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A Third Volume Has Been Issued Of The Important Catalogue

Raisonne of the Works of Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, by C. Hofstede de Groot, based on the work of John Smith (Macmillan and Co., 255. net). The present volume is......

Frank Brangwyn. By W. Shaw-sparrow. (kegan Paul, Trench,...

10s. 6d. net.)—The painter has found a most determined champion in his biographer. No critic may suggest a fault, even in a newspaper article, without Mr. Shaw-Sparrow confuting......

Great American Universities.

Great American Universities. By Edwin E. Slosson. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Slosson describes, compares, and generally criticises the constitutions of fourteen......

Turner's Golden Visions. By Lewis Hind. (t. C. And E.

C. Jack. 21s. net.)—It is best to skip the first four chapters of this book, which describe the unimportant youthful feelings of the author. The rest of the volume is enlivened......

The Styles Of Ornament : From Prehistoric Times To The

Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Translated from the German of A. Speltz by R. Phene Spiers. (B. T. Botsford. 15s. net.)—The plan pursued in this book is to give a very short......

The Genus Rosa. By Ellen Willmott, F.l.s. Illustrated By...

Parsons, A.R.A. (John Murray. 21s. net.)—To judge by the first portion of this work, which is now appearing in parts, it will be when finished an exhaustive study of the rose......

The Bubdiyat Of Omar Khdyydm. Illustrated By Abannindro...

(The Studio. 158. net.)—The interest of this port- folio of pictures lies in the fact that they are by an Indian artist, who has wisely not tried to assimilate Western art, but......

Nature Teaching On The Blackboard. By W. P. Pycraft, F.z.s.

Illustrated by Janet Harvey Kelman. (The Caxton Publishing. Company. 3 vols., Is. 6d. each.)—A large number of plants are described, and spirited drawings full of intelligent......

Old Kensington Palace.

0/d Kensington Palace, and other Papers. By Austin Dobson. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—Mr. Austin Dobson has republished here in a somewhat expanded form, and with occasional......

French Line Engravings Of The Late Eighteenth Century. By H.

W. Lawrence and B. L. Dighton. (Lawrence and Jellicoe. .f.,5 5s. net.)—This is a book for collectors, being a catalogue raisonne of the plates produced just before the......

Pompeii. Painted By Alberto Pisa And Described By W. M.

Mackenzie. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—This illustrated guide-book will be useful for refreshing the memory after a visit, or for giving a general impression of what to......