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The Year's Art. Compiled By A. C. R. Carter. (virtue

and Co. 3s. Gd.)—This useful directory of artists and matters con- nected with picture exhibitions appears in its usual form. This year the special feature is the information......

Novels Of The Week.*

Mn. LYSAGHT'S new novel is admirably designed to illustrate the drawbacks of the universal application of the one-volume system, its dimensions involving the employment of......

Current Literature.

ART-BOOKS. trade" upon the art of the goldsmith. Cellini had a wonderful power of graphic writing which makes his technical works most interesting to read, and which must make......

A Book Of Dogs. By E. Nesbit. Illustrated By Winifred

Austin. (J. M. Dent and Co. 2s. 6d.)—Miss Austin certainly can draw dogs well. These pencil studies are full of life and expression. Especially happy are some of the slightest......

The Renaissance In Italian Art. By Selwyn Brinton....

Marshall. 3s. 6d.) — Yet another of the fast multiplying hand- books on Italian art. The present volume, the second of its series, deals with Padua, Verona, Ferrara, Parma, and......

An Alphabet Of Animals. By Carton Moore Park. (blackie And

Son. 6s.)—These full-page pictures of animals are of rather unequal merit. Some are excellent in decorative effect,—the leopard, for instance, is beautiful in line ; the mice,......

Lithography And Lithographers. By Joseph And Elizabeth...

Fisher Unwin. .23 13s. 6d.)—Mr. and Mrs. Pennell have made an exhaustive study of the art of lithography, from its beginnings down to the present day. The book is full of......