A Child's Visions. Drawings by Daphne Allen. (G. Allen any
Co. 6s. net.)—Here we have the drawings improvised by a child of twelve years old. They are mostly done with a pen in expres- sive line. We are told they were drawn from the imagination, not from models, and the power of composition and expression is truly remarkable. The influence of fifteenth-centmy Italy is plainly visible, but there is something personal, too. We can imagine those responsible for the child's training being perplexed as to what course to pursue. Study sometimes kills talent, but it strengthens genius ; which of the two is now revealed to us it is difficult to say. The gift of combining figures is surely there in a remarkable degree. The Holy Family on page 30 and the Holy Child—all the drawings are based on the New Testament—next to it show a power of weaving figures into an organic composition suggesting a gift akin to the matchless power of Lady Waterford. We sincerely hope we are greeting the rising of a new star.
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