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For this discussion of the aesthetic views and the works of the Bloomsbury group, as represented principally by Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster, Dowling deals with their contrasting acceptance/refusal of the ut pictura poesis concept-``the painterliness of literature and the literariness of painting.'' Most of the book is devoted to the demonstration of Forster's rejection of the concept and Woolf's attempts to realize it. To Forster the stuff and goal of fiction was life while form and structure as such were unimportant; Woolf, on the other hand, thought in terms of an analogous relationship between literary art and the ``Fine Arts.'' Although this book may be hard going for those to whom the ut pictura poesis notion is new and strange (and although the author may not deliver quite as much as he promises), the reader will find considerable illumination of the works discussed. Recommended for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.-P.M. Gulley, North Texas State University