The first volume of the much-heralded Outline of Art* edited by Sir
William Orpen, the latest unit in Messrs. Putnam's lucrative series of " Outlines," attains neither the scientific authority of Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, nor the literary distinction of John Drinkwater. It is a frankly popular attempt to illumine the main peaks of painting in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the end of the 18th Century, covering the Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, French and British schools. Its chief aim is to reproduce several ; hundred of the world's recognized! masterpieces and...