5 NOVEMBER 1910, Page 61

The Herkamers. By Sir Hubert von Herkomer. (Macmillan and Co.

7s. 6d. net.)—There is a naivete and frankness about this autobiography which help to neutralise its egoism, and it is impossible not to admire the courage and tenacity with which adversity was encountered. By far the pleasantest parts of the book are those which describe the writer's father and mother. Both parents seem to have been people of exceptional force of character, who devoted themselves to their SOD, and who through their struggles for existence both in America and England kept undimmed their idealism. We greatly prefer Sir Hubert von Ilerkomer when he is adding to the picture he painted of his father, a portrait in words, to when he is describing, with an un-English want of reserve, the details of his own domestic relations.