30 APRIL 1910, Page 49

The Children's Book of Art. By Agnes Ethel Conway and

Sir Martin Conway. (A. and C. Black. 68.)—This is a good intro- duction for young people to the study of art. The field covered is a wide one, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The authors have wisely dwelt on the significance of periods, at the same time focussing these by means of individual great painters. It is to be wished that all children were made to study some such book as this, for at present art, which is after all a great department of human activity, is sadly neglected in educa- tion oven by intellectual people. The colouring of the illustrations given here shows the three-colour process at its worst, and is enough to prejudice a child with a natural colour-sense against the originals which it has not seen.