13 OCTOBER 1928, Page 31

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The novice for whom Mr. William G. Menzies has written an attractively illustrated work on Collecting Antiques (John Lane, 25s.) may find it somewhat difficult to read because the author deals with furniture, china, pictures and prints in two hundred pages. No man could do justice to the four distinct and complex subjects in such a brief space. Still it must be said that, while the book is necessarily arid and incomplete, the author's advice is sound as far as it goes on the commercial side of collecting. The chapter on " Fakes and Their Detection," gives some curious examples of what the modern photographer and analyst can do to combat

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