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Current Literature.

ART-BOOKS. The Royal A cadenty, and other Reveries. By Henry Naegely. (Elliot Stock.)—The reveries are thoughtful and worth reading, dealing as they do with various questions......

Prwterita. By J. Ruskin. (g. Allen. 5s. Net.)—these Are The

first two volumes of the octavo edition of this most interesting and self-conscious autobiography.......

A History Of French Art, 1100-1899. By Rose G. Kingsley.

(Longmans and Co. 12s.)—Into one volume an enormous amount of information and sound judgment has been compressed. In the part describing French art from the end of the last cen-......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review tee other forms.) Carmel in England. By Father B. Zimmermann. (Burns and Oates.)—This......

Academy Pictures. (cassell And Co. 7s. 6d.)—these...

very well done, though we may regret that the selection of works reproduced reflects so largely the more inartistic ele- ments in the exhibition.......

The Choruses Of Sophocles's Antigone. With Music By C. F.

Abdy Williams. (Breitkopf and Haertel.)—In a learned and detailed introduction, Mr. Williams gives the principles upon which he has reconstructed this Greek music. For this......

Novels Of The Week.*

IT must be a matter of extreme regret to all readers of Mr. Harold Frederic's novel that it was destined to be his last, and that the hand which wrote it was so soon to lay down......

Animals In Motion. By Eadweard Muybridge. (chapman And...

book contains reduced reproductions of a number of the electro-photographs which were gathered together in the author's great work in eleven folio volumes. The present selection......

We Welcome Wirt Merseiana, Vol. I. (th. Wohlleben, 7s. Gd.

net). This is the beginning of a series to which we wish all possible prosperity, to be published annually by the Arts Faculty of University College, Liverpool. The Faculty is......