25 APRIL 1908, Page 8

Legend in Japanese Art. By Henri L. Joly. (John Lane.

£.4 4s.)—This voluminous work might be well described as a dictionary. Its plan is to give alphabetically an account of the mythological persons who are often represented in Japanese art. The book is one to which collectors will turn to identify objects, either carvings or drawings, and to them it will be of great use with its seven hundred illustrations and eleven hundred and twenty entries from "A" to "Z."