3 JANUARY 1891, Page 31

'Animal Painting for Beginner s. Drawn from Nature by Stephens

'T. Dadd and Stanley E. B. Montefiore. (Cassell and Co,)—Here we have twelve studies in colour by the two artists named, and .a number of pencil sketches by Messrs. Harrison Weir, A. T. Elwes, and R. H. Moore. Mr. Dadd gives, by way of preface, some practical directions for drawing and painting. In the latter he includes a list of paints which he recommends to the young .artist. In this list we find two colours which Professor A. H. Church, in his "Chemistry of Paints and Painting," excludes from the palette as being distinctly perishable. These two are gamboge and Vandyke brown. No artist ought to be without this elementary knowledge. The directions for execution, Sm., seem likely to profit.