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Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters. By Elbert

Hubbard. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 6s.)—These sketches are charm- ingly written and full of vivacity. Perhaps the best is the account of Fortuny, who as a child helped his grandfather to make little plaster votive figures. Fortuny's father had kept a Punch and Judy show and was killed in a drunken fight, the public con- sidering that the Devil had carried him off as he did Mr. Punch nightly. The boy artist was fortunate in meeting with a good old priest to whom he owed much.