17 JULY 1897, Page 24

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Mr. Grant Richards sends us the second part of his English Portraits, consisting of lithographed drawings by Mr. Will Rothenstein. The two celebrities in this part are Sir F. Seymour Haden and Mr. William Archer. Both are excellent, although the ordinary critic will probably say that the President of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers has more justice done to him than the well-known dramatic critic. The biographical letter- press has the great merit of succinctness ; this succinctness, indeed, occasionally verges on " smartness," as in the declaration about Sir Seymour Haden: " He owns one of the moat beautiful, country houses in England, and was greatly admired by Edmond do Goncourt "