4 AUGUST 1888, Page 24

Both the Magazine of Art and the Art Journal for

August supply their readers with useful essays and interesting illustrations, but in neither is there any article of distinction. Miss Mabel Robin- son's paper on Hadrian as an art-patron, and Mr. Walter Crane's " The Language of Line," both in the Magazine of Art, and Mr. Cripps's " The Reproductions of Foreign Art in the South Kensing- ton Museum," in the Art Journal, are above the average of maga- zine articles in the dull season. Miss Beale's "Holiday Haunts Sixty Years Ago," which also appears in the Art Journal, is a very neat and clever matiunt in parvo, in respect both of illustrations and of letterpress.