Vignettes From "punch."*
MR. LEHMANN'S " Admiral Thunder," who explodes amongst the lesser inhabitants of the present volume like a rather sulphurous rocket amongst a handful of squibs, is un- doubtedly......
The History Of Silhouettes. By E. Neville Jackson. (the Con-
noisseur. 10s. (3d. net.)—England seems early to have taken to the black profile portrait, for it appears Mrs. Pyburg "cut" the portraits of William and Mary ; and in this book......
Current Literature.
ART BOOKS. Vasari's Lives of the Painters. Newly translated by Gaston du C. do Vero, (Macmillan and Co. and Tim Medici Society. 25s. each volumo.)—This new translation aims at......
Pompeian Decorations. By R. A. Briggs. (b. T. 13atsforcl....
net.)—Mr. Briggs has made some very careful drawings, most of them to scale, which give the details and colours of various decorated walls, fountains, seats, and other things.......
Spain.*
DR. JOHNSON ' S remark that "there is a good deal of Spain that has not been perambulated" remains, happily, almost as true to-day as when it was made. Defended for the most......
Frederick Goulding. By Martin Hardie, Lee. (enea,s Mackay,
Stirling. 21s. not.)—The subject of this book was renowned as a printer of etchings, and to him went Whistler, Seymour Haden, and many other distinguished etchers. In the ease......
Notes On Pictures In The Royal Collections. By Lionel Cud.
(Chatto and Windus. 12s. (3d. net.)—Mr. Cust has collected various writings by himself and others which have appeared in the Burlington Magazine with reference to pictures in......
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