25 AUGUST 1923, Page 22

THE ARTS.

Although there are no original views expressed in this book, and although its criticism does not penetrate to any great depth, the book is a useful outline of French painting and is well illustrated. Too much space has been devoted to the dismal period of the realists of the nineteenth century, but perhaps this is natural in a book coming from America, where the painters of the last generation came so greatly under the sway of Parisian art in its least good forms.