22 JULY 1899, Page 22

A History of French Art, 1100-1899. By Rose G. Kingsley.

(Longmans and Co. 12s.)—Into one volume an enormous amount of information and sound judgment has been compressed. In the part describing French art from the end of the last cen- tury to the present time, the general tendencies of the different schools, classic, romantic, impressionistic, and realistic, are most clearly and interestingly stated. Although owing to the enor- mous quantity of the material the work is somewhat condensed in form, it is highly readable, and is in no sense a mere dictionary of artists, but a scholarly piece of criticism.