28 APRIL 1900, Page 8

The Square Book of Animals. By W. Nicholson. (W. Heine-

mann. 5s.)—There is no departure from the artist's usual style. The same power and forcible cleverness are here as in his portraits, though with scarcely the same attractive results. This is, perhaps, accounted for by the same method being applied to such various material; there is a feeling of the style being a formula, and not the direct outcome of the expression of the subject.