1 DECEMBER 1900, Page 11

Fifty Masterpieces of Van Dyck. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.

£3 13s. 6d.)—These reproductions, well executed in photo- gravure, are of pictures which formed part of the Van Dyck Exhibition held at Antwerp in 1899. M. Max Rooses has written a sketch of the painter's life, and each picture is accompanied by an historical notice from the same pen. While differing from M. Rooses as to the high estimate he has of Van Dyck's powers as a religious painter, we have read with interest his sympathetic sketch of the painter's life. The selection of pic- tures has been well made as regards the portraits, though we could have wished for fewer religious pictures. Van Dyck seems to be straining too much after melodramatic effect for these pic- tures to be impressive.