20 JULY 1895, Page 24

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Studio contains some excellent reproductions of dry-points by M. Helleu, several brilliant sketches in Dalmatia by Mr. Pennell, and an account of the Salon of the Champ de Mars by M. Gabriel hlourey, a little windy and lamentable in parts, but good in the main. The illustrations to an article on the Man- chester School of Art, under Mr. Walter Crane, suggest that the programme is strong in everything but drawing itself. It is the of the "decorative" school to be full of ideas of how, drawing should be taught, and the decorative ends to which it should be applied, but to leave out drawing itself. It is not good. for the pupils to have these examples of drawing and designing published.