Bentley
“It would be desirable to have a few details
work no doubt fairly represents the period, of rhythm, and above all it avoids repetition, which is stated in your columns last week to have
and the volume fills an important gap in art thus securing two of the main characterbeen exported to New York via Paris, 'with other
history.
“It would be desirable to have a few details
work no doubt fairly represents the period, of rhythm, and above all it avoids repetition, which is stated in your columns last week to have
and the volume fills an important gap in art thus securing two of the main characterbeen exported to New York via Paris, 'with other
history.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Ingram: 'On the Fossil Flora of the Forest of Dean another was discovered whose peculiarity
(or rebuilt) by Nabopolassar, and greatly extended
Coalfield (Gloucestershire) and the Relationship of the Coal
by his son Nebuchadrezzar; but the remains of
fields of the West of England and South Wales, Mr. B. A. N.
lay in the opposite direction, for it went at
Arber; The Chemical Action of Bacillus cloaca, Jordan,
houses referred to so far in the reports were not
times well outside the orbit of Jupiter.
on Glucose and Mannitol,' Mr. J. Thompson ; 'Simultaneous
such as greatly to attract the explorers. Of the
Since then three others of the same type have
tower of Babylon unfortunately the core only at
Mox.
as this.
-
Colour Contrast. ' Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green.
British Archæological Association, 5. -'Homo Rocent Dis-
been discovered; so there are now four minor
present remains, but the temple of Belus is a London Institution, . - Plague : its origin and History,' planets-called respectively by the names of
promising ruin. The portions described by Kolde-
Lipnean, 8. - Fourmis des Seychelles reçues do M. Hugh Homeric heroes, Achilles, Hector, Patroclus,
wey, though of slight extent, are very interesting.
Scott,"'Prot. A. Forel; Tipulídw from the Indian Ocean,"
Mr. F. W. Edwards; and other papers,
and Nestor.
Upon the asphalted platform in the holy place,
Chemical, 8. 30. - The Constituents of Commercial Chrysa-
which has been excavated, was the impression of a
robip,' Messrs. F. Tutin and H. W. B. Olewer: "Researches It may seem paradoxical to the ordinary
finely decorated chair, probably that upon which
on Bleaching Powder : Part II. The Action of Dilute Acids
the image of the deity of that part was seated.
on Blenching Powder. ' Messrs. R. L. Taylor and C. Bostock; person to say that a luminous body is
The Quantitative Estimation of Hydroxy. . Amino, and
This implies that this chamber, and probably other
Imino-derivates of Organic Compounds by means of the
equally bright at all distances, but this is
portions, had, at one time, fallen a prey to the
Grignard Reagent, and the Nature of the Changes taking true of the celestial bodies if there be no-
place in Solution, Mr. H. Hibbert; 'An Exact Investiga-
flames, and the date of this conflagration would
tion of the Three-Component System, Sodium Oxide, Acetic thing in space which will intercept or absorb
naturally be of interest. A neat little temple was
Anhydride. Water,' Mr. A. O. Dunningham.
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 80.
light. Whether there is any absorbing
that dedicated to the goddess Nin-mah, on the PRI. Institution of Civil Engineers. 8. -'Steam-Turbines: gomo
eastern side of the Istar-gate, and Dr. Koldewey
Practical Applications of Theory,' Lecturo I. , Capt. H. R.
matter in space is a difficult problem
thinks it may have been the shrine in which
Sankey. (Students' Meeting. )
which is being now attacked by several
Royal Institution, 9. -- Vital Effects of Radium and Other
Alexander made his daily offerings when ill
Rayo. ' Sir J. M. Davidson.
methods, mostly indirect. The general
Royal Institution, 3. -'Russian Music of To-day, Sir A. C.
(Arrian, An. vii. 25). Its importance may be
Mackenzie.
argument is that a distant body looks faint
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only because it looks small, or, in other Jama Masjid at Ahmedabad is one of modern Italian plaster-work. ” The plates
words, the brightness per unit area is the the most beautiful mosques in the East. confirm the criticism.
same at all distances. To derive any argu; It has been fully described in a learned In chap. viii. Mr. Vincent Smith dis-
ment from direct observation of celestial and handsomely illustrated
work. - Archi- cusses the early schools of Hindu painting.
be known about their intrinsic luminosity, Theodore Hope and James Fergusson famous paintings in the caves at Ajanta,
tecture at Ahmedabad,' edited by Sir A considerable portion is devoted to the
and it is generally not possible to know this.
At the last meeting of the Royal Astro-
more than forty years ago. It owed its which range over a period from the first
nomical Society a paper was presented giving publication to Mr. Premchund Raichund, century to the seventh. The text and
the result of an attempt to find whether à Jain and a native of Goozerat. The illustrations are mainly taken from Mr.
there is absorbing matter by consideration style of architecture at Bijāpur forms John Griffiths's magnificent work, The
of the brightness of nebulæ—the method
an exception to the usual influence of Paintings of the Buddhist Cave Temples of
being, in fact, to consider whether the surface Hindu art on Mohammedan buildings. Ajanta, Khandesh, India. Mr. Smith also
brightness of small nebulæ is the same as
that of large ones. It was necessary to The immense mosque of Muhammad Adil quotes from Mrs. Herringham's instruc-
make several assumptions, and no particu. Shah, which dates from 1629-60, is not tive paper in_The Burlington Magazine,
larly valid conclusion was reached.
only the finest building in Bijāpur, but June, 1910. The following chapter deals
FRENCH meteorologists are discussing the also takes rank as one of the finest domes with
possibilities as to weather conditions on the in the world. Mr. Vincent Smith's de- Modern. ' There are two chapters on
occasion of the solar eclipse which will scription of it is somewhat meagre :-
' Hindu Minor Arts' and 'Indo-Muham-
occur on April 17th next. Examination
madan Decorative and Minor Arts. '
of the records of the past twenty years
“The stately. tomb of Muhammad Adil Coinage, gems, seals, jewellery, calli-
made at the Meteorological Observatories Shah (1636-60) is covered with a dome, the
at Paris and Nantes shows that for the five second largest in the world, a wonder of graphy, and decorative reliefs are dis-
cussed with a
days about the day of the eclipse (April 15th constructive skill,' balanced internally by
sure confidence which
to 19th), between 9 in the morning and 3 in an ingenious arrangement of pendatives, gives us an almost boundless conception of
the afternoon, the average amount of cloud fully explained by Fergusson and with an human capacity. The last chapter
to that of clear sky has been in the ratio of internal height of 178 feet. '
is devoted to Indo-Persian or Mughal
six to four, from which, by strict logic, it
would follow that the chance was rather
The most picturesque section of the work Painting, and the author adds, This
against seeing the eclipse. But the average consists of the chapters on sculpture, and chapter is the first attempt to give
no doubt takes into account the cloud round the treatment of the illustrations is excel-
a systematic account of the Mughal
the horizon, which is excessive, but would lent. In the chapter on the early
period beautiful book cannot, however, be re-
or Indo-Persian School. ” This most
not hinder observation of the noonday sun,
and the chance may be better than it capital of the inscribed Asoka pillar at garded as a systematic · History of Fine
that the chances are equally good along the Sārnāth, discovered by Mr. F. 0. Oertel, Art in India': it is rather a collection
of
and artistic
and described by him in
illustrations of historical
Annual
line, and there is little reason for choosing
Nantes in preference to Paris, or vice versa. Report of the Archæological Survey of importance, with explanatory notes and
India. The account of the sculpture of criticism founded on the writings and
the early period is followed by a chapter judgments of experts.
on “The Hellenistic Sculpture of Gan-
FINE ARTS
dhāra. ' During the last forty years, as
Mr. Vincent Smith reminds us, thousands
of these Indo-Hellenic sculptures have
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
come to light, while considerable numbers, Great Engravers : Francisco Goya ; Van
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon including most of the choicest specimens, Dyck and Portrait Engraving and Etching
from the Earliest Times to the Present have been catalogued, described, and in the Seventeenth century. (Heinemann. )
Day. By Vincent A. Smith. (Oxford, photographed. In that most valuable We consider it would be impossible to give in
Clarendon Press. )
so small a compass a better compendium of
work, The Ancient Monuments, Temples, Goya's graphic art, and Mr. Hind's Intro-
and Sculptures of India,' edited with notes duction contains, in compressed form, a
(Second Notice. )
by Mr. Burgess, some eighty plates are great amount of just the information that
THE earliest Mohammedan style of archi- devoted to the Gandhāra School. The the reader needs. The commentary on the
tecture is that of the Pathans at Delhi, seated Buddha in the Berlin Museum, also subjects chosen from the Caprichos' and
which echoes the stern severity of their given in this volume, is one of the finest. Proverbios' is strictly founded on docu-
creed. It includes the Kutb Minār, or Mr. Vincent Smith is a fervid admirer of ments, and avoids any sort of fanciful
great minaret, which in design and finish the Gandhāra School. Mr. E. B. Havell two of those superb lithographs, the Bor-
interpretation. The illustrations include
surpasses any building of its class in India, in his 'Indian Sculpture and Painting deaux bull-fights, and an even greater rarity,
and the tombs of Altamsh and Tughlak. illustrated by Typical Masterpieces,' one of the wonderful landscape etchings at
Though small, the tomb of Altamsh is one which gives an artistic and original Madrid, in which there is a striking resem-
of the richest examples of Hindu art view of Indian æsthetic ideals, subjects blance to Japanese principles of composition.
applied to Mohammedan purposes that the Gandhāra School to some severe criti-
The volume on the portrait engravers has
old Delhi affords. The illustrations of the cism. But Mr. Vincent Smith does not not the same unity of subject to justify its
Kutb are the familiar ones which have convey an accurate impression when he existence as a monograph, but it illustrates
appeared in legions of books. There is states that Mr. Havell teaches that the ing in the century that begins with Van
a good illustration of the tomb of Tughlak, earliest Gandhāra sculptors were no better Dyck and closes with Drevet. We again
reproduced from the Archæological than “mechanical craftsmen. ” What Mr. have to regret the fact that the finest qualities
Survey Report. It is difficult to say any. Havell does say is that they were of many engravings are lost in the process
thing new about the architecture of the craftsmen, and very inferior craftsmen of reproduction.
Mohammedan conquerors. Fergusson compared with those of Pompeii and
pointed out in his classic that the com- Herculaneum. ”. The following are also of Fine Arts and Antiquities of Italy: is
SIGNOR CORRADO Ricci, Director-General
bination of vast size and bold construc- examples of lack of accuracy. Mr. Havell highly qualified to write on Baroque Architec-
tion with the utmost delicacy of super- does not write when the Roman ture and Sculpture in Italy (same publishers).
ficial ornamentation is the speciality of influence was strongest,” but “when the He rightly regards art as the expression of
the architecture
modified by the Græco-Roman influence was strongest. ” the sentiments and life of the time which
indigenous style of the native people. Mr. Havell does not proceed to "liken produced it. Of the Baroque he says:
The large mosques and tombs at Jaunpur Gandhāran art to “cheap modern Italian Magnificence was the prevailing note when
(A. D. 1397-1478) are noticeable instances work,” but he gives reproductions of two society showed, above all things a desire to
”
of the use of Hindu forms. At Ahmed- of the reliefs, and says : . There is a
love of the stupendous” which character-
abad the mosques and tombs are in what certain prettiness about these reliefs rather ized seventeenth-century art in Italy.
Fergusson called the Jaina style. The suggestive of bonbonnières or cheap insists that a style should be judged together
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trappings of its time, its science and philo- vidual and as beautiful as a fine etching; by Mr. Frank Brangwyn is now on view at
sophy. Signor Ricci maintains that, whereas and the number printed being only 120, each the Galerie Durand Ruel, Rue Laffitte, Paris.
Italy was behindhand in painting at this has almost the value of an original drawing
period, having no Rubens, Van Dyck, Rem- by one of the most delicate artists of to-day. Board of Education, Art Examination :
AMONG recent Government Publications is
brandt, or Velasquez, she equalled their
Papers and Reports, 1911 (post free 7d. ).
achievements in another art, the mother art
of architecture. First, perhaps, comes Ber-
TWO PICTURES attributed to Rubens have
nini, a great master of effect, and an artist
been discovered near Mons. One, a repre-
of considerable versatility. Contemporary
Fine Art Gossip.
sentation of the Holy Trinity, has been
with him were Francesco Borronini and
found by a professor at the Académie des
Scamozzi; a little later came Baldassare Long- THE drawings of Mr. J. D. Fergusson at Beaux-Arts in the home of a merchant,
hena, the architect of Santa Maria della Salute, the Stafford Gallery are for the most part who had recently bought it. The other had
and a host of less-known men. The account genuine studies. They display the artist's been sold for 100 francs to a picture-dealer
of these men's achievements is an admirable power of so centralizing his observation of at Brussels ; its subject is Lot fleeing from
monograph on the subject. The bulk of the the lines of cleavage between the main planes Sodom. Both pictures had belonged to
volume consists of exceedingly fine photo of his subject that the gist of it is more or
an inhabitant of Jemappe, who was obliged
graphic reproductions, many of them of little less suggested—a crest is indicated here, a to sell them owing to financial reverses.
known subjects. The selection is here and trench marked in there; and, if the fluent
MR. W. ROBERTS writes:-
there, for instance in plates 156 and 157, shorthand does not give a very complete
open to criticism, but the quality of the rendering of form, it gives a certain balance concerning the Hoppner portrait of Mrs.
Bentley
“It would be desirable to have a few details
work no doubt fairly represents the period, of rhythm, and above all it avoids repetition, which is stated in your columns last week to have
and the volume fills an important gap in art thus securing two of the main characterbeen exported to New York via Paris, 'with other
history.
istics of nature. A drawing of still-life important examples of deceased masters. ' I have
Evian (37)—is perhaps the best. Certain
never heard of the picture, nor does it find a place
portrait studies, such as 18, 23, 29, are almost Hoppner which I recently published with Mr.
under that name in the exhaustive book on
MR. LUCIEN PISSARRO is honourably dis-
as good, but threatened with the slippery Mackay. Very few really important pictures
tinguished among the leaders of the revival calligraphic flourish which lies in wait for escaped our notice. The picture may be a fine ope;
of printing by the singleness of aim of his the draughtsman bent on securing breadth but I am suspicious of Early English portraits,
work. William Morris and Mr. Ricketts
at all costs. These drawings have life and and being suddenly transferred to New York. ”
of which there is no record, turning up in Paris,
illustrations-when there are any—are in knowledge or modest intentness alike might French Minister of Fine Arts covers not only
aimed at the decorated book, and their gaiety, but not the steadiness which assured
severe subordination to the type. Mr.
achieve.
Pissarro aims at the illustrated book—the
such obvious duties as the reopening of
album-and the type is subordinated to THE DUBLIN MUNICIPAL GALLERY
the Louvre to the public, insistence on the
the wood engraving. His books have thus MODERN ART is now to profit perma- prompt publication of catalogues, the trans-
a special physiognomy, the charm of which nently by the addition of Mr. Lavery's ference of the Luxembourg to the new
grows upon one with every new work. The Portrait of a Lady Painting, which was building, and action to ensure full protection
latest of them, Album de Poèmes tirés du on view there for a short time last year. to historic monuments, but also such delicate
Livre de Jade, by Judith Gautier (Eragny The picture, the gift of Sir Hugh Lane, is a matters as are raised by the strike of the
Press), suggested by a Chinese classic, is charming work, and represents the painter dancers at the Opera, the advisability or
perhaps the finest thing he has done. It is at his best.
otherwise of the part of Nero being played
an album of twenty-seven pages of Japanese AN exhibition of Irish landscape by Française of artists. Amongst other things
by a girl, and the absence from the Comédie
vellum printed in a grey ink with red lines
Mr. Alexander Williams is now on view at
between each verse and round every page,
The pictures
the new Minister intends to advocate the
with seven illustrations printed in gold and the Leinster Hall, Dublin.
decentralization of what may be termed
colour, and twelve coloured tail-pieces shown are the originals of the illustrations
to Messrs. Blackie's 'Beautiful Ireland. '
statue-mania, and increased State support
designed by Mr. Pissarro, engraved on the
to provincial theatres.
wood by his wife and himself, and printed THE announcement of the death of M.
MR. D. S. MacColl is contributing a
by him, while the initials of every line are Henri Hymans of Brussels will be received critical article on ‘A Year of Post-Impres-
printed in gold. Rarely, if ever, has there with deep regret in this country, where he
sionism to the February number of The
been a more complete harmony between the had many friends in artistic and biblio-
Nineteenth Century.
matter and form of a book than in this little graphical circles. Born at Antwerp in
volume, which represents over a year's 1836, he entered the Bibliothèque Royale at
No. 8 of The Journal of the Imperial
labour of two artists. Madame Gautier has Brussels in 1857, and rose to be head of the Arts League shows the advance and utility
romanticized the materialism of her Chinese print department. Twelve years later he of that body. The League arranged less
exemplar : the hard beauty of a gem is, in was appointed to the Chair of Æsthetics and than a week before the House of Lords
her poem, transformed to a softened picture. Art History at the Antwerp Academy, considered the Copyright Bill a representative
Mr. Pissarro has followed her example in illus- whence he passed to the Beaux-Arts at meeting of curators of galleries and museums,
trations which, while they have more than Brussels.
and called their attention to a highly
a vague suggestion of Chinese life, and not a
He wrote a book on Rubens, and was a
little of the simplification of Chinese art, are
“ The copyrights they had purchased, and
yet as Western as Madame Gautier's poetry of England and the Continent. His lives them, and given to any one who could get access
and sentiments. The picture in his hands
in the ‘Biographie Nationale,' started by to the originals. Rights which they had sold
becomes a tapestry, glowing with colour
the Belgian Academy in 1866, include were to cease to exist, and in the future the
and broadened in line. Miss White has
written an interesting Introduction to the many of importance, the last published purchase of copyrights was rendered useless. "
little volume, though she reads more into volume, the nineteenth, containing nearly As a result of this agitation the objectionable
thirty biographies by him. One of his latest portion of the sub-section involved was
the poem than it will bear—its own slight
books dealt with Ghent and Tournai in the deleted, and does not appear in the Copy-
beauty is sufficient reason for its existence,
Villes d'Art Célèbres
series (1902).
right Act.
without loading it with an Oriental philo-
WIDESPREAD satisfaction will be felt at
sophy.
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will publish
On the technical side of the book there is very shortly the fourth volume of Dr. the recovery of the two statuettes attached
de
Groot's great Catalogue
to the reliquary of the Church of St. Remade
much of interest. The grey ink in which it | Hofstede
at Stavelot, in Belgium, which were stolen
is printed brings up the coloured illustrations Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent
a few months ago.
when a more brilliant black would have Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century,
It is announced that several new statues
destroyed their effect; the red ruling gives translated and edited by Mr. Edward G.
to the amorphous verse of Madame Gautier Hawke. This instalment includes the paint. will shortly be arranged in the Pantheon,
almost effect of regularity, and the ings of Jacob
Ruisdael, Meindert Paris ; among others Rodin's 'Eustache de
engravings—each colour (gold included) Hobbema, Adriaen van de Velde, and Saint Pierre,' Just Becquet's General Hoche,'
Paulus Potter.
and Allouard's ' Jeanne d'Arc.
printed in the ordinary way from a separate
woodblock are of Mr. Pissarro's best. In the fifth volume the works of Gerard WE regret to notice the death, at the
The culs-de-lampe-floral decorative designs ter Borch, Caspar Netscher, Pieter van age of 81, of Dr. David Christison of Edin.
founded on such flowers as wild pink, Slingeland, Gottfried Schalcken; and Eglon burgh, one of the pioneers of scientific
ragged robin, water - lily, honey - suckle, Hendrik van der Neer will be dealt with; archæology. After relinqnishing his career
an illness con-
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racteristic thematic material show both
Scottish prehistoric antiquities. He was LA SOCIÉTÉ DES CONCERTS skill and restraint. No one unacquainted
Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland from 1888 to 1904.
with the name of the composer would take
The Uni.
D'AUTREFOIS.
the Sonata for the work of a mere child.
versity of Edinburgh conferred upon him the
LAST WEEK we noticed the
degree of LL. D. in 1906. He published his
concert Herr Buhlig also deserves praise for his
des
Rhind Lectures on 'The Prehistoric Forts of given by the Société Concerts unconventional programme. It is true
Scotland,' also (with his brother) a life of Sir d'Autrefois, on the 17th inst. , at Bechstein that the pieces by Schönberg which were
Robert Christison, his father, whose forestry Hall, interesting both as regards the works heard for the first time are not likely
researches he continued and supplemented. selected and the performances. This excel- to catch the public ear,
even to
In the course of some recent excavations lent company of players appeared again satisfy one inured to many strange things
at Memphis some figurines were found which on the following evening at the sixth in modern music.
their discoverer claimed as portrait models Broadwood Concert at the Æolian Hall,
of the many foreigners who made their when they gave a fresh, pleasing Ballet
home in Egypt in the time of Herodotus, by from Chimène,' by Sacchini, an eigh-
whom they are called Helleno-memphites, teenth-century composer whose operas,
Cario-memphites, and the like. M. A. J.
Ausical Gussip.
Reinach, in a recent study, however, points once popular, are now forgotten;
out that the heads in question are probably Suite Symphonique,' by J. W. A.
'
MR. YORK BOWEN's Second Symphony
not of the Saitic, but of the Alexandrian Stamitz, whose great importance in the will be produced at the New Symphony
age, and that they satisfied the taste for development of the symphony has recently Orchestra’s concert at Queen’s Hall next
caricature which was a feature of the Court been shown by Dr. Riemann ; and a Suite Thursday evening.
of the Ptolemies.
by Johann Christian Bach.
Bach. Handel's THE LONDON TRIO (Madame Amina
M. Max van BERCHEM lately announced Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord Goodwin, Mr. Simonetti, and Mr. White-
to the Académie des Inscriptions a Corpus was included in the programme, also house) will include Brahms's Quartet in
Inscriptionum Arabicarum,” which is to be short quaint pieces for hautbois d'amour
A major at their next concert on Monday
published in the first place in the Mémoires and double-bass by Boismortier.
evening, February 5th, and will play, by
of the Mission Archéologique Française at
request, Arensky's Trio in D minor.
Cairo. He is beginning with a quantity of
Mr. Whitehouse having completely re-
inscriptions collected by Prof. Sobernheim of
Berlin, who has just finished the work of the
THE SOLLY STRING QUARTET. covered, will resume his usual place in the
Trio, and will also play with Madame
German expedition to Baalbec, and hopes
before long to get through the whole of LAST SATURDAY EVENING two works by Goodwin Chopin's Introduction and Polon-
Northern Syria. His plans for the future M. Vincent d'Indy were performed at
aise for piano and 'cello.
cover Egypt, Asia Minor, Arabia itself, the concert given at Bechstein Hall by THREE extra Symphony Concerts, under
Persia, Central Asia, China, and India, where the Solly String Quartet (Madame Harriet the direction of Sir Henry J. Wood, are to be
there are certainly ample materials.
Solly and the Misses Bertha Tressler, given at Queen's Hall on March 16th and
The first will be
The recent disastrous fire in the Karoli Olive Bell, and Margaret Izard). The 23rd, and on April 27th.
pictures by Potter and Van Dyck, and a held in high esteem by all prominent 'Cello Concerto; while at the third, which
Palace at Budapest, which has destroyed composer, a musician of lofty ideals, is devoted to Wagner; Señor Casals will
appear at the second, and play the Dvorák
number of valuable antiquities, has drawn French musicians. He was founder, has a Beethoven programme, Niadame Teresa
attention to the fact that the convents and in conjunction with Bordes and Guilmant, Carreño will be heard in the E flat Concerto,
palaces of Hungary are full of art treasures
of which nothing is known. As proof of the of the Paris Schola Cantorum in 1896, and M. Renaud in an Adagio from
small interest taken in art, a correspondent and is now sole director of that im- metheus. '
of the Frankfurter Zeitung quotes from the portant institution. The merits of his art- A PERFORMANCE of Bach's B minor Mass
catalogue of a gallery the description of a work have been fully recognized, but what with the Birmingham Festival Choir, sup-
picture as “ By Rafael or Dürer. ”
is said of him in the notice in Grove's ported by the London Symphony Orchestra,
' Dictionary '-“that he does not in the will be given at Queen's Hall under the direc.
least care to please the public”-is true
tion of Dr. G. R. Sinclair, on Thursday
MUSIC
.
of both works under notice-Op. 45, evening, February 29th.
a string quartet, and Op. 7, a pianoforte Miss MARIE BREMA has accepted an
quartet. The music is so austere and engagement to sing Brangäne in Tristan
CHARPENTIER'S LOUISE. ' elaborate that, until it has become familiar, and Clytemnestra in ‘Elektra,'
in English,
now
it cannot be fairly judged. It is only fair with the Denhoff Company now on tour.
A SUCCESSFUL
first performance of to the composer to state that the per kenzie will deliver at the Royal Institution
On Saturday next Sir Alexander C. Mac-
Charpentier's ‘Louise' given at formances not above reproach,
the London Opera House on Wednesday though the ladies deserve praise for pro- Music of To-day,' with illustrations, by the
the first of a course of lectures on 'Russian
evening. This Musical Romance, as it ducing unfamiliar works so little calculated Hans Wessely Quartet.
is named, is a piece that improves on to appeal to the general public.
acquaintance. At first the story is so
On Wednesday last an important decision
dramatic that little heed is paid to
for musical composers was reached by the
the music ; but, as the former becomes
Court of Appeal. Mr. Lionel Monckton
HERR BUHLIG'S RECITAL.
familiar, many clever details in the latter
sought to restrain the Gramophone Company
attract 'attention. Mlle. Aline Vallandri Erich WOLFGANG KORNGOLD, the young sent a "record” of one of his compositions
ERICH
from publishing and selling without his con-
impersonated Louise. Her singing was prodigy and composer-his present age is in ‘Our Miss Gibbs. He failed in his appeal
excellent, and her acting impressive and about 14—has excited great interest in based on common law rights.
free from any exaggeration. M. Jean Germany. His first published work was
Auber, the Julien, is an able artist, yet a pianoforte trio, which, though in several
apparently did not feel quite at his ways promising, showed-naturally enough sox.
ease. Mlle. Marguerite d'Alvarez im- -signs of restlessness and immaturity.
personated the Mother, and M. Francis At his recital on Tuesday evening at
Combe the Father. They were both Steinway Hall, Herr Richard Buhlig Norges Fondoo Symphony Orchestra, 8. 20, Queen's Hall.
good, but the remembrance of Madame performed for the first time in London
Berat and M. Gilibert probably made this boy's second published work, a
it difficult to render them full justice. Pianoforte Sonata in E, which was com-
The piece was effectively mounted, espe- posed two years ago. The style of writing Tours. Therelve o'clock Chamber Concert, Bolian
cially the scene of the Couronnement for the instrument is thoroughly modern,
de la Muse. Signor Luigi Cherubini is but there is nothing of the vagueness of
an able conductor, though at times the form so frequently to be found in modern
orchestra was too loud,
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PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
Concert, 3, Albert Hall.
Sunday Concert Society, 3. 30. Queen's Hall.
Bunday League, 7. Queen's Hall.
TUES. , WED. , TRI. , and DAT. London Opera House. (Matinée also on
Saturday
TUES. Bevcik Quartat,
Bach Choir, 8, Queen's Hall.
WED. Classical Concert, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Miss Gwenbilda Birkett's 't'ello Recital, 8. 15, Steinway Hall.
Miss Christian Carpenter's Planotorte Recital, 8. 30, Eolian
music. The developments of the cha-
Hall
Royal Amateur Orcheutral Society. 8. 80, Queen's Hall
Sergei Tarnowsky's Pianoforte Recital, 2, Bechstein Ball.
Kogal Choral Society. 8. Alhert Hall.
New Nymphony Orcbestra, 818, Queen's Ball
Brond wool's Chamber Concert 8. 30, follan Hall
Ursula Newton' Pianoforte Recital,
8. 80, Bechstein Hall.
BAT. Raruis-Phillip Chamber Concert, 2, Bechstein Hall.
Queen's Hall Orchestra, 3, Queen's Ball.
London Ballad Concert, 3, Royal Albert Hall
Extra Broad rood Concert, 3.
(or rebuilt) by Nabopolassar, and greatly extended
Coalfield (Gloucestershire) and the Relationship of the Coal
by his son Nebuchadrezzar; but the remains of
fields of the West of England and South Wales, Mr. B. A. N.
lay in the opposite direction, for it went at
Arber; The Chemical Action of Bacillus cloaca, Jordan,
houses referred to so far in the reports were not
times well outside the orbit of Jupiter.
on Glucose and Mannitol,' Mr. J. Thompson ; 'Simultaneous
such as greatly to attract the explorers. Of the
Since then three others of the same type have
tower of Babylon unfortunately the core only at
Mox.
as this.
-
Colour Contrast. ' Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green.
British Archæological Association, 5. -'Homo Rocent Dis-
been discovered; so there are now four minor
present remains, but the temple of Belus is a London Institution, . - Plague : its origin and History,' planets-called respectively by the names of
promising ruin. The portions described by Kolde-
Lipnean, 8. - Fourmis des Seychelles reçues do M. Hugh Homeric heroes, Achilles, Hector, Patroclus,
wey, though of slight extent, are very interesting.
Scott,"'Prot. A. Forel; Tipulídw from the Indian Ocean,"
Mr. F. W. Edwards; and other papers,
and Nestor.
Upon the asphalted platform in the holy place,
Chemical, 8. 30. - The Constituents of Commercial Chrysa-
which has been excavated, was the impression of a
robip,' Messrs. F. Tutin and H. W. B. Olewer: "Researches It may seem paradoxical to the ordinary
finely decorated chair, probably that upon which
on Bleaching Powder : Part II. The Action of Dilute Acids
the image of the deity of that part was seated.
on Blenching Powder. ' Messrs. R. L. Taylor and C. Bostock; person to say that a luminous body is
The Quantitative Estimation of Hydroxy. . Amino, and
This implies that this chamber, and probably other
Imino-derivates of Organic Compounds by means of the
equally bright at all distances, but this is
portions, had, at one time, fallen a prey to the
Grignard Reagent, and the Nature of the Changes taking true of the celestial bodies if there be no-
place in Solution, Mr. H. Hibbert; 'An Exact Investiga-
flames, and the date of this conflagration would
tion of the Three-Component System, Sodium Oxide, Acetic thing in space which will intercept or absorb
naturally be of interest. A neat little temple was
Anhydride. Water,' Mr. A. O. Dunningham.
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 80.
light. Whether there is any absorbing
that dedicated to the goddess Nin-mah, on the PRI. Institution of Civil Engineers. 8. -'Steam-Turbines: gomo
eastern side of the Istar-gate, and Dr. Koldewey
Practical Applications of Theory,' Lecturo I. , Capt. H. R.
matter in space is a difficult problem
thinks it may have been the shrine in which
Sankey. (Students' Meeting. )
which is being now attacked by several
Royal Institution, 9. -- Vital Effects of Radium and Other
Alexander made his daily offerings when ill
Rayo. ' Sir J. M. Davidson.
methods, mostly indirect. The general
Royal Institution, 3. -'Russian Music of To-day, Sir A. C.
(Arrian, An. vii. 25). Its importance may be
Mackenzie.
argument is that a distant body looks faint
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only because it looks small, or, in other Jama Masjid at Ahmedabad is one of modern Italian plaster-work. ” The plates
words, the brightness per unit area is the the most beautiful mosques in the East. confirm the criticism.
same at all distances. To derive any argu; It has been fully described in a learned In chap. viii. Mr. Vincent Smith dis-
ment from direct observation of celestial and handsomely illustrated
work. - Archi- cusses the early schools of Hindu painting.
be known about their intrinsic luminosity, Theodore Hope and James Fergusson famous paintings in the caves at Ajanta,
tecture at Ahmedabad,' edited by Sir A considerable portion is devoted to the
and it is generally not possible to know this.
At the last meeting of the Royal Astro-
more than forty years ago. It owed its which range over a period from the first
nomical Society a paper was presented giving publication to Mr. Premchund Raichund, century to the seventh. The text and
the result of an attempt to find whether à Jain and a native of Goozerat. The illustrations are mainly taken from Mr.
there is absorbing matter by consideration style of architecture at Bijāpur forms John Griffiths's magnificent work, The
of the brightness of nebulæ—the method
an exception to the usual influence of Paintings of the Buddhist Cave Temples of
being, in fact, to consider whether the surface Hindu art on Mohammedan buildings. Ajanta, Khandesh, India. Mr. Smith also
brightness of small nebulæ is the same as
that of large ones. It was necessary to The immense mosque of Muhammad Adil quotes from Mrs. Herringham's instruc-
make several assumptions, and no particu. Shah, which dates from 1629-60, is not tive paper in_The Burlington Magazine,
larly valid conclusion was reached.
only the finest building in Bijāpur, but June, 1910. The following chapter deals
FRENCH meteorologists are discussing the also takes rank as one of the finest domes with
possibilities as to weather conditions on the in the world. Mr. Vincent Smith's de- Modern. ' There are two chapters on
occasion of the solar eclipse which will scription of it is somewhat meagre :-
' Hindu Minor Arts' and 'Indo-Muham-
occur on April 17th next. Examination
madan Decorative and Minor Arts. '
of the records of the past twenty years
“The stately. tomb of Muhammad Adil Coinage, gems, seals, jewellery, calli-
made at the Meteorological Observatories Shah (1636-60) is covered with a dome, the
at Paris and Nantes shows that for the five second largest in the world, a wonder of graphy, and decorative reliefs are dis-
cussed with a
days about the day of the eclipse (April 15th constructive skill,' balanced internally by
sure confidence which
to 19th), between 9 in the morning and 3 in an ingenious arrangement of pendatives, gives us an almost boundless conception of
the afternoon, the average amount of cloud fully explained by Fergusson and with an human capacity. The last chapter
to that of clear sky has been in the ratio of internal height of 178 feet. '
is devoted to Indo-Persian or Mughal
six to four, from which, by strict logic, it
would follow that the chance was rather
The most picturesque section of the work Painting, and the author adds, This
against seeing the eclipse. But the average consists of the chapters on sculpture, and chapter is the first attempt to give
no doubt takes into account the cloud round the treatment of the illustrations is excel-
a systematic account of the Mughal
the horizon, which is excessive, but would lent. In the chapter on the early
period beautiful book cannot, however, be re-
or Indo-Persian School. ” This most
not hinder observation of the noonday sun,
and the chance may be better than it capital of the inscribed Asoka pillar at garded as a systematic · History of Fine
that the chances are equally good along the Sārnāth, discovered by Mr. F. 0. Oertel, Art in India': it is rather a collection
of
and artistic
and described by him in
illustrations of historical
Annual
line, and there is little reason for choosing
Nantes in preference to Paris, or vice versa. Report of the Archæological Survey of importance, with explanatory notes and
India. The account of the sculpture of criticism founded on the writings and
the early period is followed by a chapter judgments of experts.
on “The Hellenistic Sculpture of Gan-
FINE ARTS
dhāra. ' During the last forty years, as
Mr. Vincent Smith reminds us, thousands
of these Indo-Hellenic sculptures have
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
come to light, while considerable numbers, Great Engravers : Francisco Goya ; Van
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon including most of the choicest specimens, Dyck and Portrait Engraving and Etching
from the Earliest Times to the Present have been catalogued, described, and in the Seventeenth century. (Heinemann. )
Day. By Vincent A. Smith. (Oxford, photographed. In that most valuable We consider it would be impossible to give in
Clarendon Press. )
so small a compass a better compendium of
work, The Ancient Monuments, Temples, Goya's graphic art, and Mr. Hind's Intro-
and Sculptures of India,' edited with notes duction contains, in compressed form, a
(Second Notice. )
by Mr. Burgess, some eighty plates are great amount of just the information that
THE earliest Mohammedan style of archi- devoted to the Gandhāra School. The the reader needs. The commentary on the
tecture is that of the Pathans at Delhi, seated Buddha in the Berlin Museum, also subjects chosen from the Caprichos' and
which echoes the stern severity of their given in this volume, is one of the finest. Proverbios' is strictly founded on docu-
creed. It includes the Kutb Minār, or Mr. Vincent Smith is a fervid admirer of ments, and avoids any sort of fanciful
great minaret, which in design and finish the Gandhāra School. Mr. E. B. Havell two of those superb lithographs, the Bor-
interpretation. The illustrations include
surpasses any building of its class in India, in his 'Indian Sculpture and Painting deaux bull-fights, and an even greater rarity,
and the tombs of Altamsh and Tughlak. illustrated by Typical Masterpieces,' one of the wonderful landscape etchings at
Though small, the tomb of Altamsh is one which gives an artistic and original Madrid, in which there is a striking resem-
of the richest examples of Hindu art view of Indian æsthetic ideals, subjects blance to Japanese principles of composition.
applied to Mohammedan purposes that the Gandhāra School to some severe criti-
The volume on the portrait engravers has
old Delhi affords. The illustrations of the cism. But Mr. Vincent Smith does not not the same unity of subject to justify its
Kutb are the familiar ones which have convey an accurate impression when he existence as a monograph, but it illustrates
appeared in legions of books. There is states that Mr. Havell teaches that the ing in the century that begins with Van
a good illustration of the tomb of Tughlak, earliest Gandhāra sculptors were no better Dyck and closes with Drevet. We again
reproduced from the Archæological than “mechanical craftsmen. ” What Mr. have to regret the fact that the finest qualities
Survey Report. It is difficult to say any. Havell does say is that they were of many engravings are lost in the process
thing new about the architecture of the craftsmen, and very inferior craftsmen of reproduction.
Mohammedan conquerors. Fergusson compared with those of Pompeii and
pointed out in his classic that the com- Herculaneum. ”. The following are also of Fine Arts and Antiquities of Italy: is
SIGNOR CORRADO Ricci, Director-General
bination of vast size and bold construc- examples of lack of accuracy. Mr. Havell highly qualified to write on Baroque Architec-
tion with the utmost delicacy of super- does not write when the Roman ture and Sculpture in Italy (same publishers).
ficial ornamentation is the speciality of influence was strongest,” but “when the He rightly regards art as the expression of
the architecture
modified by the Græco-Roman influence was strongest. ” the sentiments and life of the time which
indigenous style of the native people. Mr. Havell does not proceed to "liken produced it. Of the Baroque he says:
The large mosques and tombs at Jaunpur Gandhāran art to “cheap modern Italian Magnificence was the prevailing note when
(A. D. 1397-1478) are noticeable instances work,” but he gives reproductions of two society showed, above all things a desire to
”
of the use of Hindu forms. At Ahmed- of the reliefs, and says : . There is a
love of the stupendous” which character-
abad the mosques and tombs are in what certain prettiness about these reliefs rather ized seventeenth-century art in Italy.
Fergusson called the Jaina style. The suggestive of bonbonnières or cheap insists that a style should be judged together
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trappings of its time, its science and philo- vidual and as beautiful as a fine etching; by Mr. Frank Brangwyn is now on view at
sophy. Signor Ricci maintains that, whereas and the number printed being only 120, each the Galerie Durand Ruel, Rue Laffitte, Paris.
Italy was behindhand in painting at this has almost the value of an original drawing
period, having no Rubens, Van Dyck, Rem- by one of the most delicate artists of to-day. Board of Education, Art Examination :
AMONG recent Government Publications is
brandt, or Velasquez, she equalled their
Papers and Reports, 1911 (post free 7d. ).
achievements in another art, the mother art
of architecture. First, perhaps, comes Ber-
TWO PICTURES attributed to Rubens have
nini, a great master of effect, and an artist
been discovered near Mons. One, a repre-
of considerable versatility. Contemporary
Fine Art Gossip.
sentation of the Holy Trinity, has been
with him were Francesco Borronini and
found by a professor at the Académie des
Scamozzi; a little later came Baldassare Long- THE drawings of Mr. J. D. Fergusson at Beaux-Arts in the home of a merchant,
hena, the architect of Santa Maria della Salute, the Stafford Gallery are for the most part who had recently bought it. The other had
and a host of less-known men. The account genuine studies. They display the artist's been sold for 100 francs to a picture-dealer
of these men's achievements is an admirable power of so centralizing his observation of at Brussels ; its subject is Lot fleeing from
monograph on the subject. The bulk of the the lines of cleavage between the main planes Sodom. Both pictures had belonged to
volume consists of exceedingly fine photo of his subject that the gist of it is more or
an inhabitant of Jemappe, who was obliged
graphic reproductions, many of them of little less suggested—a crest is indicated here, a to sell them owing to financial reverses.
known subjects. The selection is here and trench marked in there; and, if the fluent
MR. W. ROBERTS writes:-
there, for instance in plates 156 and 157, shorthand does not give a very complete
open to criticism, but the quality of the rendering of form, it gives a certain balance concerning the Hoppner portrait of Mrs.
Bentley
“It would be desirable to have a few details
work no doubt fairly represents the period, of rhythm, and above all it avoids repetition, which is stated in your columns last week to have
and the volume fills an important gap in art thus securing two of the main characterbeen exported to New York via Paris, 'with other
history.
istics of nature. A drawing of still-life important examples of deceased masters. ' I have
Evian (37)—is perhaps the best. Certain
never heard of the picture, nor does it find a place
portrait studies, such as 18, 23, 29, are almost Hoppner which I recently published with Mr.
under that name in the exhaustive book on
MR. LUCIEN PISSARRO is honourably dis-
as good, but threatened with the slippery Mackay. Very few really important pictures
tinguished among the leaders of the revival calligraphic flourish which lies in wait for escaped our notice. The picture may be a fine ope;
of printing by the singleness of aim of his the draughtsman bent on securing breadth but I am suspicious of Early English portraits,
work. William Morris and Mr. Ricketts
at all costs. These drawings have life and and being suddenly transferred to New York. ”
of which there is no record, turning up in Paris,
illustrations-when there are any—are in knowledge or modest intentness alike might French Minister of Fine Arts covers not only
aimed at the decorated book, and their gaiety, but not the steadiness which assured
severe subordination to the type. Mr.
achieve.
Pissarro aims at the illustrated book—the
such obvious duties as the reopening of
album-and the type is subordinated to THE DUBLIN MUNICIPAL GALLERY
the Louvre to the public, insistence on the
the wood engraving. His books have thus MODERN ART is now to profit perma- prompt publication of catalogues, the trans-
a special physiognomy, the charm of which nently by the addition of Mr. Lavery's ference of the Luxembourg to the new
grows upon one with every new work. The Portrait of a Lady Painting, which was building, and action to ensure full protection
latest of them, Album de Poèmes tirés du on view there for a short time last year. to historic monuments, but also such delicate
Livre de Jade, by Judith Gautier (Eragny The picture, the gift of Sir Hugh Lane, is a matters as are raised by the strike of the
Press), suggested by a Chinese classic, is charming work, and represents the painter dancers at the Opera, the advisability or
perhaps the finest thing he has done. It is at his best.
otherwise of the part of Nero being played
an album of twenty-seven pages of Japanese AN exhibition of Irish landscape by Française of artists. Amongst other things
by a girl, and the absence from the Comédie
vellum printed in a grey ink with red lines
Mr. Alexander Williams is now on view at
between each verse and round every page,
The pictures
the new Minister intends to advocate the
with seven illustrations printed in gold and the Leinster Hall, Dublin.
decentralization of what may be termed
colour, and twelve coloured tail-pieces shown are the originals of the illustrations
to Messrs. Blackie's 'Beautiful Ireland. '
statue-mania, and increased State support
designed by Mr. Pissarro, engraved on the
to provincial theatres.
wood by his wife and himself, and printed THE announcement of the death of M.
MR. D. S. MacColl is contributing a
by him, while the initials of every line are Henri Hymans of Brussels will be received critical article on ‘A Year of Post-Impres-
printed in gold. Rarely, if ever, has there with deep regret in this country, where he
sionism to the February number of The
been a more complete harmony between the had many friends in artistic and biblio-
Nineteenth Century.
matter and form of a book than in this little graphical circles. Born at Antwerp in
volume, which represents over a year's 1836, he entered the Bibliothèque Royale at
No. 8 of The Journal of the Imperial
labour of two artists. Madame Gautier has Brussels in 1857, and rose to be head of the Arts League shows the advance and utility
romanticized the materialism of her Chinese print department. Twelve years later he of that body. The League arranged less
exemplar : the hard beauty of a gem is, in was appointed to the Chair of Æsthetics and than a week before the House of Lords
her poem, transformed to a softened picture. Art History at the Antwerp Academy, considered the Copyright Bill a representative
Mr. Pissarro has followed her example in illus- whence he passed to the Beaux-Arts at meeting of curators of galleries and museums,
trations which, while they have more than Brussels.
and called their attention to a highly
a vague suggestion of Chinese life, and not a
He wrote a book on Rubens, and was a
little of the simplification of Chinese art, are
“ The copyrights they had purchased, and
yet as Western as Madame Gautier's poetry of England and the Continent. His lives them, and given to any one who could get access
and sentiments. The picture in his hands
in the ‘Biographie Nationale,' started by to the originals. Rights which they had sold
becomes a tapestry, glowing with colour
the Belgian Academy in 1866, include were to cease to exist, and in the future the
and broadened in line. Miss White has
written an interesting Introduction to the many of importance, the last published purchase of copyrights was rendered useless. "
little volume, though she reads more into volume, the nineteenth, containing nearly As a result of this agitation the objectionable
thirty biographies by him. One of his latest portion of the sub-section involved was
the poem than it will bear—its own slight
books dealt with Ghent and Tournai in the deleted, and does not appear in the Copy-
beauty is sufficient reason for its existence,
Villes d'Art Célèbres
series (1902).
right Act.
without loading it with an Oriental philo-
WIDESPREAD satisfaction will be felt at
sophy.
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will publish
On the technical side of the book there is very shortly the fourth volume of Dr. the recovery of the two statuettes attached
de
Groot's great Catalogue
to the reliquary of the Church of St. Remade
much of interest. The grey ink in which it | Hofstede
at Stavelot, in Belgium, which were stolen
is printed brings up the coloured illustrations Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent
a few months ago.
when a more brilliant black would have Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century,
It is announced that several new statues
destroyed their effect; the red ruling gives translated and edited by Mr. Edward G.
to the amorphous verse of Madame Gautier Hawke. This instalment includes the paint. will shortly be arranged in the Pantheon,
almost effect of regularity, and the ings of Jacob
Ruisdael, Meindert Paris ; among others Rodin's 'Eustache de
engravings—each colour (gold included) Hobbema, Adriaen van de Velde, and Saint Pierre,' Just Becquet's General Hoche,'
Paulus Potter.
and Allouard's ' Jeanne d'Arc.
printed in the ordinary way from a separate
woodblock are of Mr. Pissarro's best. In the fifth volume the works of Gerard WE regret to notice the death, at the
The culs-de-lampe-floral decorative designs ter Borch, Caspar Netscher, Pieter van age of 81, of Dr. David Christison of Edin.
founded on such flowers as wild pink, Slingeland, Gottfried Schalcken; and Eglon burgh, one of the pioneers of scientific
ragged robin, water - lily, honey - suckle, Hendrik van der Neer will be dealt with; archæology. After relinqnishing his career
an illness con-
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racteristic thematic material show both
Scottish prehistoric antiquities. He was LA SOCIÉTÉ DES CONCERTS skill and restraint. No one unacquainted
Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland from 1888 to 1904.
with the name of the composer would take
The Uni.
D'AUTREFOIS.
the Sonata for the work of a mere child.
versity of Edinburgh conferred upon him the
LAST WEEK we noticed the
degree of LL. D. in 1906. He published his
concert Herr Buhlig also deserves praise for his
des
Rhind Lectures on 'The Prehistoric Forts of given by the Société Concerts unconventional programme. It is true
Scotland,' also (with his brother) a life of Sir d'Autrefois, on the 17th inst. , at Bechstein that the pieces by Schönberg which were
Robert Christison, his father, whose forestry Hall, interesting both as regards the works heard for the first time are not likely
researches he continued and supplemented. selected and the performances. This excel- to catch the public ear,
even to
In the course of some recent excavations lent company of players appeared again satisfy one inured to many strange things
at Memphis some figurines were found which on the following evening at the sixth in modern music.
their discoverer claimed as portrait models Broadwood Concert at the Æolian Hall,
of the many foreigners who made their when they gave a fresh, pleasing Ballet
home in Egypt in the time of Herodotus, by from Chimène,' by Sacchini, an eigh-
whom they are called Helleno-memphites, teenth-century composer whose operas,
Cario-memphites, and the like. M. A. J.
Ausical Gussip.
Reinach, in a recent study, however, points once popular, are now forgotten;
out that the heads in question are probably Suite Symphonique,' by J. W. A.
'
MR. YORK BOWEN's Second Symphony
not of the Saitic, but of the Alexandrian Stamitz, whose great importance in the will be produced at the New Symphony
age, and that they satisfied the taste for development of the symphony has recently Orchestra’s concert at Queen’s Hall next
caricature which was a feature of the Court been shown by Dr. Riemann ; and a Suite Thursday evening.
of the Ptolemies.
by Johann Christian Bach.
Bach. Handel's THE LONDON TRIO (Madame Amina
M. Max van BERCHEM lately announced Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord Goodwin, Mr. Simonetti, and Mr. White-
to the Académie des Inscriptions a Corpus was included in the programme, also house) will include Brahms's Quartet in
Inscriptionum Arabicarum,” which is to be short quaint pieces for hautbois d'amour
A major at their next concert on Monday
published in the first place in the Mémoires and double-bass by Boismortier.
evening, February 5th, and will play, by
of the Mission Archéologique Française at
request, Arensky's Trio in D minor.
Cairo. He is beginning with a quantity of
Mr. Whitehouse having completely re-
inscriptions collected by Prof. Sobernheim of
Berlin, who has just finished the work of the
THE SOLLY STRING QUARTET. covered, will resume his usual place in the
Trio, and will also play with Madame
German expedition to Baalbec, and hopes
before long to get through the whole of LAST SATURDAY EVENING two works by Goodwin Chopin's Introduction and Polon-
Northern Syria. His plans for the future M. Vincent d'Indy were performed at
aise for piano and 'cello.
cover Egypt, Asia Minor, Arabia itself, the concert given at Bechstein Hall by THREE extra Symphony Concerts, under
Persia, Central Asia, China, and India, where the Solly String Quartet (Madame Harriet the direction of Sir Henry J. Wood, are to be
there are certainly ample materials.
Solly and the Misses Bertha Tressler, given at Queen's Hall on March 16th and
The first will be
The recent disastrous fire in the Karoli Olive Bell, and Margaret Izard). The 23rd, and on April 27th.
pictures by Potter and Van Dyck, and a held in high esteem by all prominent 'Cello Concerto; while at the third, which
Palace at Budapest, which has destroyed composer, a musician of lofty ideals, is devoted to Wagner; Señor Casals will
appear at the second, and play the Dvorák
number of valuable antiquities, has drawn French musicians. He was founder, has a Beethoven programme, Niadame Teresa
attention to the fact that the convents and in conjunction with Bordes and Guilmant, Carreño will be heard in the E flat Concerto,
palaces of Hungary are full of art treasures
of which nothing is known. As proof of the of the Paris Schola Cantorum in 1896, and M. Renaud in an Adagio from
small interest taken in art, a correspondent and is now sole director of that im- metheus. '
of the Frankfurter Zeitung quotes from the portant institution. The merits of his art- A PERFORMANCE of Bach's B minor Mass
catalogue of a gallery the description of a work have been fully recognized, but what with the Birmingham Festival Choir, sup-
picture as “ By Rafael or Dürer. ”
is said of him in the notice in Grove's ported by the London Symphony Orchestra,
' Dictionary '-“that he does not in the will be given at Queen's Hall under the direc.
least care to please the public”-is true
tion of Dr. G. R. Sinclair, on Thursday
MUSIC
.
of both works under notice-Op. 45, evening, February 29th.
a string quartet, and Op. 7, a pianoforte Miss MARIE BREMA has accepted an
quartet. The music is so austere and engagement to sing Brangäne in Tristan
CHARPENTIER'S LOUISE. ' elaborate that, until it has become familiar, and Clytemnestra in ‘Elektra,'
in English,
now
it cannot be fairly judged. It is only fair with the Denhoff Company now on tour.
A SUCCESSFUL
first performance of to the composer to state that the per kenzie will deliver at the Royal Institution
On Saturday next Sir Alexander C. Mac-
Charpentier's ‘Louise' given at formances not above reproach,
the London Opera House on Wednesday though the ladies deserve praise for pro- Music of To-day,' with illustrations, by the
the first of a course of lectures on 'Russian
evening. This Musical Romance, as it ducing unfamiliar works so little calculated Hans Wessely Quartet.
is named, is a piece that improves on to appeal to the general public.
acquaintance. At first the story is so
On Wednesday last an important decision
dramatic that little heed is paid to
for musical composers was reached by the
the music ; but, as the former becomes
Court of Appeal. Mr. Lionel Monckton
HERR BUHLIG'S RECITAL.
familiar, many clever details in the latter
sought to restrain the Gramophone Company
attract 'attention. Mlle. Aline Vallandri Erich WOLFGANG KORNGOLD, the young sent a "record” of one of his compositions
ERICH
from publishing and selling without his con-
impersonated Louise. Her singing was prodigy and composer-his present age is in ‘Our Miss Gibbs. He failed in his appeal
excellent, and her acting impressive and about 14—has excited great interest in based on common law rights.
free from any exaggeration. M. Jean Germany. His first published work was
Auber, the Julien, is an able artist, yet a pianoforte trio, which, though in several
apparently did not feel quite at his ways promising, showed-naturally enough sox.
ease. Mlle. Marguerite d'Alvarez im- -signs of restlessness and immaturity.
personated the Mother, and M. Francis At his recital on Tuesday evening at
Combe the Father. They were both Steinway Hall, Herr Richard Buhlig Norges Fondoo Symphony Orchestra, 8. 20, Queen's Hall.
good, but the remembrance of Madame performed for the first time in London
Berat and M. Gilibert probably made this boy's second published work, a
it difficult to render them full justice. Pianoforte Sonata in E, which was com-
The piece was effectively mounted, espe- posed two years ago. The style of writing Tours. Therelve o'clock Chamber Concert, Bolian
cially the scene of the Couronnement for the instrument is thoroughly modern,
de la Muse. Signor Luigi Cherubini is but there is nothing of the vagueness of
an able conductor, though at times the form so frequently to be found in modern
orchestra was too loud,
6
6
was
were
a
PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
Concert, 3, Albert Hall.
Sunday Concert Society, 3. 30. Queen's Hall.
Bunday League, 7. Queen's Hall.
TUES. , WED. , TRI. , and DAT. London Opera House. (Matinée also on
Saturday
TUES. Bevcik Quartat,
Bach Choir, 8, Queen's Hall.
WED. Classical Concert, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Miss Gwenbilda Birkett's 't'ello Recital, 8. 15, Steinway Hall.
Miss Christian Carpenter's Planotorte Recital, 8. 30, Eolian
music. The developments of the cha-
Hall
Royal Amateur Orcheutral Society. 8. 80, Queen's Hall
Sergei Tarnowsky's Pianoforte Recital, 2, Bechstein Ball.
Kogal Choral Society. 8. Alhert Hall.
New Nymphony Orcbestra, 818, Queen's Ball
Brond wool's Chamber Concert 8. 30, follan Hall
Ursula Newton' Pianoforte Recital,
8. 80, Bechstein Hall.
BAT. Raruis-Phillip Chamber Concert, 2, Bechstein Hall.
Queen's Hall Orchestra, 3, Queen's Ball.
London Ballad Concert, 3, Royal Albert Hall
Extra Broad rood Concert, 3.
