Landscape Painting and Modern Dutch Artists. By E. B. Green-
shields. (The Baker and Taylor Company, New York. $2.)—
Without adding anything fresh to our knowledge, the writer gives an excellent summary of the rise and development of landscape painting from early Renaissance times to the present day. There is also a very good exposition of the subjective nature of the best landscape art, and of the necessity for idealisation if a landscape is to produce a true effect. Literal work never pre- serves the spirit of a landscape. The writer says so much that is to the point that we could well spare a number of the quotations from well-known works in order to leave more space for original matter. The modern Dutch painters—the Maris brothers, Mauve, Israels, and others—receive separate treatment, and the studies of their works are appreciative and just.
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