oke, as a fourteen-year collector
of the fine eighteenth century profiles painted upon chalk, glass or
paper, has set himself to correct this fallacy. The reproductions of
miniature likenesses in silhouette by Miers, Charles, Rosenberg, Mrs.
Beetham, and the other profilists who set Bath beaux and belles in black
outline for ever, will probably surprise most readers by their delicate
craftsmanship and life-like quality. The book is lightly planned: more
an essay than a history or treatise. The joys of collecting--the charm
of silhouette--the men who practised this short-lived art, including the
tragi-comic Edouart, a man whom Dickens would have loved--the humours of
their labels--the horrors of Victorian decadence--groups--some famous
silhouette collections--fancy subjects cut in paper--Cupid and this set
of shadows--a plea for austerity, addressed to modern artists--such are
a few points covered by a book which (to quote the author's foreword) is
intended for "collectors, artists, lovers of the past, and all such as
think nothing human or curious alien from themselves."

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Personality in Literature

By R. A. SCOTT-JAMES

In the third and longest part of this book, Mr. Scott-James estimates
the work of some of the more prominent modern authors. But he presents
these criticisms as the sequel to a general consideration of what it is
that readers at all times look for in the best literature, and secondly,
what are the special conditions of modern life that are having their
effect upon men of letters.

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Walter Pater

A Critical Study

By EDWARD THOMAS

This is a combined character study and criticism. The man's life is used
to elucidate his books, which in turn contribute many unquestionable
touches of character. All his published books and scattered essays are
considered from a practical and aesthetic standpoint. His fundamental
ideas and tendencies, his purpose and effect, his style and his theory
of style, are examined in a book for which there should be a distinct
demand.

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Walt Whitman

A Critical Study

By BASIL DE SELINCOURT

MR. DE SELINCOURT'S object has been to show