Martin's River,
an historic kernel for the epic.
an historic kernel for the epic.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
' A determination
shows a sulphur spectrum-that developed in
has been made of the relative amount of emergent
pore, with a Brief Discussion on the Classification
the flaine of burning carbon disulphide, or,
and incident y-radiation excited in “radiators
of the Family Nephthyidæ': and Mr. T. H. Withers
better, by sulphur vapour in a stream of active
of different thicknesses and different materials.
on 'Some Early Fossil Cirripedes of the
nitrogen.
Results of the experiments aro : (1) The emergent
Genus Scalpellum. '
By cooling, an annexe to the apparatus in
g-radiation is generally greater in amount than
liquid air the blue glow disappears, and is restored
the incident radiation, and is more penetrating. HISTORICAL. —March 21. -The Ven. Archdeacon
on heating up. The constituent responsible for 2) The ratio of emergent to incident y-radiation Cunningham, President, in the chair. --A paper
it has been frozen out in this treatment, and the is greater, for radiators of the same material, was read by Mr. B. K. Henderson on The
pure hydrogen remaining gives no afterglow the thinner the radiator ; for radiators of different Commonwealth Charters to the Towns. ' Mr.
whatever.
inaterials thick enough to stop the B-rays, the Henderson showed that the Protectorate re-
It is concluded, therefore, that Hertz's effect lower the atoinic weight of the radiator. (3) modelled the corporations to put a party favour-
is due to the presence of sulphuretted hydrogen The results obtained point to the conclusion that able to the existing Government into power,
excESS
one
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MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
Jox. Society of Engineers, 7. 30. –Ligno-Concrete,' Mr. G. 0. Onge.
Aristotelian, 8. –Symposium : The Time Difficulty in Realist
Theories of Perception,' Dr. W. Brown and others.
Institute of British Architects, 8. -'Art Museums and Picture
Galleries,' Mr. E T. Hall.
Society of Arts, 8. -'Materials and Methods of Decorative
Painting. ' Lecture III, Mr. N. Heaton. Cantor Lecture. )
Geographical, 8. 30. - The Mountains of Northern Sikkim and
Garhwal,' Mr. A. M. Kellas.
of Water to the City of Birmingham from Mid-Wales,'
Messrs. E. L. and W. L. Mansergh.
Zoological, 8. 30.
WED. Entomological, 8.
much on the same lines as thoso followed after-
wards by Charles II. and James II. , principally
to secure election to Parliament of well-affected
Science Gossip.
FINE ARTS
members for the borougbs.
Prof. T. N. Mathur of Agra was declared
elected a Fellow. Mr. J. W. Fortescue, King's
M. DANIEL BERTHELOT, the distinguished
Librarian at Windsor, had been co-opted as a son of a distinguished father, has just The Heroic Age. By H. Munro Chadwick.
meinber of the Council.
published a lecture delivered by him to
the Société de Pathologie comparée upon
(Cambridge University Press. )
MALONE. - March 20. --Annual Meeting. --Mr.
* The Physiological Effect of the Ultra-
E. K. Chambers, President, in the chair. - Violet Rays. ' In its course he had to tell This important book is a careful and
The Report on the Society's work for 1911 was the sad story of Dr. Billon - Daguerre, learned study of a certain stage through
adopted, and the officers were re-elected for the nephew of the inventor of photography, which several Indo-European races seem
ensuing year. The Report showed that the Society who suddenly lost the sight of one eye to have passed, though at periods differing
in 1907 of printing five plays and one part of while looking at a mercury-vapour lamp
as widely as 1,500 years. Mr. Chadwick
Collections (notes on the publications, dramatic without glasses. M. Berthelot showed with calls it the Heroic Age, owing to the
The five parts of Collections now issued are pro: activity of the ultra-violet rays is their peculiar literature it has in each case
vided with an index and title-page, and it is not extraordinarily high temperature, which, produced, and the social conditions de-
Society's yearly output. The list of publications given off by the mercury-vapour lamp,
in place of which a sixth play will appear in the according to him, is, in the case of those scribed in that literature. He thinks
that, had these analogous literatures been
for 1911 is Apius and Virginia,' 4to, 1575 ; greater than that of the sun. It is to this the echo of the beliefs common to the
* Edward I. ,' 4to, 1593 ; George a Green, 4to, that he attributes both their microbicide
1599 ;
Cæsar's Revenge,' 4to (1607); and 'Sir
race before its separation by migrations,
Thomas More," from Ms. 'Harl. 7368 ; 'ånd Collec- and their vivifying properties, as shown in there could not have been so wide à
tions, vol. i. part iv. (held over from 1910) and v. their action on the growth of plants. As he
The list of plays to be printed in 1912 is: The says, we have not yet succeeded in producing Ages as that of the Greeks and of the
severance in the dates of such Heroic
Two Angry Women of Abingdon;', 4to, 1599 : colouring matter, which plants produce
Teutons. He also observes that all
The Weakest Goeth to the Wall,' 4to, 1600 ;
Wily Beguiled,' 4to, 1606 ; Englishmen for every day in the sun's light, and, when we can branches of the race do not afford evidence
My Money, 4to, 1610 ; and two plays on Christ's do so, the problem of the chemical basis of life of it. Thus the Lithuanians show no
Resurrection, from a private MS.
will be advanced a long step towards solution. trace of it, so far as we know. He tells
*** We hold over various reports till next week.
That plants contain ferments and other
us this, but omits any imilar remark
matters acting as catalysere able to reduce regarding the Latin branch. Is there
changes brought about by them is, as he the same absence here, or is it in some
says, probable; and thus, he thinks, the respect supplied by the legends of the
rays which cause death to lower organisms early kings of Rome? It is perhaps too
may prove our guide to the mysteries of life. exacting to expect him to cover the whole
PROF. J. KÖNIGSBERGER has lately made field, but when a comparative study is
Tues. Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. – The Works for the Supply
researches into the connexion of the electron announced, we feel ourselves justified in
with chemical affinity, and decides that it demanding at least a page to tell us why
possesses two sorts of affinity with regard a leading branch of the race makes
to the atom. One of these, which he calls
no figure in the book.
external affinity, is determined by the
When we come to the Celtic branch,
electrostatic attraction acting at a great
the omission is even clearer. He gives
ANTHROPOMETRIC LABORATORIES. distance, and the other, which he names
DR. VENN of Cambridge has written to us
internal affinity, is the electro-chemical
us a few pages on the heroic poems of
with reference to the paragraph in our
one excited within the atom by electric the Welsh, but regarding the Irish he
Science Gossip’ of the Ith inst. recording the vapours of sodium
and mercury, which that most of their records have reached
forces. Thus he accounts for the fact that excuses himself by saying in one place
the establishment of the Anthropometric give off no electrons, are virtually non-
Laboratory at Oxford. He says that
us in a prose form—which is no proper
conducting. This internal affinity, he
“just twenty-five years ago a similar scheme was
started at Cambridge by the late Francis Galton. negative ions in the canal-rays under certain and controversy that he must leave it
thinks, is also shown in the production of that the subject is so full of difficulty
reason for ignoring them—and in another
time to time. As long ago as March 13th, 1890. conditions.
an article appeared in Nature containing a careful
to the specialists. That is exactly what
analysis of some 3,000 cases taken from our
The phenomena supposed to be exhi.
students here. This contained, in particular, bited by the divining-rod, lately inves.
a comparative study should not do.
an elaborate investigation of the correlation, so tigated in this country by Prof. Barrett, The specialists are sure to take narrow
far as this could be determined, between mental have now been seriously tested in German views; it is from, such broad students as
and physical capacity. '
South-West Africa, where something like Mr. Chadwick that we hope for light.
Our belief is that the late Sir Francis 800 experiments were made with it in search We notice that he includes Servian
Galton first proposed an anthropometric of water, about 80 per cent of these being heroic poetry, on which he does not claim
laboratory in an article in The Fortnightly súccessful. It has also been used with to be an expert. The Irish Aryans stand
Review 1882, and from 1884 to success in Hanover to indicate the presence,
1891 maintained, at his own expense, such or otherwise, of veins of salts of potash in
so independent in language from both
a laboratory in connexion with the exhibi. the soil. The Ministry of A
lture in
Greeks and Teutons, and are
tions at South Kensington.
France has appointed å departmental com- portant in the likenesses and contrasts
After Galton's laboratory was closed, no mittee to make similar experiments.
their literature shows to either, that we
attempt was made to replace it until 1909,
A CANADIAN
William
cannot but regret keenly that the author
when
the Royal Anthropological Institute Barnes Fotheringham of Montreal, has nearly did not delay his work for a year or two and
exhibition at Shepherd's Bush. This bureau completed for publication a work entitled include this branch of his subject. For
* The Human Face: a Study of Physio- comparative purposes he need hardly
was continued at subsequent exhibitions in
1910 and 1911, under the direction of Mr. I gnomical Varieties. . The author classifies have been expected to learn Old Irish”;
John Gray, the Treasurer of the Royal of face, and explains in detail, with numerous
upwards of seventy distinct structural types and the famous prose version of Ossian
Anthropological Institute. A considerable
has surely been sufficiently sifted to
number of measurements of the cranium photographs and drawings, the physiological show him what was genuinely old and
and body were made, and also mental
for variation from the Hellenic
standard.
what was due to the genius of Macpherson.
measurements with the apparatus of Messrs.
McDougall, Spearman, and Gray. A large
From Prof. Ridgeway's researches gwe
A PARTIAL eclipse of the moon, visible should expect the Irish heroic age to be
amount of valuable material has undoubtedly at Greenwich, occurs on the evening of
been accumulated for calculating new and April 1st. The first contact with the
more like the Greek than was the Teuton,
interesting averages and correlations, and
it is to be hoped that the movement will the last at ilh. 3m. , the middle of the branches are more on a par.
earth's shadow takes place at 9h. 26m. , and though in chronology the two Western
be continued by the establishment of eclipse being at 10h. 14m. The first contact It is, of course, a commonplace that
Anthropometric Bureaus, open to the with the shadow. occurs very close to the among primitive peoples the same wants
public, in all our large cities.
south point of the moon's limb.
and circumstances produce the
same
in
SO im-
causes
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men.
practical solutions and the same ideas. who raided the old settlers to find what
SPRING EXHIBITION AT MR.
Hand-made pottery and flint arrow- was scarce in the home they had left.
McLEAN'S GALLERIES.
heads show a great similarity in many On no Greek author is this book more
diverse lands. It has been further noted interesting than on Hesiod, who used
This show is handicapped by its arrange.
that more advanced ideas are similarly the aristocratic and dignified hexameter ment. We are surprised that the place of
found in wholly separate races, as, for his homely subjects. We do not honour should be given to a copy of Rem-
brandt's Mill ascribed to Cotman (75), a
for instance, the oft-cited occurrence of think that it is fair to say that he is coarser
the story of Odysseus and Polyphemus than Homer, who avoids indelicate sub- either of the names invoked; and around
coarse piece of sensationalism unworthy of
in far Šiberia. In fact, “it is found jects. Hesiod is not at all gross, and, this centre-piece are a large number of tiny
with slight variants in many different moreover, there are guesses at primitive brown pictures, their number and tawniness
parts of the world. ” But how far history which, like many of the guesses made more tiresome by the fact that all are
does this general homogeneity carry us? of the Greeks, anticipate modern science set in disproportionately heavy and ornato
According to Mr. Chadwick, even as most curiously. Consider for a moment gilt frames.
far as the creation of an heroic poetry the legend of the ages of man distinguished best known outside expert circles by the
The name of Julius Cæsar Ibbetson is
founded on the similar circumstances of by metals. Thousands of years ago, imaginary descendant invented for him by
adolescent races in different ages and we find the Gold Age, Bronze Age, and Du Maurier in the first of his romances.
countries. But all his examples are from Iron Age appearing in Hesiod ; nay, more, Yet how accomplished a painter he was is
Aryan races. Could such a condition of just like Mr. Chadwick, the old Greek evident from his beautifully conventional
society arise among Semites? We should poet felt that the Heroic Age could not be Bridge (53), maintained throughout in a
like to hear our author's opinion how fitted into this gradual development. The same artist's
Evening (49), if on slightly
far the adventures of David, graphically that it was something exceptional and The same artist's Evening (49), if on slightly
told in the books of Samuel, correspond transient—and so he intercalates it between piece ; while No. 67, Å Derbyshire Village,
with the Heroic Age. There are many the Bronze and the Iron Ages as a brief by H. Dawson and W. Shayer, has an
features very like those of Homeric epoch of passing splendour. Mr. Chadwick enamel-like beauty of creamy impasto
heroes—the same combination of cruelty might have made his book brighter had which is a lesson in painters' methods
and deceit with generous feelings; the he developed this curious anticipation in unsurpassablo in its way. Morland's little
same literary excellence in the narrative, a Greek poet whom he otherwise highly sketch, By the Wayside (30), has similar
along with shocking savagery in the facts appreciates. When he was dealing with | Chambers's Portsmouth (31) is an ingenious
related; the same intimacy of a strongly the mythical narratives he might also technical exercise brilliantly artificial; in
anthropomorphic God with the race of have added those in the dithyrambs of colour.
Here, too, there is doubtless Bacchylides.
In Crome's View on St.
Martin's River,
an historic kernel for the epic. Mr. Among the peculiarities of the poetry of Norwich (47), we find, even more than in
Chadwick rightly insists that the more the Heroic Age he justly notes that the Ibbetson's panel, the note of solemnity.
of such a poem as the Iliad' is that it to happen did not preserve any dignity modelled form bathed in warm moonlight.
probable and far the simplest explanation places where the great events were said The passage of river-bank and buildings to
is based on historic facts. All the dreams by means of these poems. The majority The surface of the river is rendered inta
of the comparative mythologists about of the seats of Homeric heroes, for mechanical fashion, however, and an ill.
the sun or the dawn being personified in example, were obscure and insignificant realized water-line detracts more quickly
Achilles or Helen, in spite of seductive in historical Greece. So also national than anything else from the impressiveness
etymologies, he sets aside.
sentiment is weak in the poems, and the of a picture. Nos. 79 and 85 are more
The Teutonic branch is his strong author shows how the loyalty of Patroclus perfect examples of this master, yet for all
point, and the larger part of his book is was not for the Greek cause, but for the their excellence
have not quite the intimate
appeal of his moonlight study; while his
devoted to that literature, which has for glory of his friend Achilles. But here he On the Marshes (56) is a dramatic composition
us the enormous advantage of not being has not distinguished between two kinds in brown which sugg sts kinship with a
composed till there was contemporary of loyalty. The attachment of close lesser artist, Mr. Leader. G. Shalders's
history, when the reality of its characters friends was very strong among the Greeks, Leith Hill (103) is an instance of brush-
could in many cases be tested. He is and one would face death for the other. drawing of great precision without loss of
therefore able to show how both myth But the loyalty to a king as superior in the continuity of a liquid stroke.
Constable
and fiction were brought to bear on these the state was very scanty indeed. Thus
we cannot on the whole speak in terms of
mostly historical personages, and from Herodotus and Xenophon wonder at very high praise, though three of them-
this he draws conclusions by analogy in the loyalty of the Persian nobles to Birthplace of the Artist (14), Landscape (15),
the case of Homer, whose poems have their king, which was like that of the and The Valley of the Siour (16)are among
come from the twilight or dawn of Hellenic nobility of France up to the Revolution, his better works. The only figure subject
society. How far, indeed, that society among whom it was a privilege to die of much interest is an unusually fine Müller,
was based on an earlier civilization, such for the king because he was the king, not The Piping Shepherd (58), a design of much
as that now called Ægean ; whether this because he was personally loved. This Farm (24), by W. Collins ; a large varnished
earlier civilization was absolutely non- sort of kingship was being created, drawing by Gainsborough (59); and a
Hellenic or not so—these are problems according to Mr. Chadwick, on the ruins wonderful experiment on a burnt - sien
which occupy all the author's ingenuity of the earlier tribal and kindred ties. ground, The Footbridge (57), by De Wint.
He prefers to think that the earlier It disregarded nationality, and substituted
people who occupied Greece were akin for it personal allegiance. But that
to the Hellenes, but
find him allegiance never became dynastic among WORKS BY MISS MARGARET GERE
agreeing uncritically in the common Greeks till Alexander and the Diadochi
AND MR. CHARLES M. GERE.
opinion that all the Mediterranean lands introduced it upon the ruins of Oriental
were occupied by one earlier race. Of sovereignties.
To have accepted a certain group of pig.
that we are by no means persuaded. We must omit many other topics ments and made the most of them was a
Very different races have been juxtaposed of interest which are not presented so just been considering, and a similar virtue
principal virtue of the painters we have
throughout the world's history. Constant attractively as they deserve. The prose may be claimed for the two artists showing
movements of population have taken account of the heroic stories of the at the Carfax Gallery. They have more
place. Our author shows a curious sim- Teutons with which the volume begins and brighter pigments at their command,
plicity of mind when he states that it is dull reading, though necessary for and thus approach more easily a plausible
was frequently not want of food, but the many who are not familiar with this resemblance to natural colour, but have
the pressure of alien invaders, that dis- literature. The headings of the chapters the same delight in using their materials in
turbed primitive nations. But what pro- are also not comprehensive enough; and purity. Both display considerable crafts.
duced the pressure? In most cases, surely, head-lines giving the subject of each page manship, Mr. Gere being particularly suc-
want of food among the new-comers, I would have been a great help.
cessful in his small landscapes in tempera,
we
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occa-
such as Orta (37), The Lombardy Plain (21), some years ago at Pydna, and Palatitza in The volume is essentially a work of reference,
or the charming mountain view, Castello in Macedonia itself.
and the more it is used, the more will it be
Valsolda (5). One water-colour, An Orchard
PROF. NEWBERRY has just published (in appreciated. At the end will be found
in March, shows him again admirably the University of Liverpool's Annals of
Table of Chronology, giving page
expressing the cool, crisp sunlight of spring, Archæology) two slate palettes which he references to incidents related in the course
with its slightly decolourizing effect. His seems to have bought at Luxor. They have, of the work; a Classification of Compositions
large landscape is refined in intention and
as he says, evidently been used for grinding in respect of the means required for their
carefully designed, but inclined to a diffuse malachito, probably for cosmetic purposes, performance ; an Alphabetic Register of
enumeration of many small forms and as each of them has a depression in the
Works ;
an Index to Poetical and other
minute differences of tone. The acceptance centre stained with green. One of them, Sources from which the text of the vocal
of a vanishing - point of modelling rather however, which is in the familiar form of a
works is derived; Tables of Editions ; and
earlier in the process of analysis makes hog-backed fish, bears roughly incised an Index of Proper Names. From the
such smaller works as The Lakeside (20) figures of an animal which may be intended very beginning the author will surely con-
more compact and more arresting,
for a hyæna, a goat, two birds on standards vince all reasonable persons that, though an
or crossed staves, two tailed deer, and a pig. admirer of Brahms, he does not indulge in
Miss Margaret Gere's figure compositions In his description of these Prof. Newberry "needless raptures. " He says :
have an archaistic charm which is undeniable. says that the lines are only very lightly “ Either people insist upon regarding him as
They fall a little between two stools, sacri- incised,” or, in other words, scratched; and, the legitimate successor of Beethoven, or they
ficing some of the vitality of stroke of the the slate in question, compared with some
deny him the position of a great master altogether,
Persian drawings on which they might admittedly forged
and it may well be feared that some exaggeration
phylacteries,” also on
takes place on either side. "
have been founded in favour of a fuller slate, and bought in the same place three
representation which is not quite close years ago, suggests the view that the animal
enough to contemporary life to pay for the figures are modern additions to a doubtless
loss of conciseness. The Virtuous Woman prehistoric palette.
(10) is perhaps the best of her works very
Musical Gossip.
pretty in surface and daintily. wrought. Museum, studies in Sir Gaston Maspero's
M. GEORGES DARESSY, of the Cairo
Sisters (15) is somewhat suggestive of the
The programme of the sixth concert of the
Recueil de Travaux some ostraca found by Philharmonic Society at Queen's Hall last
English Pre-Raphaelites, and here the Mr. Theodore Davis at the Valley of the Thursday week was not lacking in interest.
firelight effect which differentiates it from Kings, which appear to have formed a sort Berlioz's 'Le Corsaire ? Overture, not one
Oriental tempera painting is not studied of wage-sheet or notebook kept by the of his most attractive, is rarely performed;
with much thoroughness. Noah's Ark (14) foreman or other officer in charge of the and, curiously, the composer makes no
is a delightful fancy, though a practical construction of the rock-cut royal tombs mention of it in his autobiography or letters.
person might criticize the flimsy. piers there situate.
which support the gangway by which the the Egyptian workmen enjoyed an
It appears from this that The idea of writing such a work was no
animals enter. The imminent arrival of
doubt suggested to him on a journey from
sional strike,
the elephant spells certain disaster,
together with frequent Marseilles to Leghorn, when the captain
holidays, including regularly appointed of the ship—who had been, so he said,
ones of seven days every month. These captain of Byron's corvette during his
ostraca also enable M. Daressy to fix with excursions among the islands of the Greek
certainty the length of the reign of Seti II. archipelago—had much to tell about the
Fine Art Gossip.
at six years, and to show that the king poet. Mr. Arthur Hervey conducted his
hitherto called Si-Ptah was really Rameses symphonic variations, 'Life Moods,' . which
MR. HARRINGTON MANN's portraits at Mr. III. and the immediate successor of Rameses were originally produced at the Brighton
Knoedler's Gallery are in the manner of Mr. the Great.
Festival. The different moods expressed
Sargent, with a special bent towards the
DR. ALAN GARDINER records a curious naturally make for variety, also the changes
Raeburn tradition, and will be acceptable instance of survival with regard to the of key, while much of the music is effective;
to such as demand above all from portraiture sistrum, or rattle used in the worship of
but the romantic element is not so strongly
an illusion of substantiality. In No. 1, the Greek Isis, and mentioned by writers
felt as in one or two of Mr. Hervey's
Annabel, a healthy infant of not
too subtle like Plutarch and Apuleius. He thinks it earlier works. Sir Alexander Mackenzio's
character suits the treatment fairly well
. the object figured in the
hieroglyph generally Invocation,' a new orchestral work, opens
,
is not sustained
through the picture, which represent some sort of sceptro or mace. pleasing character, but the treatment of it
becomes a vignette loosely sketched in its He also tells us that it is still used in the
is not always convincing. By judicious
main masses around a core of firmer, but not Christian churches of Abyssinia, and that revision, and moderate excision, he might,
always very subtle modelling.
the Berlin Museum possesses a fine specimen
we think, render it far more attractive.
A DEATH MASK of John Philpot Curran has of one of these modern sistra secured by Señor Casals once again proved himself
been found in the cellars of the Royal
Prof. Littmann.
a master-interpreter of Bach. He selected
Hibernian Academy, and is on view at the
the Suite in o minor for 'cello unaccom-
exhibition now being held there. The mask
panied, the one in which the A string is
bears a close resemblance to the Lawrence
tuned a tone lower. Signor Busoni gave a
portrait from the Peel Collection, now in the
MUSIC
powerful_rendering of the solo part of
National Gallery of Ireland, and was possibly
Liszt's 'Todtentanz,' a curious rather than
taken by Curran's friend Peter Turnerelli,
interesting piece of programme-music. It
who executed & bust of him in his latest Historical, Descriptive, and Analytical was inspired—to use the customary term,
days.
Account of the Entire Works of Johannes by Orcagna's fresco The Triumph of Death'
Brahms : Vol. I. The Vocal Works. By
at Pisa. The Gold Medal of the Society
PROF. JAMES GEIRIE has been appointed Edwin Evans, sen. (Wm. Reeves. This was privately presented to these two great
to deliver the next course of lectures under volume will be followed by two more dealing artists on the morning of the concert.
the Lectureship in Anthropology and Pre. with the instrumental works of Brahms, and
historic Archæology at Edinburgh Uni. all three are "specially designed for the
THE season at Covent Garden will open
versity, in succession to Dr. Robert Munro.
on April 22nd with an opera in Italian.
use of concert-goers, pianists, singers, and As announced, there will be two cycles of
Excavations are being made at York, the Lieder," appeals, however, to a still Rottenberg. The dates will be as follows:
students. " This first one, which includes the Ring' under the direction of Dr.
beside Bootham Bar, under the yard of wider circle ; for in this branch of the art Das Rheingold, April 23rd and May 3rd ;
of the original Roman wall and the gateway Si musiciansa; "hof Schubert and Schumann Siegfried, April 27th and May 6th; and
have been exposed.
he is acknowledged the legitimate successor.
The authorities of the Imperial Ottoman Many of his songs, simple in character, call 8th. Brünnhilde will be impersonated by
Museum at Constantinople have excavated for little comment. For instance, Mr. Madame Saltzmann-Stevens and Fräulein
the tumulus. of Langaza, near Salonica, and Evans devotes only four lines to · Verzicht, Gertrud Kappel; Sieglinde by Madamo
Macedonian period, with doors decorated His chief aim is to describe the structure and Madame Kirkby Lunn; Wotan by Herr
with ornaments in gilt bronze, representing general character of the various numbers, Anton van Rooy: Mime by Herr Hans
Medusa heads and lions' masks with rings but he happily does not hesitate to Bechstein ; and Loge by Řerr Heinrich
in their mouths, like those common in add any information, although, as in the Hensel. The two performances of Tristan
mediæval Venice. The tomb
to second of the two numbers named above und Isolde' will take place on May Ist and
correspond closely with those discovered only indirectly connected with the music. '10th,
seems
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WHO'S WHO
THEATRE.
a
6
à
6
MR. JOSEPH HOLBROOKE gave the third
of his Chamber Concerts at Steinway Hall
Dramatic Gossip.
THE NEW DRAMATIC LIST
last Monday afternoon. He opened with
his Third Sextet for Flute (Mr. A. Barton),
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for a
Oboe (Mr. A. Foreman), Clarinet (Mr. C. season of French plays at the Garrick
Draper), Horn (Mr. 0. Borsdorf), Bassoon Theatre during Mr. Arthur Bourchier's short
(Mr. E. James), and Piano (Mr. Holbrooke), tour in Glasgow and Bournemouth. M.
and of the three movements, the bright, Lugné-Poe and his wife, Madame Suzanne
IN
concluding Presto was the most acceptable. Després, supported by company of
THE
A Miniature Suite for the five wind instru- capable Parisian artists, will open on
ments named was apparently an attempt Easter Monday, probably with Sapho. '
by the composer to write in a popular Other plays in an interesting repertory
style, though only in
A BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF
The Lily,' 'The Marionettes,
one (“A Joyous will be
Moment') of the four movements bearing
Electra' (one of the French actress's THE CONTEMPORARY STAGE,
titles was the mood strongly expressed. finest representations), and possibly ‘La
No. 3 was marked "Minuet (Fugue),' but Rafale, in which Madame Després created
in the blend attempted both forms suffered.
sensation when she appeared four
Compiled and Edited by
An Adagio for clarinet and piano proved years ago at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Miss
JOHN PARKER,
light and pleasing; moreover, in a rather Andrews, through whose medium London
long. Fantasy' for viola and piano by Mr. has made the acquaintance of many well.
Editor of The Green Room Book. '
Benjamin Dale, played by Mr. Lionel known foreign artists, arranged for the
Tertis and the 'composer, there was much appearance of Madame Després in 1908, and 780 pp. cloth, 68. net; leather, 83, 6d. net.
good writing.
she has been chosen by M. Lugné-Poe, who
this time brings his own company, to
The Standard says :-
THERE was only one novelty at the second
manage the forthcoming season.
" A most welcome and useful work. "
Balfour Gardiner Concert last Wednesday at
Queen's Hall. This was a Festival Overture
Next Saturday evening, Mr. Cyril Maude The Morning Leader says :-
by Mr. Arnold Bax. At the previous concert will present a new farce in three acts,
“Playgoors cannot be too grateful for the latest
his choral work was vague, and consequently
called Billy,' by George Cameron. The Who's Who in the Theatre. . . . . . a remarkable six.
uninteresting. The work in question, how action of the play takes place in the shillingsworth. ”
.
ever, proved bright, rhythmical, clear in chaplain's quarters in the Government
The World says:
form, and well scored. "It was effectively Industrial Home for Boys at Beechcroft,
Undoubtedly the most complete work of its
given under the direction of Mr. Gardiner. Essex.
kind yet issued. All who are interested, whether
Mr. Percy Grainger gave a brilliant rendering
On April 19th 'Fanny's First Play' will professionally or otherwise, in the theatre of
of Tschaikowsky's B flat minor Concerto.
accomplish a “record” for Mr. Bernard Shaw, to-day should possess a copy. '
At the final Classical Concert on Wednes. who will have attained a twelve months'
day at Bechstein Hall, Mr. Donald Francis unbroken run in London for his latest play,
Tovey's reading of Beethoven's B flat Sonata,
Op. 106, was excellent as regards technique Dr. Karl Mantzius, has announced his in- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.
shows a sulphur spectrum-that developed in
has been made of the relative amount of emergent
pore, with a Brief Discussion on the Classification
the flaine of burning carbon disulphide, or,
and incident y-radiation excited in “radiators
of the Family Nephthyidæ': and Mr. T. H. Withers
better, by sulphur vapour in a stream of active
of different thicknesses and different materials.
on 'Some Early Fossil Cirripedes of the
nitrogen.
Results of the experiments aro : (1) The emergent
Genus Scalpellum. '
By cooling, an annexe to the apparatus in
g-radiation is generally greater in amount than
liquid air the blue glow disappears, and is restored
the incident radiation, and is more penetrating. HISTORICAL. —March 21. -The Ven. Archdeacon
on heating up. The constituent responsible for 2) The ratio of emergent to incident y-radiation Cunningham, President, in the chair. --A paper
it has been frozen out in this treatment, and the is greater, for radiators of the same material, was read by Mr. B. K. Henderson on The
pure hydrogen remaining gives no afterglow the thinner the radiator ; for radiators of different Commonwealth Charters to the Towns. ' Mr.
whatever.
inaterials thick enough to stop the B-rays, the Henderson showed that the Protectorate re-
It is concluded, therefore, that Hertz's effect lower the atoinic weight of the radiator. (3) modelled the corporations to put a party favour-
is due to the presence of sulphuretted hydrogen The results obtained point to the conclusion that able to the existing Government into power,
excESS
one
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MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
Jox. Society of Engineers, 7. 30. –Ligno-Concrete,' Mr. G. 0. Onge.
Aristotelian, 8. –Symposium : The Time Difficulty in Realist
Theories of Perception,' Dr. W. Brown and others.
Institute of British Architects, 8. -'Art Museums and Picture
Galleries,' Mr. E T. Hall.
Society of Arts, 8. -'Materials and Methods of Decorative
Painting. ' Lecture III, Mr. N. Heaton. Cantor Lecture. )
Geographical, 8. 30. - The Mountains of Northern Sikkim and
Garhwal,' Mr. A. M. Kellas.
of Water to the City of Birmingham from Mid-Wales,'
Messrs. E. L. and W. L. Mansergh.
Zoological, 8. 30.
WED. Entomological, 8.
much on the same lines as thoso followed after-
wards by Charles II. and James II. , principally
to secure election to Parliament of well-affected
Science Gossip.
FINE ARTS
members for the borougbs.
Prof. T. N. Mathur of Agra was declared
elected a Fellow. Mr. J. W. Fortescue, King's
M. DANIEL BERTHELOT, the distinguished
Librarian at Windsor, had been co-opted as a son of a distinguished father, has just The Heroic Age. By H. Munro Chadwick.
meinber of the Council.
published a lecture delivered by him to
the Société de Pathologie comparée upon
(Cambridge University Press. )
MALONE. - March 20. --Annual Meeting. --Mr.
* The Physiological Effect of the Ultra-
E. K. Chambers, President, in the chair. - Violet Rays. ' In its course he had to tell This important book is a careful and
The Report on the Society's work for 1911 was the sad story of Dr. Billon - Daguerre, learned study of a certain stage through
adopted, and the officers were re-elected for the nephew of the inventor of photography, which several Indo-European races seem
ensuing year. The Report showed that the Society who suddenly lost the sight of one eye to have passed, though at periods differing
in 1907 of printing five plays and one part of while looking at a mercury-vapour lamp
as widely as 1,500 years. Mr. Chadwick
Collections (notes on the publications, dramatic without glasses. M. Berthelot showed with calls it the Heroic Age, owing to the
The five parts of Collections now issued are pro: activity of the ultra-violet rays is their peculiar literature it has in each case
vided with an index and title-page, and it is not extraordinarily high temperature, which, produced, and the social conditions de-
Society's yearly output. The list of publications given off by the mercury-vapour lamp,
in place of which a sixth play will appear in the according to him, is, in the case of those scribed in that literature. He thinks
that, had these analogous literatures been
for 1911 is Apius and Virginia,' 4to, 1575 ; greater than that of the sun. It is to this the echo of the beliefs common to the
* Edward I. ,' 4to, 1593 ; George a Green, 4to, that he attributes both their microbicide
1599 ;
Cæsar's Revenge,' 4to (1607); and 'Sir
race before its separation by migrations,
Thomas More," from Ms. 'Harl. 7368 ; 'ånd Collec- and their vivifying properties, as shown in there could not have been so wide à
tions, vol. i. part iv. (held over from 1910) and v. their action on the growth of plants. As he
The list of plays to be printed in 1912 is: The says, we have not yet succeeded in producing Ages as that of the Greeks and of the
severance in the dates of such Heroic
Two Angry Women of Abingdon;', 4to, 1599 : colouring matter, which plants produce
Teutons. He also observes that all
The Weakest Goeth to the Wall,' 4to, 1600 ;
Wily Beguiled,' 4to, 1606 ; Englishmen for every day in the sun's light, and, when we can branches of the race do not afford evidence
My Money, 4to, 1610 ; and two plays on Christ's do so, the problem of the chemical basis of life of it. Thus the Lithuanians show no
Resurrection, from a private MS.
will be advanced a long step towards solution. trace of it, so far as we know. He tells
*** We hold over various reports till next week.
That plants contain ferments and other
us this, but omits any imilar remark
matters acting as catalysere able to reduce regarding the Latin branch. Is there
changes brought about by them is, as he the same absence here, or is it in some
says, probable; and thus, he thinks, the respect supplied by the legends of the
rays which cause death to lower organisms early kings of Rome? It is perhaps too
may prove our guide to the mysteries of life. exacting to expect him to cover the whole
PROF. J. KÖNIGSBERGER has lately made field, but when a comparative study is
Tues. Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. – The Works for the Supply
researches into the connexion of the electron announced, we feel ourselves justified in
with chemical affinity, and decides that it demanding at least a page to tell us why
possesses two sorts of affinity with regard a leading branch of the race makes
to the atom. One of these, which he calls
no figure in the book.
external affinity, is determined by the
When we come to the Celtic branch,
electrostatic attraction acting at a great
the omission is even clearer. He gives
ANTHROPOMETRIC LABORATORIES. distance, and the other, which he names
DR. VENN of Cambridge has written to us
internal affinity, is the electro-chemical
us a few pages on the heroic poems of
with reference to the paragraph in our
one excited within the atom by electric the Welsh, but regarding the Irish he
Science Gossip’ of the Ith inst. recording the vapours of sodium
and mercury, which that most of their records have reached
forces. Thus he accounts for the fact that excuses himself by saying in one place
the establishment of the Anthropometric give off no electrons, are virtually non-
Laboratory at Oxford. He says that
us in a prose form—which is no proper
conducting. This internal affinity, he
“just twenty-five years ago a similar scheme was
started at Cambridge by the late Francis Galton. negative ions in the canal-rays under certain and controversy that he must leave it
thinks, is also shown in the production of that the subject is so full of difficulty
reason for ignoring them—and in another
time to time. As long ago as March 13th, 1890. conditions.
an article appeared in Nature containing a careful
to the specialists. That is exactly what
analysis of some 3,000 cases taken from our
The phenomena supposed to be exhi.
students here. This contained, in particular, bited by the divining-rod, lately inves.
a comparative study should not do.
an elaborate investigation of the correlation, so tigated in this country by Prof. Barrett, The specialists are sure to take narrow
far as this could be determined, between mental have now been seriously tested in German views; it is from, such broad students as
and physical capacity. '
South-West Africa, where something like Mr. Chadwick that we hope for light.
Our belief is that the late Sir Francis 800 experiments were made with it in search We notice that he includes Servian
Galton first proposed an anthropometric of water, about 80 per cent of these being heroic poetry, on which he does not claim
laboratory in an article in The Fortnightly súccessful. It has also been used with to be an expert. The Irish Aryans stand
Review 1882, and from 1884 to success in Hanover to indicate the presence,
1891 maintained, at his own expense, such or otherwise, of veins of salts of potash in
so independent in language from both
a laboratory in connexion with the exhibi. the soil. The Ministry of A
lture in
Greeks and Teutons, and are
tions at South Kensington.
France has appointed å departmental com- portant in the likenesses and contrasts
After Galton's laboratory was closed, no mittee to make similar experiments.
their literature shows to either, that we
attempt was made to replace it until 1909,
A CANADIAN
William
cannot but regret keenly that the author
when
the Royal Anthropological Institute Barnes Fotheringham of Montreal, has nearly did not delay his work for a year or two and
exhibition at Shepherd's Bush. This bureau completed for publication a work entitled include this branch of his subject. For
* The Human Face: a Study of Physio- comparative purposes he need hardly
was continued at subsequent exhibitions in
1910 and 1911, under the direction of Mr. I gnomical Varieties. . The author classifies have been expected to learn Old Irish”;
John Gray, the Treasurer of the Royal of face, and explains in detail, with numerous
upwards of seventy distinct structural types and the famous prose version of Ossian
Anthropological Institute. A considerable
has surely been sufficiently sifted to
number of measurements of the cranium photographs and drawings, the physiological show him what was genuinely old and
and body were made, and also mental
for variation from the Hellenic
standard.
what was due to the genius of Macpherson.
measurements with the apparatus of Messrs.
McDougall, Spearman, and Gray. A large
From Prof. Ridgeway's researches gwe
A PARTIAL eclipse of the moon, visible should expect the Irish heroic age to be
amount of valuable material has undoubtedly at Greenwich, occurs on the evening of
been accumulated for calculating new and April 1st. The first contact with the
more like the Greek than was the Teuton,
interesting averages and correlations, and
it is to be hoped that the movement will the last at ilh. 3m. , the middle of the branches are more on a par.
earth's shadow takes place at 9h. 26m. , and though in chronology the two Western
be continued by the establishment of eclipse being at 10h. 14m. The first contact It is, of course, a commonplace that
Anthropometric Bureaus, open to the with the shadow. occurs very close to the among primitive peoples the same wants
public, in all our large cities.
south point of the moon's limb.
and circumstances produce the
same
in
SO im-
causes
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men.
practical solutions and the same ideas. who raided the old settlers to find what
SPRING EXHIBITION AT MR.
Hand-made pottery and flint arrow- was scarce in the home they had left.
McLEAN'S GALLERIES.
heads show a great similarity in many On no Greek author is this book more
diverse lands. It has been further noted interesting than on Hesiod, who used
This show is handicapped by its arrange.
that more advanced ideas are similarly the aristocratic and dignified hexameter ment. We are surprised that the place of
found in wholly separate races, as, for his homely subjects. We do not honour should be given to a copy of Rem-
brandt's Mill ascribed to Cotman (75), a
for instance, the oft-cited occurrence of think that it is fair to say that he is coarser
the story of Odysseus and Polyphemus than Homer, who avoids indelicate sub- either of the names invoked; and around
coarse piece of sensationalism unworthy of
in far Šiberia. In fact, “it is found jects. Hesiod is not at all gross, and, this centre-piece are a large number of tiny
with slight variants in many different moreover, there are guesses at primitive brown pictures, their number and tawniness
parts of the world. ” But how far history which, like many of the guesses made more tiresome by the fact that all are
does this general homogeneity carry us? of the Greeks, anticipate modern science set in disproportionately heavy and ornato
According to Mr. Chadwick, even as most curiously. Consider for a moment gilt frames.
far as the creation of an heroic poetry the legend of the ages of man distinguished best known outside expert circles by the
The name of Julius Cæsar Ibbetson is
founded on the similar circumstances of by metals. Thousands of years ago, imaginary descendant invented for him by
adolescent races in different ages and we find the Gold Age, Bronze Age, and Du Maurier in the first of his romances.
countries. But all his examples are from Iron Age appearing in Hesiod ; nay, more, Yet how accomplished a painter he was is
Aryan races. Could such a condition of just like Mr. Chadwick, the old Greek evident from his beautifully conventional
society arise among Semites? We should poet felt that the Heroic Age could not be Bridge (53), maintained throughout in a
like to hear our author's opinion how fitted into this gradual development. The same artist's
Evening (49), if on slightly
far the adventures of David, graphically that it was something exceptional and The same artist's Evening (49), if on slightly
told in the books of Samuel, correspond transient—and so he intercalates it between piece ; while No. 67, Å Derbyshire Village,
with the Heroic Age. There are many the Bronze and the Iron Ages as a brief by H. Dawson and W. Shayer, has an
features very like those of Homeric epoch of passing splendour. Mr. Chadwick enamel-like beauty of creamy impasto
heroes—the same combination of cruelty might have made his book brighter had which is a lesson in painters' methods
and deceit with generous feelings; the he developed this curious anticipation in unsurpassablo in its way. Morland's little
same literary excellence in the narrative, a Greek poet whom he otherwise highly sketch, By the Wayside (30), has similar
along with shocking savagery in the facts appreciates. When he was dealing with | Chambers's Portsmouth (31) is an ingenious
related; the same intimacy of a strongly the mythical narratives he might also technical exercise brilliantly artificial; in
anthropomorphic God with the race of have added those in the dithyrambs of colour.
Here, too, there is doubtless Bacchylides.
In Crome's View on St.
Martin's River,
an historic kernel for the epic. Mr. Among the peculiarities of the poetry of Norwich (47), we find, even more than in
Chadwick rightly insists that the more the Heroic Age he justly notes that the Ibbetson's panel, the note of solemnity.
of such a poem as the Iliad' is that it to happen did not preserve any dignity modelled form bathed in warm moonlight.
probable and far the simplest explanation places where the great events were said The passage of river-bank and buildings to
is based on historic facts. All the dreams by means of these poems. The majority The surface of the river is rendered inta
of the comparative mythologists about of the seats of Homeric heroes, for mechanical fashion, however, and an ill.
the sun or the dawn being personified in example, were obscure and insignificant realized water-line detracts more quickly
Achilles or Helen, in spite of seductive in historical Greece. So also national than anything else from the impressiveness
etymologies, he sets aside.
sentiment is weak in the poems, and the of a picture. Nos. 79 and 85 are more
The Teutonic branch is his strong author shows how the loyalty of Patroclus perfect examples of this master, yet for all
point, and the larger part of his book is was not for the Greek cause, but for the their excellence
have not quite the intimate
appeal of his moonlight study; while his
devoted to that literature, which has for glory of his friend Achilles. But here he On the Marshes (56) is a dramatic composition
us the enormous advantage of not being has not distinguished between two kinds in brown which sugg sts kinship with a
composed till there was contemporary of loyalty. The attachment of close lesser artist, Mr. Leader. G. Shalders's
history, when the reality of its characters friends was very strong among the Greeks, Leith Hill (103) is an instance of brush-
could in many cases be tested. He is and one would face death for the other. drawing of great precision without loss of
therefore able to show how both myth But the loyalty to a king as superior in the continuity of a liquid stroke.
Constable
and fiction were brought to bear on these the state was very scanty indeed. Thus
we cannot on the whole speak in terms of
mostly historical personages, and from Herodotus and Xenophon wonder at very high praise, though three of them-
this he draws conclusions by analogy in the loyalty of the Persian nobles to Birthplace of the Artist (14), Landscape (15),
the case of Homer, whose poems have their king, which was like that of the and The Valley of the Siour (16)are among
come from the twilight or dawn of Hellenic nobility of France up to the Revolution, his better works. The only figure subject
society. How far, indeed, that society among whom it was a privilege to die of much interest is an unusually fine Müller,
was based on an earlier civilization, such for the king because he was the king, not The Piping Shepherd (58), a design of much
as that now called Ægean ; whether this because he was personally loved. This Farm (24), by W. Collins ; a large varnished
earlier civilization was absolutely non- sort of kingship was being created, drawing by Gainsborough (59); and a
Hellenic or not so—these are problems according to Mr. Chadwick, on the ruins wonderful experiment on a burnt - sien
which occupy all the author's ingenuity of the earlier tribal and kindred ties. ground, The Footbridge (57), by De Wint.
He prefers to think that the earlier It disregarded nationality, and substituted
people who occupied Greece were akin for it personal allegiance. But that
to the Hellenes, but
find him allegiance never became dynastic among WORKS BY MISS MARGARET GERE
agreeing uncritically in the common Greeks till Alexander and the Diadochi
AND MR. CHARLES M. GERE.
opinion that all the Mediterranean lands introduced it upon the ruins of Oriental
were occupied by one earlier race. Of sovereignties.
To have accepted a certain group of pig.
that we are by no means persuaded. We must omit many other topics ments and made the most of them was a
Very different races have been juxtaposed of interest which are not presented so just been considering, and a similar virtue
principal virtue of the painters we have
throughout the world's history. Constant attractively as they deserve. The prose may be claimed for the two artists showing
movements of population have taken account of the heroic stories of the at the Carfax Gallery. They have more
place. Our author shows a curious sim- Teutons with which the volume begins and brighter pigments at their command,
plicity of mind when he states that it is dull reading, though necessary for and thus approach more easily a plausible
was frequently not want of food, but the many who are not familiar with this resemblance to natural colour, but have
the pressure of alien invaders, that dis- literature. The headings of the chapters the same delight in using their materials in
turbed primitive nations. But what pro- are also not comprehensive enough; and purity. Both display considerable crafts.
duced the pressure? In most cases, surely, head-lines giving the subject of each page manship, Mr. Gere being particularly suc-
want of food among the new-comers, I would have been a great help.
cessful in his small landscapes in tempera,
we
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occa-
such as Orta (37), The Lombardy Plain (21), some years ago at Pydna, and Palatitza in The volume is essentially a work of reference,
or the charming mountain view, Castello in Macedonia itself.
and the more it is used, the more will it be
Valsolda (5). One water-colour, An Orchard
PROF. NEWBERRY has just published (in appreciated. At the end will be found
in March, shows him again admirably the University of Liverpool's Annals of
Table of Chronology, giving page
expressing the cool, crisp sunlight of spring, Archæology) two slate palettes which he references to incidents related in the course
with its slightly decolourizing effect. His seems to have bought at Luxor. They have, of the work; a Classification of Compositions
large landscape is refined in intention and
as he says, evidently been used for grinding in respect of the means required for their
carefully designed, but inclined to a diffuse malachito, probably for cosmetic purposes, performance ; an Alphabetic Register of
enumeration of many small forms and as each of them has a depression in the
Works ;
an Index to Poetical and other
minute differences of tone. The acceptance centre stained with green. One of them, Sources from which the text of the vocal
of a vanishing - point of modelling rather however, which is in the familiar form of a
works is derived; Tables of Editions ; and
earlier in the process of analysis makes hog-backed fish, bears roughly incised an Index of Proper Names. From the
such smaller works as The Lakeside (20) figures of an animal which may be intended very beginning the author will surely con-
more compact and more arresting,
for a hyæna, a goat, two birds on standards vince all reasonable persons that, though an
or crossed staves, two tailed deer, and a pig. admirer of Brahms, he does not indulge in
Miss Margaret Gere's figure compositions In his description of these Prof. Newberry "needless raptures. " He says :
have an archaistic charm which is undeniable. says that the lines are only very lightly “ Either people insist upon regarding him as
They fall a little between two stools, sacri- incised,” or, in other words, scratched; and, the legitimate successor of Beethoven, or they
ficing some of the vitality of stroke of the the slate in question, compared with some
deny him the position of a great master altogether,
Persian drawings on which they might admittedly forged
and it may well be feared that some exaggeration
phylacteries,” also on
takes place on either side. "
have been founded in favour of a fuller slate, and bought in the same place three
representation which is not quite close years ago, suggests the view that the animal
enough to contemporary life to pay for the figures are modern additions to a doubtless
loss of conciseness. The Virtuous Woman prehistoric palette.
(10) is perhaps the best of her works very
Musical Gossip.
pretty in surface and daintily. wrought. Museum, studies in Sir Gaston Maspero's
M. GEORGES DARESSY, of the Cairo
Sisters (15) is somewhat suggestive of the
The programme of the sixth concert of the
Recueil de Travaux some ostraca found by Philharmonic Society at Queen's Hall last
English Pre-Raphaelites, and here the Mr. Theodore Davis at the Valley of the Thursday week was not lacking in interest.
firelight effect which differentiates it from Kings, which appear to have formed a sort Berlioz's 'Le Corsaire ? Overture, not one
Oriental tempera painting is not studied of wage-sheet or notebook kept by the of his most attractive, is rarely performed;
with much thoroughness. Noah's Ark (14) foreman or other officer in charge of the and, curiously, the composer makes no
is a delightful fancy, though a practical construction of the rock-cut royal tombs mention of it in his autobiography or letters.
person might criticize the flimsy. piers there situate.
which support the gangway by which the the Egyptian workmen enjoyed an
It appears from this that The idea of writing such a work was no
animals enter. The imminent arrival of
doubt suggested to him on a journey from
sional strike,
the elephant spells certain disaster,
together with frequent Marseilles to Leghorn, when the captain
holidays, including regularly appointed of the ship—who had been, so he said,
ones of seven days every month. These captain of Byron's corvette during his
ostraca also enable M. Daressy to fix with excursions among the islands of the Greek
certainty the length of the reign of Seti II. archipelago—had much to tell about the
Fine Art Gossip.
at six years, and to show that the king poet. Mr. Arthur Hervey conducted his
hitherto called Si-Ptah was really Rameses symphonic variations, 'Life Moods,' . which
MR. HARRINGTON MANN's portraits at Mr. III. and the immediate successor of Rameses were originally produced at the Brighton
Knoedler's Gallery are in the manner of Mr. the Great.
Festival. The different moods expressed
Sargent, with a special bent towards the
DR. ALAN GARDINER records a curious naturally make for variety, also the changes
Raeburn tradition, and will be acceptable instance of survival with regard to the of key, while much of the music is effective;
to such as demand above all from portraiture sistrum, or rattle used in the worship of
but the romantic element is not so strongly
an illusion of substantiality. In No. 1, the Greek Isis, and mentioned by writers
felt as in one or two of Mr. Hervey's
Annabel, a healthy infant of not
too subtle like Plutarch and Apuleius. He thinks it earlier works. Sir Alexander Mackenzio's
character suits the treatment fairly well
. the object figured in the
hieroglyph generally Invocation,' a new orchestral work, opens
,
is not sustained
through the picture, which represent some sort of sceptro or mace. pleasing character, but the treatment of it
becomes a vignette loosely sketched in its He also tells us that it is still used in the
is not always convincing. By judicious
main masses around a core of firmer, but not Christian churches of Abyssinia, and that revision, and moderate excision, he might,
always very subtle modelling.
the Berlin Museum possesses a fine specimen
we think, render it far more attractive.
A DEATH MASK of John Philpot Curran has of one of these modern sistra secured by Señor Casals once again proved himself
been found in the cellars of the Royal
Prof. Littmann.
a master-interpreter of Bach. He selected
Hibernian Academy, and is on view at the
the Suite in o minor for 'cello unaccom-
exhibition now being held there. The mask
panied, the one in which the A string is
bears a close resemblance to the Lawrence
tuned a tone lower. Signor Busoni gave a
portrait from the Peel Collection, now in the
MUSIC
powerful_rendering of the solo part of
National Gallery of Ireland, and was possibly
Liszt's 'Todtentanz,' a curious rather than
taken by Curran's friend Peter Turnerelli,
interesting piece of programme-music. It
who executed & bust of him in his latest Historical, Descriptive, and Analytical was inspired—to use the customary term,
days.
Account of the Entire Works of Johannes by Orcagna's fresco The Triumph of Death'
Brahms : Vol. I. The Vocal Works. By
at Pisa. The Gold Medal of the Society
PROF. JAMES GEIRIE has been appointed Edwin Evans, sen. (Wm. Reeves. This was privately presented to these two great
to deliver the next course of lectures under volume will be followed by two more dealing artists on the morning of the concert.
the Lectureship in Anthropology and Pre. with the instrumental works of Brahms, and
historic Archæology at Edinburgh Uni. all three are "specially designed for the
THE season at Covent Garden will open
versity, in succession to Dr. Robert Munro.
on April 22nd with an opera in Italian.
use of concert-goers, pianists, singers, and As announced, there will be two cycles of
Excavations are being made at York, the Lieder," appeals, however, to a still Rottenberg. The dates will be as follows:
students. " This first one, which includes the Ring' under the direction of Dr.
beside Bootham Bar, under the yard of wider circle ; for in this branch of the art Das Rheingold, April 23rd and May 3rd ;
of the original Roman wall and the gateway Si musiciansa; "hof Schubert and Schumann Siegfried, April 27th and May 6th; and
have been exposed.
he is acknowledged the legitimate successor.
The authorities of the Imperial Ottoman Many of his songs, simple in character, call 8th. Brünnhilde will be impersonated by
Museum at Constantinople have excavated for little comment. For instance, Mr. Madame Saltzmann-Stevens and Fräulein
the tumulus. of Langaza, near Salonica, and Evans devotes only four lines to · Verzicht, Gertrud Kappel; Sieglinde by Madamo
Macedonian period, with doors decorated His chief aim is to describe the structure and Madame Kirkby Lunn; Wotan by Herr
with ornaments in gilt bronze, representing general character of the various numbers, Anton van Rooy: Mime by Herr Hans
Medusa heads and lions' masks with rings but he happily does not hesitate to Bechstein ; and Loge by Řerr Heinrich
in their mouths, like those common in add any information, although, as in the Hensel. The two performances of Tristan
mediæval Venice. The tomb
to second of the two numbers named above und Isolde' will take place on May Ist and
correspond closely with those discovered only indirectly connected with the music. '10th,
seems
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No. 4405, March 30, 1912
THE ATHENÆUM
WHO'S WHO
THEATRE.
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MR. JOSEPH HOLBROOKE gave the third
of his Chamber Concerts at Steinway Hall
Dramatic Gossip.
THE NEW DRAMATIC LIST
last Monday afternoon. He opened with
his Third Sextet for Flute (Mr. A. Barton),
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for a
Oboe (Mr. A. Foreman), Clarinet (Mr. C. season of French plays at the Garrick
Draper), Horn (Mr. 0. Borsdorf), Bassoon Theatre during Mr. Arthur Bourchier's short
(Mr. E. James), and Piano (Mr. Holbrooke), tour in Glasgow and Bournemouth. M.
and of the three movements, the bright, Lugné-Poe and his wife, Madame Suzanne
IN
concluding Presto was the most acceptable. Després, supported by company of
THE
A Miniature Suite for the five wind instru- capable Parisian artists, will open on
ments named was apparently an attempt Easter Monday, probably with Sapho. '
by the composer to write in a popular Other plays in an interesting repertory
style, though only in
A BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF
The Lily,' 'The Marionettes,
one (“A Joyous will be
Moment') of the four movements bearing
Electra' (one of the French actress's THE CONTEMPORARY STAGE,
titles was the mood strongly expressed. finest representations), and possibly ‘La
No. 3 was marked "Minuet (Fugue),' but Rafale, in which Madame Després created
in the blend attempted both forms suffered.
sensation when she appeared four
Compiled and Edited by
An Adagio for clarinet and piano proved years ago at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Miss
JOHN PARKER,
light and pleasing; moreover, in a rather Andrews, through whose medium London
long. Fantasy' for viola and piano by Mr. has made the acquaintance of many well.
Editor of The Green Room Book. '
Benjamin Dale, played by Mr. Lionel known foreign artists, arranged for the
Tertis and the 'composer, there was much appearance of Madame Després in 1908, and 780 pp. cloth, 68. net; leather, 83, 6d. net.
good writing.
she has been chosen by M. Lugné-Poe, who
this time brings his own company, to
The Standard says :-
THERE was only one novelty at the second
manage the forthcoming season.
" A most welcome and useful work. "
Balfour Gardiner Concert last Wednesday at
Queen's Hall. This was a Festival Overture
Next Saturday evening, Mr. Cyril Maude The Morning Leader says :-
by Mr. Arnold Bax. At the previous concert will present a new farce in three acts,
“Playgoors cannot be too grateful for the latest
his choral work was vague, and consequently
called Billy,' by George Cameron. The Who's Who in the Theatre. . . . . . a remarkable six.
uninteresting. The work in question, how action of the play takes place in the shillingsworth. ”
.
ever, proved bright, rhythmical, clear in chaplain's quarters in the Government
The World says:
form, and well scored. "It was effectively Industrial Home for Boys at Beechcroft,
Undoubtedly the most complete work of its
given under the direction of Mr. Gardiner. Essex.
kind yet issued. All who are interested, whether
Mr. Percy Grainger gave a brilliant rendering
On April 19th 'Fanny's First Play' will professionally or otherwise, in the theatre of
of Tschaikowsky's B flat minor Concerto.
accomplish a “record” for Mr. Bernard Shaw, to-day should possess a copy. '
At the final Classical Concert on Wednes. who will have attained a twelve months'
day at Bechstein Hall, Mr. Donald Francis unbroken run in London for his latest play,
Tovey's reading of Beethoven's B flat Sonata,
Op. 106, was excellent as regards technique Dr. Karl Mantzius, has announced his in- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.
