5 DECEMBER 1908, Page 12

The Standard Galleries of Holland. By Esther Singleton.

(Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d. net.)—The utility of this little handbook would have been much greater if its arrangement had been more methodical, for then the stores of information it

contains would have been more accessible. If, for instance, we look out "Vermeer of Delft" in the index, we find a reference to the Hague Museum, but none to Amsterdam. However, under the head of "Van der Meer" it is possible to find an account of one of his pictures in the Rijks Museum; but no explanation

of the diverse spelling of the name is given. The important collection of modern art in this Gallery, too, should have received more than a mere mention of its existence.