3 NOVEMBER 1923, Page 40

THE ARTS.

HOLBEIN'S " AMBASSADORS " : The Picture and the - Men. By Mary F. S. Hervey. (G. Bell. 5s.) Miss Hervey's well-known monograph on the great Holbein in the National Gallery has been reissued by her literary exeutrix, Miss Phillimore, with a good many of the illus- trations. It is a painstaking piece of work, and its main conclusions" have not been weakened by twenty years of further research. Miss Hervey's belief that the Holbein portrait group represents Jean de Dinteville, the French Ambassador to Henry VIII. in 1532-3, and his friend, George de Selve, Bishop of -Lavaur, is now generally accepted, though her history of the picture is incomplete and in part conjectural.