28 APRIL 1900, Page 8

Portraits of Men and Women. By the Marchioness of Granby.

(Constable and Co. 42s.)—Why do so few of the ladies Lady Granby draws have any structure in their faces, we wonder? Mouth, nose, and eyes—the latter especially—are fully insisted upon, but they are apparently suspended in a void, enclosed with a line. Throughout the series one is conscious of the influence of Burne- Jones. The men are less structureless, but the character has gone out of Lord Cromer's face, and the strange fascination of M. Paderewski is not there. No doubt the lovers of exaggerated gracefulness will like these drawings.