18 JULY 1914, page 22

A Gospel Of Art.•

IN his preface the author of the book before us says that be has "tried to develop a complete theory of visual art." This is, of course, a discouraging statement, for it has......

The Punishment Of Crime.*

AMIDST the welter of dull machine-made books with which the literary market is nowadays continually flooded, it is always a pleasure to come across a treatise on criminology.......

A History Of Cavalry.*

JUST forty years ago, in the interval between the Franco- Prussian and the Russo-Turkish Wars, the then Emperor of Russia, Alexander II., offered three prizes for the three best......