30 JANUARY 1909, Page 13

Plotinus on the Beautiful. By Stephen McKenna. (Shakespeare Head Press,

Stratford-on-Avon. 2s. 6d. not.)—This is a fine rendering of a fine original, set off by all that is to be desired in the way of paper and print. Here is a specimen :—" Withdraw into yourself and look. And if yoft do not flail yourself beautiful as yet, do as does the creator of a statue that has to be made beautiful ; he outs away here, he smoothes there, he makes this lighter, this other purer, till he has shown a beautiful face upon his statue. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is shadowed, labour to make all glow with beauty." One does not come across such noble admonition every day.