28 JANUARY 1911, Page 10

French Line Engravings of the Late Eighteenth Century. By H.

W. Lawrence and B. L. Dighton. (Lawrence and Jellicoe. .f.,5 5s. net.)—This is a book for collectors, being a catalogue raisonne of the plates produced just before the Revolution. There is also a short introduction, and a number of the plates are reproduced in photogravure. These plates have lived on account of their extreme delicacy of execution and perfection of technique. The authors note the fact that though many of the engravers lived through the Revolution and went on working, they were never able to recover that artificial perfection which characterised their work before the catastrophe. No pains have been spared to make the get-up of this book appropriate to the time of which it treats, and the paper and printing are excellent.