28 JANUARY 1911, Page 10

Turner's Golden Visions. By Lewis Hind. (T. C. and E.

C. Jack. 21s. net.)—It is best to skip the first four chapters of this book, which describe the unimportant youthful feelings of the author. The rest of the volume is enlivened by enterto ini g quotations of a gossiping kind about Turner, from all imaginable sources. From these we get a very human picture of the great man with his oddities and foibles, and interspersed are some rhapsodies about his art by Mr. Hind. The book would be all the better if the hideous three-colour parodies of the pictures had been omitted. Turner, of all painters, is the most ruthless in exposing the imposture of this method of so-called reproduction.