Sir Joshua Reynolds. By Lord Ronald Gower. (G. Bell and
Sons. 7s. 6d.)—The author gossips pleasantly about Reynolds and his Johnsonian circle. Without being a deep study of the master, the book contains much sympathetic and discriminating criticism. The great number of illustrations makes the volume a useful one, as by turning over its pages we can realise the extra- ordinary variety of Sir Joshua's art. Several very fine and not well-known portraits belonging to Lord Spencer are repro- duced.
Mr. Philip Spence shows a very real possession of the grim and grisly in his illustrations to The Dream of Eugene Aram (J. M. Dent and Co., 6s. net). The pictures are grotesque and of Noah's-Ark-like stiffness, but there is a horrible intensity of expression under the child's-picture-book style of these coloured illustrations which reflects the text accurately.
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