18 JUNE 1898, Page 23

A Spring Song. — This beautiful old song by Nash, with its

deep breath of country air, has been published in a pretty little book illustrated by Mr. Leslie Brooke (J. M. Dent and Co.) The pictures are graceful and appropriate to the text, but we wish that the colouring had been designed with a view to colour- printing. The colours and gradations are too complex. For colour-prints to be works of art, and not shop imitations of water- colour drawings, a special style is required. Mr. Walter Crane and Mr. Nicholson. in the opposite directions of delicacy and force, have achieved this style.