European Pictures of the Year. (Cassell and Co.)—This is a
supplement to the Magazine of Art, and, it is almost needless to say, a very interesting volume. There are representative pictures of every European nation, the quite minor States excepted. Mr. Spielmann, in his brief introduction, notes a few leading facts relating to the history of art during the year in the chief Continental schools. He speaks, for instance, of the growing tendency in France to produce close imitations of the Old Masters, and connects with this what he describes "as a sudden and inevitable check in French achievement." There is to be set over against this "the remarkable revivification of the Munich School." Among other countries, Mr. Spielmann singles out Russia for praise, its art "presenting national characteristics in an unusual degree," while he sees signs of revival in both Italy and Spain. The pictures reproduced number over a hundred, nearly a third coming from France. Germany is not far behind.
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