Of the value of Reynolds’ Discourses to art-students of the present day, Professor Clausen said, in one of his lectures delivered at the Royal Academy in 1904: “There is no book that an artist can read so illuminating and helpful as Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Discourses.... These admirable Discourses give with the utmost candour and clearness, with entire freedom from the sentimentality and gush which mars so much that is written on artistic subjects, the ripe conclusions of a great artist. We see the perfect workman—the master craftsman, if I may say so—putting his methods before us and laying bare his mind to us.” The illustrations for the edition now presented have been selected with much thought and care by Mr. Roger Fry, who has also endeavoured in his Introductions and Notes to bring to bear on the subject the results of modern criticism and research. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Design. Photogravure on Title Page. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Cymon and Iphigenia. ANNIBALE CARACCI. Youth Pouring a Libation. LUDOVICO CARRACCI. Virgin and Child between St. Frances and St. Jerome. LORENZO BERNINI. David. LE SUEUR. Descent from the Cross. TINTORETTO. The Last Supper. PAOLO VERONESE. The Marriage of St. Catherine. CLAUDE. The Enchanted Castle. CORREGGIO. St. Thomas and St. James the Less. GUIDO RENI. Pietà. SALVATOR ROSA. Cain and Abel. NICOLAS POUSSIN. Memoria della Morte. RAPHAEL. The Crucifixion. GUERCINO. St. Bruno’s Vision. CARAVAGGIO. Entombment. BAROCCIO. Holy Family. GUIDO RENI. Samson Drinking from the Jawbone of an Ass. TINTORETTO. The Road to Calvary. JACOPO BASSANO. Il Riposo. ANNIBALE CARACCI. The Flight into Egypt. RUBENS. Landscape in Moonlight. REMBRANDT. Man in Armour. PARMEGIANINO. Madonna del Collo lungo. FILIPPINO LIPPI. St. Paul Visiting St. Peter in Prison. RAPHAEL. Part of the Cartoon of St. Paul Preaching at Athens. TITIAN. St. Sebastian. TITIAN. Detail from the Bacchus and Ariadne. CORREGGIO. Drawing for La Notte. RUBENS. Altar of St. Augustine’s, Antwerp. SALVATOR ROSA. Landscape. SEBASTIAN BOURDON. Return of the Ark. PELLEGRINO TIBALDI. Composition. MICHEL ANGELO. Study for a Crucifixion. “No reprint could be welcomer.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._ “Rendered of great value by the critical introductions.... The interest of the plates is further considerably enhanced by Mr. Fry’s brief appreciation of the various articles.”—_Athenæum._ LONDON: SEELEY & CO., LIMITED, 38 GREAT RUSSELL STREET. _In large 4to, price Five Guineas net, in cloth_