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PAINTER AND SPACE. By Howard Russell Butler, M.A., M.F.A. (NT.,

York : Charles Scribner's Sons. 21s. net.) The author states that he is concerned not with aesthetics but with the technique of expression. Although he considers . that the techniqne of a painting can be analyzed separately yet, in his analysis of space; he presupposes a system of aesthetics in which primary importance is given to subject- matter and naturalism. Cezanne is dismissed in one short

• paragraph as adding nothing new to aid in the rendering of the third dimension." The serious -student of painting will not gain anything from this book ; the ordinary layman • will find it boring ; while the amateur painter may glean enough to give him a wrong conception of art.