15 MARCH 1930, Page 38

Mr. John Gloag's able and incisive book on Time, Taste

and Furniture (Richards, 8s. 6d.) has been reissued and deserves an appreciative note. His historical chapters lead up to a very judicious discussion of furniture design-as it is and as it may be. Those who saw the recent exhibition of the Institute of . Industrial Art, at South Kensington, will be specially interested in Mr. Gloag's sympathetic comments on some modern designers, and in the numerous illustrations of their work. The mere cult of the antique leads nowhere and has been absurdly overdone.

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