30 APRIL 1910, Page 49

English Leadworie. By Laurence Weaver. (B. T. Batsford. 25s. net.)—Here

we find described the various purposes to which decorative leadwork has been put. Tanks, fountains, vases, and statues are all discussed with insight and taste. A section is devoted to lead portrait-busts. The earliest of these seems to have been a portrait of Fairfax, which may possibly be the copy of a bronze. Mr. Weaver gives a very striking illustration of an eighteenth-century figure of a London apprentice. It was found not long ago when a firm of lead-founders were moving their works from the City. The figure is full of life, and shows vigorous, if somewhat rude, modelling. The whole thing is finely characteristic of the energy and irrepressible qualities of its subject.