acquire this expensive work. Some of the reproductions in monochrome
are quite good, though in no sense out of the common, while many are hard and coarse. The version of Filippo Lippi's "Coronation of the Virgin "would scarcely be a credit, with its harsh contrasts and entire lack of the quality of the original,
to an ordinary handbook. The sculpture succeeds better, it being, of course, much easier to reproduce, and the coloured plates done by some process other than that of the three colours are good enough, though it can hardly be said that Fm a Angelico's colouring is given in facsimile in the "Annunciation." Mr.
Briuton's chapters are easy and pleasant reading, and provide the outline of the story of Florence, together with a good many of the most striking details. His appreciation of the arts is just without being profound.
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