Abstract
A SHORT time ago the British Museum acquired a comprehensive collection of Japanese and Chinese pictures, made by Mr. William Anderson, for some years medical officer to the British Legation in Tbkio. This gentleman's magnificent work on the “Pictorial Arts of Japan” has already been noticed in these columns; and he has just placed students of the arts of the Far East under an additional debt of gratitude to him by the preparation of a catalogue of his collection in the British Museum, which has just been published by the Trustees of that institution. With this volume, except for a special purpose, we have nothing to do; but it is impossible to glance through it without being struck by the amount of labour which the author has devoted to his dissertations on the various schools of painting, to his descriptions of characteristic examples of these schools, and to his explanation of the motives which inspired the artists. The word “catalogue” is a modest one to employ in describing the work, for though it contains the numbers and names of the pictures, this is the least part of its contents.
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