30 JANUARY 1904, Page 7

The bound volumes of the Art Journal (Virtue and Co.,

215.) and of the Magazine of Art (Cassell and Co., 215.) make us realise how greatly the student of art is indebted to modern methods of illustration. Now the art of the past and of the present, at home and abroad, can be studied with a breadth of view and ease of comparison impossible hitherto. The part taken by the art magazines in this direction is by no means small.