16 MAY 1903, Page 26

Altdorfer. Seventy-one Woodcuts Photographically Repro- duced, with an Introduction by

T. Sturge Moore. (The Unicorn Press.)—The rude force of the early German woodcuts makes them interesting. It matters not whether the subject be two ill- favoured lovers sitting on the ground in a wood, or Jael ham- mering the nail into the absurd foreshortened figure in the most businesslike manner, the grim power seizes our imagination.