18 APRIL 1903, Page 24

Mr. E. Arnold has published a Portfolio of the National

Gallery of Scotland (.e10 10s. net). The work is of large size, with well- executed photograv-ures, and has a preface by the Duke of Argyll.

To make a selection of masterpieces from such a Gallery as the one at Edinburgh was not difficult, for, except in the case of the Italian school, the collection is a notable one. We have here given us the noble Vandycks of his Italian period, when the painter • was at his best, and the two Hals, of which Trafalgar Square might be envious. The large Tiepolo is also reproduced, which, though an unsympathetic work, is a striking example of that painter, who wielded the power, though not the poetry, of Veronese so late as 1769.