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Mr. Salaman also contributes the brief critical and bio- graphical

introduction to Malcolm Osborne, R.A., R.E., in the Modern Masters of. Etching series (The Studio, Ltd., 5s.) Here is an R.A. with no paintings to his name, and one who entered the Royal College of Art as a sculptor, and trans- ferred to the Architectural School before Professor Lethaby discerned in him the graphic artist. During the War he was in command of a French Mortar Battery on the banks of the Jordan, when he was handed a telegram announcing his election as A.R.A. He owed that to his mezzotint of Watts's " William Morris." The twelve plates represent his original work—for example "After the Storm, Amberley," "Trekkers of the Plain " (Macedonia), and the splendid Mrs. Heberden," particularly well reproduced.