25 JANUARY 1913, Page 10

The Uffizi Gallery. By P. G. Konody. (T. C. and

E. C. Jack. 21s. net.)—A selection of some of the most important pictures from this great collection has been made, Mr. Konody has written notes upon them, not too long and not too learned, and the book would be satisfactory but for one grave defect. It is that it is illustrated by fifty three-colour process reproductions, which entirely deprive the work of any artistic merit, and reduce it to the level of a vulgar volume to catch the eye of the uneducated. How a critic who is capable of the discrimination shown in this book can consent to have these awful perversions of the pictures he so obviously admires connected with his work is astonishing.