settled in Paris, the force, directness, and passion with which he draws certain aspects of the life of tho streets being impressive and horrible. The strikers and unemployed are treated with equal poignancy, and, indeed, wo are told in the unsigned introduction that the French Government found it advisable to suppress some of the artist's drawings which were appearing in a Socialist publication. With all their burning social satire those works have in them groat artistic qualities, which, indeed, arc the cause of their power.