29 JUNE 1907, Page 6

Ve/asques. By A. de Beruete. (Methuen and Co. 105. 6d.)—

This is not a brilliant study of the genius and technique of the unrivalled master like that of the late R. A. M. Stevenson. Rather it is a calm, critical study, full of patient learning, without dulness. The author throws doubts on the authenticity of the Admiral in the National Gallery, considering it to be a work by MI120, the somin-law of Velazquez. These doubts are based merely upon internal arguments, and have the uncertainty of all such criticism.