No More Learning

which appeared under the title of The
discusses 'The Siniplicity of Natural Laws. '
Librarian about two years ago.
THE forthcoming number of Science Progress
THE next number of The Edinburgh
will begin the sixth volume. Prof. Lydekker
contributes a paper on Vertebrate Palæontology Review will appear under the control AMONG the books just published in
in 1911'; Dr. Ralph Vincent writes on · Fallacies of new editor, Mr. Harold Cox, Paris are “Newman Catholique d'après
in the Report of the Royal Commission on Tuber-
culosis,' and Dr. Charles Walker on Theories and
the sixth in succession to
succession to Francis des Documents nouveaux,' by M. Paul
Problems of Cancer'; while amongst the other Jeffrey, who held the reins from the Thureau - Dangin, and L'Irlande et le
articles will be two of educational interest : foundation of the Review in 1802 down Home Rule,' by MM. L. Maisonnier and
* Greek at Oxford' and 'Science and the Average
Boy. '
to 1829. The succeeding editors were G. Lecarpentier.
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vented by enveloping the blood, the dilu- Bain (James L. Macbeth), CORPUS MEUM
tions of culture, and the mixtures of serum
(THIS IS MY BODY), 2/6
SCIENCE
and culture, in oil. He has conclusively
Lund, Humphries & Co.
proved that Metchnikoff's statement is Cheap edition of a quaint and oxag,
wide of the mark. The author naturally gerated thesis setting forth the great
gives a good deal of space to the descrip- spiritual doctrine of the work of nutrition. "
Handbook of the Technique of the Teat and tion of the opsonic power of the blood, Eugenics Review, April, 1/ net.
Capillary Glass Tube, and its Applica- the discovery of this property being his India, Geological Survey Records, Vol. XLI.
tions in Medicine and Bacteriology. By own. He it was who first pointed out the Part IV. , 1 rupeo. Calcutta, Geological
Sir A. E. Wright. (Constable & Co. ) significance for diagnosis of the opsonic Survey of India; London, Kegan Paul
index in the treatment of tuberculosis. Contains minute and erudite information
This book has been written for two dif- The fatal effects of Koch’s tuberculin upon the geology of the Henzada district,
ferent classes of laboratory workers : when it was first introduced were due Burma, and of the Lonar Lake, and the
first, for the man who wants a ready to the fact that the doses given were far Pegu-Eocene succession in the Minbu dis-
made technique for measuring this or
too large; Sir Almroth regulated them
trict near Ngape. There are also a report
that function of the blood ; and, secondly, by means of the opsonic index, and
on the Eleventh International Geological
for the research worker who wants to thus prevented the patient from receiving number of miscellaneous notes.
Congress, held in Stockholm in 1910, and a
know what existing technique is at our
command, and in what directions this upset the delicate mechanism of immunity. Murray (J. Alan), BEVERAGES, 1/ net.
technique is likely to be amplified, now
Constable
that science is making such rapid what the resisting powers of the patient the asthetic, the medical, the physiological,
The opsonic index shows the physician
This volume is a nice blend of the practical,
progress in the domain of practical are
against any particular
particular microbe. the epicurean, and the statistical. All these
medicine.
Small doses produce a far better effect, channels of opinion converge into the main
In our issue of March 30th we drew and the practice of giving them has now stream—the subject of beverages, on which
attention to the Theory of Immunity, become universal.
human thought has in all ages been much
exercised.
and we pointed out the lines along which It
The author is comprehensive in
appears that in counting the number
our knowledge of this subject is likely of bacteria which have been ingested by his discussions. Even the modest refresh-
receives adequate and
to be .
the white cells of the blood, the observer
reverent treatment. Many pages would not
In the present volume find
may be led astray, and the author gives have been unpleasing to Meredith.
detailed and interesting description of the an admirable description of (a) the func- Redmayne (J. S. ), FRUIT FARMING ON THE
method by which the protective sub- tional error, and (b) the error of chance.
“ DRY BELT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA,
stances in the blood can be measured. The Appendix contains a carefully 2/6 net.
Times ? Book Club
This ingenious system was described argued chapter on the contention of the
Written principally for intending settlers,
by Sir Almroth Wright in 1897 in a mathematical statistician that he has this book contains a great mass of informa-
paper
Widal's test for typhoid authority to pronounce judgment upon tion--historical, theoretical, and practical.
fever ; he pointed out that, by using the number of leucocytes which require There are nine appendixes, a map, a list
a mark placed anywhere on the stem of to be counted in the opsonic film. At the of textbooks and authorities, and numerous
illustrations.
a simple pipette and an air-bubble index, end of his argument the author says :-
we can make any required dilution of the
* The handing over of the adjudication Shennan (Theodore), Post MORTEMS AND
MORBID ANATOMY, 18/ net. Constable
serum, mix it in accurately measured of medical results to the lay mathematician
quantities with the typhoid or any other has in the past produced deplorable effects.
This book is chiefly written for students,
culture, and then with the naked eye read Coming in as he does into medicine, not practitioners, and teachers of pathology.
off the result on the pipette.
only without appreciation of the magnitude Particular attention is paid to morbid
of the functional errors which attach to anatomy as studied in the post-mortem
The author points out that when blood- ordinary medical diagnosis, and setting up, room, and microscopical and bacteriological
fluids are brought into contact with as he has done, a Utopian standard of aspects of disease also considered.
bacterial cultures these may be affected accomplishment and certitude for biological Busy practitioners will find it an excellent
book for reference, essentially practical and
ą variety of ways. The bacteria work, he in reality makes common cause
which were before separate may adhere
with those clinicians who, while they take not too long. It is beautifully illustrated
no account of the enormous working error
with original plates, which will enhance
to form clumps (agglutination effect). of clinical methods, set up for laboratory its value. Prof. Shennan has compiled a
They may be killed without being methods a fantastic standard of infallibility. ” Bibliography of the more important original
dissolved (bactericidal effect). They may We are inclined to sympathize with the papers which appeared from January, 1908,
be dissolved in the blood-fluids (bac- laboratory worker in his struggles with journals published in this country, North
to August, 1911, in the principal medical
teriolytic effect); and they may be so
altered as to be readily ingested by is not an exact science in the sense that
the mathematical statistician. Biology America, France, and Germany.
phagocytes (opsonic effect). Each of mathematics is, and we should be grateful
United States National Herbarium: Vol. XIII.
these effects can be obtained independently for any work which helps men of science
Part XII. NEW NOTEWORTHY
of the others. We are not at present to elucidate the problem of immunity.
PLANTS FROM COLOMBIA AND CENTRAL
able to isolate these active substances from
AMER CA, NO. 3, by Henry Pittier ; Vol.
XIV. Part III. THE GRAMA GRASSES :
the blood, but there can be no doubt
BOUTELOUA AND RELATED GENERA, by
that it possesses the various powers
David Griffiths; and Vol. XVI. Part İ.
which have been described above; and NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, by William
that the condition of immunity to infec-
R. Maxon, J. N. Rose, P. C. Standley,
tious diseases is largely due to these
(Notico in these columns does not preclude longer and R. S. Williams.
review. )
properties of the blood, which, as it were,
Washington, Government Printing Office
guard the body from the attacks of micro- Bahr (P. H. ), REPORT TO THE LONDON United States National Museum, Bulletin 77 :
organisms. The great advantage of Sir
SchooL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE ON
THE EARLY PALEOZOIC BRYOZOA OF THE
Almroth's method is that, for instance,
INVESTIGATIONS ON DYSENTERY IN FIJI
BALTIC PROVINCES, by Ray S. Bassler.
DURING THE YEAR 1910, TOGETHER WITH
the bactericidal power of the patient's
Washington, Government Printing Office
AN ACCOUNT OF THE OCCURRENCE AND
blood can be actually demonstrated in SPREAD OF DYSENTERY IN THE PACIFIC | Wright (J. ), TESTING, FAULT LOCALIZATION,
the glass tube.
IN FORMER YEARS, by B. Glanvill Corney, AND GENERAL HINTS FOR WIREMEN,
The author devised an interesting experi-
6/ net.
Witherby
1/ net.
Constable
ment in order to put to the test a state-
The fruits of thirteen months' study of A useful and condensed summary of un-
ment of Metchnikoff that the blood does dysentery in Fiji. Investigations have been orthodox tests, hints on locating trouble and
not exert a batericidal
effect under anae- yielded valuable medical results. There are informing, for the average
on the most comprehensive scale, and have the like, which will be found adequate and
wireman. ':
robic conditions. Access of air was pre- ! copious illustrative plates and charts.
It does not pretend to analytic explanation.
are
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Mox. Institute of British Architects, 8. -'The Royal Institute
Early Life and Work,' Lecture II. , Mr. R. Gosse.
between Two Attributes,' Mr. G. U. Yule.
Alloys
-
-
Moir and Prof. A. Keith.
Fletcher
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MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
plants is undoubtedly the soil, and the metal
SOCIETIES.
must therefore be more widely spread
ASTRONOMICAL. -April 12. -Dr. F. W. Dyson,
Library and some of its Contents,' Mr. 0. E. Townsend. throughout nature than was at one time
President, in the chair. The following, papers
Geographical, 8. 80.
Tues. Royal Institution, 3. -Algernon Charles Swinburne: his supposed.
were partly read : Mr. E. E. Barnard, Recent
THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND
Observations of Nova Cygni (1876). ' Measures
Statistical, 5. - On the Methods of measuring Association
THE ROYAL
of stars near the Nova showed but slight evidence
Faraday, 8. -General Discussion on Magnetic Properties of
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY have jointly under-
of motion; the Nova itself appeared to have
taken the publication in volume form the
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. -Discussion on 'The Re-
become stationary in brightness. -Mr. E. E.
modelling and Equipment of Madras Harbour,' and 'The scientific papers of Sir William Herschel.
Barnard, Micrometrical Measures and Focal
Peculiarities of Nova Lacertæ (Espin). ' It
Anthropological Institute. 8. 16. " Pre-Boulder Clay Man,' Mr. These papers are scattered in various volumes
appeared that the Nova existed as a star of the
of the Philosophical Transactions, and a
Zoological, 8. 20,-'A First Account of the Courtship of the
thirteenth magnitude as far back as 1893. —Cam-
Redishank (Totanus calidris). ' Mr. J. 8. Huxley; ' Amphipoda collected edition of the kind was contem.
from Bremerhaven, Mrs. E. W. Sexton ; 'Descriptions of
bridge Observatory, ‘Photographs of the Spectrum
New Fishes of the Family Loricariidæ in the British plated by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, son of Sir
of Nova Geminorum. ' Prof. Newall and Mr.
Museum Collection, Mr. 0. Tate Regan; "The Circu.
latory system of the Common Grass-Snake (Tropidonotus William, but was not proceeded with, on
Stratton showed a series of photographs, and
natrix), Mr. 0. H. O'Donoghue.
pointed out the remarkable changes that had WED. British Numismatic 8. - The Pre-Revolutionary Coinage of
account of the cost of the work. The two
America, 1884-1774, Dr. P. Nelson,
occurred in the spectrum since the star appeared.
volumes which will appear very shortly will
Society of Arts, 8. - Technical Education in Ireland,' Mr. G.
-Prof. Fowler read a paper by Mr. Curtis on
contain not only the records of Herschel's
* The Spectrum of the Nova,' and showed photo-
Tuuks. Royal Institution, 3. -'Synthetic Ammonia and Nitric Acid
from the Atmosphere,' Lecture II. , Prof. A. W. Crossley.
astronomical observations--those of double
graphs. -The President showed and described Royal 4. 30. - 'The Diffusion and Mobility of lons in
the series of photographs of Nova Geminorum
a Magnetic Field,' Prof. J. 8. Townsend ;. On the
stars and nebulæ have been revised and
Observed Variations in the Temperature Coefficients of a
taken at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
corrected as seemed advisable—but also
Precision Balance,' Mr. J. J. Mapley: On the Torque pro-
and explained the use of a grating placed over
duced by a Beam of Light in Oblique Refraction through a autobiographical memoranda and incidents
Glass Plate, Dr. Guy Barlow; 'Contributions to the Study
the object-glass for photometric observations. -
of Plicker, Paper IlI. , Dr. T. C. Porter.
of his life and career hitherto unpublished.
Father Cortie and Mr. Storey gave accounts of
Society of Arts, 4. 30. -The Central Provinces,' Sir J. 0.
Miller. (Indian Section. )
THE spectrum of the Nova in Gemini is
observations of the Nova at Stonyhurst and the
Institution of Electrical Engineers, 8. - Third Kelvin
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. —Dr. Duffield
Lecture, Prof. H. du Bois.
presenting problems for solution by reason
FRI.
urged that the effects of pressure should be taken
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. -The Principles and
Practice of Accountancy in relation to Engineering Design
of its rapid changes of detail and of some
into account in interpreting the changes in the
and Work,' Mr. T. F. Thomson. (students' Meeting. ) peculiarities not hitherto seen in this type
spectrum. -Mr. Phillips described his visual
Royal Institution, 9. - Sir William Herschel,' Sir G. E.
Darwin.
of object. Like most temporary stars in
observations, and pointed out the great intensity SAT. Royal Institution, 3. -'The Architecture of the Renaissance
of the Ha line.
in France : (2) 1547-1594. Architecture and the Court, their first stage, it showed the broadened
Mr. R. Blomfeld.
Prof. Turner read a paper on 'A Tentative
absorption lines which are generally taken
Explanation of the Two Star Streams” in
to indicate motion in the line of sight. The
Terms of Gravitation. ' This second paper on the
obvious inference is that the phenomenon
subject dealt specially with the position of the
centre of our stellar system. In his previous
Science Gossip.
of the Nova has been caused by a collision.
paper he had given a hypothetical constitution
At the meeting of the Royal Astronomical
of the system round a centre of attraction, which QUARTZ dilates on heating to a smaller Society last week it was suggested that this
should lie in the direction of one of the vertices. extent than almost any other substance, broadening, might equally well be con-
Independent lines of investigation pointed to a and hence does not crack or fly when exposed sidered as due to another cause, for a similar
vertex at 90° +11°. The oscillation period of
the sun would be about 400 million years, and
to sudden changes of temperature. It is, appearance had been seen in laboratory
it would have passed pericentron about
therefore, rapidly superseding glass as the experiments in the case of the arc spectrum
million years ago.
material for tubes and other containing of metals under pressure. Nova Geminorum
vessels used in experimental chemistry, No. 2 is said to be an unusually red star.
while its transparency to the ultra-violet MR. C. E. ADAMS, of the Department of
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. —- April 16. - rays necessitates its employment for mercury. Lands, N. Z. , has been appointed Govern-
Sir Francis J. E. Spring read a paper on The vapour lamps and other electrical instru.
ment Astronomer for the Dominion. This
Remodelling and Equipment of Madras Harbour. ' ments. The discovery of the means of is a new departure on the part of the
devoid of all natural advantages, an artificial the fusion of silica under pressure has led that it will lead to increased activity in
The author showed how, on a sandy coast totally producing transparent quartz vessels by Dominion Government, and it is to be hoped
harbour with an area of 200 acres had been con-
structed, originally at a cost of nearly one million
to the setting up of factories in England, astronomical work in New Zealand. We
sterling ; and yet when made, and up to seven France, and Germany, where many thou believe that there is a well-equipped
years ago, it was found to be of comparatively sands are turned out daily.
little use for the easy, cheap, and expeditious
observatory at Wellington which has not
transit of cargo between ships' holds and carriers'
M. Daniel Berthelot in a recent lecture | hitherto been made available for astro-
carts or railway wagons. By a remodelling of to the French Society of Civil Engineers nomical research, as its activities appear
the shape of the harbour and the formation of a drew attention to the fact that the pioneer to have been confined to such strictly
basin for small craft, conditions have
been secured who pointed out the practicability of utilitarian purposes as the communication
and shore in all weathers. This remodelling fusing quartz the French chemist of accurate time. There are still too few
consisted in closing the east entrance, which Gaudin, who in 1840 succeeded in making active observatories in the Southern Hemi.
allowed the swell to roll in nearly all the year lenses and other small objects in silica, sphere.
round, and forming a new north-east entrance fused by means of the oxyhydrogen blow- THE question of the period of rotation of
equipment has been provided
in the shape of pipe. He was followed in 1897 by our
Venus continues to occupy the attention of
works on shore, such as piers and wharves for
own countryman, Prof. Vernon Boys, whose astronomers. The markings visible on the
lighters, a quay for ships, an ample supply of ingenious method of making, by means of surface of the planet are of such a delicate
cranes, a large area of shedding, together with a tiny bow and arrow, the fine threads of nature that it is a matter of great difficulty
railways, roads, and everything else required for quartz used for the suspension of galvano-to deduce the period of rotation from their
the speedy and safe passage of goods through meter needles is well known. In 1900 M. observed movements. On this account the
result of the construction of the boat-basin Dufour showed in the laboratory of the spectroscopic method of observation, by
referred to has been to bring into existence a fine École normale supérieure the method of which the motions of approach or recession
fleet of privately owned lighters, of 40 to 60 tons making vessels by means of coiled filaments of opposite parts of the limb are determined,
capacity. The effect of the extra two-thirds
of a million expenditure over and above the
of fused quartz wound round a mould in is far more promising. By the application
original million is that vessels visiting the port much the same manner as the so-called wire of the latter method M. Belopolsky of
other than what may be called the passenger guns used in artillery, and thus rendered Pulkowa has recently arrived at the con.
ferry-boats trading with Burma and the Malay possible the present extensive industry. clusion that the period of rotation is not
States-are passing in and out of the harbour in
about half the time possible five years ago ;
THE presence of arsenic in the organism very different from one day. On the other
whereby its capacity has, virtually, been con- of man and other animals was for a long time hand, Prof. Lowell, from a study of his
siderably enlarged.
supposed to be due to a sort of natural drawings of the markings, as well as from
Mr. H. H. G. Mitchell read a paper on The alchemy or transmutation of metals, until his spectroscopic observations, has satisfied
Alteration of the Form of Madras Harbour. it was shown that this metal could also be himself that the period is about 225 days,
This second paper dealt with the method of
carrying out the actual work of alterations to the found in certain plants, such as the cabbage, as was first suggested by Schiaparelli.
harbour. The first consideration was the weather, the turnip, and the potato, and in wheat. M. HENRI POINCARÉ, the famous mathe.
and special precautions had to be taken to secure MM. Jadin and Astruc, in a communication matician and Professor of Mathematical
the work during the cyclonic season. By taking made this month to the Académie des Astronomy in the University of Paris, is
such precautions it was possible to proceed con-
tinuously with the setting of the sloping block: Sciences, show that this list may be consider- lecturing to the University of London on
work. The materials used in and the method of ably extended, and should include mush- May 3rd, 4th, 10th, and 11th upon · La
making the concrete blocks were described. In the rooms, rice, peas and beans, artichokes, Logique de l'Infini,' Le Temps et l'Espace,'
erection of the north sheltering arm the blocks lettuces, celery, asparagus, parsnips, and, in Les Invariants arithmétiques,' and 'La
were dealt with by means of a titan crane capable fact, nearly all vegetables used as food by Théorie du Rayonnement. '
of lifting the 33-ton blocks at a radius of 82 ft.
His speculations
The blockwork is in the form of sloping slices
man, together with such fruits as apples, upon space are of interest to philosophers
a rubble bed, with pell-mell wave-breaker pears, pineapples, oranges, and nuts. The and mathematicians alike, and his visit is
blocks on the scaward side.
source from which the arsenic is drawn by an event of real moment.
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gap in the clouds lets through a tiny shaft
of light focussed, like a limelight, exactly
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
on the figure. This rather cheap device is
FINE ARTS
(Notice in these columns doos not preclude longer
for once condoned on account of its impres-
review. )
siveness; but the constant centralization
of lighting in Mr. Brangwyn's designs makes
India, Annual Report of the Director- them collectively somewhat fatiguing, par-
General of Archæology for the Year 1910- ticularly as one of the principal reasons for
1911: Part I. Administrative, 9d.
Nature in Italian Art : a Study of
such a policy seems to be the need of knitting
Calcutta, Govt. Printing Office together compositions extremely ragged and
Landscape Backgrounds from Giotto to
Treats of archæological exploration, the loose in the drawing of detail. With these
Tintoretto. By Emma Gurney Salter. listing and conservation of ancient Moham- reservations, we admire again Mr. Brang.
(A. & C. Black. )
medan monuments,
administra- wyn's eye for a grandiose subject and his
tion, epigraphical work, and the like. There instinctive sense of perspective, which enable
This book deals with a fascinating subject, are a number of appendixes.
him to maintain so confidently the plastic
but when its author refers to the inde-
unity of a drawing. No. 14, Cathedral,
fatigable Garafalo, whose already too Nash (Joseph), THE MANSIONS OF ENGLAND Cahors, is an excellent example among the
long list of authentic works has been
IN THE OLDEN TIMES.
water-colours of these qualities.
Heinemann
swollen by looking on him as the school- To turn over the pages of this fine volume In some of the large-scale figure drawings,
boy did on the two Apostles — as almost is to be carried back to the Early Victorian such as Nos. 12, 30, and 32, and in a lesser
' ,”
view of architecture. Sixty years ago the degree in the studies (36 and 37) for
are constrained to wish she could have intere than thentiment permet are inclined
to oppressive tense of the professional model
assumed a similar pious faith in dealing suspect it of being largely an affectation posing at very close quarters, by reason of
with most of the painters she passes under of fashion. Nash's drawings have, however, the artist's exaggerated rendering of effects
review. Had she done so, we might have a very real value. Not only do they record of salience or recession in muscular details
found rather more continuity and less re- faithfully the mansions of England as they at the expense of general projection of the
petition in what she has to say concerning existed in his day, but they also reflect group as a whole. It is fair to recognize,
à branch of painting which, in any case,
something of the atmosphere and outlook of however, that this fault is to some extent
their time. In spite of the care taken by remedied in the plates themselves, so that
has many aspects in its development the draughtsman to render the figures in in No. 22, The Crucifixion, and No. 35, The
and is difficult to treat in an orderly the spacious courts and galleries in keeping Nativity, there is a distinct attempt to
manner. In every chapter we find evidence with the style of architecture, Victorian restrain the exuberant line which makes the
of the author's deep feeling for and accessories and the Victorian point of view studies too lively to be quite serious. One
delight in landscape, but the accompany- peep out of the pictures. Nash's drawings of Mr. Brangwyn's habits of invention seems
ing display of perhaps creditable, but had considerable vogue, and helped to to be that of casting about, in face of any
renew an interest in architecture.
largely extraneous, learning might advan-
The book picturesque setting he may stumble upon,
was used as a short cut or pattern book by to see which of the traditional subjects of
tageously have been relegated to the the amateur and the untrained architect, ancient art can be forced into the new
index.
and was
no doubt indirectly responsible mould. In the case of No. 35, the spiral
The narrative being encumbered by the for a large and futile expenditure of bricks staircase leading up into a loft is a not inapt
necessity of pursuing its course seriatim and mortar, and the so-called restoration accessory to a Nativity, the design being
from individual painter to painter, the rain reality destruction -- of many fine magnificently picturesque without mucń
houses
loss of seriousness. The choice of the
author has hardly elbow-room to do more
than trace a gradually increasing com- little Introduction
Prof. Blomfield has written an admirable Crucifixion is more voulu, and, although
enormous viaduct as a background to the
plexity of realistic presentation, which He gives a brief account of Nash and sloping cross-beams of the Crucifixion, and
it serves some purpose as balancing the
she is inclined to represent too exclusively his airs, with some discussion of the
as an advance. She is not concerned to state of architecture at the time. The value fantastic perversion of historic facts, inas-
so steadying the design, it seems a wilfully
register certain counterbalancing losses, of the volume lies in the accuracy of the much as it plunges Golgotha into a profound
consideration of which prevents us from drawings as records, also as examples of
ravine.
adopting too patronizing a tone towards lithography of an out-of-date sort; as such
the apparently childish efforts of a primi- they will interest the lover of old buildings
tive art. By its consistency and purity many difficulties to overcome in the follow-
The enormous scale and lavish use of
and the draughtsman, who no longer has so
“ foul biting in Mr. Brangwyn's plates
a simple method may impose itself on the ing of his art.
will sometimes be forgiven for the sake of
beholder more than a copious but miscel-
the dramatic force of the composition.
laneous representation, and by virtue of Salter (Emma Gurney), NATURE IN ITALIAN
We may compare it with the classic perfection
its sincerity the former may often show
ART:
A STUDY OF LANDSCAPE BACK-
of Meryon, as shown in the superb prints
us figures moving in a landscape as real GROUNDS FROM GIOTTO TO TINTORETTO, (on the special green paper_beloved of
as themselves, when the personages of a
7/6 net.
A. & C. Black collectors), Le Petit Pont (48), Tourelle, Rue
de la Tixanderie (49), St. Etienne du Mont (51),
later painter are patently projected against
a lovely painted background.
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge : CATALOGUE kunst's Gallery. Among these masterpieces
and Tour de l'Horloge (52), at Mr. Gute-
OF A LARGE AND IMPORTANT COLLEC-
By regarding as outside the scope of
OF JAPANESE COLOUR PRINTS,
it must be admitted that the commonplace
her work discussion of the relations of the
SURIMONO, AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS,
and muddled Pont au Chango (first statē, 50)
art she deals with to modern landscape,
the Property of Sir Frank Swettenham,
makes a very poor figure. We submit that
51
the author leaves the intention of some
this etching has little intrinsic value, and
that the esteem in which it is held is largely
of her phrases rather ambiguous. She
The work of cataloguing is adequately fictitious - a mistaken tribute to the
is entitled to refer to Bellini's preference
done, and the reproductions are excellent.
glamour of the name of Meryon, not a
for “full sunlight” in his pictures, and
recognition of his artistic qualities.
to the
truth of this or that natural
The exhibition includes examples of lesser
effect, if she makes clear the degree
etchers of his day, such as Lalanne, whose
and kind of truth implied, and what
TWO EXHIBITIONS OF ETCHINGS.
Demolitions (30) is a link with the eigh-
characteristics of sunlight stood for sun-
teenth century-of Canale, let us say;
THE prolific talent of Mr. Frank Brangwyn while No. 35, Trouville, Low Tide, will
light in Bellini's art. It is because we again fills the Gallery of the Fine Art Society command admiration by the darting pre-
believe she could have written in illu- with work of his usual vivacity. Of the cision of its more fluent line. There are
minating fashion on these and many other etchings, The Broken Christ, Messina (3), three fine prints by Millet, one of Rousseau's,
points that we regret to find her work so and the large Nativity (35) are the best, the and a series by Charles Jacques, one of the
clogged with biography as to prevent technique of the former being inspired, best of which (9), singularly modern, re-
adequate treatment of the paintings them- brandt's later work, while its lighting is based The less-inspired plates of Jacques and
,
selves. The illustrations are admirably on the supposition of a thoroughly Rem-Adolph Appian recall the pen drawings
chosen.
brandtesque stage miracle, whereby a tiny' which used to illustrate Salon catalogues.
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No. 4408, APRIL 20, 1912
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DR. A. K. COOMARASWAMY is lecturing In his First Sonatina in A minor, a
next Wednesday evening to the India later work - at any rate it is marked
Fine Art Gossip.
Society, at 21, Cromwell Road, S. W. , on Op. 74—the second of its two movements
Rajput Painting. '
is also in Chaconne form, but, though
At the Dowdeswell Galleries the water-
The date of Sargon of Accad, which was
the writing is full of clever points, it is
colour drawings by Mr. O.