copper
sulphate
; while the oxide, formed as years of the seventeenth century, as testified
Bir A.
Bir A.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
J.
Johnston, was read.
formed part of a large collection of curiosities season, and on the dry-weather flow. The daily
which was bought by the University of Upsala river-discharge during three dry seasons was shown
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
in 1832 on the death of Thunberg's pupil and in diagrams, and the same curve was plotted on
Mox.
botanical demonstrator, C. P.
Royal Academy, 4. - French Draughtsmen of the Seventeenth
Forsberg. In
each of these diagrams to show approximately
Century,' Prof. R. T. Blomfield.
1874 the University presented it, not knowing its that portion of the river-flow during these periods
Victoria and Albert Museum, 5. - The Character of Elizabethan
interesting history, to the Royal Academy of
and Jacobean Architecture,' Mr. B. Fletcher.
which was due to water derived from the winter
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 8. -Recent Researches at
Science, štockholm, whence, in 1883, it passed rains, but retained by the natural storage of the National Physical Laboratory,' Dr. T. E. Stanton.
to the Trocadéro Museum in Paris, in exchange the ground until the summer months. Ex-
(Graduates' Lecture. )
Society of Arts, 8. - The Meat Industry,' Lecture II, Mr.
for some Peruvian curiosities. It now seems amination of these diagrams and of the rainfall
L. M. Douglas. (Cantor Lectura. )
certain that Linné received the magic drum from and river-discharge shows that of the rain which
Folk-lore, 8. 16. --- Annual Meeting; Presidential Address.
Pite or Lule Lappmark, as it agrees with the
Geographical, 8. 30,
falls during the six dry months only a small Jewish Historical Society. 8. 30. - The Records of Receipts
design of others from those parts, and differs percentage Rows off the catchment-area.
from the Jews in Mediwval England, Mr. Hilary Jenkinson.
from the form of those from Kimi and Torne
TUES. Royal Institution, 3. -The Study of Genetics, Lecture V. ,
Prof. W. Bateson.
Lappmark; it has certain figures used in the
It was reported that 1 Member, 21 Associate
Asiatic, 4 – The History and Monuments of Cambodja,' Sir
district of Asele.
Members, and 1 Associate had been elected, and
0. Elliot.
We may expect a detailed
that 28 Students had been admitted.
British Museum, 4. 80. -Roman Triumphal Arches and Pillars
account of the drum in question from Dr. Reuter-
of Victory,' Mr. B. Fletcher.
skiöld, who is occupied in an exhaustive review
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. -Discussion on The Water-
Supply of the
Witwatersrand,' and 'Investigations relating
of all known specimens. The Treasurer referred ROYAL INSTITUTION. - Feb. 5. — Sir James
to the Yield of a Catchment-Area in Cape Colony. '
to the interest of this exhibition, specially with Crichton-Browne, Treasurer and Vice-President, Colonial Institute, 8. 30. – Travel and Sport in East Africa,
regard to the local variations in the pattern of in the chair. -Mr. E. B. Badcock, the Rev.
WED. St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, 8. -Romanesque Churches of
the drums.
Prebendary Jeakes, and Mrs. G. Stibbard were
France, Part IL, Mr. P. H. Hepburn.
elected Members. The Chairman reported that
Society of Arts, 8. -Gem Engraving,' Mr. C. Thomas.
Tuurs. Royal Institution, 3. – The Portraiture of Shakespeare,'
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. -Feb. 6. - a further sum of 3001. , part of the legacy of the
Lecture I. , Mr. M. H. Spielmann.
Mr. D. C. Leitch read a paper on
Royal Academy, 4. -'Italian Draughtsmen of the Eighteenth
• The Water-
late Miss Wolfe to the Royal Institution, had been
Century, and Piranesi. ' Prof. R. T. Blomfield.
Supply of the Witwatersrand. ' The works de- received.
Royal, 4. 30. -'A Specific Instance of the Transmission of
Acquired Characters: Investigation and Criticism, Dr. T. G.
scribed in the paper serve an area of 365 square
Brown ; 'Further Experiments on the Oross-breeding of Two
miles, with a population of 139,000 white and ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. -Feb. 6. —Mr.
Races of the Moth Acidalia virgularia, Mr. W. B. Alex-
226,000 coloured inhabitants. The Rand lies D. MacRitchie read a paper on 'The Kayak in
ander; 'On the Effects of Castration and Ovariotomy upon
Bheep, Mr. F. H. A. Marshall ; 'The Causes and Preven.
at a considerable elevation, and divides the streams North-Western Europe.
tion of Miners' Nystagmus,' Dr. T. L. Llewellyn; and other
Papers.
flowing to the Orange River and the Atlantic The lecturer began by stating that the kayak,
Historical, 5. -Annual Meeting : Presidential Address.
from those which flow to the Crocodile River or skin canoe of the Eskimos, was in use on the Royal Numismatic, 6. 30. – The Anglo-Gallic Coinage of Henry
and the Indian Ocean. The gold-bearing con-
coast of Northern Russia two or three centuries
V. . 'Mr. L. M. Hewlett.
Linnean, 8. - An Investigation of the Seedling Structure in
glomerates of the district dip to the south ; ago. Evidence of this is obtained from statements
the Leguminosu,' Mr. R. H. Compton.
they are overlaid by volcanic rocks, and stili made by Burrough in 1556, and from the chronicles Chemical. 8. 30. -- Chemical Examination of Scammony Root
further south by dolomite, from which the present
and of Scammony,' Messrs. P. B. Power and H. Rogerson;
It
of a Danish expedition to Vaigatz in 1653.
Experiments on the Walden Inversion : Part VIII. , a-Amino-
supply is obtained. The catchment-area of the appears that the natives of that coast not only
a-phenylpropionic Acids. ' Messrs. A. McKenzie and G. W.
Clough; Preparation of the Nitrites of the Primary, Second
Klip River valley, above the Board's wells, is used the ordinary kayak, constructed to hold
ary and Tertiary Amines by the
Distillation and
Sublimation
about 308 square miles, the average rainfall one person, but they also built kayaks capable of
ntrated Solutions of Mixtures of the
being 29. 5 in. per annum.
holding two occupants, a variety of this canoe
Hydrochlorides of the Bases and Alkali Nitrites,' Part I, Mr.
P. Neogi ; and other Papers.
The average hardness of the Zwartkopjes supply which is nowadays specially associated with
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 30.
FRI.
is about 19 parts per 100,000 : this is reduced to Western Alaska and the Aleutian Isles. It was
Geological, 8. -Anniversary Meeting.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. - Works for the Prevention
14 parts by the addition of hydrate of lime, a further shown that three kayaks were captured
of Const-Erosion, Lecture I. , Mr. W. T. Douglass (Vernon-
solution of which is added to the water entering off the northern shores of Scotland about the end
Harcourt Lecture), (Students' Meeting. )
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 8. - Annual General
the settling-tanks from the wells. As much as of the seventeenth century. One of these is still
Meeting.
2 parts of iron per million is found in the water preserved in the Museum of Marischal College, Viking Oiub, 8. 15. - Some Points of Resemblance between
Beowulf and the Grettia (or Gretti's Saga), Mr. D. C.
from some of the wells which afford the most Aberdeen. An important fact is the occasional
Stedman,
copious yield. Growth of weed is prevented in presence of a kayak-using race of Finns or Finn-
Royal Institution, 9. -'The Road : Past, Present, and Future,
Bir J. A. A. Macdonald.
these cases by adding 1 part in three millions of men in the Orkney Islands during the last twenty
SAT. Royal Institution, 3. - Franz Liszt (Oentenary),' Lecture II.
copper sulphate ; while the oxide, formed as years of the seventeenth century, as testified
Bir A. O. Mackenzie.
But
-
in a Vacuum
Con
-
-
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we
the
red
66
and “
together strange companions. As the
Science Gossip.
FINE ARTS
century progresses, we seem to perceive
a certain expression characterizing all the
contemporaries of a period, not entirely
FOR a
man of established reputation
voluntarily to renounce an honour in order
accounted for by the somewhat mechanical
that a younger man may receive it is Historical Portraits, 1600-1700. The Lives art of Kneller or the facility of Lely,
unhappily so rare an event as to deserve by H. B. Butler and C. R. L. Fletcher. which the reader may be left to trace out
special notice. Prof. Karl Pearson has
The Portraits chosen by Emery Walker. for himself.
just refused the Weldon Prize in the spirit
we indicate. In the course of a letter to
With an Introduction by C. F. Bell. We are acquainted with a well-known
the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford he says:-
(Oxford, Clarendon Press. )
genealogist who demonstrates at length
“I feel strongly that, whatever the formal
to any one who will give him a hearing
wording of the statutes
may be, the intention of WE feel that can predict with
that all the leaders of the Civil War on
the donors and the spirit of the late Prof. Weldon, safety the success of this book. It both sides were descended from the Throg-
encouragement of younger men, to whom timely contains over 130 portraits of the men morton family prominent in early Tudor
that their work is appreciated and their chosen who have made history for us—51 of them theory, there is no doubt that Messrs. Butler
recognition may mean an all-important indication and women of the seventeenth century times. Whatever truth there is in this
path a fitting one. '
full-page reproductions, the remainder half and Fletcher have missed a point in not
PHOTOGRAPHS of the planetary surfaces, or quarter page. They call on three or tracing out the relationships of the subjects
if successful, should go far to settle vexed four different publics with almost equal of these portraits to each other. The
questions as to the actuality of markings attraction. The student of English art existence of the Dictionary of National
seen by some observers, but doubted by will be glad of a volume covering the Biography' makes the remainder of their
others. At present, in the case of Mars, whole of a province which in the main task so easy that this might have been
the eye has recorded more than the photo-
graphic plate, though excellent photographs has been studied by competent autho- expected from them. The author of the
of this planet have been obtained, especially rities, but which still presents many notice on Hampden does indeed state
with the large telescope at Yerkes. Reproblems to the inquirer.
that he was “distantly related to the
cently M. Tikhoff of "Pulkova has made
trial of the method of photographing Mars
Three figures dominate the portraiture Protector,” and the parents of the person
through colour-screens. He finds that on of the century — Van Dyck, Lely, and written about are usually named; but
photographs the continents Kneller ; the work of each of them is even then no reference is made to the por-
appear very bright, brighter even than the familiar, and their history is well known. trait. Prof. Holmes recently proposed to
south polar cap; whilst the seas are dark. But beyond the Flemish artists Geeraerts, trace the influence of the Spanish strains
On the
green photographs the continents Van Somer, Mytens, Janssens, and the like on our mediæval and Tudor royal families ;
are not so bright, and the seas are greyish.
The “ canals
-the fashionable painters of the first and this volume offered a means for similar
on the
green plates are
greyish, and aro best seen on the red
Stuarts—there are a crowd of less-known investigations on smaller scale. The
plates. It will be understood that by the Englishmen, not in the first rank, but editors should also have added a list of
words “ continents seas,” the parts approaching it: Dobson and Walker, Van artists, painters, or engravers. The repro-
of the planet seen respectively of orange Dyck’s_ assistants; Cooper; Greenhill, ductions are excellent, and the choice of
and of green colour are intended.
Riley, Beale, and Wright, Lely's workers; subjects by Mr. Emery Walker could
less-known men like Gilbert Jackson hardly have been bettered. The volume
THE many English friends of Prof. and John Taylor ; the miniaturists, the should have a place on the shelves of all
to learn that it is intended on the initiative pastellists, the engravers, and the sculptors. those interested in English history or art.
of Prof. Hermann Struve, Director of the Mr. C. F. Bell's excellent Introduction
Berlin Observatory) to present to him, in will appeal to the student as an able
mental astronomy, a portrait in oils of Brad: guide to what is known on the subject,
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
ley, whose life-work is connected so closely intended to be suggestive rather than
with his. The copy will be made, under exhaustive, clearly and simply written. THE history of portraiture and costume is
the supervision of Mr. George Henry, A. R. A. , The two classes of contemporary portrait- inseparable, according to M. Léandre Vaillat,
from the original in the possession of the Royal painting-rhetorical and homespun-are du XVIIIe siède et ses Peintres (Paris,
who writes an interesting book, La Société
Society. Prof. Auwers, with characteristic well represented in this volume, and if it Perrin), in which somewhat undue promin.
thoroughness and skill, re-reduced and edited
were not for the masterpieces of Van
Bradley's meridian observations of stars
made at the Greenwich Observatory, and Dyck, one would be tempted to assert treats of the manner in which eighteenth-
published a Catalogue of these stars for the that“ the homespuns have it,” so far do century portrait painters envisaged women
epoch 1755, which to-day forms the basis their transparent truthfulness and brilliant and children, and the relation of portraiture
of our knowledge of stellar proper motions technical accomplishment go to replace and costume. There is nothing in the book
and allied problems of fundamental astro the absence of stylistic pretension.
the
nomy.
tury, and it is to be regretted that M.
Another and a wider class of readers Vaillat has not seen fit to draw upon much
An American scientific publication recently will be attracted to this book. We need valuable material. But it is pleasant to
in the Proceedings of the Australian Wheat value of forming a personal idea of his and exotic Liotard, to whom life was
had a note calling attention to the statement not repeat obvious platitudes as to the find sympathetic chapters on some of the
graminis, or wheat-rust, occurred in Australia torical characters, but the fact remains perpetual comedy—a masque of colour
in 1867, 1878, and 1889. It is further pointed that they need emphasizing from time to and movement with changing scenes, gay
out that these were years of minimum of the time. Any one who has had experience costumes, and the light, fanciful music of
sunspot cycle, with the suggested inference in teaching knows the added interest lent the ballet; or Perronneau, painter and
that the attack of the pest is dependent on to a character when a good portrait of pastellist, anticipating in portraiture by
the sunspots. The author of the note may him is seen. The student of character will twenty years the ideas of Rousseau's 'Émile,
be right when he says that the development note the prevalence of two main types of painting paternal, sentimental, kindly
por-
of the fungus is dependent on rainfall,
but head, not, indeed, absolutely coincident roguishly or frowning and visibly naughty, ,
relation between sunspots and rainfall. It with any of the great lines of division with a sincerity that pierces through the
would be interesting to know what happened of the time, social, political, or religious, mannerism and artificiality of the style. In
at the minimum in 1900, and other years but suggestive of it. Heads like those of these pictures of women at the opera, of
when the sunspots were few.
Hampden, Blake, Monk, Hobbes, Jonson, scented beaux, placid matrons, prosperous
merchants, and the courtiers in a light, gay,
MESSRS. SMITH & ELDER will publish on sideEliot, Leslie, Shaftesbury, Temple, charm that belong almost alone to Perron-
Lauderdale, and the bishops on the one
leisured world, we find a grace and subtle
the 22nd inst. Men and Measures :
History of Weights and Measures, Ancient Ormonde, Locke, and Dryden on the
and Modern,' by Lieut. -Col. Edward Nichol. other-suggest a political as well as a The book is admirably printed, and well
social classification which would bring and judiciously illustrated.
a
neau.
son.
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169
are
more
an
are
CG
prints than by its drawings, which
Most of the other exhibitors command
The English Provincial Printers, Sta- the
spontaneous and free
from
respect by excellent and restrained work.
tioners, and Bookbinders to 1557, by E. the look of having been spurred into We must certainly mention Mr. Cameron's
Gordon Duff (Cambridge University Press), existence by thoughts of artificial handsome drawing of Cir Mohr (91), Mr.
is an excellent little book, written with an public of collectors, to whom the making Clausen's painter-like_The Brook (64), the
authority and a knowledge of early English of an etching is in some mysterious way
marvellous Pantheon, Rome, of Mr. Muirhead
printed books which no one else of the
a virtuous act in itself. Thus, but for his Bone (102), and the woodcuts of Mr. Sturge
present day possesses, and is devoted to knowledge of the existence of a race of Moore. Messrs. Francis Dodd and Havard
a subject which has hitherto, to use the amateurs eager for printed rarities and in- Thomas show careful studies from life.
author's words, hardly received adequate different to unique drawings, we doubt if At the Goupil Gallery the memorial exhi-
attention. It is composed of the four | Mr. Walter Sickert would have troubled bition of works by William Christian Symons
Sandars Lectures for 1911 in the University to disinter the early scraps of experimental affords a copious display of clever, but not
of Cambridge, together with Appendixes etching he shows here. His lithograph, very distinguished painting. Happily, the
giving a list of books printed by or for Joe Haynes and Little Dot Hetherington at water-colours heavily outnumber the oil
provincial printers and stationers, and a the Old Bedford Music-Hall, Camden Town paintings, and in certain flower-pieces and
useful Bibliography of the subject. Mr. (31), is of a very different order—a studiously other rapid studies in the former medium
Duff has little to say of early Oxford printing wrought design, steeped in the sentiment of Symons's power of handling exceedingly
that is new to students, except his vigorous time and place. The same qualities, united brilliant pigment is shown at its best.
treatment of the few remaining defenders with a more astonishing vivacity of draughts: No. 39, White Chrysanthemums, may be
of the “ 1468” Rufinus. If the date had manship, are to be found in his group of cited, along with Nos. 37, 43, 44, and 76, as
been genuine, Oxford would have stood drawings (105–10), which, in this atmosphere examples of his sturdy, direct execution.
before Venice in the list of honour, and one of slightly theoretical correctness, command
would like some explanation of the associa- the attention instinctively accorded to the
At Messrs. McLean's Galleries we
tion of the Corsellis family with the myth. direct and vibrant tones of a man of the pleased to see some signs of the ambition
The second lecture deals with the first world in a pedantic academic debate.
of compact design and idiomatic expression
printers at St. Albans, York, and Hereford.
No books were actually printed at Hereford the language of to-day, and until the coming French etching in colour. M. Jacquoy's
There is something, after all, in speaking emerging from the welter of cheap imitation-
painting which has hitherto overwhelmed
in this period, but three were printed at of Mr. Sickert into their midst, we were
Rouen for sale there.
The third lecture hardly aware how generally the members Repas de Piqueux (63) has an excellent sense
treats of the second Oxford Press and of
of this group were tinctured with conscious of space : the treatment is not so formal
Cambridge printing, one of the points to archaism. Even Mr. Muirhead Bone, we
as to abolish humour, nor the humour so
which Mr. Duff calls attention being the find, has not escaped it. He is still playing contributions
are slightly open to the latter
forced as to degrade the design. His other
first occurrence in England of an exclusive at being an eighteenth-century draughtsman
privilege (in 1518). As the author very of modern material, bent on showing that, Monvel' (2-5) to the former. Somewhat
, as are those of M. Boutet de
justly says, the legal bearing of these privi- had photography and the cinematograph behind these artists in interest, M. H.
leges has never been examined by writers
on copyright, though. . . ,. it would go far everyday fact might still inspire a delightful Meunier (46 and 47) and M. F. Simon (55 and
to prove that the perpetual copyright, which art.
later on was claimed by the stationers, was
He demonstrates his thesis admirably, ! 56) are notable as showing a higher level of
but the really modern artist feels in his j artistry than the remaining exhibitors.
never legally recognized," their powers bones that the argument is based on a fiction. At the Baillie Gallery the oil paintings
under the charter enabling them to enforce Verbally, no doubt, Mr. Walter Sickert shown by the members of the Camsix Club
claims which were not warranted by law. would propose for himself the same end as
are of less interest than the exhibits in the
The fourth lecture is on the presses at Mr. Bone, but judged by this ideal of precise Water-Colour Room, where Messrs.
Tavistock, Abingdon, Ipswich, Canterbury, and literal statement of facts, the latter is Priestman (89), Sterndale Bennett (92), and
Exeter, and the second St. Albans press, far his superior, and can, indeed, claim per- M. M. Patterson (94) show work of some
and contains much that will be new even to fection in a sense that Mr. Sickert, dealing, merit. Miss Anne Maitland's drawings reveal
professed students of English typography: as he does, with an art in which perfection some signs of systematic training in Nos. 29,
Mr. Duff agrees with the author of a recent is less readily measured, hardly may. With 33, and 37, where the brush stroke is con-
paper read to the Bibliographical Society Mr. Sickert we have a less firm hold on con- fidently controlled and decisive. Except in
that Bale's ' Illustrium Britanniæ Scriptorum crete fact in matters of detail, but an immea- an occasional drawing, such as No. 1, her
Summarium' was not printed at Ipswich, surably more vivid presentation of the sense of tone is deficient.
in spite of its colophon. A very fruitful essential and typical in modern life. It is
suggestion of the author's is that many of difficult to select the best of the half dozen
the books generally set down as printed at drawings. In The Furnished Bedroom (108)
foreign secret presses were in reality produced the interest is more purely one of æsthetic
PERSEPOLIS.
in England by provincial printers. The rhythm than in the others, which belong
three books he cites as examples were in more definitely to the domain of the
13, Carlton House Terrace, S. W.
all probability printed at Worcester by comedy of manners. How exactly of our
John Oswen, but it is very rarely indeed day is the particular brand of self-satis- 1 at no distant date fresh excavations may
I THINK that it is extremely probable that
that an English book set up by foreign com- fied rascal shown in No. 110, Esther be commenced at Persepolis, and I shall be
positors does not contain evidence of the Waters ! How original, yet inevitable, obliged if you will permit me, through your
fact in misspellings and false divisions of the arrangement of figures and furni.
syllables. If these are absent in a work of ture
paper, to point out some special objects to
in No. 107, Fare tutti mestieri
which the explorers should direct their
ordinary length, its foreign origin is open svergognati per compar onoratamente (anglice attention.
to suspicion. Those who know Mr. Duff's "Anything for a new hat ? ")! Personal
work will require no commendation on our acquaintance is required to do justice to
The main source of our knowledge of
part to send them to his pages, and by the characterization, in Mr. Gilman speaks Arrian, A. D. 125. I quote from the trans-
Alexander the Great is the ‘Anabasis of
this time the number must include every one (106), of the assured poise of a confident
interested in the history of English book personality,
lation by J. J. Chinnock, 1884, who tells us
production.
It is odd to find Mr. Campbell Dodgson, (bk. iii. chap. xviii. ) that Alexander (B. C. 331)
in his Preface to the Catalogue, referring to
burnt the palace of Persepolis against the
Mr. Sickert's value to the show as consisting they, the inhabitants of Asia would be less
advice of his generals, who said if he so did
in his introduction of “the Whistlerian
THE SOCIETY OF TWELVE, AND touch. " Surely in these incisive pages it likely to come over to his side, thinking that
he meant only to raid and scuttle
OTHER EXHIBITIONS.
is clear that it is the tradition of Degas which
Mr. Sickert rightly recognized as offering (enedokî jóvov vik@vra). Strabo tells us
THE work of the late Alphonse Legros most scope for continuation. Perhaps
that Alexander insisted on burning the
has been dealt with too recently in these also in Confession (109) he captures the palace of Persepolis out of revenge, because
columns for it to be necessary to do more little core of valuable achievement which
Darius and Xerxes had destroyed the Greek
than recognize the presence at the galleries among so much dross was to be found temples and burnt their cities.
of Messrs. Colnaghi & Obach of half in Fortuny. Mr.
formed part of a large collection of curiosities season, and on the dry-weather flow. The daily
which was bought by the University of Upsala river-discharge during three dry seasons was shown
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
in 1832 on the death of Thunberg's pupil and in diagrams, and the same curve was plotted on
Mox.
botanical demonstrator, C. P.
Royal Academy, 4. - French Draughtsmen of the Seventeenth
Forsberg. In
each of these diagrams to show approximately
Century,' Prof. R. T. Blomfield.
1874 the University presented it, not knowing its that portion of the river-flow during these periods
Victoria and Albert Museum, 5. - The Character of Elizabethan
interesting history, to the Royal Academy of
and Jacobean Architecture,' Mr. B. Fletcher.
which was due to water derived from the winter
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 8. -Recent Researches at
Science, štockholm, whence, in 1883, it passed rains, but retained by the natural storage of the National Physical Laboratory,' Dr. T. E. Stanton.
to the Trocadéro Museum in Paris, in exchange the ground until the summer months. Ex-
(Graduates' Lecture. )
Society of Arts, 8. - The Meat Industry,' Lecture II, Mr.
for some Peruvian curiosities. It now seems amination of these diagrams and of the rainfall
L. M. Douglas. (Cantor Lectura. )
certain that Linné received the magic drum from and river-discharge shows that of the rain which
Folk-lore, 8. 16. --- Annual Meeting; Presidential Address.
Pite or Lule Lappmark, as it agrees with the
Geographical, 8. 30,
falls during the six dry months only a small Jewish Historical Society. 8. 30. - The Records of Receipts
design of others from those parts, and differs percentage Rows off the catchment-area.
from the Jews in Mediwval England, Mr. Hilary Jenkinson.
from the form of those from Kimi and Torne
TUES. Royal Institution, 3. -The Study of Genetics, Lecture V. ,
Prof. W. Bateson.
Lappmark; it has certain figures used in the
It was reported that 1 Member, 21 Associate
Asiatic, 4 – The History and Monuments of Cambodja,' Sir
district of Asele.
Members, and 1 Associate had been elected, and
0. Elliot.
We may expect a detailed
that 28 Students had been admitted.
British Museum, 4. 80. -Roman Triumphal Arches and Pillars
account of the drum in question from Dr. Reuter-
of Victory,' Mr. B. Fletcher.
skiöld, who is occupied in an exhaustive review
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. -Discussion on The Water-
Supply of the
Witwatersrand,' and 'Investigations relating
of all known specimens. The Treasurer referred ROYAL INSTITUTION. - Feb. 5. — Sir James
to the Yield of a Catchment-Area in Cape Colony. '
to the interest of this exhibition, specially with Crichton-Browne, Treasurer and Vice-President, Colonial Institute, 8. 30. – Travel and Sport in East Africa,
regard to the local variations in the pattern of in the chair. -Mr. E. B. Badcock, the Rev.
WED. St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, 8. -Romanesque Churches of
the drums.
Prebendary Jeakes, and Mrs. G. Stibbard were
France, Part IL, Mr. P. H. Hepburn.
elected Members. The Chairman reported that
Society of Arts, 8. -Gem Engraving,' Mr. C. Thomas.
Tuurs. Royal Institution, 3. – The Portraiture of Shakespeare,'
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. -Feb. 6. - a further sum of 3001. , part of the legacy of the
Lecture I. , Mr. M. H. Spielmann.
Mr. D. C. Leitch read a paper on
Royal Academy, 4. -'Italian Draughtsmen of the Eighteenth
• The Water-
late Miss Wolfe to the Royal Institution, had been
Century, and Piranesi. ' Prof. R. T. Blomfield.
Supply of the Witwatersrand. ' The works de- received.
Royal, 4. 30. -'A Specific Instance of the Transmission of
Acquired Characters: Investigation and Criticism, Dr. T. G.
scribed in the paper serve an area of 365 square
Brown ; 'Further Experiments on the Oross-breeding of Two
miles, with a population of 139,000 white and ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. -Feb. 6. —Mr.
Races of the Moth Acidalia virgularia, Mr. W. B. Alex-
226,000 coloured inhabitants. The Rand lies D. MacRitchie read a paper on 'The Kayak in
ander; 'On the Effects of Castration and Ovariotomy upon
Bheep, Mr. F. H. A. Marshall ; 'The Causes and Preven.
at a considerable elevation, and divides the streams North-Western Europe.
tion of Miners' Nystagmus,' Dr. T. L. Llewellyn; and other
Papers.
flowing to the Orange River and the Atlantic The lecturer began by stating that the kayak,
Historical, 5. -Annual Meeting : Presidential Address.
from those which flow to the Crocodile River or skin canoe of the Eskimos, was in use on the Royal Numismatic, 6. 30. – The Anglo-Gallic Coinage of Henry
and the Indian Ocean. The gold-bearing con-
coast of Northern Russia two or three centuries
V. . 'Mr. L. M. Hewlett.
Linnean, 8. - An Investigation of the Seedling Structure in
glomerates of the district dip to the south ; ago. Evidence of this is obtained from statements
the Leguminosu,' Mr. R. H. Compton.
they are overlaid by volcanic rocks, and stili made by Burrough in 1556, and from the chronicles Chemical. 8. 30. -- Chemical Examination of Scammony Root
further south by dolomite, from which the present
and of Scammony,' Messrs. P. B. Power and H. Rogerson;
It
of a Danish expedition to Vaigatz in 1653.
Experiments on the Walden Inversion : Part VIII. , a-Amino-
supply is obtained. The catchment-area of the appears that the natives of that coast not only
a-phenylpropionic Acids. ' Messrs. A. McKenzie and G. W.
Clough; Preparation of the Nitrites of the Primary, Second
Klip River valley, above the Board's wells, is used the ordinary kayak, constructed to hold
ary and Tertiary Amines by the
Distillation and
Sublimation
about 308 square miles, the average rainfall one person, but they also built kayaks capable of
ntrated Solutions of Mixtures of the
being 29. 5 in. per annum.
holding two occupants, a variety of this canoe
Hydrochlorides of the Bases and Alkali Nitrites,' Part I, Mr.
P. Neogi ; and other Papers.
The average hardness of the Zwartkopjes supply which is nowadays specially associated with
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 30.
FRI.
is about 19 parts per 100,000 : this is reduced to Western Alaska and the Aleutian Isles. It was
Geological, 8. -Anniversary Meeting.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. - Works for the Prevention
14 parts by the addition of hydrate of lime, a further shown that three kayaks were captured
of Const-Erosion, Lecture I. , Mr. W. T. Douglass (Vernon-
solution of which is added to the water entering off the northern shores of Scotland about the end
Harcourt Lecture), (Students' Meeting. )
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 8. - Annual General
the settling-tanks from the wells. As much as of the seventeenth century. One of these is still
Meeting.
2 parts of iron per million is found in the water preserved in the Museum of Marischal College, Viking Oiub, 8. 15. - Some Points of Resemblance between
Beowulf and the Grettia (or Gretti's Saga), Mr. D. C.
from some of the wells which afford the most Aberdeen. An important fact is the occasional
Stedman,
copious yield. Growth of weed is prevented in presence of a kayak-using race of Finns or Finn-
Royal Institution, 9. -'The Road : Past, Present, and Future,
Bir J. A. A. Macdonald.
these cases by adding 1 part in three millions of men in the Orkney Islands during the last twenty
SAT. Royal Institution, 3. - Franz Liszt (Oentenary),' Lecture II.
copper sulphate ; while the oxide, formed as years of the seventeenth century, as testified
Bir A. O. Mackenzie.
But
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in a Vacuum
Con
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we
the
red
66
and “
together strange companions. As the
Science Gossip.
FINE ARTS
century progresses, we seem to perceive
a certain expression characterizing all the
contemporaries of a period, not entirely
FOR a
man of established reputation
voluntarily to renounce an honour in order
accounted for by the somewhat mechanical
that a younger man may receive it is Historical Portraits, 1600-1700. The Lives art of Kneller or the facility of Lely,
unhappily so rare an event as to deserve by H. B. Butler and C. R. L. Fletcher. which the reader may be left to trace out
special notice. Prof. Karl Pearson has
The Portraits chosen by Emery Walker. for himself.
just refused the Weldon Prize in the spirit
we indicate. In the course of a letter to
With an Introduction by C. F. Bell. We are acquainted with a well-known
the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford he says:-
(Oxford, Clarendon Press. )
genealogist who demonstrates at length
“I feel strongly that, whatever the formal
to any one who will give him a hearing
wording of the statutes
may be, the intention of WE feel that can predict with
that all the leaders of the Civil War on
the donors and the spirit of the late Prof. Weldon, safety the success of this book. It both sides were descended from the Throg-
encouragement of younger men, to whom timely contains over 130 portraits of the men morton family prominent in early Tudor
that their work is appreciated and their chosen who have made history for us—51 of them theory, there is no doubt that Messrs. Butler
recognition may mean an all-important indication and women of the seventeenth century times. Whatever truth there is in this
path a fitting one. '
full-page reproductions, the remainder half and Fletcher have missed a point in not
PHOTOGRAPHS of the planetary surfaces, or quarter page. They call on three or tracing out the relationships of the subjects
if successful, should go far to settle vexed four different publics with almost equal of these portraits to each other. The
questions as to the actuality of markings attraction. The student of English art existence of the Dictionary of National
seen by some observers, but doubted by will be glad of a volume covering the Biography' makes the remainder of their
others. At present, in the case of Mars, whole of a province which in the main task so easy that this might have been
the eye has recorded more than the photo-
graphic plate, though excellent photographs has been studied by competent autho- expected from them. The author of the
of this planet have been obtained, especially rities, but which still presents many notice on Hampden does indeed state
with the large telescope at Yerkes. Reproblems to the inquirer.
that he was “distantly related to the
cently M. Tikhoff of "Pulkova has made
trial of the method of photographing Mars
Three figures dominate the portraiture Protector,” and the parents of the person
through colour-screens. He finds that on of the century — Van Dyck, Lely, and written about are usually named; but
photographs the continents Kneller ; the work of each of them is even then no reference is made to the por-
appear very bright, brighter even than the familiar, and their history is well known. trait. Prof. Holmes recently proposed to
south polar cap; whilst the seas are dark. But beyond the Flemish artists Geeraerts, trace the influence of the Spanish strains
On the
green photographs the continents Van Somer, Mytens, Janssens, and the like on our mediæval and Tudor royal families ;
are not so bright, and the seas are greyish.
The “ canals
-the fashionable painters of the first and this volume offered a means for similar
on the
green plates are
greyish, and aro best seen on the red
Stuarts—there are a crowd of less-known investigations on smaller scale. The
plates. It will be understood that by the Englishmen, not in the first rank, but editors should also have added a list of
words “ continents seas,” the parts approaching it: Dobson and Walker, Van artists, painters, or engravers. The repro-
of the planet seen respectively of orange Dyck’s_ assistants; Cooper; Greenhill, ductions are excellent, and the choice of
and of green colour are intended.
Riley, Beale, and Wright, Lely's workers; subjects by Mr. Emery Walker could
less-known men like Gilbert Jackson hardly have been bettered. The volume
THE many English friends of Prof. and John Taylor ; the miniaturists, the should have a place on the shelves of all
to learn that it is intended on the initiative pastellists, the engravers, and the sculptors. those interested in English history or art.
of Prof. Hermann Struve, Director of the Mr. C. F. Bell's excellent Introduction
Berlin Observatory) to present to him, in will appeal to the student as an able
mental astronomy, a portrait in oils of Brad: guide to what is known on the subject,
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
ley, whose life-work is connected so closely intended to be suggestive rather than
with his. The copy will be made, under exhaustive, clearly and simply written. THE history of portraiture and costume is
the supervision of Mr. George Henry, A. R. A. , The two classes of contemporary portrait- inseparable, according to M. Léandre Vaillat,
from the original in the possession of the Royal painting-rhetorical and homespun-are du XVIIIe siède et ses Peintres (Paris,
who writes an interesting book, La Société
Society. Prof. Auwers, with characteristic well represented in this volume, and if it Perrin), in which somewhat undue promin.
thoroughness and skill, re-reduced and edited
were not for the masterpieces of Van
Bradley's meridian observations of stars
made at the Greenwich Observatory, and Dyck, one would be tempted to assert treats of the manner in which eighteenth-
published a Catalogue of these stars for the that“ the homespuns have it,” so far do century portrait painters envisaged women
epoch 1755, which to-day forms the basis their transparent truthfulness and brilliant and children, and the relation of portraiture
of our knowledge of stellar proper motions technical accomplishment go to replace and costume. There is nothing in the book
and allied problems of fundamental astro the absence of stylistic pretension.
the
nomy.
tury, and it is to be regretted that M.
Another and a wider class of readers Vaillat has not seen fit to draw upon much
An American scientific publication recently will be attracted to this book. We need valuable material. But it is pleasant to
in the Proceedings of the Australian Wheat value of forming a personal idea of his and exotic Liotard, to whom life was
had a note calling attention to the statement not repeat obvious platitudes as to the find sympathetic chapters on some of the
graminis, or wheat-rust, occurred in Australia torical characters, but the fact remains perpetual comedy—a masque of colour
in 1867, 1878, and 1889. It is further pointed that they need emphasizing from time to and movement with changing scenes, gay
out that these were years of minimum of the time. Any one who has had experience costumes, and the light, fanciful music of
sunspot cycle, with the suggested inference in teaching knows the added interest lent the ballet; or Perronneau, painter and
that the attack of the pest is dependent on to a character when a good portrait of pastellist, anticipating in portraiture by
the sunspots. The author of the note may him is seen. The student of character will twenty years the ideas of Rousseau's 'Émile,
be right when he says that the development note the prevalence of two main types of painting paternal, sentimental, kindly
por-
of the fungus is dependent on rainfall,
but head, not, indeed, absolutely coincident roguishly or frowning and visibly naughty, ,
relation between sunspots and rainfall. It with any of the great lines of division with a sincerity that pierces through the
would be interesting to know what happened of the time, social, political, or religious, mannerism and artificiality of the style. In
at the minimum in 1900, and other years but suggestive of it. Heads like those of these pictures of women at the opera, of
when the sunspots were few.
Hampden, Blake, Monk, Hobbes, Jonson, scented beaux, placid matrons, prosperous
merchants, and the courtiers in a light, gay,
MESSRS. SMITH & ELDER will publish on sideEliot, Leslie, Shaftesbury, Temple, charm that belong almost alone to Perron-
Lauderdale, and the bishops on the one
leisured world, we find a grace and subtle
the 22nd inst. Men and Measures :
History of Weights and Measures, Ancient Ormonde, Locke, and Dryden on the
and Modern,' by Lieut. -Col. Edward Nichol. other-suggest a political as well as a The book is admirably printed, and well
social classification which would bring and judiciously illustrated.
a
neau.
son.
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are
more
an
are
CG
prints than by its drawings, which
Most of the other exhibitors command
The English Provincial Printers, Sta- the
spontaneous and free
from
respect by excellent and restrained work.
tioners, and Bookbinders to 1557, by E. the look of having been spurred into We must certainly mention Mr. Cameron's
Gordon Duff (Cambridge University Press), existence by thoughts of artificial handsome drawing of Cir Mohr (91), Mr.
is an excellent little book, written with an public of collectors, to whom the making Clausen's painter-like_The Brook (64), the
authority and a knowledge of early English of an etching is in some mysterious way
marvellous Pantheon, Rome, of Mr. Muirhead
printed books which no one else of the
a virtuous act in itself. Thus, but for his Bone (102), and the woodcuts of Mr. Sturge
present day possesses, and is devoted to knowledge of the existence of a race of Moore. Messrs. Francis Dodd and Havard
a subject which has hitherto, to use the amateurs eager for printed rarities and in- Thomas show careful studies from life.
author's words, hardly received adequate different to unique drawings, we doubt if At the Goupil Gallery the memorial exhi-
attention. It is composed of the four | Mr. Walter Sickert would have troubled bition of works by William Christian Symons
Sandars Lectures for 1911 in the University to disinter the early scraps of experimental affords a copious display of clever, but not
of Cambridge, together with Appendixes etching he shows here. His lithograph, very distinguished painting. Happily, the
giving a list of books printed by or for Joe Haynes and Little Dot Hetherington at water-colours heavily outnumber the oil
provincial printers and stationers, and a the Old Bedford Music-Hall, Camden Town paintings, and in certain flower-pieces and
useful Bibliography of the subject. Mr. (31), is of a very different order—a studiously other rapid studies in the former medium
Duff has little to say of early Oxford printing wrought design, steeped in the sentiment of Symons's power of handling exceedingly
that is new to students, except his vigorous time and place. The same qualities, united brilliant pigment is shown at its best.
treatment of the few remaining defenders with a more astonishing vivacity of draughts: No. 39, White Chrysanthemums, may be
of the “ 1468” Rufinus. If the date had manship, are to be found in his group of cited, along with Nos. 37, 43, 44, and 76, as
been genuine, Oxford would have stood drawings (105–10), which, in this atmosphere examples of his sturdy, direct execution.
before Venice in the list of honour, and one of slightly theoretical correctness, command
would like some explanation of the associa- the attention instinctively accorded to the
At Messrs. McLean's Galleries we
tion of the Corsellis family with the myth. direct and vibrant tones of a man of the pleased to see some signs of the ambition
The second lecture deals with the first world in a pedantic academic debate.
of compact design and idiomatic expression
printers at St. Albans, York, and Hereford.
No books were actually printed at Hereford the language of to-day, and until the coming French etching in colour. M. Jacquoy's
There is something, after all, in speaking emerging from the welter of cheap imitation-
painting which has hitherto overwhelmed
in this period, but three were printed at of Mr. Sickert into their midst, we were
Rouen for sale there.
The third lecture hardly aware how generally the members Repas de Piqueux (63) has an excellent sense
treats of the second Oxford Press and of
of this group were tinctured with conscious of space : the treatment is not so formal
Cambridge printing, one of the points to archaism. Even Mr. Muirhead Bone, we
as to abolish humour, nor the humour so
which Mr. Duff calls attention being the find, has not escaped it. He is still playing contributions
are slightly open to the latter
forced as to degrade the design. His other
first occurrence in England of an exclusive at being an eighteenth-century draughtsman
privilege (in 1518). As the author very of modern material, bent on showing that, Monvel' (2-5) to the former. Somewhat
, as are those of M. Boutet de
justly says, the legal bearing of these privi- had photography and the cinematograph behind these artists in interest, M. H.
leges has never been examined by writers
on copyright, though. . . ,. it would go far everyday fact might still inspire a delightful Meunier (46 and 47) and M. F. Simon (55 and
to prove that the perpetual copyright, which art.
later on was claimed by the stationers, was
He demonstrates his thesis admirably, ! 56) are notable as showing a higher level of
but the really modern artist feels in his j artistry than the remaining exhibitors.
never legally recognized," their powers bones that the argument is based on a fiction. At the Baillie Gallery the oil paintings
under the charter enabling them to enforce Verbally, no doubt, Mr. Walter Sickert shown by the members of the Camsix Club
claims which were not warranted by law. would propose for himself the same end as
are of less interest than the exhibits in the
The fourth lecture is on the presses at Mr. Bone, but judged by this ideal of precise Water-Colour Room, where Messrs.
Tavistock, Abingdon, Ipswich, Canterbury, and literal statement of facts, the latter is Priestman (89), Sterndale Bennett (92), and
Exeter, and the second St. Albans press, far his superior, and can, indeed, claim per- M. M. Patterson (94) show work of some
and contains much that will be new even to fection in a sense that Mr. Sickert, dealing, merit. Miss Anne Maitland's drawings reveal
professed students of English typography: as he does, with an art in which perfection some signs of systematic training in Nos. 29,
Mr. Duff agrees with the author of a recent is less readily measured, hardly may. With 33, and 37, where the brush stroke is con-
paper read to the Bibliographical Society Mr. Sickert we have a less firm hold on con- fidently controlled and decisive. Except in
that Bale's ' Illustrium Britanniæ Scriptorum crete fact in matters of detail, but an immea- an occasional drawing, such as No. 1, her
Summarium' was not printed at Ipswich, surably more vivid presentation of the sense of tone is deficient.
in spite of its colophon. A very fruitful essential and typical in modern life. It is
suggestion of the author's is that many of difficult to select the best of the half dozen
the books generally set down as printed at drawings. In The Furnished Bedroom (108)
foreign secret presses were in reality produced the interest is more purely one of æsthetic
PERSEPOLIS.
in England by provincial printers. The rhythm than in the others, which belong
three books he cites as examples were in more definitely to the domain of the
13, Carlton House Terrace, S. W.
all probability printed at Worcester by comedy of manners. How exactly of our
John Oswen, but it is very rarely indeed day is the particular brand of self-satis- 1 at no distant date fresh excavations may
I THINK that it is extremely probable that
that an English book set up by foreign com- fied rascal shown in No. 110, Esther be commenced at Persepolis, and I shall be
positors does not contain evidence of the Waters ! How original, yet inevitable, obliged if you will permit me, through your
fact in misspellings and false divisions of the arrangement of figures and furni.
syllables. If these are absent in a work of ture
paper, to point out some special objects to
in No. 107, Fare tutti mestieri
which the explorers should direct their
ordinary length, its foreign origin is open svergognati per compar onoratamente (anglice attention.
to suspicion. Those who know Mr. Duff's "Anything for a new hat ? ")! Personal
work will require no commendation on our acquaintance is required to do justice to
The main source of our knowledge of
part to send them to his pages, and by the characterization, in Mr. Gilman speaks Arrian, A. D. 125. I quote from the trans-
Alexander the Great is the ‘Anabasis of
this time the number must include every one (106), of the assured poise of a confident
interested in the history of English book personality,
lation by J. J. Chinnock, 1884, who tells us
production.
It is odd to find Mr. Campbell Dodgson, (bk. iii. chap. xviii. ) that Alexander (B. C. 331)
in his Preface to the Catalogue, referring to
burnt the palace of Persepolis against the
Mr. Sickert's value to the show as consisting they, the inhabitants of Asia would be less
advice of his generals, who said if he so did
in his introduction of “the Whistlerian
THE SOCIETY OF TWELVE, AND touch. " Surely in these incisive pages it likely to come over to his side, thinking that
he meant only to raid and scuttle
OTHER EXHIBITIONS.
is clear that it is the tradition of Degas which
Mr. Sickert rightly recognized as offering (enedokî jóvov vik@vra). Strabo tells us
THE work of the late Alphonse Legros most scope for continuation. Perhaps
that Alexander insisted on burning the
has been dealt with too recently in these also in Confession (109) he captures the palace of Persepolis out of revenge, because
columns for it to be necessary to do more little core of valuable achievement which
Darius and Xerxes had destroyed the Greek
than recognize the presence at the galleries among so much dross was to be found temples and burnt their cities.
of Messrs. Colnaghi & Obach of half in Fortuny. Mr.
