No More Learning

A. Bureau of Statistics do not tally, pigmentation survey of the schoolchildren intrinsically conditioned centrally and not peri,
with distressing consequences to the amateur of Scotland. In 1902 he made and published pherally. At the same time, it was suggested
fiscal reformer.
measurements of the Indian Coronation that the phenomenon of rhythmic movement in
the act is conditioned during a balance of equal
Lones (Thomas East), ARISTOTLE'S RE- contingent, and was appointed Secretary of
and opposite activities. That this is probably
SEARCHES IN NATURAL SCIENCE, 6/ net.
a Committee to organize anthropometric correct was shown by the experiments described in
West, Newman & Co. investigation in Great Britain and Ireland. the present paper.
The remarkable revival of Aristotelianism In 1903 the late Prof. Cunningham became
in England has not hitherto produced any
Chairman of that Committee, and its report
ASTRONOMICAL. -May 10. -Dr. F. W. Dyson,
important work examining the
philosopher's in 1904 gave rise to a discussion that has
contributions to natural science as a whole.
President, in the chair. --A paper was read by the
been printed by the Instituto As an occa.
President and Mr. E. W. Maunder on the position
Mr. Lones's book is somewhat brief, when sional paper, in which Mr. Gray urged the
of the sun's axis as determined from photographs
the bulk of Aristotle's writings is considered, utility to science and to the State of an taken from 1874 to 1911, and measured at the
but it certainly fills a gap in the literature of anthropometric survey. Mr. Gray continued Royal Observatory, Greenwich. It was concluded
that the final value agreed closely with that found
the subject. We must take exception to his labours on that Committee for several suc.
the statement that Aristotle's works are
cessive years, and not only wrote the greater dence of change during the period
covered by the
by Carrington, and that there was no clear evi-
characterized by “conciseness of expression part of its valuable reports, but also invented photographs.
and simplicity of language. "
several ingenious machines for making Mr. Chapman read a paper by himself and Mr.
anthropometric measurements. At the time Lewis, on the effect of magnetism on the rates of
People's Books : HUXLEY, HIS LIFE AND of his death he had undertaken to give to
chronometers and watches. In a magnetic field
WORK, by Gerald Leighton, 6d. net. the Conference of Child-Study Societies, on
the balance-arm becomes magnetized, and the
chronometer or watch gains or loses according to
Jack the 11th inst. , a demonstration of an appliance its position in relation to the magnetic field.
There is something peculiarly_fitting in recently invented by him for estimating Prof. Lowell dealt with the spectroscopic
this popular study of the man whose own mental aptitudes. He was an examiner in discovery of the rotation of Uranus at the Lowell
writings contain the classic model of popular the Patent Office, a B. Sc. , and an honorary Observatory. The photographs clearly showed
studies. No one can dispute the claim of Foreign Corresponding Member of the French limbs of the planet, from which a rotation period
Lay Sermons or the lecture 'On a Piece ! Anthropological Society,
of about 10h. 45m, was deduced.
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599
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13
a
was
are
&
Dr. J. W. Nicholson read a second paper on
are in nearly every case situated immediately
the constitution of the solar corona.
Science Gossip.
above wide expanses of water.
Mr. H. C. Plummer read a paper on the proper
A priori
motions and distances of stars of the spectral
there is, of course, nothing surprising in
types B8 and Bo, being a continuation of a paper
the connexion, if it exists, between these
read in January, and applying the same method
THE Annual Visitation of the Royal phenomena not having been observed before.
to certain other stars which appeared to move
Observatory, Greenwich, is to be held this The human race was for many ages in the
in a plane near that the Milky Way.
year on Saturday next. The “old guard
Mr. J. H. Reynolds read a preliminary paper on
presence of all the phenomena of electricity,
will feel a certain satisfaction in finding magnetism, and radio-activity without per-
photographs of spiral nebulæ in polarized light.
that an old time date is adhered to on the ceiving their true bearing.
The investigation was undertaken on the assump-
tion that some of the light of the nebulæ was present occasion.
reflected from the stars involved in it, and the
The India Sanitary Report for 1910, just
PROF. ZEHNDER claims to have invented
photographs appeared to show evidence of polari-
method of wireless telegraphy that issued, gives as usual a detailed account of
Prof. H. F. Newall contributed a note on the enables him to dispense with the complicated munity, records the latest efforts of science
the general health of the Indian com-
spectrum of the sun's limb during the partial antenna which have made the erection
eclipse of April 16th-17th, 1912.
of high towers, such as those at Polddhu, country, and provides tabular appendixes
to cope with the special diseases of the
Clifden, Nauen, and elsewhere, necessary.
METEOROLOGICAL. - Southport. - May 13.
Instead he uses
which are invaluable to the statistician.
a single insulated wire The rates for births and deaths are calculated
After assembling at the Town Hall in the morning, stretched at a moderate height above the
the Fellows were driven along the Proinenade,
on the basis of the census of 1901, which
the Marine Drive, and some of the principal ground, with its two extremities earthed.
streets to the Anemograph Station at Marshside, Its length bears a certain ratio to the length of 226,438,733; but the provisional figures
gave a total population for British India
where they saw the pressure-tube anemometers of wave employed, so that for a wave-
for the 1911 census show that these rates
and the anemoscope at work. The exposure of length of 4,500 metres he uses & wire of
these instruments is very open, as the district is
are not strictly accurate.
900 metres over land, and only 250 over
an extensive reclaimed marsh adjoining the beach.
A visit was then paid to the Fernley Observatory
The total of births in the year under
water. His system also enables him to
review
direct” the waves emitted, the position
8,947,991, and
in Hesketh Park to see the large collection of
of deaths
self-recording and other instruments which are of the wire showing the direction in which 7,518,034, the increase in the population
in use at this unique observatory.
After an adjournment for tea; a meeting of they produce the best effect. If it be true, being therefore 1,429,957. The birth-rate
as it is said, that Prof. Zehnder has already 33. 20. The former showed a rise from 36. 65
was 39. 52 per thousand, and the death-rate
the Society was held in the Science and Art
School, Dr. H. N. Dickson, President, in the successfully used his apparatus to transmit
in 1909, and the latter also increased from
chair. Mr. W. Marriott read a paper on the from Berlin messages backwards and for-
* Results of Hourly Wind and Rainfall Records wards across the Atla
it should super-
the 30. 91 of the
same year.
But the
at Southport, 1902–11, which was based upon sede the antenna system for certain purposes, owing to the exceptional decline in deaths
mortality of 1909 was phenomenally, low,
data supplied by Mr. J. Baxendell, the Borough as when it is wished to protect the receiving from cholera and plague. In 1910, 430,451
meteorologist. When the hourly results
grouped according to summer and winter seasons, and transmitting stations from the
a great contrast in the figures is at once apparent guns in time of war, or from the risk of people died from cholera, as compared with
A marked idei granath variation mine the idirection storms in time of peace. His experiments | 239,231 in 1909; while plague claimed
to an extreme local development of those coastal
so far suggest to him that the earth
413,355 victims, as against 145,333. On
rather than the ether is the medium of
the other hand, fever, which accounts for
breezes"_that is, winds blowing
of the land transmission of electric waves, which is at five-eighths of the total mortality of the
to the sea during the night and early morning, least doubtful.
country, showed a decline from 4,487,492 to
and off the sea to the land during the late morning
4,341,392.
and afternoon.
PROF. ARTHUR SCHUSTER has lately
With regard to plague, the Research
Mr. J. S. Dines read a paper on 'The South-made serious attempt to solve the Commission is continuing its investiga-
East Trade Wind at St. Helena,' in which he problem of the magnetic power of the tions into its etiology. One of the cir-
hypothesis of a long-period oscillation in the wind earth, and has examined carefully all cumstances that attracted its attention
direction at St. Helena.
the current theories on the subject. The was the_rareness of bubonic plague in
fact that the magnetic poles are only a Eastern Bengal and Assam, and a medical
ARISTOTELIAN. May 6. --- Mr.
Bertrand few degrees distant from the true poles of officer was sent to make a special inquiry
Russell, President, in the chair. —Miss Beatrice the earth has led many to conclude that into the matter. He reported that the
Edgell read a paper on 'Imagery and Memory. ' the rotation of the earth on its axis must immunity of the province was due to the
In examining the orders of fact which it is neces- in some way be accountable for the phe fact that rats were scarce,
to
its attempt to deal with memory, as a cognitive pongens forbutin e of Schusterissives several this being the construction and arrangement
But
distinguish retention, the memory, which repeats wrong; He is more inclined to the theory the explanation of “the perplexing problem
memory of habit and practice, from the that the earth is a magnet because of the why there is less plague in Madras city
memory which imagines, memory proper. The
differing forms of the latter-recognition, per, and thinks that this has not been sufficiently further study, since it was discovered that
masses of iron concealed within her crust, than in Bombay has to be reserved for
sistence, reminiscence, suggested recall, and
recollection-manifest with varying degrees of investigated. The laws of magnetism as the rat is not merely abundant in Madras,
distinctness three orders of fact : an act, reference exhibited on the surface may, he says, be but even more susceptible to the plague
back to the past, imagery and meaning or object entirely different at the high temperature and epidemic than his fellow in Bombay.
remembered. Imagery is treated as the product
enormous pressure which are supposed to
of the reference back, the form in which con-
Among other matters of interest we note
sciousness responds to a given situation. It is exist in the interior of the earth, and this
the steadily improving health of the British
presentation," distinguishable from the act of is the direction in which further experi- army. In 1910 the death-rate was only
remembering on the one hand, and from the ment may be useful.
meaning or what is remembered on the other.
4. 66 per thousand, as against 6. 25 in 1909,
presentation be so recognized, there An attempt to put what he calls “rhab- and an average of 9. 86 for the five preceding
is no justification for regarding a cognitive state domancy, or the use of the divining rod, years. Improved health is not confined
of consciousness as generically different from
on a scientific basis, has been made by merely to deaths. It extends to the “
other forms of conscious experience.
All con-
Prof. Karl V. Klinckwoström. He says stantly sick and invalided home. "
sciousness would then be reducible to one supreme
A
that “control
category_conation. A sketch plan of such a
experiments made with few years ago over 25 per thousand of the
merely conative psychology has been worked out the rods
subterranean conduits men were invalided homeweakening the
by Prof. Alexander. But the attempt to elimi- | containing running water show that the garrison each year by two battalions; in
nate presentation ” leads to insuperable, dimitraditional phenomena have a real exist- 1910 the ratio fell to 7. 77. Perhaps the
culties. When imagery is treated as object and
as non-mental, the "pastness ” of what is remem-
ence; but that they can never be scientific- most striking proof of the improvement is
bered becomes unintelligible, while the memory ally investigated unless some apparatus the fact that the death-rate in the British
of the subject's own past states of consciousness more removed from subjective influences is now slightly less than in the native Indian
is ex hypothesi impossible, for such past states than the human organism be employed. army-the ratio in the latter being 4. 89 per
cannot be non-mental objects. Memory in this This, he thinks, he has found in a delicate thousand. We notice that the returns for
case has to be translated into “ revival
newal,” but such a translation proves upon
static electrometer, which reveals, according Indian troops in out-stations-e. g. , China,
examination inadequate to the fact as consciously to him, the existence of a perceptible radia- Singapore, and Aden—are still lower :
experienced. The paper was followed by a tion from a large extent of water. In con- even in Aden the rate was only 4. 34. In
discussion.
firmation of this, he appeals to the fact that China the ratio was but 3. 86, and at Singa-
storm-clouds have been shown to follow by | pore and Colombo 3:36. The causes of the
Tues. Royal Institution, The Formation of the Alphabet. preference the course of streams, and that improved health of the two armies are
thunderstorms are more violent in the neigh- reviewed at considerable length by the
Tuurs. Royal Lostitution, 3. -' X Rays and Matter,' Lecture L. , Prof.
bourhood of these than over dry land. Commissioner, and the impression is left
Royal Institutioa. 9. -'Icabergs and
in the
Nurigation. Prof. U. T. Barnes.
Aeronauts also say that the clear spaces that they are likely to last, with increasing
Royal Institution, lui The Development of Meteorological which they find in the interior of rain-clouds ' proportional effect.
>>
th
Unless *
con-
over
or
re-
MOETINOS NEXT WEEK.
Lecture L. Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie
0. G. Buckls
Fx.
their Location in
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No. 4413, May 25, 1912
new
the paint has of being incorporated into the
FINE ARTS
very substance of the material painted on,
EARLY CHINESE PAINTINGS. It thus shares in some sort the monumental
This collection at the Fine Art Society's painting by modern methods always looks
look of fresco, compared with which a
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. gallery appears to us the finest exhibition
technically meretricious a superficial daub-
Notice in those columns does not preclude longer in London since the display at the British ing cover of the structural basis of the works
• Amateur Photographer Library : 10, Museum took the artistic public by storm Among the quite small paintings which
risk being overlooked we must signal out
THE LANTERN, AND HOW TO USE IT,
and made admiration of such work fashion-
able.
by C. Goodwin Norton and Judson
It includes several masterpieces,
three of great beauty-Nos. 35, 36, and 39.
Bonner ; and 31, THE OIL AND BROMOIL
and enumeration of these is hampered by
PROCESSES, by F. J. Mortimer and S. L. the difficulty of ruling out others which
For
Coulthurst, 1) net each.
are of almost equal importance.
SKETCHES BY RUBENS.
Hazell, Watson & Viney beauty of workmanship, the instinctive
Two
editions of concise hand refusal to elaborate a work beyond the
This loan exhibition, organized by Messrs.
books upon these photographic processes.
pitch at which the materials used display Dowdeswell in aid of the National Hospital
Full instructions are given as to the produc- their maximum of intrinsic beauty, the for the Paralyzed and Epileptic, shows the
tion of photographic prints in oil and brom- Chinese are unrivalled, and before the master's
qualities admirably. Some of the
oil, and the development of the optical executive perfection of such paintings as
works, such as the fine series of tapestry
lantern.
Nos. 4 and 5 in the present collection we
Henry (David), THE KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN, theme. The hand which wrought these The equally fine and much
larger work
are disposed to forget the slightness of the designs lent by Lord Barrymore, have been
WITH OTHER MEDIÆVAL INSTITUTIONS delicate panels was certainly inspired by contributed by the Corporation of Glasgow-
AND THEIR BUILDINGS IN ST. ANDREWS,
2/6 net.
St. Andrews, Henderson defiant cleverness of No. 1, Birds, with Nature adorned by the races (14)—is, how-
The author has for years collected material Pomegranate Tree, which might represent over, less familiar to Londoners, and would
relating to the history of ancient buildings the triumphant Aourish of some brilliant in itself suffice to make the exhibition
at St. Andrews, which, having been published designer of wallpapers; but we recognize in important. The central group is, indeed,
in the columns of The St. Andrews Citizen, the Portrait of a Taoist Priest with Attendant too small in scale for the rest of the picture,
proved so interesting to its readers that a (30) the added impressiveness of an essen.
reprint in book-form was desired. There tially dignified subject treated on a monu.
and with no suggestion of atmospheric
is a certain inexpertness in treatment; for mental scale. The spacious landscape, No. perspective. to account for the fact
by
instance, we do not see why the life of 42, Imperial Hunt, is another work of capital and flowers and the lusty figures supporting
St. Francis need have been related so fully, importance, carried off with a fluent ease
nor other remote historical
matters so largely never degenerating into sloppiness; while it; which frames in the inadequate centre-
expatiated upon. On his proper subject the another painting of early date-An Arhat piece, is superb. Few things mark the
author is full of information.
resisting an Attack by a Dragon (43)-is greatness of Rubens more convincingly
Rhead (G. Woolliscroft), MODERN PRACTICAL perhaps the most striking design in the than the way in which he could utilize the
Batsford exhibition. It reveals the sage floating like Breughel, picking up chance sugges.
mannered brilliance of a painter of still-life
should be stimulating to intelligent young less, by fasting, and prayer, but enjoying a beautifully painted, but quiescent flower-
This admirable and practical handbook high in the clouds
resisting attack, doubt tions of direction or constituent colours in
.
students. It begins with an analysis his own immunity. The figure is very finely piece, and, by planting here and there in its
of plant forms, accompanied by copious
illustrations showing how to carry back these
characterized a conception of spiritual
the whole by his abundant vitality. The
forms to their geometrical principles ; goes exaltation which the West would never
on to an illuminating chapter upon The have evolved—and the work would be impression of wealth and splendour emitted
Ornamental Filling of Given Spaces" ; and impressive as well as humorous but for the from this panel is delightful, and it must be
admitted that by comparison the large
devotes the remaining two-thirds of its poorly designed, peevish. dragon, which Meleager offering the Head of the Boar of
pages to the technique of particular applica- tempts us to remain in the frivolous plane Calydon to Atalanta (9) is somewhat dis-
tions of design - textiles, book-decoration, of thought.
appointing. It is in magnificent preserva-
pottery, stained glass, &c. The whole book As to the 'methods by which the extra. tion, and has an occasional passage of clean,
is clear and expert.
ordinary triumphs of execution of these hard brilliance difficult to parallel outside
Chinese artists were achieved we are still, his own work or that of Jordaens, but
Turner's Water-Colours at Farnley. Hall, in England at least, without any detailed neither colour nor form is really well knit,
Part I. , with Text by Alex. J. Finberg, and authoritative account. We had usually and the panel looks as if it might readily
2/6 net.
The Studio
assumed them to
Colour-reproduction has, indeed, made
have been painted have formed part of a larger composition.
silk stretched horizontally, the
strides when it has become possible to
A fine landscape, The Timber Wagon (12),
purchase excellent prints of five water complete command of a very liquid water-
colour stroke apparently forbidding any the best of the exhibits. In the latter the
and an uncatalogued Wolf Hunt are among
colours by Turner at a cost of 6d. each.
other method.
The five in this first part of the series are :
But the perfection of clarity and brilliance of the pigments used
the long upright lines of No. 12, Herons proclaim Rubens as in some sort heir to
* Bonneville, Savoy, a beautiful, sober
and Kingfishers, a 6-foot panel largely the earlier Flemish painters, even when, as
drawing of exquisite gradations in the
filled with the drooping branches of
colouring of mountains and of clouds ;
in this picture, he is fresh from the study
* The Valley of the Wharfe,' a stretch of dazzlingly difficult to attain without the the influences of heredity, too, in the curious
a weeping willow or analogous tree, seems
of the Italians of the Renaissance. He shows
open country and meandering waters ;
• The Valley of Chamounix,' skilful and
aid of an upright position. This, again, is
delicate, but not quite so charming as
one of the masterpieces of the collection. way in which, instinctive decorator as he
The massive designs of lotus leaves in Nos, darks, giving precision to his detail through-
was, he yet clung to the use of copious small
"Bonneville ? ; a lovely, luminous, early 21 and 28 present large shapes to control
morning Scarborough the finest of the
out a design. He distributed this rather
set; and a very interesting ‘Interior of at such necessarily close quarters as are
linear skeleton of shadow with inexhaustible
St. Peter's, full of atmosphere and of floor; but here, indeed, the success appears that, even so, it is small and fretting in its
implied by painting a picture
on the
variety and ease, but it cannot be denied
misty distances.
to be a little gymnastic, as though the arm, effect; witness the treatment of the legs
Wall (E. J. ), THE DICTIONARY OF Photo- with inimitable vigour, went through a
GRAPHY, AND REFERENCE BOOK FOR
in the advancing figures relieved against the
series of concerted movements without ade superb landscape, which is so attractive a
AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL PHOTO- quate ordering by the eye to perfect its feature in this fine work. Indeed, there is
GRAPHERS, edited by F. J. Mortimer, evolutions. In No. 29 we see an example hardly a picture in the room in which the
7/6 net.
Hazell, Watson & Viney are surprised not to meet with
A ninth edition of Wall's complete and more of them in which the usual darken-
same fault is not discernible, though in
scholarly work. It has undergone consider- ing of the silk with years has had a disas- from' Vulcan for Achilles, the wealth of
some, such as No. 11, Thetis receiving Arms
able revision, and, as is necessary in a science trous and disturbing effect on the values of small form is so lavish as to pack into
constantly pushing out and developing new the composition. The use of opaque pig massiveness and lose its spidery quality.
methods of expression, has added nearly 100 ments is usually so thin that even these
pages of new matter. For the task of defini- alter in value with the ground. One of the
tion and reference in photography this edi- causes, indeed, which give Chinese paintings
tion is invaluable.
their aspect of nobility is the appearance
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No. 4413, May 25, 1912
601
THE ATHENÆUM
II,
are
MINIATURES AT BRUSSELS.
Isaac Becket, Hollar, Thomas Forster,
MESSRS. ELLIS are about to issue Mr.
the Fabers, Loggan, Bulkeley, and others H. C. Levis's ' A Descriptive Bibliography
THE ENGLISH SEOTION,
who drew ad vivum and whose work is of Engraving and Prints. The author's
often remarkable for its truth and delicato intention has been to describe the most
DIFFICULTIES in regard to other ascrip- finish.
J. J. FOSTER.
important, interesting, and rare books in
tions not wanting
e. g. , No. 58,
English on engraving and print collect-
Portrait of Lord John Cutts,' signed
ing, and show their development and
and dated 1662, and here ascribed to
ETCHINGS AND ENGRAVINGS. relation to each other. Beginning with
Samuel Cooper. Inasmuch as John, Lord
Cutts, was (according to the ‘ Dictionary of
MESSRS. CHRISTIE sold the following etchings and
the earliest ‘Books of Secrets' issued in
engravings on Tuesday last: D. Y. Cameron, the sixteenth century, he describes the
National Biography ) not born till 1661, St. Etienne, Caen, 771. ; North Porch, Harfleur, practical and historical treatises on the
and this is the portrait of a grown man, 521. ; Ben Ledi, 1311. St. Laumer, 751. , Old Cairo, different branches of engraving and collecting
there is evidently something wrong here ; 631. The Gateway, Bruges, 67. Muirhead Bonethat followed them, down to the latest
but it is a good miniaturo, suggesting South Coast, 631. Calross Roofs,:58. ; Stirling monographs on individual artists and schools,
in style Laurence Crosse, who, by the way, 543 . John's Wood, 62. ; The Great Gantry, including many scarce publications of learned
is exceptionally well represented. The
charms of the yellow-skinned lady called early state, 1687.
Charing Cross, 1571. ; The Great Gantry (D. 203), societies and clubs.
Les Chagrins de l'Enfance, after
THE book on 'South American Archæo-
“Nell Gwynne,' No. 62, dated 1668, when Monchet, by Le Cour, in colours, 901. Flirtilla, by
she would be only 18, must have faded, if it and after J. R. Smith, printed in colours, 1151. logy' which we reviewed last week should
be Cooper's work at all. The small oil Lady Taylor, after Reynolds, by W. Dickinson, have been credited to the Medici Society
fine impression of the only state, 1941. Louisa, by
painting of an unknown man (63), which and after
W. Ward, printed in colours, 501.
as well as Messrs. Macmillan as publishers,
hangs next to it, is, on the other hand, Acland and Children, after Lawrence, by S.
Lady The publication is a joint affair, and the
extremely fresh and pleasing. It belongs to Cousins, 501. Mrs. Musters, after Romney, by I. Society asks us to give it due credit for its
Mr. Lippmann. No. 45,
Lady Castle. Walker, second state, 1991. 108. Dedham Vale, share in the enterprise, which we gladly do,
haven,' * from Madresfield, presents more
after Constable, by D. Lucas, proof before letters,
991. 158. The Look, and The Cornfield, after and Association of Scotland in St. Andrews,
At the recent meeting of the Classical
difficulties of a like nature. It is hard to by the same, proofs before letters, 1311.
accept such handling as this as the work
Prof. Burnet propounded a new theory of
of Cooper. The Margaret Lemon' (40),
the origin of the Ionians. He believes they
owned by Mr. Pfungst, is a sad example of
RAEBURN PORTRAITS.
were the Minoans expelled from Crete when
fading. All the colour has gone from the
On Tuesday, the 14th inst. , Messrs. Sotheby sold
the Northern invaders finally broke the
face of this well-known mistress of Van Dyck, a pair of portraits by Raeburn—those of George power of Cnossus about 1000 B. C. We know
whose portrait is to be found at Hampton Thomformeth fetched 7811. 553. , and the latter the Hittite power, which had in earlier
from recent discoveries that by that time
Court and elsewhere (here she is dressed as
a Cavalier); but it is an interesting and 4,6721. 108. , both being 29 in. by 24 in.
centuries prevented the spread of Minoan
genuine picturo-perhaps the most important
influence into Asia Minor, had decayed.
work of the master shown in this Exhibition.
Certain Mycenæan finds and legends
Another Cooper representing a lady in male
Fine Art Gossip.
connecting Crete with Ionia were held to
attire is a portrait of the Duchess of Rich-
confirm the view. The change in the
mond (655), better known as “La Belle
LADY BUTLER'S . The Roll Call,' now to be destination of the sacred ship from Crete
Stuart,” that coquettish lady of whom both
Charles II. and his brother James were so
seen at the Leicester Galleries, is an amazing to Delos might, it was suggested, also have
much enamoured, and whose real character production for a young girl, and, as frequently some significance in the same direction.
is much in dispute, or was in the days of happens in such cases, the seriousness of The lecturer agreed with Prof. Ridgeway in
believing that the Minoans spoke Greek.
Popys. Of the first-named monarch there fluent ease commonplace enough-oxactly The language of the Minoan tablets is,
is å version of the Duke of Richmond's similar to the work we are accustomed to however, not yet settled.
superb miniature representing him in the find done for the weekly illustrated papers. M. NARIMAN has drawn attention to the
full robes of the Order of the Garter. This
The Roll Call’ is better than that, rather
is probably Cooper's most elaborate work, dull in execution, but sincere. It is evi- between the beliefs and practices of the
numerous parallels that can be traced
and it was given by Charles to the Duchess dently akin to Frith’s ‘Derby Day,' but modern Zoroastrians or Parsis and those of
of Portsmouth. The version here shown in the figure of the mounted officer
comes from thº Rijks Museum, and is search for dignity meets with some reward. guineous marriages which were perhaps
Buddhism. Among these are the consan-
markedly inferior to the chef d'oeuvre
at Goodwood.
THE Home Arts and Industries Associa- the most striking feature of Persian religion
There is, by the way, in the Foreign Section tion held its twenty-eighth annual exhibi. in Greek eyes, and which M. Nariman shows
a very brilliant enamel by Bone, after Lely, tion last week in the Albert Hall; and very rather unexpectedly to have been common
of Madam Quarrell,' as the English interesting the display was, in spite of it's not only among the Buddhist kings of Burma,
populace were wont to call her Grace of glaring need of a competent business but also in the family of Gautama him-
Portsmouth.
manager. Will it be believed that, while self. So, too, the exposure of the dead to be
devoured by birds and beasts, instead of the
By Alexander Cooper are six examples the catalogue is alphabetical, the stalls were
from the Queen of Holland's collection. arranged upon some other plan, and that no
cremation of the corpse, is referred to with
They are all Dutch-like in foeling, and single address other than the Albert Hall is approval in the Jatakas and many other
tame in comparison with the work of printed in it, so that would-be purchasers Buddhist books, and seems to have been
Samuel, the brother and superior artist, have no convenient means of communicating the practice among Buddhist communities
as he is here seen to be.
later with workers whose productions they in Mongolia and Thibet. The literary
I have referred to the works by Crosse. They might like to buy? A full and detailed form of the Sutras is not a very convincing
are all vigorous and excellent, in a fine state of catalogue, worth keeping for reference, argument, because conversations in the
preservation, and form a representative and which could be sold at a profit for 6d. , shape of question and answer between a
interesting group. Mr. Pfungst and Messrs. would probably more than double the master and his disciples are known in other
but the likeness between the
Duveen own the greater part of them; London sales and orders; while the ap- religions;
but the finest of all, in a silver filigree frame, pointment of a press agent would greatly Saôshyañt or future Saviour (or Saviours)
of the Parsi literature, and the Maitreya or
is No. 100, 'Mrs. Catherine Boovey (née strengthen support in the country,
Riches),' belonging to Mr. Henry Gibbs. The level of work has become high, and future Buddha, is striking. Yet it does not
follow that these likenesses imply a common
By Nicholas Dixon, a painter unknown to little really inartistic was to be seen. Much
origin. Contact and even direct imitation
Redgrave, are some half - dozen or more of the embroidery and nearly all the lace were
examples which make the work of the Lens very good. Among the more striking and
are responsible for closer analogies between
family, of which there numerous original things shown were the Sarum wrought have been thought possible.
different religions than would at one time
specimens hanging near them, appear poor ironwork, the rugs of the Agatha Stacey
in comparison.
This is an instance in Home (Birmingham) for feeble-minded girls, M. AMÉLINEAU has again addressed himself
which the reputation of a comparatively the gorgeous painted and gilded leather to the beginnings of Egyptian Christianity,
unknown painter is much enhanced by screen from Failand, the toys of Mr. G. and produced a long study of the life of
familiarity with his work.
Shergold, the hand-made silk buttons from St. Anthony, whom the Copts consider the
There is one case in “ la Section Anglaise Lytchett Minster, chairs from the Gowrie founder of Christian monachism.
The
which the student should not overlook.