Human Anatomy for Art Students. By Sir. Alfred Flipp and
Ralph Thompson. Illustrated by Lanes Fripp, and with an Appendix on Comparative Anatomy by Harry Dixon. (Seeley and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—The characteristic of this book all through is clearness, both in the letterpress and the illustrations. The latter are admirable, and avoid the fault, common in works of this kind, of being too diagrammatic and not natural enough. Here we get numbers of parts of the figure drawn with great skill and decision, explaining the text, which they do excellently. At the end of the book there is given an interesting series of photographs of living models. We cannot help thinking that in a book like this it would have been well to call the student's attention to the question of selecting models to draw from. Some examples might have been given very usefully of the differences between fine types of figures and those more commonly met with. Some- thing of the nature of Professor Brileke's valuable little work on this subject would prove more useful to the average art student than the chapter on comparative anatomy.
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