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Reviews the book "The Edwardian Turn of Mind," by Samuel Hynes.

The article discusses the book "Leonardo da Vinci: The Florentine Years of Leonardo and Verrocchio," by Jens Thiis. The author offers the fullest and best-ordered array of illustrations for Leonardo's early years. While much of his endeavor is in the direction of attributions and chronology, he abounds also in real criticism of a sort at once enthusiastic and solid. He carries much further the work of classification auspiciously begun by the unfortunate Roselyn Muller-Walde, and splendidly advanced by Bernard Berenson in the great work on Florentine Drawings. Without departing too much from the immediate matter in hand, the book gives a vivid sense of the personal and social background of Leonardo's early career.

The article reviews the book "Growth of a Prehistoric Time Scale," by W. B. N. Berry.