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Every lover of London and everyone who cares-for brilliant draughtsmanship, •will be delighted with A Landon Iverie (Macmillan) 25s.)—a- title - which obscures the -fact that it is a collection of fifty-Six drawings of London made by theslate Joseph Pennell about the year 1905. These vivid impressions of once familiar scenes that have too often been rudely trans- formed in the interval are of great and enduring interest. Mr. J. C. Squire, who contributes a fragment of autobiography by way ,of.preface, is very lukewarm in the few lines that he is good enough to devote to the drawings. He will not credit Pennell with much imagination or with much liking foi. fine architecture, but admits that he was " a very skilful, and dashing draughtsman and a restless experimenter." Taitei differ,' but when Pennell's personal idiosyncrasies are forgotten and those whom he offended by a brusque manner are dead, he will, we Veriture 'to think, be ranked very high among the inspired artists of -our age. These drawings are marvellous in their _originality and variety, and yet they are all • recog, nizable at once as representations of definite plates.
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