Drawings from Life. By Eric Gill. :Hague and Gill. 7s.
6d.
THIS book was evidently prepared for the Press before Eric Gill's death. It will not alter his reputation. " I do not wish to discuss here the art of drawing in its technical aspect," he wrote in the introduction. " I cannot profess to know more than a very little about it, and that very little is more a matter of morals than of technique-the sort of thing one tells children." This modesty is echoed in the reproductions-pale but faithful repr.:ductions of thirty-six pencil drawings made from the same model. They are delicate and pretty, but very stylised. The outline is thickened wherever the forms are fuller, and there is faint modelling here and there within the outlines the whole done in a manner that looks simpler than it is, and is far more cloying than it ought to be. The book is beautifully produced- it is a model of its kind.
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