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of the art of Ingres are prefaced by a short

essay by M. Arsene Alexandre. It is as easy to be greatly delighted by the portrait drawings as it is to be bored by the classical paintings. The latter are frigid and mannered; the former instinct with life, and with the keenest penetration into character. The exquisite workmanship in the handling of the chalk and pencil is visible to us in these excellent reproductions.

Those who are interested in the places described in Mr. Hardy's novels will find a good many of them portrayed in Wessex, Painted

by W. Tyndale, and Described by Clive Holland (A. and C. Black, 20s. net). The book is of the usual kind in which water-colour sketches are reproduced by the three-colour process.