To realise that we have artists in England we have
only to look at Mr. Spielmann's British Sculpture and Sculptors of To-day (Cassell and Co., 'Ts. 6d.) It would not be far from the mark to say that our average level of sculpture is higher than that of our painting. As Mr. Spielmann points out, the rise of sculpture in England is of recent date, no earlier indeed than the Paris Commune, when M. Delon, a French political refugee, came over to London and became the teacher of sculpture at the South Kensington School of Art. It is to his influence and that of his successor, M. Lantkri, that we owe largely, if not entirely, the new birth of sculpture in this country. These masters were fortunate in having pupils of great ability whom they were able to inspire with high ideals of art and technique. The book before us gives notices of the work of a large number of sculptors, and the Page being a large one, the principal illustrations are satisfactory in size.
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