The Child in Art. By Margaret Boyd Carpenter. (Methuen and
Co. 6s.)—Ruskin noted the defect of Greek art, that in it children find so small a place, and the writer of this book says that with the exception of Eros children occur but in isolated examples. Here we are given the history of the growth of the representation of children in Christian times in different countries. The writer does justice to the wonderful insight into child-life of both Raphael and Titian. But no mention is made of the children in the "Galatea," which are among the finest that Raphael painted. Neither is the "Garden of the Loves" spoken of, where Titian revelled among the romping amorini, nor that perfection of natural beauty, the child in the same painter's "Madonna with St. Anthony" in the 1Jffizi. It is, no doubt, impossible to include everything, and even if there are omissions, there is also plenty of interest in the book.
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