6 DECEMBER 1930, Page 23

For anyone who loves dogs—and that surely includes most English

people of both sexes and all ages—there will be no more permanently attractive and interesting Christmas book than Mr. Cecil Aldin's An Artist's Models (Witherby, 15s.), in which he describes and portrays in colour his own bull-terrier and Irish wolf-hound and other engaging dogs that he has known and painted. Mr. Aldin is at his very best in this delightful series of dog-portraits and his text is almost as good as his illustrations.