12 FEBRUARY 1898, page 26

The Magazine Of Art. January. (cassell And Co.)—the Chief...

of this number is the article by Sir Wyke Bayliss on the face of Christ. The author asserts that portraiture was com- mon in the Roman Empire at the time of our Lord, and he......

The Dome. (the Unicorn Press.)—this Little Quarterly Is...

From an announcement in the present number we learn with pleasure that the publishers are about to reproduce Piranesi's Carceri. These are the engravings founded on the artist's......

The Year's Art. (virtue.)—this Useful Book Is As Full As

ever of information as to exhibitions, sales, and schools. At the end of the volume there is a directory of artists.......

The Artist, January. (a. Constable And Co.)—this Magazine...

enlarged, and contains a quantity of good illustration* and articles.......

Scnool - Books. — Hints And Helps In Continuous Greek...

Flamstead Walters, M.A. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Walters has followed up a good book on Latin prose with another which will doubtless be found equally useful. Some twenty pages......

Art-books.

A new edition of Vasari's Lives is given us by E. H. and E. W. Blashfield. and A. A. Hopkins (Bell and Sons ; 36s.) The editors have selected seventy of the most important "......

Nirvana : A Story Of Buddhist Philosophy, By Paul Carus

(illus- trated and printed by T. Hasegawa, Tokyo, Japan, for the Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago) ; and Karma (same author and publisher).—Both these little books are......

Not Much In It That Has Not Been Given To

the world already in Mrs. Ady's Life, with the exception of some beautiful letters from Louise Jumelin, the grandmother to whom Millet owed so much. Mr. Naegely very properly......