19 DECEMBER 1896, Page 24

Painters and their Works. Vol. I. By R. N. James.

(L. Upeott Gill.)—This useful dictionary is to be completed in three volumes. It does not include living painters. The information is derived from recent sources, and altogether the book, when finished, should be of great use. A list is given of the principal works of each painter, and also a list of pictures, with the prices paid for them at sales, so that the fluctuations in the market-value of certain artists' work can be studied. A curious contrast is pre- sented by the list of the nine Giorgiones undisputed by Morelli, compared with the four pages of names of works ascribed to this master.