7 DECEMBER 1907, Page 7

The Children and the Pictures. By Lady Tennant. (W. Heine-

mann. 6s.)—Lady Tennant makes a very successful combination of literature and art in this volume. She takes twenty-one famous pictures by English artists, portraits by Reynolds, Oainsborough, Romney, and others, genre pictures, &c., and fits on to them pleasant little stories. So " The Fortune-Teller" of Reynolds has appropriated to it the " Story of the Children and the Gipsies," of which Charlotte and Henry Spencer are the hero and heroine. We are introduced also to the children to whom the pictures are shown. This a very pretty and readable book.