Early. American Portrait Painters in Miniature. By Theodore Bolton. (New
York : F. F. Sherman. London : Bromhead, Cutts and Co. 7 dollars 50 c.)—Mr. Bolton's dictionary of Ameri- can miniaturists up to 1850 is a scholarly and useful work. It includes well-known painters in large, like Copley and Gilbert Stuart, as well as scores of men and women whose names are remembered only by their miniatures. One of the best minia- turists whom America produced was Edward Greene Malbone (1777-1807), a native of Rhode Island, who was self-taught. Mt. -Bohm gives a list of 157 pieces by him. It is unsafe to judge of miniatures by reproductions, but the photographs of Malbone's works make one desire to see some of them. The name of the ill-fated Major Andre occurs in the list; he was a clever amateur artist as well as a good soldier. The book is well illustrated.
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