28 APRIL 1900, Page 9

Some Woodcuts of Men of Letters of the Nineteenth Century.

By R. Bryden. (J. M. Dent. 21s.)—Had these pictures been smaller they had been better. Their very large size and uncouth work- manship give them rather a forbidding air. Ibsen against a sort of Morris paper is almost comic. The best is, perhaps, R. L. Stevenson, with Treasure Island in the background.