The route then to be followed with sledges the dromos or road which leads up to the
and Icelandic ponies will be across the inland
Among the lesser finds recorded are
ice to some point on the west coast among third produced many mummies in coffins stone and wood, and others in gold alloyed
great terraces of the same queen.
and Icelandic ponies will be across the inland
Among the lesser finds recorded are
ice to some point on the west coast among third produced many mummies in coffins stone and wood, and others in gold alloyed
great terraces of the same queen.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
S.
exceptions, these anatomical features are not
Victoria and Albert Museum, 5. -'Famous Jacobean Mansions
The British Bird Book. Section VII. likely to be of more value in solving phytogenetic
and Colleges,' Mr. B. Fletcher.
Society of Arts, 8. - The Loom aud Spindle: Past, Present,
(T. C. & E. C. Jack. )The editor has made problems than the size-characters themselves.
and Future,' Lecture I. , Mr. L. Hooper. (Cantor Lecture. )
but few calls upon his coadjutors for this
The paper was discussed by Miss E. N. Thomas, Geographical, 8. 30.
Mr. T. G. Hill, Dr. Ethel de Fraine, Mr. A. G. TTEs. Royal Institution, 3. -Optical Determination of Stress, and
section, dealing with auks, terns, and gulls, Tansley, the President, Dr. O. Stapf, and Mr. E.
some Applications to Engineering Problems, Lecture 1. ,'
Prof. E. G. Coker.
their work being almost entirely confined to Lee, the author replying.
Colonial Institute, 4. - Hong Kong's Part in China's Reform
Ven. E. Judd Barnett.
the “preliminary classified notes. ” We find Mr. C. E. Salmon exhibited an abnormal Orchis,
British Museum, 4. 30. - The Palaces of the Roman Emperors,
ourselves the more reconciled to this par-
Houses and Pompeian Art, Mr. B. Fletcher.
with enlarged drawings of the flowers.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. -Discussion on Some
ticular feature, in that
many details
Mr. H. Findon showed a series of glass-sponges
Features of the West African Government Railways. ' Papers
on Roller and Ball Bearings and The Testing of Anti-
necessary for reference, but subordinate to from Japan. He stated that these sponges had
Friction Bearing Metals,' Prof. J. Goodman.
WED. Geological, 8. -'Late Glacial and Post-Glacial Changes in the
the main scheme, can thus be succinctly been lately given to him by a gentleman who
Lower Dee Valley! Mr. L. J. Wills; The Glen Orchy
received a number of them some years ago from
brought together, serving their purpose
Anticline, Argyllshire,' Mr. E. B. Bailey.
a naturalist in Japan. He said that they were of Society of Arts, 8. Kducation in Science as a Preparation for
by making studies in comparison easier,
Industrial Work,' Mr. A. A. Roberts.
two species, Hyalonema Sieboldii and H. apertum,
itution, 3. -'Wellington's Army,' Lecture I. , Prof.
and leaving the ground clear for the less and that they were dredged in ten to fifteen
Royal, 4. 80. - The Bacterial Production of Acetylmethylcar.
rigid treatment of the problems presented fathoms of water off the East Coast of Japan.
binol and 2. 3 Butylene Glycol, II. ,' Dr. A. Harden and
by the habits of the birds. Mr. Kirkman's
One specimen had been cut in order to see the
Dorothy Norris ;. 'An Instrument for measuring the Dis-
writing is both enlightened and refreshing,
connexion between the stalk, or
rope," and
tance between the Centres of Rotation of the two Eyes,
Messrs. H. 8. Ryland and B. T. Lang; The Locomotor
and he is never dull. While drawing largely of the "
the sponge proper. The lower ends of the strands
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
Carter.
-
Wood.
-
THURS. Rog Ir
C. Oman.
Function of the Lantern in Echinus,
with Remarks on Other
rope are barbed in a peculiar manner,
Allied Lantern Activities,' Dr. J. F. Gemmill; and other
Papers.
upon his own observations, he consults a as may be seen under the microscope. Slides
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 30.
variety of authorities, among the most were also shown under the microscope of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. –The Design and Construc.
noteworthy being Patten's Aquatic Birds'
spicules, of which there seem to be a great variety,
tion of Masonry Dams," Mr. H. J. F. Gourley. (Students'
Meeting. )
and Naumann's Vögel Mitteleuropas. ' He six-bladed, battleaxe form and the four-rayed
the most noteworthy being the double-ended, Royal Institution, 9. -The Total Solar Eclipse in the South
Pacific, April, 1911,' Mr. W. J. 8. Lockyer.
disagrees with the former's assertion that the
Royal Institution, 3. Molecular Physics,' Lecture II. , Prof.
star with the barbed spur. There also appear
FRI.
Sat.
Sir J. J. Thomson.
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or
mother, one Teta-hemt, was here re-
Science Gossip
covered, as was that of Teta-ky's wife, the
FINE ARTS
M. JACQUES DANNE, whose work on radio-
Lady Sen-ba, both these occurring here for
activity should be well known to readers of
the first time. Aahmes-nefert-ari was one
The Atheneum, opened on the 15th of this
of the most celebrated queens in Egyptian
for researches into the nature and pro: Five Years' Explorations at Thebes. By history, and after her death was worshipped
perties of radium and substances related the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard for centuries as the foundress of the
to it. M. d'Arsonval, who made it Carter. (Frowde. )
dynasty and the patron goddess of the
Theban necropolis. As it must have been
known to the Académie des Sciences three
days before that date, says it will be of This book, which tells in satisfactory in the lifetime of herself and her sister
benefit to men of science, students, and fashion and with a sufficiency of detail | Aah-hetep, queen mother of the
persons engaged in industry alike, and it the history of Lord Carnarvon’s excava- general Ka-mes, that the Hyksos who had
seems from his description to be singularly tions in Egypt since 1906, is certainly conquered Egypt were expelled, every-
well-equipped. It will issue
report on all minerals and apparatus sub. welcome. They have been hitherto un- thing relating to the family is of historical
mitted to it, which will, if favourable, have recorded, for there is no greater hindrance interest. It is extremely probable that
the weight of a certificate, and it will publish to scientific exploration than the too- the crown of Egypt descended through
a quarterly bulletin of the studies there frequent visits of uninformed tourists; these two ladies, their husbands being
pursued. M. Danne is, among other things, and discretion was the more necessary in very likely killed in battle, as was certainly
the present editor of the journal of physics this case, because the site of the work is Sequenen-Ra, who was separated from
called Le Radium.
immediately opposite the modern town of Aahmes I. by no long period. Some,
In a careful study. on. Radiations in Luxor, now converted from a sleepy but not very much additional light is
Physiology and Medicine M. Oudin and Arab village into
Arab village into a pleasure resort. thrown upon this critical period by the
Dr. A. Zimmern have just drawn attention Moreover, the last five years of Egyptian chapter that Mr. Griffith contributes to
to the likeness between the skin disease
of the hands caused by rash exposure to the exploration have been singularly barren the present book on the two hieratic
X-rays, and the thickening of the skin of the of great discoveries, and, as has been men- tablets found on the second site, which
extremities common among sailors (See- tioned more than once in our “ Archæo- are called “the Carnarvon Tablets I.
manshaut), which, like the other, sometimes logical Notes,' Lord Carnarvon’s excava- and II. ” Mr. Griffith’s translation of so
gives rise to rodent ulcer. They also notice tions have given better results, perhaps, much of Carnarvon Tablet I. as he was
the fact which certain American doctors have than any others.
able to decipher (he seems to have hitherto
recorded, that the coloured races seldom
suffer from cancer of the skin, which they
The concession on which he has been failed to do anything with Carnarvon
attribute to the protective action of the working is on the western bank of the Tablet II. ) makes it plain that Ka-mes
pigment cells. The two defences which Nile, and stretches from the approach to defeated the Hyksos by the aid of Nubian
the skin has against hurtful radiations are, the famous terrace-temples of Deir els mercenaries; but he seems to have had
say they, hyperæmia, or the determination of Bahari brought to light by Prof. Naville, troubles at the same time in Nubia itself,
blood to the part in the case of sudden and to the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings as was the case with Thothmes I.
violent attacks, and large deposits of pig- excavated and made available for the
ment against milder, but more frequent ones.
Of Teta-ky himself we have hitherto
M. PICTET has lately made some experi. Theodore Davis. Lord Carnarvon's pre-
public by the wise munificence of Mr. known little, but it should be noted that
ments on caterpillars, which seem to prove
a monument from Kurneh bearing his
the inheritance, if not of acquired Cha- liminary excavations led him, as he tells style and title is given by M. Gauthier
in
racteristics, yet of habits which approach us in a well-written Introduction, to con- his 'Livre des Rois d'Égypte' with the
them. A number of caterpillars of a kind centrate his work upon three spots. The remark that his place in the dynasty is
accustomed to feed on oak-leaves were given first of these, a little to the north of the tout ce qu'il y a de plus problématique. ”
for food the needles of a pine-like tree. At village mosque, turned out to be the tomb This seems to have escaped the notice of
first they found their mandibles could not of Teta-ky, a royal prince of the early the authors of the present book, and one
which they attacked laterally, as they had part of the Eighteenth Dynasty ; the would be inclined to think from his title
vaulted that he was one of the numerous descend-
Those who survived, however, found they tomb,” lay between the Drah abu'l ants of Queen Aah-hetep, or of Aahmes-
been accustomed to attack the oak - leaf. second, here called the Birâbi or
could get what they wanted' by gnawing Neggah hills and the cultivation; and the nefert - ari herself, were it not that
the pointed tip of the needle. Their descend third was the Eleventh Dynasty cemetery Prof. Newberry, in a chapter on the
ants, on being placed on the leaves of their on the hill above the Deir el-Bahari statuettes found in his tomb, says that
parents' normal food, invariably began to temple of Queen Hatasu or Hatshepsut. he was the son of Ra-hotep, Overseer
eat the tip instead of the side, unlike those The first investigation yielded frescoes of the Garden of Amen, and of the
who had no such unusual experience in their which may give further light regarding the Lady Sen-senb. On the same authority
family history to refer to.
Tikanu, or human sacrifice, together with we learn that he was
The projected Danish expedition to Green- fresh information about the family who City of the South,” i. e. , Thebes ; but
Mayor in the
land under Capt. Koch of the Danish Army; founded the Eighteenth Dynasty. The this hardly gives him the right to be
by the Carlsberg Fund, starts in July for second revealed an unfinished temple called “Royal Son. ” The statuettes in
Danmarks Havn on the east coast. His evidently connected with Queen Hatasu's, question, eight in number, were all con-
intention is to winter in Queen Louise two historical tablets of importance, a tained in model coffins, and were placed
Land, which will be fully investigated as quantity of gold and other jewellery, and in pairs in four holes made in the entrance
to its animal life and geological formation. some complete foundation deposits under to the mummy shaft.
The route then to be followed with sledges the dromos or road which leads up to the
and Icelandic ponies will be across the inland
Among the lesser finds recorded are
ice to some point on the west coast among third produced many mummies in coffins stone and wood, and others in gold alloyed
great terraces of the same queen. The several portrait statuettes, some in lime-
the Danish settlements.
On Tuesday afternoon next Prof. E. G. of the Saite period, but few other objects with silver. The last
of great
Coker will give the first of two lectures
of interest.
beauty, as are the many necklaces, rings,
the Royal Institution ' Optical The tomb of Teta-ky is here described and toilet sets here figured. A razor of
Determination of Stress, and some Appli- by M. Legrain, the expert scholar and copper was found, still sharp, and with
cations to Engineering Problems. ' The
Friday evening discourse on March 1st will of his life to the restoration of the Temple cave, as Mr. Howard Carter suggests, for
engineer who has devoted a great part a double edge, one side being made con-
be delivered by Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer of Karnak. Teta-ky, who is styled "Royal shaving the head and face, and the other
on The Total Solar Eclipse in the South
Pacific, April, 1911. '
Son,” must have flourished in the reign of convex, for the armpits and other hollows
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. hope to publish Aahmes I. and his wife Aahmes-nefert-ari
, of the body. There is also a board for
next week Milk and the Public Health, a portrait of that queen found in Teta-ky's playing the game of hounds and jackals,
by Dr. William G. Savage, County Medical tomb being, according to Lord Carnarvon, which Mr. Carter has reconstructed in the
Officer of Health, Somerset.
the earliest yet known. The name of her 'most ingenious way, and which seems to
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one
have been a kind of backgammon, the
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
from all law to produce something not reducible
different moves
being determined by
to any law or principle. "
throws of the dice. These all came from Rembrandt's Etchings. By A. M. Hind. Further quotation is needless. Consider the
the earlier tombs, as do the “Rishi”
2 vols. (Methuen. /The attempt to give delight of the European critic asked for his
coffins—so called because they are painted Museum collection of Rembrandt prints bition, and able to murmur the one word
chronological arrangement to the British opinion on a really up-to-date picture exhi-
with a design showing two large feathered forms the basis of this work, and the Ja, and know his day's work was adequately
wings (rishi) embracing the mummy,
he mummy, Museum Catalogue (with the addition of the performed; the European reader might
which has a type of face corresponding half-dozen plates accepted as authentic by also have reason for gratitude. Is there
to the granite statues discovered by Prof. Mr. Hind, but absent from that collection) not even a certain comfort in receiving this
Naville many years ago at Bubastis. This is its principal feature. This is annotated assurance from the oldest artistic culture
has high cheekbones, à long upper lip, and with special reference to the divergences that our latest vice is not a comet presaging
the long eye hitherto supposed to be of opinion as to date and authenticity of the the end of the world, but a thing of familiar
author and the other principal critics and and periodic recurrence, turning up regularly
peculiar to the Mongol race and to belong compilers of catalogues, and to such modi and sandwiched between Rai and Kan?
to the Hyksos invaders: In some tombs of fications in his own opinion on the former Recognition must be given also to the
the Ptolemaic period, which had to be cut question as have already taken place since admirable illustrations which do much to
through before the “ Valley-Temple” of his arrangement was made.
make the text clear. It might be argued
Queen Hatasu could be reached, were also Issued in this form, with a second volume that they do not represent the art of
found some Demotic Papyri, upon which giving, reproductions of the 303 plates the East at its culminating point, but
Prof. Spiegelberg contributes yet another comprised in his catalogue, Mr. Hind's they are beautiful enough and wonderful
chronological arrangement commands our enough to compel admiration. In face
chapter. They relate to the sale of respect by the thoroughness of the research of these, and his own copious demonstra-
land, and the main feature of interest behind it, while
it, while it remains inevitably tion, it is a little absurd for Mr. Bowie to
about them is that they bear the protocol highly speculative. Even if, in the absence quarrel so energetically as he does with
of a local kinglet named Harmachis, who of further evidence, it should prove definitive critics who describe Japanese art as calli-
is said to have reigned in Upper Egypt in the sense of offering, on the whole, the graphic. He seems to ascribe to the use of
during the sovereignty of Ptolemy v. most just balance of the rival claims of this word a literal significance which he
Epiphanes. Other documents with the
æsthetic criticism and documentary evi- would be the first to disown if applied to
dence, we have only to consider how very his most suggestive and vivacious pre-
same protocol are to be found, says Prof. different, but for the dates which happen sentment of Japanese artistic principles.
Spiegelberg, in the Berlin Museum. Pro- to be upon them, would be the place in the
bably Harmachis was one of the rebels series of certain etchings—No. 1 is an obvious Textile Design, Pure and Applied, by
whose defeat and amnesty are mentioned instance-to realize what wide departures Thomas Woodhouse and Thomas Milne
on the Rosetta Stone.
from historic fact will probably creep (Macmillan), is of those attractive
into the most conscientious attempt at volumes revealing the “how and wherefore
What may be called the romance chronological accuracy. The man who at of a craft. Textile design, one of the
of exploration finds full illustration. twenty-one produced such a masterpiece primitive crafts, embraces the whole subject
For many weeks the excavators devoted as the one just cited clearly offered extreme of pattern development ; the structure
themselves to following up a well-built examples of the apparently fortuitous anti- and the colouring of all textile fabrics
stone wall, the beginning of which ap- cipation of more mature style, of which vary in different branches of the industry,
peared suddenly jutting out in a hole most artists have some experience. If all yet it is extraordinary how many types of
caused by the excavation of a tomb: would still be room for abundant critical their making to a few “standard weaves.
safely dated, there elaborately figured fabrics are limited in
The accident of finding some inscribed ingenuity in explaining the development The authors of this treatise are chiefly
blocks with the names of Hatasu's famous of so complex an artist.
concerned with the technique of jute and
architect Sen-mut and her master-builder This æsthetic aspect of the etchings is but linen weaving though the whole subject
Pu-am-Ra showed that it was of her time, lightly treated, though we see no lack of is treated. The work deals rather with
and it subsequently appeared as the insight on the part of the writer when for fact than theory, of which the authors as
northern boundary wall of a temple which the moment he relaxes his hunt for facts. good craftsmen are silent; of technique and
Lord Carnarvon compares to the famous duced to illustrate the first volume is in some
Perhaps the selection of the drawings repro- method they write with authority and
clearness, adding full illustration of every
“ Valley” temples of Gizeh and Abusir, sort inconsistent with the main purpose of point. These illustrations are admirable
and imagines to have a similar relation to the work. A more rigid limitation of choice for their purpose, and suggest to the artist
the principal edifice.
to such drawings as have an immediate the vast possibilities of design employ-
The book is well printed and got up, bearing on the etched work of the master ing only the simplest combinations of a
and illustrated with nearly eighty ex-
would have made Mr. Hind's book more of a single unit. To all interested in weaving
cellent plates. Lord Carnarvon must be piece. The illustrations in both volumes and textile design the volume should be an
congratulated on its publication, and
its publication, and are on the whole, creditable examples of invaluable guide, as well as an inexhaustible
.
store of information carefully arranged and
particularly on his good fortune in securing
indexed.
the services of Mr. Howard Carter, the On the Laws of Japanese Painting. By
former Inspector of the district under Henry P. Bowie. (San Francisco, Paul The Abbot's House at Westminster. By
the Service des Antiquités, and probably Elder & Co. Of all the works we have J. Armitage Robinson. (Cambridge Uni-
the most efficient excavator at this date
seen on Chinese art or the tributary art of versity Press. )—Dean Robinson has done
in Egypt.
Japan, we know of none which in an un- good service in producing another of his
pretentious and homely fashion is likely to be useful and original tractates on the history
more immediately useful to European art of the great abbey. The Abbot's House,
students as an introductory handbook than Westminster, is now for the first time treated
THE HOARE PICTURES.
this little volume. Quite amusing reading in a satisfactory and authoritative fashion.
is furnished by reason of the naive fashion The book is the result of notes and
MESSRS. CHRISTIE sold on Saturday, Monday, in which general principles are shown in par- transcripts of documents taken during the
and Tuesday last the collection of modern pictures ticular and practical application, while the several years that Dr. Robinson occupied
W. s. Hoare. The following were the principal book deserves to be studied by every art the abbot's residence. There is a large fold-
prices :-
lover, if only in order to popularize some ing ground plan in a pocket of the cover,
English School : Drawings. -Constable, A of the admirably succinct terminology in which distinguishes between the work of
Landscape, with cottages and cattle, 1571. use among those nations with whom art Abbot Crispin (1090-1110), of uncertain alter-
Birket Foster, Gathering Primroses, 1731. ;
Streatley-on-Thames, 1311. , A View in Surrey, varieties have become matters of definite 1390), and of Abbot Islip (1500-1520). It
has flourished so long that its possible ations, c. 1300, of Abbot Litlington (1360-
with children and sheep, 1051.
knowledge.
Pictures. -E. Crofts, The Knight's Farewell,
is wonderful how well the great house has
3831. Marcus Stone, An Offer of Marriage, 2201.
“It is useless,” says our author,
stood the stress of change and time, for, as
Continental School: Drawing. -A. Neuhuys, "to enumerate the many faults which art | Dean Robinson remarks, “it remains in its
Rustic Courtship, 1201.
warned against committing :: completeness to-day, as Litlington rebuilt
Out of many of the Chinese formulas I will give it and Islip onlarged it, although portions
only one, which is known as the Shi Byo or the
four faults, and is as follows-Ja, Kan, Žoku, Rai.
of it are obscured by the later structures
Ja refers to attempted originality in'a
painting which havo grown up about it in the follow-
without the ability to give it character, departing'ing centuries. "
students
аге
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more
an
To certain readers the mediæval portion 145 by Mr. R. C. Peter, and 144 and
of the book will strongly appeal, but to the 155 by Miss A. von Berg) show serious study
majority the illustrative documents and of their craft. Mr. Norman Garstin (16) is
MUSIC
notes pertaining to the subsequent history respectable, not so much by superior ability
of this important residence will prove tho as by his refusal to trick out his talent with
more fascinating.
meretricious attraction. Miss Marian Robin.
The full inventory of the house at the son's slighter study · Yellow Jasmine' has
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
Suppression is set forth in rich detail from the same merits with a rather better colour
the original at the Public Record Office.
sense; and Miss Rowley Leggett's rather too
WITHIN the last six months many books
Soon after the surrender of 1540, a Dean facile execution is distinguished in No. 45 and articles have been written about Liszt
and Chapter succeeded to the Abbot and by a precarious unity of vision which, at least,
both as a man and as a musician, while
his monks. The last Abbot was made the differentiates it from Mr. Richard Jack's during the last sixty or seventy years there
first Dean, but he was not allowed to occupy less inspired sketch alongside of it (47).
has appeared an enormous amount of litera-
his old residence, for it was assigned to In the ‘Pastorale' (39) of Mrs. Davis and
ture concerning him, notably Lina Ramann's
Thomas Thirloby, the newly created Bishop Mr. Cecil Rae's 'Sketch in Oils' (4) the biography. In Mr. James Huneker's book
of Westminster. Thirleby resigned in 1550, attraction of obvious colour is offered with
Franz Liszt (Chapman & Hall) a large portion
and on the accossion of Mary the abbey was rather
conviction than elsewhere.
is devoted to Liszt as viewed by his contem-
revived and Abbot Feckenham was installed in both we see a spontaneous impulse to poraries, celebrated composers, pianists,
in the old residence. From Elizabeth's days paint, unrefined by any habitual severity writers,
&c. Most of them speak of his won.
onwards the Abbot's House has served as the of ideal.
derful gifts as pianist and interpreter, one
Deanery, except under the Commonwealth,
description by Glinka coming nearer to the
when it was let by the Parliament to the Ar the Stafford Gallery Mr. Noel Simmons truth than all the enthusiastic and occasion-
celebrated John Bradshaw, the Lord Presi.
seems to be enjoying a training rather ally high-flown accounts here collected. The
dent, on a forty years' lease. The curious more severe than we see evidence of at the Russian composer said that sometimes Liszt
will be gratified by finding a number of Grafton Gallery, except in the case of Miss played divinely, at other times atrociously;
papers and notes illustrating the post- Atwood, and in this sense his work is
pro- which is the case with all great artists—cer
Reformation history of the fabric and its mising, though as yet showing little signs tainly with Rubinstein, who was considered
surroundings down to comparatively modern of great personal gifts. Mr. Peploe, who almost Liszt's equal. Mr. Huneker has
days.
exhibits in the gallery above, is evidently an a sharp, fluent pen, and his review of Liszt's
artist of considerable natural endowments, art-work is clever and signally free from
For many years Crete was the “promised which he is inclined to squander in some technical jargon.
land” of the archæological explorer. The what aimless sketching, and ever-
promise was fulfilled with a richness beyond increasing looseness of handling. Nos. 7,
My Memories of Liszt (Lengnick), by the
all expectation in the palaces of Cnossus and 16, 23, and 25 are among the best of Mr.
Phæstus ;
and many excavations upon Simmons's work, and show sound study of eminent pianist A. Siloti are told in a quiet,
natural way, which carries conviction.
smaller sites have been fruitful in their the carpentry of painting. Nos. 8, 9, 20, and
results, so that the early civilization of 24 may be numbered among the lowers of Besides being a pupil of Liszt, he was on
the island is
now, perhaps, as
very friendly terms with him. We under.
well Mr. Peploe's decadence.
known as
that of any
other region.
stand his feeling as to the difficulty of
Scholars of various nationalities have con-
LONDONERS will soon be able to judge describing the lessons he received so as to
tributed their share to this result; and a
for themselves tho claims of the new school give an idea of his master's personality, yet
conspicuous place among them has been
of Italian Futurists, for an exhibition of the most readers will be of opinion that his
taken by the Americans, whose School at works of its principal exponents is to be attempt is very successful. The accounts
of Liszt's playing in his own house by
Athens is responsible for the publication opened at the Sackville Gallery, 28, Sack-
of Mr. Richard B. Seager's volume Exc-ville Street, W. , next Friday. It will be one who is himself a remarkable pianist
are noteworthy.
plorations in the Island of Mochlos. The under the direction of M. Mayer-See, who
author, when excavating a Minoan settle- was responsible for the exhibition of The
Six Lectures on the Recorder and Other
ment on the little island of Mochlos, near English Pastellists of the Eighteenth
Flutes in relation to Literature, by Christopher
Gournia, came across a cemetery with six | Century' held in Paris last year.
large ossuaries, or burial chambers, and a
Welch (Henry Frowde), is a cyclopædia of
THE KING has promised to lend four knowledge concerning flutes of various kinds,
number of tombs of smaller size; many | interesting portraits, of the Stuart period from and as it has a capital index, it can be used
others, which once existed, had slipped the collections at Windsor to the Loan
away into the sea, and their contents Section of the Royal Amateur Art Society's
a valuable work of reference. The
were scattered over the hill-side. A full exhibition, which is to be held from the 10th readers who are not in any way interested
descriptions will prove tedious only to
and careful description of the contents of to the 13th of March at Surrey House, 7, in the subject.
the different tombs, with illustrations of Marble Arch, W.
most of the objects found, makes a
Lecture I. deals with ‘Literary Errors
markable record. The date is mostly of THE twenty-eighth exhibition of the the Subject of the Recorder,' and
early Minoan period, which is but scantily Société des Artistes Indépendants will open it is shown how vague or inaccurate
represented elsewhere; the most notable at Paris on March 20th, and not March 15th, are the various definitions given of it. Here
objects are an extremely fine set of stone as stated in this column last week. The is just one example: Hawkins wrote,
These are admirably reproduced in 15th is the receiving day for sculpture, “A recorder is a flageolet or bird pipe, "
the coloured plates at the end of the book. while paintings and other framed works will which, as any one who turns to Classi-
There were also found a curious series of be received on the 9th prox,
fication of Flutes,' on p. 6, will see, is
interments of later date, in inverted terra-
Burney, although a rival his-
cotta jars; these appear to have contained ings will open early in April at the Musée
An important exhibition of Chinese paint. torian, merely copied Hawkins's statement,
in all cases the bodies of small children, not, Cernuschi, Paris. The collection will include
without acknowledging the source.
as was previously reported, of men in a only primitive, Buddhist, and early Ming and solemnity of recorders, instruments now
A great deal is said about the sweetness
crouching position. Some seal-stones and
works.
other antiquities add further to the interest
extinct. Pepys went into ecstasies over
of these excavations.
THE Committee of the Senefelder Club, the sweetness of their tone; while Milton
to avoid any suspicion of breach of faith, speaks of the power of their “solemn
announces that, on the conclusion of its touches to calm the mind. "
Fine Art Gossip.
three years' contract with Messrs. Wm.
.
Lecture III. is entitled “Hamlet and the
Marchant & Co. , it has abandoned the
Recorder. ' Different readings of the text
AN admirable still-life, Apples (13), practice of stamping its proofs, while retain-
are discussed, and the author's idea of
by Miss Clare Atwood, and the same artist's ing inviolate the essential rule that no edition
the manner in which the scene should
shall exceed fifty.
exceptions, these anatomical features are not
Victoria and Albert Museum, 5. -'Famous Jacobean Mansions
The British Bird Book. Section VII. likely to be of more value in solving phytogenetic
and Colleges,' Mr. B. Fletcher.
Society of Arts, 8. - The Loom aud Spindle: Past, Present,
(T. C. & E. C. Jack. )The editor has made problems than the size-characters themselves.
and Future,' Lecture I. , Mr. L. Hooper. (Cantor Lecture. )
but few calls upon his coadjutors for this
The paper was discussed by Miss E. N. Thomas, Geographical, 8. 30.
Mr. T. G. Hill, Dr. Ethel de Fraine, Mr. A. G. TTEs. Royal Institution, 3. -Optical Determination of Stress, and
section, dealing with auks, terns, and gulls, Tansley, the President, Dr. O. Stapf, and Mr. E.
some Applications to Engineering Problems, Lecture 1. ,'
Prof. E. G. Coker.
their work being almost entirely confined to Lee, the author replying.
Colonial Institute, 4. - Hong Kong's Part in China's Reform
Ven. E. Judd Barnett.
the “preliminary classified notes. ” We find Mr. C. E. Salmon exhibited an abnormal Orchis,
British Museum, 4. 30. - The Palaces of the Roman Emperors,
ourselves the more reconciled to this par-
Houses and Pompeian Art, Mr. B. Fletcher.
with enlarged drawings of the flowers.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. -Discussion on Some
ticular feature, in that
many details
Mr. H. Findon showed a series of glass-sponges
Features of the West African Government Railways. ' Papers
on Roller and Ball Bearings and The Testing of Anti-
necessary for reference, but subordinate to from Japan. He stated that these sponges had
Friction Bearing Metals,' Prof. J. Goodman.
WED. Geological, 8. -'Late Glacial and Post-Glacial Changes in the
the main scheme, can thus be succinctly been lately given to him by a gentleman who
Lower Dee Valley! Mr. L. J. Wills; The Glen Orchy
received a number of them some years ago from
brought together, serving their purpose
Anticline, Argyllshire,' Mr. E. B. Bailey.
a naturalist in Japan. He said that they were of Society of Arts, 8. Kducation in Science as a Preparation for
by making studies in comparison easier,
Industrial Work,' Mr. A. A. Roberts.
two species, Hyalonema Sieboldii and H. apertum,
itution, 3. -'Wellington's Army,' Lecture I. , Prof.
and leaving the ground clear for the less and that they were dredged in ten to fifteen
Royal, 4. 80. - The Bacterial Production of Acetylmethylcar.
rigid treatment of the problems presented fathoms of water off the East Coast of Japan.
binol and 2. 3 Butylene Glycol, II. ,' Dr. A. Harden and
by the habits of the birds. Mr. Kirkman's
One specimen had been cut in order to see the
Dorothy Norris ;. 'An Instrument for measuring the Dis-
writing is both enlightened and refreshing,
connexion between the stalk, or
rope," and
tance between the Centres of Rotation of the two Eyes,
Messrs. H. 8. Ryland and B. T. Lang; The Locomotor
and he is never dull. While drawing largely of the "
the sponge proper. The lower ends of the strands
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
Carter.
-
Wood.
-
THURS. Rog Ir
C. Oman.
Function of the Lantern in Echinus,
with Remarks on Other
rope are barbed in a peculiar manner,
Allied Lantern Activities,' Dr. J. F. Gemmill; and other
Papers.
upon his own observations, he consults a as may be seen under the microscope. Slides
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 30.
variety of authorities, among the most were also shown under the microscope of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. –The Design and Construc.
noteworthy being Patten's Aquatic Birds'
spicules, of which there seem to be a great variety,
tion of Masonry Dams," Mr. H. J. F. Gourley. (Students'
Meeting. )
and Naumann's Vögel Mitteleuropas. ' He six-bladed, battleaxe form and the four-rayed
the most noteworthy being the double-ended, Royal Institution, 9. -The Total Solar Eclipse in the South
Pacific, April, 1911,' Mr. W. J. 8. Lockyer.
disagrees with the former's assertion that the
Royal Institution, 3. Molecular Physics,' Lecture II. , Prof.
star with the barbed spur. There also appear
FRI.
Sat.
Sir J. J. Thomson.
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or
mother, one Teta-hemt, was here re-
Science Gossip
covered, as was that of Teta-ky's wife, the
FINE ARTS
M. JACQUES DANNE, whose work on radio-
Lady Sen-ba, both these occurring here for
activity should be well known to readers of
the first time. Aahmes-nefert-ari was one
The Atheneum, opened on the 15th of this
of the most celebrated queens in Egyptian
for researches into the nature and pro: Five Years' Explorations at Thebes. By history, and after her death was worshipped
perties of radium and substances related the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard for centuries as the foundress of the
to it. M. d'Arsonval, who made it Carter. (Frowde. )
dynasty and the patron goddess of the
Theban necropolis. As it must have been
known to the Académie des Sciences three
days before that date, says it will be of This book, which tells in satisfactory in the lifetime of herself and her sister
benefit to men of science, students, and fashion and with a sufficiency of detail | Aah-hetep, queen mother of the
persons engaged in industry alike, and it the history of Lord Carnarvon’s excava- general Ka-mes, that the Hyksos who had
seems from his description to be singularly tions in Egypt since 1906, is certainly conquered Egypt were expelled, every-
well-equipped. It will issue
report on all minerals and apparatus sub. welcome. They have been hitherto un- thing relating to the family is of historical
mitted to it, which will, if favourable, have recorded, for there is no greater hindrance interest. It is extremely probable that
the weight of a certificate, and it will publish to scientific exploration than the too- the crown of Egypt descended through
a quarterly bulletin of the studies there frequent visits of uninformed tourists; these two ladies, their husbands being
pursued. M. Danne is, among other things, and discretion was the more necessary in very likely killed in battle, as was certainly
the present editor of the journal of physics this case, because the site of the work is Sequenen-Ra, who was separated from
called Le Radium.
immediately opposite the modern town of Aahmes I. by no long period. Some,
In a careful study. on. Radiations in Luxor, now converted from a sleepy but not very much additional light is
Physiology and Medicine M. Oudin and Arab village into
Arab village into a pleasure resort. thrown upon this critical period by the
Dr. A. Zimmern have just drawn attention Moreover, the last five years of Egyptian chapter that Mr. Griffith contributes to
to the likeness between the skin disease
of the hands caused by rash exposure to the exploration have been singularly barren the present book on the two hieratic
X-rays, and the thickening of the skin of the of great discoveries, and, as has been men- tablets found on the second site, which
extremities common among sailors (See- tioned more than once in our “ Archæo- are called “the Carnarvon Tablets I.
manshaut), which, like the other, sometimes logical Notes,' Lord Carnarvon’s excava- and II. ” Mr. Griffith’s translation of so
gives rise to rodent ulcer. They also notice tions have given better results, perhaps, much of Carnarvon Tablet I. as he was
the fact which certain American doctors have than any others.
able to decipher (he seems to have hitherto
recorded, that the coloured races seldom
suffer from cancer of the skin, which they
The concession on which he has been failed to do anything with Carnarvon
attribute to the protective action of the working is on the western bank of the Tablet II. ) makes it plain that Ka-mes
pigment cells. The two defences which Nile, and stretches from the approach to defeated the Hyksos by the aid of Nubian
the skin has against hurtful radiations are, the famous terrace-temples of Deir els mercenaries; but he seems to have had
say they, hyperæmia, or the determination of Bahari brought to light by Prof. Naville, troubles at the same time in Nubia itself,
blood to the part in the case of sudden and to the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings as was the case with Thothmes I.
violent attacks, and large deposits of pig- excavated and made available for the
ment against milder, but more frequent ones.
Of Teta-ky himself we have hitherto
M. PICTET has lately made some experi. Theodore Davis. Lord Carnarvon's pre-
public by the wise munificence of Mr. known little, but it should be noted that
ments on caterpillars, which seem to prove
a monument from Kurneh bearing his
the inheritance, if not of acquired Cha- liminary excavations led him, as he tells style and title is given by M. Gauthier
in
racteristics, yet of habits which approach us in a well-written Introduction, to con- his 'Livre des Rois d'Égypte' with the
them. A number of caterpillars of a kind centrate his work upon three spots. The remark that his place in the dynasty is
accustomed to feed on oak-leaves were given first of these, a little to the north of the tout ce qu'il y a de plus problématique. ”
for food the needles of a pine-like tree. At village mosque, turned out to be the tomb This seems to have escaped the notice of
first they found their mandibles could not of Teta-ky, a royal prince of the early the authors of the present book, and one
which they attacked laterally, as they had part of the Eighteenth Dynasty ; the would be inclined to think from his title
vaulted that he was one of the numerous descend-
Those who survived, however, found they tomb,” lay between the Drah abu'l ants of Queen Aah-hetep, or of Aahmes-
been accustomed to attack the oak - leaf. second, here called the Birâbi or
could get what they wanted' by gnawing Neggah hills and the cultivation; and the nefert - ari herself, were it not that
the pointed tip of the needle. Their descend third was the Eleventh Dynasty cemetery Prof. Newberry, in a chapter on the
ants, on being placed on the leaves of their on the hill above the Deir el-Bahari statuettes found in his tomb, says that
parents' normal food, invariably began to temple of Queen Hatasu or Hatshepsut. he was the son of Ra-hotep, Overseer
eat the tip instead of the side, unlike those The first investigation yielded frescoes of the Garden of Amen, and of the
who had no such unusual experience in their which may give further light regarding the Lady Sen-senb. On the same authority
family history to refer to.
Tikanu, or human sacrifice, together with we learn that he was
The projected Danish expedition to Green- fresh information about the family who City of the South,” i. e. , Thebes ; but
Mayor in the
land under Capt. Koch of the Danish Army; founded the Eighteenth Dynasty. The this hardly gives him the right to be
by the Carlsberg Fund, starts in July for second revealed an unfinished temple called “Royal Son. ” The statuettes in
Danmarks Havn on the east coast. His evidently connected with Queen Hatasu's, question, eight in number, were all con-
intention is to winter in Queen Louise two historical tablets of importance, a tained in model coffins, and were placed
Land, which will be fully investigated as quantity of gold and other jewellery, and in pairs in four holes made in the entrance
to its animal life and geological formation. some complete foundation deposits under to the mummy shaft.
The route then to be followed with sledges the dromos or road which leads up to the
and Icelandic ponies will be across the inland
Among the lesser finds recorded are
ice to some point on the west coast among third produced many mummies in coffins stone and wood, and others in gold alloyed
great terraces of the same queen. The several portrait statuettes, some in lime-
the Danish settlements.
On Tuesday afternoon next Prof. E. G. of the Saite period, but few other objects with silver. The last
of great
Coker will give the first of two lectures
of interest.
beauty, as are the many necklaces, rings,
the Royal Institution ' Optical The tomb of Teta-ky is here described and toilet sets here figured. A razor of
Determination of Stress, and some Appli- by M. Legrain, the expert scholar and copper was found, still sharp, and with
cations to Engineering Problems. ' The
Friday evening discourse on March 1st will of his life to the restoration of the Temple cave, as Mr. Howard Carter suggests, for
engineer who has devoted a great part a double edge, one side being made con-
be delivered by Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer of Karnak. Teta-ky, who is styled "Royal shaving the head and face, and the other
on The Total Solar Eclipse in the South
Pacific, April, 1911. '
Son,” must have flourished in the reign of convex, for the armpits and other hollows
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. hope to publish Aahmes I. and his wife Aahmes-nefert-ari
, of the body. There is also a board for
next week Milk and the Public Health, a portrait of that queen found in Teta-ky's playing the game of hounds and jackals,
by Dr. William G. Savage, County Medical tomb being, according to Lord Carnarvon, which Mr. Carter has reconstructed in the
Officer of Health, Somerset.
the earliest yet known. The name of her 'most ingenious way, and which seems to
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are
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one
have been a kind of backgammon, the
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
from all law to produce something not reducible
different moves
being determined by
to any law or principle. "
throws of the dice. These all came from Rembrandt's Etchings. By A. M. Hind. Further quotation is needless. Consider the
the earlier tombs, as do the “Rishi”
2 vols. (Methuen. /The attempt to give delight of the European critic asked for his
coffins—so called because they are painted Museum collection of Rembrandt prints bition, and able to murmur the one word
chronological arrangement to the British opinion on a really up-to-date picture exhi-
with a design showing two large feathered forms the basis of this work, and the Ja, and know his day's work was adequately
wings (rishi) embracing the mummy,
he mummy, Museum Catalogue (with the addition of the performed; the European reader might
which has a type of face corresponding half-dozen plates accepted as authentic by also have reason for gratitude. Is there
to the granite statues discovered by Prof. Mr. Hind, but absent from that collection) not even a certain comfort in receiving this
Naville many years ago at Bubastis. This is its principal feature. This is annotated assurance from the oldest artistic culture
has high cheekbones, à long upper lip, and with special reference to the divergences that our latest vice is not a comet presaging
the long eye hitherto supposed to be of opinion as to date and authenticity of the the end of the world, but a thing of familiar
author and the other principal critics and and periodic recurrence, turning up regularly
peculiar to the Mongol race and to belong compilers of catalogues, and to such modi and sandwiched between Rai and Kan?
to the Hyksos invaders: In some tombs of fications in his own opinion on the former Recognition must be given also to the
the Ptolemaic period, which had to be cut question as have already taken place since admirable illustrations which do much to
through before the “ Valley-Temple” of his arrangement was made.
make the text clear. It might be argued
Queen Hatasu could be reached, were also Issued in this form, with a second volume that they do not represent the art of
found some Demotic Papyri, upon which giving, reproductions of the 303 plates the East at its culminating point, but
Prof. Spiegelberg contributes yet another comprised in his catalogue, Mr. Hind's they are beautiful enough and wonderful
chronological arrangement commands our enough to compel admiration. In face
chapter. They relate to the sale of respect by the thoroughness of the research of these, and his own copious demonstra-
land, and the main feature of interest behind it, while
it, while it remains inevitably tion, it is a little absurd for Mr. Bowie to
about them is that they bear the protocol highly speculative. Even if, in the absence quarrel so energetically as he does with
of a local kinglet named Harmachis, who of further evidence, it should prove definitive critics who describe Japanese art as calli-
is said to have reigned in Upper Egypt in the sense of offering, on the whole, the graphic. He seems to ascribe to the use of
during the sovereignty of Ptolemy v. most just balance of the rival claims of this word a literal significance which he
Epiphanes. Other documents with the
æsthetic criticism and documentary evi- would be the first to disown if applied to
dence, we have only to consider how very his most suggestive and vivacious pre-
same protocol are to be found, says Prof. different, but for the dates which happen sentment of Japanese artistic principles.
Spiegelberg, in the Berlin Museum. Pro- to be upon them, would be the place in the
bably Harmachis was one of the rebels series of certain etchings—No. 1 is an obvious Textile Design, Pure and Applied, by
whose defeat and amnesty are mentioned instance-to realize what wide departures Thomas Woodhouse and Thomas Milne
on the Rosetta Stone.
from historic fact will probably creep (Macmillan), is of those attractive
into the most conscientious attempt at volumes revealing the “how and wherefore
What may be called the romance chronological accuracy. The man who at of a craft. Textile design, one of the
of exploration finds full illustration. twenty-one produced such a masterpiece primitive crafts, embraces the whole subject
For many weeks the excavators devoted as the one just cited clearly offered extreme of pattern development ; the structure
themselves to following up a well-built examples of the apparently fortuitous anti- and the colouring of all textile fabrics
stone wall, the beginning of which ap- cipation of more mature style, of which vary in different branches of the industry,
peared suddenly jutting out in a hole most artists have some experience. If all yet it is extraordinary how many types of
caused by the excavation of a tomb: would still be room for abundant critical their making to a few “standard weaves.
safely dated, there elaborately figured fabrics are limited in
The accident of finding some inscribed ingenuity in explaining the development The authors of this treatise are chiefly
blocks with the names of Hatasu's famous of so complex an artist.
concerned with the technique of jute and
architect Sen-mut and her master-builder This æsthetic aspect of the etchings is but linen weaving though the whole subject
Pu-am-Ra showed that it was of her time, lightly treated, though we see no lack of is treated. The work deals rather with
and it subsequently appeared as the insight on the part of the writer when for fact than theory, of which the authors as
northern boundary wall of a temple which the moment he relaxes his hunt for facts. good craftsmen are silent; of technique and
Lord Carnarvon compares to the famous duced to illustrate the first volume is in some
Perhaps the selection of the drawings repro- method they write with authority and
clearness, adding full illustration of every
“ Valley” temples of Gizeh and Abusir, sort inconsistent with the main purpose of point. These illustrations are admirable
and imagines to have a similar relation to the work. A more rigid limitation of choice for their purpose, and suggest to the artist
the principal edifice.
to such drawings as have an immediate the vast possibilities of design employ-
The book is well printed and got up, bearing on the etched work of the master ing only the simplest combinations of a
and illustrated with nearly eighty ex-
would have made Mr. Hind's book more of a single unit. To all interested in weaving
cellent plates. Lord Carnarvon must be piece. The illustrations in both volumes and textile design the volume should be an
congratulated on its publication, and
its publication, and are on the whole, creditable examples of invaluable guide, as well as an inexhaustible
.
store of information carefully arranged and
particularly on his good fortune in securing
indexed.
the services of Mr. Howard Carter, the On the Laws of Japanese Painting. By
former Inspector of the district under Henry P. Bowie. (San Francisco, Paul The Abbot's House at Westminster. By
the Service des Antiquités, and probably Elder & Co. Of all the works we have J. Armitage Robinson. (Cambridge Uni-
the most efficient excavator at this date
seen on Chinese art or the tributary art of versity Press. )—Dean Robinson has done
in Egypt.
Japan, we know of none which in an un- good service in producing another of his
pretentious and homely fashion is likely to be useful and original tractates on the history
more immediately useful to European art of the great abbey. The Abbot's House,
students as an introductory handbook than Westminster, is now for the first time treated
THE HOARE PICTURES.
this little volume. Quite amusing reading in a satisfactory and authoritative fashion.
is furnished by reason of the naive fashion The book is the result of notes and
MESSRS. CHRISTIE sold on Saturday, Monday, in which general principles are shown in par- transcripts of documents taken during the
and Tuesday last the collection of modern pictures ticular and practical application, while the several years that Dr. Robinson occupied
W. s. Hoare. The following were the principal book deserves to be studied by every art the abbot's residence. There is a large fold-
prices :-
lover, if only in order to popularize some ing ground plan in a pocket of the cover,
English School : Drawings. -Constable, A of the admirably succinct terminology in which distinguishes between the work of
Landscape, with cottages and cattle, 1571. use among those nations with whom art Abbot Crispin (1090-1110), of uncertain alter-
Birket Foster, Gathering Primroses, 1731. ;
Streatley-on-Thames, 1311. , A View in Surrey, varieties have become matters of definite 1390), and of Abbot Islip (1500-1520). It
has flourished so long that its possible ations, c. 1300, of Abbot Litlington (1360-
with children and sheep, 1051.
knowledge.
Pictures. -E. Crofts, The Knight's Farewell,
is wonderful how well the great house has
3831. Marcus Stone, An Offer of Marriage, 2201.
“It is useless,” says our author,
stood the stress of change and time, for, as
Continental School: Drawing. -A. Neuhuys, "to enumerate the many faults which art | Dean Robinson remarks, “it remains in its
Rustic Courtship, 1201.
warned against committing :: completeness to-day, as Litlington rebuilt
Out of many of the Chinese formulas I will give it and Islip onlarged it, although portions
only one, which is known as the Shi Byo or the
four faults, and is as follows-Ja, Kan, Žoku, Rai.
of it are obscured by the later structures
Ja refers to attempted originality in'a
painting which havo grown up about it in the follow-
without the ability to give it character, departing'ing centuries. "
students
аге
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more
an
To certain readers the mediæval portion 145 by Mr. R. C. Peter, and 144 and
of the book will strongly appeal, but to the 155 by Miss A. von Berg) show serious study
majority the illustrative documents and of their craft. Mr. Norman Garstin (16) is
MUSIC
notes pertaining to the subsequent history respectable, not so much by superior ability
of this important residence will prove tho as by his refusal to trick out his talent with
more fascinating.
meretricious attraction. Miss Marian Robin.
The full inventory of the house at the son's slighter study · Yellow Jasmine' has
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
Suppression is set forth in rich detail from the same merits with a rather better colour
the original at the Public Record Office.
sense; and Miss Rowley Leggett's rather too
WITHIN the last six months many books
Soon after the surrender of 1540, a Dean facile execution is distinguished in No. 45 and articles have been written about Liszt
and Chapter succeeded to the Abbot and by a precarious unity of vision which, at least,
both as a man and as a musician, while
his monks. The last Abbot was made the differentiates it from Mr. Richard Jack's during the last sixty or seventy years there
first Dean, but he was not allowed to occupy less inspired sketch alongside of it (47).
has appeared an enormous amount of litera-
his old residence, for it was assigned to In the ‘Pastorale' (39) of Mrs. Davis and
ture concerning him, notably Lina Ramann's
Thomas Thirloby, the newly created Bishop Mr. Cecil Rae's 'Sketch in Oils' (4) the biography. In Mr. James Huneker's book
of Westminster. Thirleby resigned in 1550, attraction of obvious colour is offered with
Franz Liszt (Chapman & Hall) a large portion
and on the accossion of Mary the abbey was rather
conviction than elsewhere.
is devoted to Liszt as viewed by his contem-
revived and Abbot Feckenham was installed in both we see a spontaneous impulse to poraries, celebrated composers, pianists,
in the old residence. From Elizabeth's days paint, unrefined by any habitual severity writers,
&c. Most of them speak of his won.
onwards the Abbot's House has served as the of ideal.
derful gifts as pianist and interpreter, one
Deanery, except under the Commonwealth,
description by Glinka coming nearer to the
when it was let by the Parliament to the Ar the Stafford Gallery Mr. Noel Simmons truth than all the enthusiastic and occasion-
celebrated John Bradshaw, the Lord Presi.
seems to be enjoying a training rather ally high-flown accounts here collected. The
dent, on a forty years' lease. The curious more severe than we see evidence of at the Russian composer said that sometimes Liszt
will be gratified by finding a number of Grafton Gallery, except in the case of Miss played divinely, at other times atrociously;
papers and notes illustrating the post- Atwood, and in this sense his work is
pro- which is the case with all great artists—cer
Reformation history of the fabric and its mising, though as yet showing little signs tainly with Rubinstein, who was considered
surroundings down to comparatively modern of great personal gifts. Mr. Peploe, who almost Liszt's equal. Mr. Huneker has
days.
exhibits in the gallery above, is evidently an a sharp, fluent pen, and his review of Liszt's
artist of considerable natural endowments, art-work is clever and signally free from
For many years Crete was the “promised which he is inclined to squander in some technical jargon.
land” of the archæological explorer. The what aimless sketching, and ever-
promise was fulfilled with a richness beyond increasing looseness of handling. Nos. 7,
My Memories of Liszt (Lengnick), by the
all expectation in the palaces of Cnossus and 16, 23, and 25 are among the best of Mr.
Phæstus ;
and many excavations upon Simmons's work, and show sound study of eminent pianist A. Siloti are told in a quiet,
natural way, which carries conviction.
smaller sites have been fruitful in their the carpentry of painting. Nos. 8, 9, 20, and
results, so that the early civilization of 24 may be numbered among the lowers of Besides being a pupil of Liszt, he was on
the island is
now, perhaps, as
very friendly terms with him. We under.
well Mr. Peploe's decadence.
known as
that of any
other region.
stand his feeling as to the difficulty of
Scholars of various nationalities have con-
LONDONERS will soon be able to judge describing the lessons he received so as to
tributed their share to this result; and a
for themselves tho claims of the new school give an idea of his master's personality, yet
conspicuous place among them has been
of Italian Futurists, for an exhibition of the most readers will be of opinion that his
taken by the Americans, whose School at works of its principal exponents is to be attempt is very successful. The accounts
of Liszt's playing in his own house by
Athens is responsible for the publication opened at the Sackville Gallery, 28, Sack-
of Mr. Richard B. Seager's volume Exc-ville Street, W. , next Friday. It will be one who is himself a remarkable pianist
are noteworthy.
plorations in the Island of Mochlos. The under the direction of M. Mayer-See, who
author, when excavating a Minoan settle- was responsible for the exhibition of The
Six Lectures on the Recorder and Other
ment on the little island of Mochlos, near English Pastellists of the Eighteenth
Flutes in relation to Literature, by Christopher
Gournia, came across a cemetery with six | Century' held in Paris last year.
large ossuaries, or burial chambers, and a
Welch (Henry Frowde), is a cyclopædia of
THE KING has promised to lend four knowledge concerning flutes of various kinds,
number of tombs of smaller size; many | interesting portraits, of the Stuart period from and as it has a capital index, it can be used
others, which once existed, had slipped the collections at Windsor to the Loan
away into the sea, and their contents Section of the Royal Amateur Art Society's
a valuable work of reference. The
were scattered over the hill-side. A full exhibition, which is to be held from the 10th readers who are not in any way interested
descriptions will prove tedious only to
and careful description of the contents of to the 13th of March at Surrey House, 7, in the subject.
the different tombs, with illustrations of Marble Arch, W.
most of the objects found, makes a
Lecture I. deals with ‘Literary Errors
markable record. The date is mostly of THE twenty-eighth exhibition of the the Subject of the Recorder,' and
early Minoan period, which is but scantily Société des Artistes Indépendants will open it is shown how vague or inaccurate
represented elsewhere; the most notable at Paris on March 20th, and not March 15th, are the various definitions given of it. Here
objects are an extremely fine set of stone as stated in this column last week. The is just one example: Hawkins wrote,
These are admirably reproduced in 15th is the receiving day for sculpture, “A recorder is a flageolet or bird pipe, "
the coloured plates at the end of the book. while paintings and other framed works will which, as any one who turns to Classi-
There were also found a curious series of be received on the 9th prox,
fication of Flutes,' on p. 6, will see, is
interments of later date, in inverted terra-
Burney, although a rival his-
cotta jars; these appear to have contained ings will open early in April at the Musée
An important exhibition of Chinese paint. torian, merely copied Hawkins's statement,
in all cases the bodies of small children, not, Cernuschi, Paris. The collection will include
without acknowledging the source.
as was previously reported, of men in a only primitive, Buddhist, and early Ming and solemnity of recorders, instruments now
A great deal is said about the sweetness
crouching position. Some seal-stones and
works.
other antiquities add further to the interest
extinct. Pepys went into ecstasies over
of these excavations.
THE Committee of the Senefelder Club, the sweetness of their tone; while Milton
to avoid any suspicion of breach of faith, speaks of the power of their “solemn
announces that, on the conclusion of its touches to calm the mind. "
Fine Art Gossip.
three years' contract with Messrs. Wm.
.
Lecture III. is entitled “Hamlet and the
Marchant & Co. , it has abandoned the
Recorder. ' Different readings of the text
AN admirable still-life, Apples (13), practice of stamping its proofs, while retain-
are discussed, and the author's idea of
by Miss Clare Atwood, and the same artist's ing inviolate the essential rule that no edition
the manner in which the scene should
shall exceed fifty.
