24 DECEMBER 1898, page 24

Recent Short Stories.*

IT would not be difficult to arrange the volumes of short stories which have been pouring from the press during the past three months in a sort of class list. Anyhow, the......

The Singers. Longfellow's Poem, With Etchings By Arthur...

Mathews. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Robertson knows how to use the etching line and to make it give forth its characteristic quality. This quality is best seen in the two illustrations of the......

Current Literature.

ART-BOOKS. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. (V 7s.)—In a prospectus Mr. 'Harry Quilter says that this book is "designed, drawn, and pub- lished by Harry Quilter, M.A., and written and......

London Types. By W. Nicholson. With Quaterzains By W. E.

Henley. (William Heinemann. 5s.)—In this collection Mr. Nicholson again shows his amazing power of abstracting form and colour. Out of opposing masses of black and white of......

Fication Of An Article The Author Contributed To The...

of Art, and which was noticed in these columns. The object of the book is to prove that the traditional face of our Lord goes back to the earlier times, and that no period of......

Lectures On The National Gallery. By J. P. Richter....

and Co. 9s.)—Dr. Richter is somewhat of a "minute philo- sopher." In these lectures it is hardly art he discusses, but the science of the identification of pictures by small and......

Pippa Passes. (duckworth And Co. 5s )—this Is A Very

nicely printed edition of Browning's poem, with illustrations by Mr. Leslie Brooke. The artist has not encumbered the pages with a jungle of patterns like so many modern......