30 APRIL 1910, Page 49

The Practice of Oil-Painting and of Drawing Associated with it.

By Solomon J. Solomon, R.A. (Seeley and Co. Os. net.)— Students will find a good deal in this book to help them. But the task of the author is an impossible one, and no one of course knows this better than ho does, for how can a handicraft be taught in a book? All the same, many will no doubt be glad that Mr. Solomon has made the attempt. Perhaps the most valuable part of the work is that in which well-known pictures are analysed and discussed. The inquiry into the construction of the composi- tion of Titian's "Bacchus and Ariadne" is particularly interesting. Some very sound advice is given to the student as to the pictures he should choose to copy with a view to the improvement of his style.