27 JANUARY 1912, Page 11

Under the title of William Morris to Whistler Mr. Walter

Crane has collected into a volume a series of papers and addresses u pon Art and Socialism. (G. Bell and Sons. Os. net.)—These discourses are of a rather popular kind and do not treat the subjects with any great depth or freshness. Those dealing with

e ach subjects as Italian gesso work or decorative animals are to be preferred to the vague and misty speculations as to the nature of the art to be produced in the future Socialist state.