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The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters. By Percy H. Bate. (G. Bell

and Sons. 42s. net.)—The chief interest of this book is that it gives us accounts of the lesser-known members of this great movement, and good reproductions of their works. Sandys, Windus, Burton, and Arthur Hughes are all known to us by the literature of the subject, but their works are rarely seen. In the present volume we can study their compositions and wonder why their pictures are not better known. There is a section of the book devoted to the study of some artists who have passed thiough a Pre-Raphaelite stage. Few people realise how many painters came under the influence of the movement and then abandoned it often for a worse style.