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Pennell's lithographs. It must be confessed that they are dis-

appointing, partly because they are so near to being good. The drawings of the great amorphous works of the locks somehow lack the unifying power of the imagination. The pictorial material seems to be there, but a something is lacking to make it effective.

Everybody's St. Francis. By Maurice F. Egan. Illustrated by M. Boutet de Monvel. (T. Fisher Unwin. 8s. 6d. net.)—This is a simple but none the less deeply interesting and sympathetically illustrated account of St. Francis.