16 NOVEMBER 1912, page 11

British Men-of-war.*

THE letterpress of this volume has its own importance and the illustrations have their beauty. One must hope that these good qualities will not be two stools between which the......

Stories For Boys And Girls.

THE standards of present-day fiction for boys are high and are well maintained. It has plenty of alluring adventure and inculcates sound manliness of character. The stories for......

Saints And Heroes.*

PRESUMABLY we must realise that this is the last of the many delightful story books to be connected with the name of Andrew Lang. No one could read his preface without realising......

Art Books.

To his Great Engravers series Mr. Hind has added two volumes--• Holbein and llfareantonio. (W. Heinemann. 2s. 6d. net each.)— The introductory notes are scholarly, short, and to......

The Louvre. By E. C. Richards. (grant Richards. 2s. Net.)—.

It seems a new idea to think of the Louvre as a palace with a long and great history and not merely as a museum where pricelesa works of art are treasured—and, alas ! not always......