27 JUNE 1908, Page 8

Royal Academy Pictures and Sculpture, 1908. (Cassell and Co. 5s.

net.)-It is a pity that these well-produced illustrations should not, except in a very few instances, deal with good pictures. But this is the fault of the Academy and not of the publishers. In the frontispiece, at any rate, we have a real work of art in Mr. Clausen's "The Boy and the Man."