27 MAY 1899, Page 24

The World's Painters. By Deristhe L. Hoyt. (Ginn and Co.,

Boston, U.S.A.)—This is a good little handbook well illustrated. It will give a person who comes fresh to the consideration of schools of painting a good general view. The opinions are sound, and show a wide sympathy with art. The statement that Giulio Romano helped to finish Raphael's "Coronation of the Virgin" is not sup- ported by facts. Raphael. who was nineteen, would not have been likely to have employed a helper of ten ; but such were the ages of the painters when the picture was painted.