7 APRIL 1917, Page 18

The Art of G. F. Nunn. By Margaret Munn and

Mary Cabot. (New York : Dutton and Co. $2-25.)—G. F. Munn's career as an artist was cut short by an illness which he survived for twenty years, but which seems to have taken away his power of painting, and his friends were left with the conviction that the painter's talents had not arrived at their fulL To judge by the black-and-white reproductions in the volume before us, the technical equipment was greater than were the purely artistic qualities. This may have been because Munn was work- ing at a time—the " seventies " and " eighties "—when realism and the material side of things were the preoccupation of the moment. The powers of representation are considerable, but the evidences of creative design are not conspicuous.