The Year's Art, 1919. By A. C. R. Carter. (Hutchinson.
7s. 6d. net.)—This old-established handbook for artists, col- lectors, and dealers seems to have a new interest now that peace is approaching and the museums and art galleries are beginning to reopen. It is clear, however, from the section on art sales that the market for works of art was astonishingly active last year, though living artists not engaged in the war probably suffered. Mr. Carter draws attention to the offer of Mr. Joseph Duveen to build a gallery at Millbank for modern foreign art, and to the acquisition of some examples of Degas for this new collection. He gives a full account of the great Red Cross sale, and prints Sir James Barrie's whimsical letter detailing the gifts which were rejected—such as " four letters from Shake- speare to Lady Bacon" which "prove conclusively that Lady, Bacon was the real author of the so-called Shakespeare plays," and that Shakespeare " agreed to father them for £5 apiece."
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