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Altdorfer. By T. Sturge Moore. (At the Sign of the

Unicorn. 2s. Gd.)—This is the third volume of the "Artist's Library," edited by Mr. Laurence Binyon. There is little known about Altdorfer's life, but "in 1505 he was registered a burgher of Ilatisbon, being described as painter of A.mberg, twenty-five years of age.' " His work is full of fancy and imagination, and some of his pictures might almost be taken for illustrations of German fairy tales. He was very fond of painting baby angels, and there is an attractive group of these little people in the 0 Holy Family at the Fountain" in the Berlin gallery, of which we are given a reproduction. There are a number of illustra- tions in the book, of which the woodcuts are perhaps the best.