30 APRIL 1910, Page 49

Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton have added to their "Great Artists

Series" (5s. net each) a volume of reproductions of Constable's Sketches and one of the works of Botticelli. These are essentially picture-books, the biographical introductions in each case being slight. The reproductions are well done in black-and- white, with the exception of the frontispiece to the volume on Constable, which makes us rejoice that the three-colour process has not been used to caricature more than one of the painter's works. Books of this kind are really useful, either for reference, or for enabling us to take a general survey of the work of a painter.