The Birth Of The Opal : A Child's Fancies. By
Daphne Allen. (George Allen and Co. 5s. net.)—We cannot help thinking that it is a very great mistake to reproduce in so serious a manner these immature sketches of a clever......
Current Literature.
ART BOOKS. History and Methods of Ancient and Modern Painting. By James Ward. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Ward covers a large field and, as he gives some account of......
Heraldry For Craftsmen And Designers. By W. H. St. John
Hope. (John Hogg. 7s. 6d.)—This book confines itself almost exclusively to mediaeval heraldry, and dismisses the later de- velopments with one line of contemptuous allusion,......
Mr. Aldin's Dogs.* Mn. Albin's Pictured Dogs Pervade...
books, though Mr. Maeterlinck claims the ownership of one. He has written a short account of the brief life of a puppy which apparently died of distemper. It is all in the......
The National Gallery Of Scotland Souvenir. By W. G. Blaikie
Murdoch. (The De la More Press, is. net.)—This little book is welcome in reminding us of the fine quality of the Edinburgh Gallery, from which a small selection of pictures have......
Caricatures. By Tom Tit. (the New Age Press. 5s. Net.)
—If Mr. Max Beerbohm had never existed these caricatures would have been considered very clever. But this kind of thing is only amusing when it is done at first hand. Is it on......
Art In Spain And Portugal. By Marcel Dieulafoy. " Ars
Una" Series. (William Heinemann. 6s. net.)—An incredible amount of information clearly conveyed has been got into this little volume, as well as a large number of small but......
Studies In The Apocalypse.
Studies in the Apocalypse. By R. H. Charles. (T. and T. Clark. 4s. fid. net.)—Canon Charles has published in a some- what expanded form the lectures which he gave this spring......
An Artist In Italy. By W. Tyndale, R.i. (hodder And
Stoughton. 20s. net.)—In this volume writer and artist are one, and, possibly on account of the horrors of the three-colour process, we decidedly prefer the letterpress to the......
Pages On Art. By Charles Ricketts. (constable And Co. 7s.
6d. net.)—These articles on painting were well worth reprinting—they mostly appeared either in the Burlington Magazine or the Morning Post. One of the most interesting of the......