CURRENT LITERATURE.
ART BOOKS.
If we make up our minds to bear with the affectations of the writer and the horrors of the three-colour process, there is much interesting matter in Mr. Lewis Hind's book on Brabazon. (George Allen. 21s. net.) The story of this painter is one of the curiosities of nineteenth-century art. Brabazon worked merely to please himself and the few intimate friends who believed in what he himself called " Brabie art." He was under no necessity of making money, and therefore did not consider the public. The consequence was that although he made himself one of the greatest of sketchers in water-colours, he remained unknown to the world. At the age of seventy he was induced to exhibit his work, with the result that he rapidly achieved fame and was acknowledged to be a great painter. What he succeeded in doing was the conveying to paper of the essence of a beautiful natural
A Free Farmer in a Free S=ate. By "Home Counties." London : W. Heinemann. [Gs. net.]
effect, and he never lost his delicacy of insight and never became formal. The style he chose for himself he used with perfect mastery, and in that style he has had but one superior, Turner.
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