28 JANUARY 1905, Page 6

ART BOOKS.

A useful series of books is now being issued under the title of " Newnes's Art Library" (G. Newnes, 3s. 6d. net each). Each volume contains a number of process reproductions—about sixty —of the pictures of one of the great masters. The letterpress is reduced to a short account of the painter and a list of his works. The result is a book which is not only valuable as a work of reference, but also as a means of study in a painter's style by the comparison of a number of his works. Indeed, these books are far more useful and interesting than the majority of biographies, large and small, that are now pouring from the press. The series includes volumes dealing with Veronese, Gozzoli, Raphael, and Burne-Jones.