Books: A Formalist

Critic Boyd is too Sensitive to Be Earnest in Public

The Book. Portrait painting is distinctly not among the lively arts. Wherefore it is not profitable in the U. S. nowadays. But even scholars and gentlemen prefer to have their books sell. Wherefore Mr. Ernest Boyd, though he has called his new book Portraits, has not been indulging solely in profitless portraiture. He has also, and more often, been cocking a sharpish eye, flicking a sharpish pen and dashing off a row of caricatures as lively as ever you please.

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