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The second part of the book is called ' Rome Monu- 

 mentale.' In this there is a chapter on ' La legende de la 

 Cenci,' in which he also sweeps away the whole story. 



Only last summer a book appeared called ' Tuscan 

 Artists, their Thought and Work,' by Hope Eea. Sir 

 W. B. Richmond writes the preface and says : ' I desire 

 success to this little volume, so interesting, so full of 

 sympathy with those various emotions whose expression 

 in all forms of art has made Italy their foster mother.' 



A book has just been sent me called ' Stray Studies 

 from England and Italy,' by John Richard Green, the 

 author of the famous ' Short History.' The title is not 

 quite correct, as there is an excellent chapter or two on 

 the South of France, and an exceedingly interesting 

 historical paper on the home of our Angevin kings, which 

 was also the home of the Renaissance in France ; and it 

 has a still earlier interest for the modern English tourist 

 who rides through Touraine by the Loire to Saumur, for, 

 as Mr. Green says, ' Nothing clears one's ideas about the 

 character of the Angevin rule, the rule of Henry II., or 

 Richard or John, so thoroughly as a stroll through An jou.' 

 Another charming chapter is ' The Florence of Dante.' In 

 fact, I have most thoroughly enjoyed this little gem of 

 desultory information. 



For serious modern criticism of Italian painters and 

 their work I have found nothing that has interested me 

 so much and which seems to me so new as Mr. Bombard 

 Berenson's three little volumes ' The Venetian Painters 

 of the Renaissance,' ' The Florentine Painters of the 

 Renaissance,' and 'The Central Italian Painters of the 

 Renaissance.' The author evidently aims at representing 

 the modern scientific school of art criticism, started, as far 

 as I know, by Giovanni Morelli. The indexes at the end 

 of each volume will be found valuable, though many of 

 Mr. Berenson's conclusions will be cavilled at ; and his 



