5 DECEMBER 1908, Page 11

Colour - Sense Training. By E. j. Taylor. (Blackie and Son. is.

6d. net.)—A vast and indefinite subject of great difficulty is attacked in this little book. There is so much bad colour in the world that any alleviation of the misery caused by it would be indeed a relief. But that Mr. Taylor or any one else will be able to mend matters by rules may be doubted. In the present

instance the teaching comes to little more than naming colours, calling some primaries and others normals. This is easy enough ; but when we come to the question of training the colour- sense by rule, it must be confessed that very little is offered to us. The coloured diagrams in the book are enough to make any one with a feeling for colour turn away his head in disgust at their ugliness.