27 JUNE 1908, Page 8

A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent

Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. By Hofstede de Groot.

25s. net.)-This work is invaluable for the minute study of the painters Jan Steen, Metsu, Dou, Pieter de Hooch, Fabritius, and Vermeer of Delft. It is essentially a catalogue and not a treatise on the art of the painters dealt with, though to each is given a short biographical note.