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Idylls Of The King. Illustrated By Eleanor F. Brickdale....

and Stoughton. 15s. net.)—Miss Brickdale has tried to recreate the actual scones, and to paint them as if they wero before her in real life. The result is what always happens on......

Stein/en And Ms Art. (chat° And Windus. 10s. 6d. Nob.)—

No other artist at the present time, perhaps, can show a certain seamy side of life with the dazzling power of Steinlon, the Swiss who as a young man settled in Paris, the......

Great Engravers. (w. Heinemann. 2s. Od.)—mr. Hind Has...

more volumes to his series : John Raphael Smith and Watteau and Boucher. Both these volumes deal with engraved reproductions of pictures. The most charming things here are,......

Boy Labour And Apprenticeship.* This Is A Book Very...

of the present temper of the times. It is written in a vein of "unrelenting excitement." On the ground that there are, or may be, certain evils con- nected with boy labour, and......

A Tour Through Old Provence.*

Vas very pretty book would be worth studying for the sake of its illustrations, even if the letterpress were less pleasant and less informing than it is. The sketches are......

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ART BOOKS. Tanglewood Tales. 13y Nathaniel Hawthorne. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. (T. Werner Laurie. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Parrish has real imagination and feeling for design.......

Portraits Of Dante. By R. T. Holbrook. (p. Lee Warner

for the Medici Society. 21s. net.)—This is an exhaustive and pains- taking inquiry into the subject of the authenticity of the portraits of Dante. Mr. Holbrook considers that......