ND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . . . 165

XIV TURNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

XV THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . . . . . . . . . 188

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

IN THE COLOURS OF THE ORIGINAL PAINTINGS

Red Ridinghood . . . . . . . . . . _G. F. Watts_ _Frontispiece_

Richard II. before the Virgin PAGE
and Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

The Three Maries . . . . . . . . . _H. Van Eyck_ . . . . . 48

St. Jerome in his study . . . . . _Antonello da Messina_ 65

The Nativity . . . . . . . . . . . _Sandro Botticelli_ . . 76

The Knight's Dream . . . . . . . . _Raphael_ . . . . . . . 85

The Golden Age . . . . . . . . . . _Giorgione_ . . . . . . 96

St. George destroying the Dragon . _Tintoret_ . . . . . . 102

Edward, Prince of Wales,
afterwards Edward VI. . . . . _Holbein_ . . . . . . . 111

A Man in Armour . . . . . . . . . _Rembrandt_ . . . . . . 126

An Interior . . . . . . . . . . . _P. de Hoogh_ . . . . . 134

Landscape with Cattle . . . . . . _Cuyp_ . . . . . . . . 141

William II. of Orange . . . . . . _Van Dyck_ . . . . . . 146

Don Balthazar Carlos . . . . . . . _Velasquez_ . . . . . . 161

The Duke of Gloucester . . . . . . _Sir J. Reynolds_ . . . 170

The Fighting Temeraire . . . . . . _Turner_ . . . . . . . 177

THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF ART

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

Almost the pleasantest thing in the world is to be told a splendid
story by a really nice person. There is not the least occasion for
the story to be true; indeed I think the untrue stories are the
best--those in which we meet delightful beasts and things that talk
twenty times better than most human beings ever do, and where
extraordinary events happen in the kind of places that are not at all
like our world of every day. It is so fine to be taken into a country
where it is always summer, and the birds are always singing and the
flowers always blowing, and where people get what they want by just
wishing for it, and are not told that this or that isn't good for them,
and that they'll know better than to want it when they're grown up,
and all that kind of thing which is so annoying and so often happening
in this obstinate criss-cross world, where the days come and go in
such an ordinary fashion.

But if I might choose the person to tell me the kind of story I like
to liste