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Witt, Robert Clermont. How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.
America finds this book published five years ago in England of such value that it deems it worth while to reprint it even tho there have appeared a number of works akin to it—books whose purpose is identical with it, viz. to direct laymen how to judge first class works of art, “Mr Witt speaks of the personal point of view, the point of view of the subject the picture represents, that of the artist, how to look at a portrait, a historical painting, a colored picture, a genre painting, a landscape and a drawing; how to note the light and shade in a painting, the composition of the picture, the treatment of the subject by the artist, and the methods and materials of a painter.” (N. Y. Times.)