Up-
Admirers of the critic in his “pre-Post-
Sho left Edinburgh in 1874, and founded wards of 400 pages of detail
, however, baffle Impressionist” days will flock to his exhi-
the London School of Medicine for Women; the average reader, just as the Flemish bition for light on Mr.
Admirers of the critic in his “pre-Post-
Sho left Edinburgh in 1874, and founded wards of 400 pages of detail
, however, baffle Impressionist” days will flock to his exhi-
the London School of Medicine for Women; the average reader, just as the Flemish bition for light on Mr.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Lutz, Professor at the parent-both opaque and transparent being Turbo-Compressor,' Mr.
G.
Ingram.
(Students' Meeting.
)
But the quantity of light
Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 8. - The Evolution and
Ecole supérieure de Pharmacie de Paris, relative terms.
produced
for
the International Con-
reflected depends on the surface of the
Royal Institution, 9. – Heat Problems, ' Prof. Sir J. Dowar.
ference on Genetics recently held in Paris, object and the nature of the media traversed Royal Institution, s. - The Banyoro: a Pastoral People of
gives in readable form some much-needed by the light, which in its turn depends on the
light on current problems of biology. In it index of refraction of these last, the maxi-
M. Lutz acknowledges the services of our mum of transparency being reached when
countryman Prof. Bateson, whose definition the indices of the different media are equal.
of genetics as “the physiology of descent
Prof. Spalteholtz's discovery consists in the
Science Gossip.
he quotes with approval. He also shows production of a liquid which has
clearly the gradual transformation of the index of refraction of the greatest mean MESSRS. LONGMANS announce a revised
science since the days of Darwin, who value, and this he considers he has obtained in and enlarged edition in five volumes of Sir
thought that the essential principle of evolu- those above mentioned. . By, their aid, Edward Thorpe's
well-known Dictionary
tion was natural selection, whereby all those either separately or combined, he claims of Applied Chemistry. The first volume
competing
forms which did not possess the that he is able to impart to the tissues of will be ready in a few days, and the second
maximum power of resistance were gradually any organ a far greater degree of trans- early in the summer.
eliminated. M. Lutz declares that beside parency than by radioscopy, and that those
M. EIFFEL has just published a complement
these gradual changes there also take place parts whose index of refraction differs
others which occur suddenly and without from the mean value stand out distinctly, to the first edition of his book on the resist-
warning, and form the "abrupt mutations
which they do not under the Röntgen rays.
ance of air and aviation, a study to which for
With its
of De Vries and others. These muta- He has written a treatise on the subject, ten years he has devoted himself.
tions had been in some sort reduced to a
which is clearly summarized by Dr. Alfred small models of different types of aeroplane,
law by Mendel in 1865, the neglect of whose Gradenwitz in the current number of the and its artificial winds of high velocity, his
theories until their discovery and translation Revue Générale des Sciences.
aerodynamic laboratory is rendering import-
by De Vries and Tschermak in 1900 forms Dr. Leonard Hill and Dr. Martin Flack ant practical service to aviation, reducing to
a minimum the experience so dearly gained
one of the romantic incidents constantly examine 'The Physiological Influence of
occurring in science.
Ozone' in the current Proceedings of the
on full-sized machines.
TOWARDS the end of the month a Museum
M. Lutz, however, also reminds us that Royal Society. They find that its chief
M. Blaringhem has argued that these muta- action is on the olfactory nerves, and on those of Municipal Hygiene is to be opened in
tions have in many cases followed upon they think it may act somewhat like a
of the respiratory tract and skin, although Paris. Its twenty-eight halls and galleries
will be devoted to the exhibition of collec-
mutilations or
summed up in the word "traumatisms. ” His blister in bringing an increase of blood and tions relating to urban and dwelling-house
experiments on plants and animals lead tissue lymph to a particular part. They hygiene, contagious disease, food adultera-
the last-named scholar to conclude that the
further say that it is a powerful deodorizer tion, hygiene of the transport service,
characteristics of the parents are not so
which masks rather than destroys smells, alcoholism, tuberculosis, and allied subjects.
much transmitted as juxtaposed on the and, in a concentration as low as one in a Evening meetings and lectures will be
descendants, which he calls“ heredity in million, causes annoying irritation to the arranged. The museum will be open free
mosaic,” and this is peculiarly noticeable respiratory tract, which becomes dangerous to the public.
in the case of grafts, where some branches
if further increased. It reduces the re-
A NEW method of vaccination has been
present the characteristics
of one, and others spiratory metabolism, and, to judge from introduced by Dr. de Libessart into the
that of the other parent. The true explana
some experiments on rats, the temperature French army. Noticing that hardly 20 per
tion of this phenomenon is still disputed,
also. The experiments from which these con-
cent of the vaccinations were effective-a fact
clusions were drawn were made with a grant which he ascribed to the disinfectants
but there can be little doubt that it
decides in the affirmative the question so
from the Hospital Research Fund, and may applied to the skin before puncture — he
long discussed by biologists as to whether
correct some popular errors. F. L.
hit upon the idea of causing a slight burn
acquired characteristics can or cannot be
instead of a prick. The arm is first washed
inherited. M. Lutz's article, which goes
in water that has been boiled, then wiped
into many other questions besides those here
SOCIETIES.
with a sterilized rag, and an electric cautery
summarized, appeared in the Revue Scien-
applied on the traditional three points. On
tifique of the 6th inst.
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. Jan. O:- the slight blisters thus caused the vaccine
6 Members, 47 Associate Members, and Associate lymph is applied with a small spatula, which
In a recent number of the Compte Rendu were elected; whilst 29 Associate Members were
of the Académie des Sciences M. André transferred to the class of Members.
is changed for each patient, and the skin is
Lancien draws attention to the medicinal
exposed to the air for five minutes. By this
use of the colloidal form of rhodium when
process the number of “takes is rather
prepared by the electrical process. After Mox. Royal Academy, 4. -'Portraits,' Lecture I. , Sir W. B. Rich. more than doubled, while the pain is said to be
a long series of experiments upon fish, frogs, Bibliographical, 5. -Annual Meeting : Presidential Address.
even less than when the lancet is employed.
rabbits, and dogs, he is able to pronounce Surveyors' Institution, 7. -Mortgages,' Mr. E. H. Blake PLATO's story about the submerged con-
that it is a perfectly safe remedial agent,
Geographical, 8. 30.
tinent of Atlantis has again cropped up,
and is not poisonous even when used in TUES. Royal Institution, 3. -'The Study of Genetics,' Lecture I. ,
this time with some scientific evidence in
large doses. He has employed it at the Royal Academy, 4. - Portraits, Lecture II. , Sir W. B. Rich-
its support. M. Louis Germain, in a recent
Paris hospital of La Pitié for intra-veinous statistical, 5. The Recruiting of the Employing Classes from communication to the French Academy of
injections in cases of acute pneumonia,
the Ranks of the Operatives in the Cotton Industry,' Prof.
Sciences, draws attention to the existence in
typhoid fever, enteritis, and two bad cases Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. --Discussion on 'Reinforced.
Quaternary strata in Morocco of many fossil
of appendicitis, and finds that in every
The Direct Experimental Determination of
molluscs, including the Helix Graveli Ger-
case it reduces the bodily temperature imme-
Concrete Columns'; and Composite Columns of Concrete main, of the same species as are still extant in
diately, without producing any effect on the
WED. Royal Society of Literature, 5. 15. - Dramatic Construction : the Azores, the Canaries, Madeira, and the
liver or kidneys. If these results can be
Meteorological, 7. 46. Some Meteorological Observations,'
islands of the Cape Verd archipelago.
reproduced by other practitioners, it would
From this and other evidence of the same
Entomological, 8. -Annual Meeting:
seem that medicine has gained another Polk-lore, 8. – The Folk-lore of the British Gypsies,' Mr. nature he deduces the sinking under the
weapon which should supplement or sup-
13
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
mond. :
London Institution, 5. -' Alchemy, Mr. M. M. P. Muir.
(Junior Meeting. )
Prof. W. Bateson.
mond.
-
8. J. Chapman and Mr. P. J. Marquis.
Concrete Wharves and Warehouses at Lower Pootung.
Shanghai'
the stresses in the 8teel and in the Concrete of Reinforced-
and Steel. '
the Need of a New Technique,' Prof. W. L. Courtney.
-
Dr. H. N. Dickson. (Presidential Address. )
11
sea of a continent once extending from these
Society of Arts, 8. -Illuminated M88. ,'Mr. O. Davenport.
plant the always dangerous use of the
Tnurs. Royal Institution, 3. The New Astronomy,' Lecture I. , Prof.
islands to Morocco, and gives reasons for
depressants now employed.
Royal Academy, 1. - Realism,' Bir W. B. Richmond.
thinking that the submersion took place
Prof. Spalteholtz of Leipsic also announces
Royal, 4. 30. The Physiological Effects of Low Atmo- in late Pliocene times. It may be so ; but
a method of rendering anatomical prepara- (Preliminary Communication), Dr. J. 8. Haldane, Mr. C. G. from the Pliocene Age to that of Plato is a
Douglas, Prof. Y. Henderson, and Prof. E. O. Schneider :
tions transparent without any lesion of their
long time, and by whom was the tradition
Blood," Mr. J. Barcroft;, Noto on Astrosclera willeyana,
surfaces or alteration of the structure of the
handed down ?
Lister,' Mr. R. Kirkpatrick; and other Papers.
T. W. Thompson.
Microscopical, 8. -Certain Blood Parasitos,' the President.
A. W. Bickerton.
spheric Pressures, as observed on Pike's Peak, Colorado'
The Etroct of Altitude on tho Dissociation Ourve of the
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THE death was announced at Windy-
fessional critic, torn between the rival
dene, Sussex, last Sunday, of Dr. Sophia
attractions of these two schools, has been
Jex-Blake, leader of the movement at
FINE ARTS
enormously impressed by the demonstration
Edinburgh University, forty years ago, for
that a mind of acrobatic agility could com-
the medical education of women. The
bine the two. Admired of all beholders,
youngest daughter of Thomas Jex-Blake,
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
Mr. Fry has pranced along, a foot on either
Proctor of Doctors' Commons, she took
steed, as though it were the simplest thing
her M. D. at the University of Berne in
IN handling a subject vast
in the world, followed by plunging and
1877; was mathematical tutor at Queen's
Wood Sculpture (Methuen) Mr.
Alfred gasping imitators who would fain do the
College, London, 1858-61; and studied Maskell displays such wide knowledge and
Again and again have kind-hearted
medicine under Dr. Lucy Sewall in Boston, such sound taste that we are bound to onlookers re-sanded the arena, standing
U. S. , in 1866. She matriculated in 1869 in the
welcome a
less comprehensive
ready to soften inevitable falls. The result
Medical Faculty of the University of Edin. work upon an art comparatively
neglected has been not so much to reduce the dangers
burgh, but not being allowed to complete by English writers. To be readable is, he of the
as to encumber it with
her studies and take her degree, she brought declares, rather his aim than to be erudite, padding which makes progress impossible.
an action against the University in 1872.
and readable the book certainly is.
Up-
Admirers of the critic in his “pre-Post-
Sho left Edinburgh in 1874, and founded wards of 400 pages of detail
, however, baffle Impressionist” days will flock to his exhi-
the London School of Medicine for Women; the average reader, just as the Flemish bition for light on Mr. Fry's state of mind.
she also founded in 1886 the Edinburgh carved altarpieces, crowded with figures, The irresponsible journalist may blindly
School of Medicine for Women, which in
are apt to puzzle and fatigue the beholder believe in the latest developments of ad-
1894 was recognized by the University for
in spite of the brilliant execution of each vanced painters, the President of the Royal
graduation, so that her old battle was won
of Academy may devoutly disbelieve, and both
at last. She has written on American passage. Indeed, the very emphasis
Schools and Colleges," and Care of Infants. ' parts in these carvings, their lavish under leave us cold-“Who wonders and who
cares ? ” Blougram, on the other hand,
Two essays— Medicine as a Profession for cutting and bold relief, only make their
extent and copiousness more terrifying; holds our interest. “ He to believe at this
Women,' and 'Medical Education of Women'
and by the analogous use of a style over-rich late time of day And yet we have his
-were published in 1872 in a volume
in disjunctives—" buts and
word in black and white. "
entitled Medical Women. '
Mr. Maskell makes it additionally difficult Without wishing to discourage pilgrims,
It is amusing for those who are behind to follow the main groupings of the works we must record our impression that from
the scenes in astronomical matters to note he passes under survey.
the exhibition itself we should hardly have
the solemn manner in which writers like
To keep such grouping clear is in any case deduced the inclusiveness of the artist's
Mr. G. F. Chambers (Journal of the British difficult enough, because the distribution of appreciations. We see in it mainly an
Astronomical Association, vol. xxii. No. 2)
attempt to utilize just those reactionary,
refer to the discrepancies 'as to the duration the subject-matter into chapters is not so
much systematicas opportunist
and in the better sense of the word academic,
of totality of the solar eclipse of April 17th being made according to date, now by principles of design which we have ourselves
next, given in the different national, ephe nationality, now by material or subject- endeavoured to disengage from the more
merides. The simple fact of the matter is
matter or destination. The scope of the anarchic elements of Post-Impressionism.
that different values of the moon's diameter work, too, is a little arbitrary, as its We find nothing here, for example, of the
are adopted in the several publications to
author concedes: “It may be asked,” recondite, and to many impenetrable, charac-
which Mr. Chambers refers, and hence, he says, " why such and such a figure has ter of the drawing by Picasso which recently
necessarily, different values of the duration been included, and why such another one puzzled subscribers to The New Age. The
of totality result in the calculations. . . The has been passed over. The only answer is vision is very much the vision of the Mr. Fry
Nautical Almanac' uses the smallest dia-
that a choice had to be made. " Yet, after of yesterday, but with a more conscious,
meter, and therefore gives the shortest all, it would seem reasonable that this perhaps somewhat too conscious, acceptance
duration of totality. But recent experience choice should be consistent, and that a of the essential conventions of painting.
seems to show that this diameter is not too
school should either be taken or left en bloc. The basis of his method appears to us for
small
, and it is quite possible that the dura- If Medieval, Romanesque, and, above all
, the most part very sound. Reasonable
tion of totality on the central line may be
Gothic work, be the author's main subject, enough is Mr. Fry's distrust of any design
even less than the 03•6 given in our national it would have simplified his task if he had which depends too much on hair-splitting,
ephemeris.
cut out Renaissance work more completely. evasive distinctions, whether of tone or colour
DURING the year 1911 fifty-eight small Similarly, in a book which ignores Oriental or angle. In such a work as No. 2, A
planets were discovered, but eight of these and barbaric woodcarving, we are not sure Novelist, we see how much of the eloquence
were found on examination to be identical of the utility of including that of ancient of the head is dependent on a bold simplifica-
with bodies previously observed, so that Egypt, unless more be made of the connexion tion of angles, the artist using obvious
on balance there are fifty asteroids to be between it and the earlier, more primitive harmonic divisions of his 360° available
added to the family that circulate round the sculpture of Gothic and Renaissance schools degrees much as a musician uses the notes
sun between Mars and Jupiter. Of these alike than is made by Mr. Maskell.
of a scale, knowing the infinite subtlety and
more than thirty were discovered at Heidel-
The illustrations are on the whole excellent, variety possible in combinations of these,
berg, the next largest contribution coming and the relation between plates and letter- though the relation of any two to each other
from the Transvaal Observatory at Johannes-
will be based on a simple numerical ratio.
burg, of which Mr. Innes, formerly of the press is helpfully indicated.
A similar slightly doctrinaire simplicity
Cape of Good Hope Observatory, is Director.
One can almost
MEMBERS of the staff of the Paris Obser- The Memorial Edition of Meredith's Works colour and dividing them with arithmetical
One of the most attractive features of governs his use of colour.
fancy the artist taking his extremes of
vatory have lately determined the difference
was its well-chosen illustrations, and we
of longitude between that place and Bizerta have from time to time made this feature Theoretically the result should be very
care at certain definite rhythmic intervals.
in Tunis by the help of wireless telegraphy. the subject of appreciative comment in harmonious, but in practice the most con-
This is not the first time that astronomers
columns. The whole series is now
have availed themselves of the Hertzian offered by Messrs. Constable & Co. in a port- matches the craftsman's instinctive sense
scientious adherence to principle hardly
waves for such a purpose, but the distance folio uniform in size and appearance with that if you carve your masses boldly the
of 800 miles makes the achievement remark- the volumes of the “Memorial Edition. ”
able. Signals sent from the Eiffel Tower
extremities will evolve themselves. At this
at regular intervals were heard in telephone
opinion Mr. Fry has arrived "by demonstra-
receivers and timed, at Tunis and at the
tive reasoning,” and we entirely concur in
Paris Observatory; and similarly signals sent THE PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS OF
his conclusion.
from the wireless installation at Bizerta
MR. ROGER FRY.
In his use of outline in oil painting he seems
were heard at both places. By this means
to us less happy than in his water-colours. He
the clocks at the two stations where observa- THERE are two forms of error to which the uses it apparently to maintain a clear distinc-
tions were being made were compared. A modern writer on art is specially prone. tion between the main entities of his composi-
telegraphic longitude determination always The first is to reduce criticism to å solemn tion, but appears hardly to realize how strongly
gives as a by-product a value for the speed and interminable discussion of minor points this heavy line acts as a steadying mono-
of the electric current, and the account of of posthumous attribution ; the second con- tone, making comparatively crisply divided
this work in the Comptes Rendus states that sists in the assumption that the traditions colour look a little dingy. How much richer
the time of transmission of the Hertzian and principles of the centuries immediately in hue a similar sequence of tones appears
wave between Paris and Bizerta was in the behind us are now too worn out and effete to in such a work as No. 31, for example, in
mean (**007, which gives a value of the be of any practical interest to the artist, which for once the outline is reduced to a
velocity, as was to be expected, of the same who must perforce begin again de novo with minimum! No. 14, A Wide Valley with an
order as that of light.
a primitive, if not a barbaric, art. The pro-inspiring march of clouds, and No. 42, The
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Armchair, are instances in which the con- the perfect style, the true function of paint-Shepherds Reposing at Night, and two
'
vention the artist uses sits most lightly ing, the former with unswerving conviction | portraits. To these must now be added
upon him. Though in hardly any of the bent on developing to the utmost his own; fourth--the small interior with figures of
works shown he designs in other than terms personal aptitudes. He does this in a way men playing at the game of “ La Main
of perspective, there are a good many in so free from the slackness which Sir Chaude," which has hitherto been attributed
which he seems needlessly uneasy lest he Edward Poynter rightly diagnosed as one to Rembrandt's pupil Willem de Poorter.
should be betrayed to a nicety of observation alarming symptom of the “ spirit of the This remarkable picture is so far superior
in any part beyond what is justified by the age," that we can hardly imagine such com- to the known work of De Poorter that its
degree of grasp on the plastic facts of the petence will ever come to be valueless. attribution has long been deemed doubtful,
scene as a whole implied by his design. As Mr. Sargent's Lady Faudel-Phillips (39) shows and recent investigations have confirmed
a result, we have never to denounce a mere- similar qualities, but with a slightly greater the Director of the Gallery in his belief
tricious and pretended exactitude, but do power of generalization.
that it is an early work by Rembrandt,
again and again come upon a perverse There are also capable paintings by MM.
probably painted when he was about 20
refusal of the artist to allow his eyo its Besnard (5) and Zorn (8) among the
years of age.
natural nicety. The foreground bank in foreigners, and by Mr. Maurice Greiffen- RECENT additions to the Gallery include a
No. 15 stands up, on end with sudden but hagen (34) and Mr. MacLure Hamilton fine male portrait, supposed to be that of
unnecessary qualms, lest the water-line (17) among Anglo-Saxons. In Miss Betty the painter Adriaen van Ostade, by Johan
should be too realistically fat; and the Fagan's Will Fagan and Friend (6) the van Rossum. The man represented in the
treatment of the patterned chair in No. 42 woman's head is well painted; and Mr. Dublin portrait wears
a dark cloak with
looks as if Mr. Fry were desperately deter- Spencer Watson's Miss Tisdall (131), and white turned-over collar and black hat.
mined to avoid the delicate differentiation Mr. Francis Dodd's Sir Bruce Seton (136), His gloved left hand rests on a table on
of angle and proportion which should sym- are almost the only noticeable works among which there is a head of Hadrian. The
bolize a change of plane. These are, what used to be so important a feature of portrait, which is in excellent condition,
perhaps, mistakes on the right side for an these exhibitions, the drawings.
is an interesting example of Dutch seven-
artist in his own opinion bred in a too
teenth-century portraiture.
sophisticated age which is apt to ignore the The Exhibition of the Senefelder Club at
obvious.
the Goupil Gallery is mainly remarkable for In the Portrait Gallery there are two new
works :
His use of broken colour, on the other hand, Mr. Hartrick's series of fine prints (18-23).
a portrait of Dr. Alexander, the
seems to us frequently a survival of some More than any other member of the Club
late Primate of Ireland, by Mr. Harris
other method. It constantly sullies the Mr. Hartrick seems to have found his true Brown, and one of the Irish painter James
purity of a sequence of colours which are métier in lithography. Mr. E. J. Sullivan's Barrie, by Opie.
surely theoretically flat and already none Old Darkie (114) is in similar vein, and we WORKS by students of the Metropolitan
too violently discriminated. This for paint- admire once more the professional certainty School of Art are now open to view in
ing in oil appears to us just as much a mistake of Mr. Kerr Lawson's execution. Bauer's Dublin. Amongst the exhibitors is Mr.
on the wrong side as the occasional use of group of lithographs is a great disappoint- Albert Power, who shows life-size
too heavy a monochrome line.
ment.
modelled figure of a girl, which was awarded
There are minor details here and there--
a gold medal at the National Art Competi-
like the meaninglessly ragged division Among the other shows of the week are
tion last year.
The Dublin School is remark-
between tone and tone on the pot in the that of Mr. A. Jamieson-brilliant, pleasant, able for having obtained nine medals and
Still Life (50)—which puzzle us, unless they slightly wanting in severity at the Carfax twenty-six prizes and commendations at
are symptoms of occasional carelessness. Gallery (No. 1, The Dark Pool, establishes a
this competition, and the present exhibition
On the whole, the exhibition seems to show distinct kinship with the landscapes of M. consists largely of the successful works.
the workings of a logical mind not always Helleu), and that of Sir Alfred East at the
learly judging the degree of complexity of Leicester Gallery, which shows the artist's At the Georges Petit Galleries, Paris,
subject - matter most natural to it. The neat, compact use of direct water-colour. there will open on the 26th inst. a show
Turkish Shawl (49) is, we think, the best Both are above the average of minor exhibi- of pictures under the title of 'Exposition
picture Mr. Fry has yet painted. Still life is tions, We could hardly say that of Mr. des Pompiers. ' The promoters of the exhi-
perhaps the least satisfactory subject- Bagehot De la Bere's landscapes and bition include MM. Aimé Morot, Dagnan-
matter for a method which naturally thrives grotesques at the Fine Art Society, and, Bouveret, Harpignies, and Auguste Poin-
on anything bound together by a structural indeed, the word “grotesque,” which Renais- telin, who will all be largely represented as
unity of its own-a moving sky or a figure, sance critics denounced as a misnomer, is well as the late Felix Ziem. Those artists
who hold by earlier traditions regard the
for example No. 13, A Tramp, is very good. coming to have a sinister suitability.
It becomes stupid when applied to an acci-
venture as a protest against the present pro-
dental jumble of objects which might yield
occupation of Paris with the neo-impres-
plenty of interest as a theme for fuller
sionists, the Fauves, the Cubistes, and other
research into the unifying effect of per-
modern schools.
spective and lighting. Mr. Fry's preference
Fine Art Gossip.
M. RODIN has just completed a bronze
for a gaunt pattern sometimes stops short
bust representing 'France,' which is being
of inclusion of the only binding factors.
MR. HENRY WAGNER, who recently lent purchased by public subscription in Paris
to the exhibition of Old Masters at the for presentation to the United States. The
Grafton Galleries a 'Madonna and Child bust, which is to be taken across the Atlantic
with Angels,' attributed to Benozzo, and a
OTHER EXHIBITIONS. small panel entitled, with some doubt, eventually be placed at the foot of the
by a special deputation of Frenchmen, will
S. Giovanni Gualberto instituting the colossal lighthouse now being erected to
THE Exhibition of the Royal Society of Order of Vallombrosa,' by Lorenzo Monaco, the memory of Champlain on a site by the
Portrait Painters may be dismissed more
has offered both to the Trustees and shore of the lake bearing his name.
briefly than usual because, in spite of the Director of the National Gallery for their
illustrious patronage it now for the first acceptance.
A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION of works by
time enjoys, the great majority of its ex-
Eugène Boudin is now open at the Galerie
The former picture, which was in the
hibits are regrettably commonplace. Chief William Graham Collection until 1886, and
Bernheime Jeune, Rue Richepanse, Paris.
among the exceptions are Nos. 52 and 54,
was exhibited at Burlington House in 1885,
THE 'Lettres de Vincent van Gogh à
hanging as pendants to each other, and by as well as at the New Gallery in 1893, was, Émile Bernard' will be published next week
Messrs. W. W. Russell and William Orpen according to Mr. Berenson, copied by the in Paris with 100 illustrations.
respectively. The first is elaborate
design for å single-figure picture, both plasti- meo Caporali from Benozzo's 'Madonna, received what is described as a very beautiful
contemporary Umbrian painter Bartolom-
THE MUSÉE DE L'ARMÉE, Paris, has just
cally and as a colour-scheme extraordinarily Saints, and Angels' in the National Gallery miniature of the Emperor Napoleon": I. ,
capable and well-knit. Into this the head (No. 1461).
of a lady has been “inset, as the printers
which formerly belonged to his secretary,
say. Any other head would have done as
The small picture by Monaco, which was Baron Fain. The name of the artist is
well, and this failure to establish any sym-
in the G. C. Somerville collection in 1887, and apparently unknown. Το the same
pathy between the enclosing planes of the figured at the New Gallery in 1893 with Museum have been added a bust and a
head and the other forms of the picture an ascription
to Masaccio, seems to have portrait, also by unknown artists, of General
, a
which should make a base for it prevents us
originally formed part of the predella of a Claparède, a pair de France under the
Restoration.
from regarding it as a supremely fine por- large altarpiece.
trait. Mr. Orpen's outlook on painting is the
THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND is A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY painting of St.
antipodes of that of Mr. Roger
Fry--the latter fortunate in possessing three Rembrandts John was stolen on New Year's eve from the
being absorbed in a knight-errant's quest of the beautiful moonlight landscape known as church of St. Sebastian at Sienna.
an
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THE ATHENÆUM
our
THEFTS of works of art continue to be MR. WALTER GREAVES, whose pictures
alarmingly, frequent. In the Journal des made him a name at the Goupil Gallery last
MUSIC
Arts a list is given of robberies from churches year, and raised a controversy which we
and museums in France during the last three notice elsewhere to-day, is now showing a
years. The church of St. Victor at Xanten, collection of his paintings and drawings at
on the Lower Rhine, has recently lost two Messrs. Cottier's Gallery, New York.
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
valuable tapestries of 1574, which were
stolen on the night of November 24th. The THE SANDON STUDIOS SOCIETY is holding
Style in Musical Art. By C. Hubert H.
Cicerone of December gives a full descrip- an exhibition of pictures in the foyer and Parry. (Macmillan. )—“Style,” says
tion of them and a small reproduction. saloons of the new Repertory Theatre at author, " is the perfect adaptation of means
Liverpool, among the more notable exhibits to ends. " For instance, to take simple cases,
THE Mills of Montmartre, long threatened being the landscapes of M. Albert Lipczinsky, there is one style for instrumental music,
with destruction, have now been saved for the figure subjects of Mr. E. Carter Preston, another for vocal ; one for church, another
for the theatre, &c. The form in which a
Paris. As a result of petitions signed by and a portrait of a lady by Mr. Henry Carr.
work is presented is of great importance,
leading artists and poets, the Conseil
PARIS artists have addressed a letter to and style and form, we are reminded, are
Municipal has decided to purchase the
Don José Canalejas, the Spanish Prime nearly akin. ” On the Sonata form, which,
land on which the windmills are situated, Minister, petitioning for the pardon and for over half a century, has been the centre
and turn it into a public square.
But the quantity of light
Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 8. - The Evolution and
Ecole supérieure de Pharmacie de Paris, relative terms.
produced
for
the International Con-
reflected depends on the surface of the
Royal Institution, 9. – Heat Problems, ' Prof. Sir J. Dowar.
ference on Genetics recently held in Paris, object and the nature of the media traversed Royal Institution, s. - The Banyoro: a Pastoral People of
gives in readable form some much-needed by the light, which in its turn depends on the
light on current problems of biology. In it index of refraction of these last, the maxi-
M. Lutz acknowledges the services of our mum of transparency being reached when
countryman Prof. Bateson, whose definition the indices of the different media are equal.
of genetics as “the physiology of descent
Prof. Spalteholtz's discovery consists in the
Science Gossip.
he quotes with approval. He also shows production of a liquid which has
clearly the gradual transformation of the index of refraction of the greatest mean MESSRS. LONGMANS announce a revised
science since the days of Darwin, who value, and this he considers he has obtained in and enlarged edition in five volumes of Sir
thought that the essential principle of evolu- those above mentioned. . By, their aid, Edward Thorpe's
well-known Dictionary
tion was natural selection, whereby all those either separately or combined, he claims of Applied Chemistry. The first volume
competing
forms which did not possess the that he is able to impart to the tissues of will be ready in a few days, and the second
maximum power of resistance were gradually any organ a far greater degree of trans- early in the summer.
eliminated. M. Lutz declares that beside parency than by radioscopy, and that those
M. EIFFEL has just published a complement
these gradual changes there also take place parts whose index of refraction differs
others which occur suddenly and without from the mean value stand out distinctly, to the first edition of his book on the resist-
warning, and form the "abrupt mutations
which they do not under the Röntgen rays.
ance of air and aviation, a study to which for
With its
of De Vries and others. These muta- He has written a treatise on the subject, ten years he has devoted himself.
tions had been in some sort reduced to a
which is clearly summarized by Dr. Alfred small models of different types of aeroplane,
law by Mendel in 1865, the neglect of whose Gradenwitz in the current number of the and its artificial winds of high velocity, his
theories until their discovery and translation Revue Générale des Sciences.
aerodynamic laboratory is rendering import-
by De Vries and Tschermak in 1900 forms Dr. Leonard Hill and Dr. Martin Flack ant practical service to aviation, reducing to
a minimum the experience so dearly gained
one of the romantic incidents constantly examine 'The Physiological Influence of
occurring in science.
Ozone' in the current Proceedings of the
on full-sized machines.
TOWARDS the end of the month a Museum
M. Lutz, however, also reminds us that Royal Society. They find that its chief
M. Blaringhem has argued that these muta- action is on the olfactory nerves, and on those of Municipal Hygiene is to be opened in
tions have in many cases followed upon they think it may act somewhat like a
of the respiratory tract and skin, although Paris. Its twenty-eight halls and galleries
will be devoted to the exhibition of collec-
mutilations or
summed up in the word "traumatisms. ” His blister in bringing an increase of blood and tions relating to urban and dwelling-house
experiments on plants and animals lead tissue lymph to a particular part. They hygiene, contagious disease, food adultera-
the last-named scholar to conclude that the
further say that it is a powerful deodorizer tion, hygiene of the transport service,
characteristics of the parents are not so
which masks rather than destroys smells, alcoholism, tuberculosis, and allied subjects.
much transmitted as juxtaposed on the and, in a concentration as low as one in a Evening meetings and lectures will be
descendants, which he calls“ heredity in million, causes annoying irritation to the arranged. The museum will be open free
mosaic,” and this is peculiarly noticeable respiratory tract, which becomes dangerous to the public.
in the case of grafts, where some branches
if further increased. It reduces the re-
A NEW method of vaccination has been
present the characteristics
of one, and others spiratory metabolism, and, to judge from introduced by Dr. de Libessart into the
that of the other parent. The true explana
some experiments on rats, the temperature French army. Noticing that hardly 20 per
tion of this phenomenon is still disputed,
also. The experiments from which these con-
cent of the vaccinations were effective-a fact
clusions were drawn were made with a grant which he ascribed to the disinfectants
but there can be little doubt that it
decides in the affirmative the question so
from the Hospital Research Fund, and may applied to the skin before puncture — he
long discussed by biologists as to whether
correct some popular errors. F. L.
hit upon the idea of causing a slight burn
acquired characteristics can or cannot be
instead of a prick. The arm is first washed
inherited. M. Lutz's article, which goes
in water that has been boiled, then wiped
into many other questions besides those here
SOCIETIES.
with a sterilized rag, and an electric cautery
summarized, appeared in the Revue Scien-
applied on the traditional three points. On
tifique of the 6th inst.
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. Jan. O:- the slight blisters thus caused the vaccine
6 Members, 47 Associate Members, and Associate lymph is applied with a small spatula, which
In a recent number of the Compte Rendu were elected; whilst 29 Associate Members were
of the Académie des Sciences M. André transferred to the class of Members.
is changed for each patient, and the skin is
Lancien draws attention to the medicinal
exposed to the air for five minutes. By this
use of the colloidal form of rhodium when
process the number of “takes is rather
prepared by the electrical process. After Mox. Royal Academy, 4. -'Portraits,' Lecture I. , Sir W. B. Rich. more than doubled, while the pain is said to be
a long series of experiments upon fish, frogs, Bibliographical, 5. -Annual Meeting : Presidential Address.
even less than when the lancet is employed.
rabbits, and dogs, he is able to pronounce Surveyors' Institution, 7. -Mortgages,' Mr. E. H. Blake PLATO's story about the submerged con-
that it is a perfectly safe remedial agent,
Geographical, 8. 30.
tinent of Atlantis has again cropped up,
and is not poisonous even when used in TUES. Royal Institution, 3. -'The Study of Genetics,' Lecture I. ,
this time with some scientific evidence in
large doses. He has employed it at the Royal Academy, 4. - Portraits, Lecture II. , Sir W. B. Rich-
its support. M. Louis Germain, in a recent
Paris hospital of La Pitié for intra-veinous statistical, 5. The Recruiting of the Employing Classes from communication to the French Academy of
injections in cases of acute pneumonia,
the Ranks of the Operatives in the Cotton Industry,' Prof.
Sciences, draws attention to the existence in
typhoid fever, enteritis, and two bad cases Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. --Discussion on 'Reinforced.
Quaternary strata in Morocco of many fossil
of appendicitis, and finds that in every
The Direct Experimental Determination of
molluscs, including the Helix Graveli Ger-
case it reduces the bodily temperature imme-
Concrete Columns'; and Composite Columns of Concrete main, of the same species as are still extant in
diately, without producing any effect on the
WED. Royal Society of Literature, 5. 15. - Dramatic Construction : the Azores, the Canaries, Madeira, and the
liver or kidneys. If these results can be
Meteorological, 7. 46. Some Meteorological Observations,'
islands of the Cape Verd archipelago.
reproduced by other practitioners, it would
From this and other evidence of the same
Entomological, 8. -Annual Meeting:
seem that medicine has gained another Polk-lore, 8. – The Folk-lore of the British Gypsies,' Mr. nature he deduces the sinking under the
weapon which should supplement or sup-
13
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
mond. :
London Institution, 5. -' Alchemy, Mr. M. M. P. Muir.
(Junior Meeting. )
Prof. W. Bateson.
mond.
-
8. J. Chapman and Mr. P. J. Marquis.
Concrete Wharves and Warehouses at Lower Pootung.
Shanghai'
the stresses in the 8teel and in the Concrete of Reinforced-
and Steel. '
the Need of a New Technique,' Prof. W. L. Courtney.
-
Dr. H. N. Dickson. (Presidential Address. )
11
sea of a continent once extending from these
Society of Arts, 8. -Illuminated M88. ,'Mr. O. Davenport.
plant the always dangerous use of the
Tnurs. Royal Institution, 3. The New Astronomy,' Lecture I. , Prof.
islands to Morocco, and gives reasons for
depressants now employed.
Royal Academy, 1. - Realism,' Bir W. B. Richmond.
thinking that the submersion took place
Prof. Spalteholtz of Leipsic also announces
Royal, 4. 30. The Physiological Effects of Low Atmo- in late Pliocene times. It may be so ; but
a method of rendering anatomical prepara- (Preliminary Communication), Dr. J. 8. Haldane, Mr. C. G. from the Pliocene Age to that of Plato is a
Douglas, Prof. Y. Henderson, and Prof. E. O. Schneider :
tions transparent without any lesion of their
long time, and by whom was the tradition
Blood," Mr. J. Barcroft;, Noto on Astrosclera willeyana,
surfaces or alteration of the structure of the
handed down ?
Lister,' Mr. R. Kirkpatrick; and other Papers.
T. W. Thompson.
Microscopical, 8. -Certain Blood Parasitos,' the President.
A. W. Bickerton.
spheric Pressures, as observed on Pike's Peak, Colorado'
The Etroct of Altitude on tho Dissociation Ourve of the
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THE death was announced at Windy-
fessional critic, torn between the rival
dene, Sussex, last Sunday, of Dr. Sophia
attractions of these two schools, has been
Jex-Blake, leader of the movement at
FINE ARTS
enormously impressed by the demonstration
Edinburgh University, forty years ago, for
that a mind of acrobatic agility could com-
the medical education of women. The
bine the two. Admired of all beholders,
youngest daughter of Thomas Jex-Blake,
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
Mr. Fry has pranced along, a foot on either
Proctor of Doctors' Commons, she took
steed, as though it were the simplest thing
her M. D. at the University of Berne in
IN handling a subject vast
in the world, followed by plunging and
1877; was mathematical tutor at Queen's
Wood Sculpture (Methuen) Mr.
Alfred gasping imitators who would fain do the
College, London, 1858-61; and studied Maskell displays such wide knowledge and
Again and again have kind-hearted
medicine under Dr. Lucy Sewall in Boston, such sound taste that we are bound to onlookers re-sanded the arena, standing
U. S. , in 1866. She matriculated in 1869 in the
welcome a
less comprehensive
ready to soften inevitable falls. The result
Medical Faculty of the University of Edin. work upon an art comparatively
neglected has been not so much to reduce the dangers
burgh, but not being allowed to complete by English writers. To be readable is, he of the
as to encumber it with
her studies and take her degree, she brought declares, rather his aim than to be erudite, padding which makes progress impossible.
an action against the University in 1872.
and readable the book certainly is.
Up-
Admirers of the critic in his “pre-Post-
Sho left Edinburgh in 1874, and founded wards of 400 pages of detail
, however, baffle Impressionist” days will flock to his exhi-
the London School of Medicine for Women; the average reader, just as the Flemish bition for light on Mr. Fry's state of mind.
she also founded in 1886 the Edinburgh carved altarpieces, crowded with figures, The irresponsible journalist may blindly
School of Medicine for Women, which in
are apt to puzzle and fatigue the beholder believe in the latest developments of ad-
1894 was recognized by the University for
in spite of the brilliant execution of each vanced painters, the President of the Royal
graduation, so that her old battle was won
of Academy may devoutly disbelieve, and both
at last. She has written on American passage. Indeed, the very emphasis
Schools and Colleges," and Care of Infants. ' parts in these carvings, their lavish under leave us cold-“Who wonders and who
cares ? ” Blougram, on the other hand,
Two essays— Medicine as a Profession for cutting and bold relief, only make their
extent and copiousness more terrifying; holds our interest. “ He to believe at this
Women,' and 'Medical Education of Women'
and by the analogous use of a style over-rich late time of day And yet we have his
-were published in 1872 in a volume
in disjunctives—" buts and
word in black and white. "
entitled Medical Women. '
Mr. Maskell makes it additionally difficult Without wishing to discourage pilgrims,
It is amusing for those who are behind to follow the main groupings of the works we must record our impression that from
the scenes in astronomical matters to note he passes under survey.
the exhibition itself we should hardly have
the solemn manner in which writers like
To keep such grouping clear is in any case deduced the inclusiveness of the artist's
Mr. G. F. Chambers (Journal of the British difficult enough, because the distribution of appreciations. We see in it mainly an
Astronomical Association, vol. xxii. No. 2)
attempt to utilize just those reactionary,
refer to the discrepancies 'as to the duration the subject-matter into chapters is not so
much systematicas opportunist
and in the better sense of the word academic,
of totality of the solar eclipse of April 17th being made according to date, now by principles of design which we have ourselves
next, given in the different national, ephe nationality, now by material or subject- endeavoured to disengage from the more
merides. The simple fact of the matter is
matter or destination. The scope of the anarchic elements of Post-Impressionism.
that different values of the moon's diameter work, too, is a little arbitrary, as its We find nothing here, for example, of the
are adopted in the several publications to
author concedes: “It may be asked,” recondite, and to many impenetrable, charac-
which Mr. Chambers refers, and hence, he says, " why such and such a figure has ter of the drawing by Picasso which recently
necessarily, different values of the duration been included, and why such another one puzzled subscribers to The New Age. The
of totality result in the calculations. . . The has been passed over. The only answer is vision is very much the vision of the Mr. Fry
Nautical Almanac' uses the smallest dia-
that a choice had to be made. " Yet, after of yesterday, but with a more conscious,
meter, and therefore gives the shortest all, it would seem reasonable that this perhaps somewhat too conscious, acceptance
duration of totality. But recent experience choice should be consistent, and that a of the essential conventions of painting.
seems to show that this diameter is not too
school should either be taken or left en bloc. The basis of his method appears to us for
small
, and it is quite possible that the dura- If Medieval, Romanesque, and, above all
, the most part very sound. Reasonable
tion of totality on the central line may be
Gothic work, be the author's main subject, enough is Mr. Fry's distrust of any design
even less than the 03•6 given in our national it would have simplified his task if he had which depends too much on hair-splitting,
ephemeris.
cut out Renaissance work more completely. evasive distinctions, whether of tone or colour
DURING the year 1911 fifty-eight small Similarly, in a book which ignores Oriental or angle. In such a work as No. 2, A
planets were discovered, but eight of these and barbaric woodcarving, we are not sure Novelist, we see how much of the eloquence
were found on examination to be identical of the utility of including that of ancient of the head is dependent on a bold simplifica-
with bodies previously observed, so that Egypt, unless more be made of the connexion tion of angles, the artist using obvious
on balance there are fifty asteroids to be between it and the earlier, more primitive harmonic divisions of his 360° available
added to the family that circulate round the sculpture of Gothic and Renaissance schools degrees much as a musician uses the notes
sun between Mars and Jupiter. Of these alike than is made by Mr. Maskell.
of a scale, knowing the infinite subtlety and
more than thirty were discovered at Heidel-
The illustrations are on the whole excellent, variety possible in combinations of these,
berg, the next largest contribution coming and the relation between plates and letter- though the relation of any two to each other
from the Transvaal Observatory at Johannes-
will be based on a simple numerical ratio.
burg, of which Mr. Innes, formerly of the press is helpfully indicated.
A similar slightly doctrinaire simplicity
Cape of Good Hope Observatory, is Director.
One can almost
MEMBERS of the staff of the Paris Obser- The Memorial Edition of Meredith's Works colour and dividing them with arithmetical
One of the most attractive features of governs his use of colour.
fancy the artist taking his extremes of
vatory have lately determined the difference
was its well-chosen illustrations, and we
of longitude between that place and Bizerta have from time to time made this feature Theoretically the result should be very
care at certain definite rhythmic intervals.
in Tunis by the help of wireless telegraphy. the subject of appreciative comment in harmonious, but in practice the most con-
This is not the first time that astronomers
columns. The whole series is now
have availed themselves of the Hertzian offered by Messrs. Constable & Co. in a port- matches the craftsman's instinctive sense
scientious adherence to principle hardly
waves for such a purpose, but the distance folio uniform in size and appearance with that if you carve your masses boldly the
of 800 miles makes the achievement remark- the volumes of the “Memorial Edition. ”
able. Signals sent from the Eiffel Tower
extremities will evolve themselves. At this
at regular intervals were heard in telephone
opinion Mr. Fry has arrived "by demonstra-
receivers and timed, at Tunis and at the
tive reasoning,” and we entirely concur in
Paris Observatory; and similarly signals sent THE PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS OF
his conclusion.
from the wireless installation at Bizerta
MR. ROGER FRY.
In his use of outline in oil painting he seems
were heard at both places. By this means
to us less happy than in his water-colours. He
the clocks at the two stations where observa- THERE are two forms of error to which the uses it apparently to maintain a clear distinc-
tions were being made were compared. A modern writer on art is specially prone. tion between the main entities of his composi-
telegraphic longitude determination always The first is to reduce criticism to å solemn tion, but appears hardly to realize how strongly
gives as a by-product a value for the speed and interminable discussion of minor points this heavy line acts as a steadying mono-
of the electric current, and the account of of posthumous attribution ; the second con- tone, making comparatively crisply divided
this work in the Comptes Rendus states that sists in the assumption that the traditions colour look a little dingy. How much richer
the time of transmission of the Hertzian and principles of the centuries immediately in hue a similar sequence of tones appears
wave between Paris and Bizerta was in the behind us are now too worn out and effete to in such a work as No. 31, for example, in
mean (**007, which gives a value of the be of any practical interest to the artist, which for once the outline is reduced to a
velocity, as was to be expected, of the same who must perforce begin again de novo with minimum! No. 14, A Wide Valley with an
order as that of light.
a primitive, if not a barbaric, art. The pro-inspiring march of clouds, and No. 42, The
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Armchair, are instances in which the con- the perfect style, the true function of paint-Shepherds Reposing at Night, and two
'
vention the artist uses sits most lightly ing, the former with unswerving conviction | portraits. To these must now be added
upon him. Though in hardly any of the bent on developing to the utmost his own; fourth--the small interior with figures of
works shown he designs in other than terms personal aptitudes. He does this in a way men playing at the game of “ La Main
of perspective, there are a good many in so free from the slackness which Sir Chaude," which has hitherto been attributed
which he seems needlessly uneasy lest he Edward Poynter rightly diagnosed as one to Rembrandt's pupil Willem de Poorter.
should be betrayed to a nicety of observation alarming symptom of the “ spirit of the This remarkable picture is so far superior
in any part beyond what is justified by the age," that we can hardly imagine such com- to the known work of De Poorter that its
degree of grasp on the plastic facts of the petence will ever come to be valueless. attribution has long been deemed doubtful,
scene as a whole implied by his design. As Mr. Sargent's Lady Faudel-Phillips (39) shows and recent investigations have confirmed
a result, we have never to denounce a mere- similar qualities, but with a slightly greater the Director of the Gallery in his belief
tricious and pretended exactitude, but do power of generalization.
that it is an early work by Rembrandt,
again and again come upon a perverse There are also capable paintings by MM.
probably painted when he was about 20
refusal of the artist to allow his eyo its Besnard (5) and Zorn (8) among the
years of age.
natural nicety. The foreground bank in foreigners, and by Mr. Maurice Greiffen- RECENT additions to the Gallery include a
No. 15 stands up, on end with sudden but hagen (34) and Mr. MacLure Hamilton fine male portrait, supposed to be that of
unnecessary qualms, lest the water-line (17) among Anglo-Saxons. In Miss Betty the painter Adriaen van Ostade, by Johan
should be too realistically fat; and the Fagan's Will Fagan and Friend (6) the van Rossum. The man represented in the
treatment of the patterned chair in No. 42 woman's head is well painted; and Mr. Dublin portrait wears
a dark cloak with
looks as if Mr. Fry were desperately deter- Spencer Watson's Miss Tisdall (131), and white turned-over collar and black hat.
mined to avoid the delicate differentiation Mr. Francis Dodd's Sir Bruce Seton (136), His gloved left hand rests on a table on
of angle and proportion which should sym- are almost the only noticeable works among which there is a head of Hadrian. The
bolize a change of plane. These are, what used to be so important a feature of portrait, which is in excellent condition,
perhaps, mistakes on the right side for an these exhibitions, the drawings.
is an interesting example of Dutch seven-
artist in his own opinion bred in a too
teenth-century portraiture.
sophisticated age which is apt to ignore the The Exhibition of the Senefelder Club at
obvious.
the Goupil Gallery is mainly remarkable for In the Portrait Gallery there are two new
works :
His use of broken colour, on the other hand, Mr. Hartrick's series of fine prints (18-23).
a portrait of Dr. Alexander, the
seems to us frequently a survival of some More than any other member of the Club
late Primate of Ireland, by Mr. Harris
other method. It constantly sullies the Mr. Hartrick seems to have found his true Brown, and one of the Irish painter James
purity of a sequence of colours which are métier in lithography. Mr. E. J. Sullivan's Barrie, by Opie.
surely theoretically flat and already none Old Darkie (114) is in similar vein, and we WORKS by students of the Metropolitan
too violently discriminated. This for paint- admire once more the professional certainty School of Art are now open to view in
ing in oil appears to us just as much a mistake of Mr. Kerr Lawson's execution. Bauer's Dublin. Amongst the exhibitors is Mr.
on the wrong side as the occasional use of group of lithographs is a great disappoint- Albert Power, who shows life-size
too heavy a monochrome line.
ment.
modelled figure of a girl, which was awarded
There are minor details here and there--
a gold medal at the National Art Competi-
like the meaninglessly ragged division Among the other shows of the week are
tion last year.
The Dublin School is remark-
between tone and tone on the pot in the that of Mr. A. Jamieson-brilliant, pleasant, able for having obtained nine medals and
Still Life (50)—which puzzle us, unless they slightly wanting in severity at the Carfax twenty-six prizes and commendations at
are symptoms of occasional carelessness. Gallery (No. 1, The Dark Pool, establishes a
this competition, and the present exhibition
On the whole, the exhibition seems to show distinct kinship with the landscapes of M. consists largely of the successful works.
the workings of a logical mind not always Helleu), and that of Sir Alfred East at the
learly judging the degree of complexity of Leicester Gallery, which shows the artist's At the Georges Petit Galleries, Paris,
subject - matter most natural to it. The neat, compact use of direct water-colour. there will open on the 26th inst. a show
Turkish Shawl (49) is, we think, the best Both are above the average of minor exhibi- of pictures under the title of 'Exposition
picture Mr. Fry has yet painted. Still life is tions, We could hardly say that of Mr. des Pompiers. ' The promoters of the exhi-
perhaps the least satisfactory subject- Bagehot De la Bere's landscapes and bition include MM. Aimé Morot, Dagnan-
matter for a method which naturally thrives grotesques at the Fine Art Society, and, Bouveret, Harpignies, and Auguste Poin-
on anything bound together by a structural indeed, the word “grotesque,” which Renais- telin, who will all be largely represented as
unity of its own-a moving sky or a figure, sance critics denounced as a misnomer, is well as the late Felix Ziem. Those artists
who hold by earlier traditions regard the
for example No. 13, A Tramp, is very good. coming to have a sinister suitability.
It becomes stupid when applied to an acci-
venture as a protest against the present pro-
dental jumble of objects which might yield
occupation of Paris with the neo-impres-
plenty of interest as a theme for fuller
sionists, the Fauves, the Cubistes, and other
research into the unifying effect of per-
modern schools.
spective and lighting. Mr. Fry's preference
Fine Art Gossip.
M. RODIN has just completed a bronze
for a gaunt pattern sometimes stops short
bust representing 'France,' which is being
of inclusion of the only binding factors.
MR. HENRY WAGNER, who recently lent purchased by public subscription in Paris
to the exhibition of Old Masters at the for presentation to the United States. The
Grafton Galleries a 'Madonna and Child bust, which is to be taken across the Atlantic
with Angels,' attributed to Benozzo, and a
OTHER EXHIBITIONS. small panel entitled, with some doubt, eventually be placed at the foot of the
by a special deputation of Frenchmen, will
S. Giovanni Gualberto instituting the colossal lighthouse now being erected to
THE Exhibition of the Royal Society of Order of Vallombrosa,' by Lorenzo Monaco, the memory of Champlain on a site by the
Portrait Painters may be dismissed more
has offered both to the Trustees and shore of the lake bearing his name.
briefly than usual because, in spite of the Director of the National Gallery for their
illustrious patronage it now for the first acceptance.
A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION of works by
time enjoys, the great majority of its ex-
Eugène Boudin is now open at the Galerie
The former picture, which was in the
hibits are regrettably commonplace. Chief William Graham Collection until 1886, and
Bernheime Jeune, Rue Richepanse, Paris.
among the exceptions are Nos. 52 and 54,
was exhibited at Burlington House in 1885,
THE 'Lettres de Vincent van Gogh à
hanging as pendants to each other, and by as well as at the New Gallery in 1893, was, Émile Bernard' will be published next week
Messrs. W. W. Russell and William Orpen according to Mr. Berenson, copied by the in Paris with 100 illustrations.
respectively. The first is elaborate
design for å single-figure picture, both plasti- meo Caporali from Benozzo's 'Madonna, received what is described as a very beautiful
contemporary Umbrian painter Bartolom-
THE MUSÉE DE L'ARMÉE, Paris, has just
cally and as a colour-scheme extraordinarily Saints, and Angels' in the National Gallery miniature of the Emperor Napoleon": I. ,
capable and well-knit. Into this the head (No. 1461).
of a lady has been “inset, as the printers
which formerly belonged to his secretary,
say. Any other head would have done as
The small picture by Monaco, which was Baron Fain. The name of the artist is
well, and this failure to establish any sym-
in the G. C. Somerville collection in 1887, and apparently unknown. Το the same
pathy between the enclosing planes of the figured at the New Gallery in 1893 with Museum have been added a bust and a
head and the other forms of the picture an ascription
to Masaccio, seems to have portrait, also by unknown artists, of General
, a
which should make a base for it prevents us
originally formed part of the predella of a Claparède, a pair de France under the
Restoration.
from regarding it as a supremely fine por- large altarpiece.
trait. Mr. Orpen's outlook on painting is the
THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND is A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY painting of St.
antipodes of that of Mr. Roger
Fry--the latter fortunate in possessing three Rembrandts John was stolen on New Year's eve from the
being absorbed in a knight-errant's quest of the beautiful moonlight landscape known as church of St. Sebastian at Sienna.
an
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No. 4394, Jan. 13, 1912
THE ATHENÆUM
our
THEFTS of works of art continue to be MR. WALTER GREAVES, whose pictures
alarmingly, frequent. In the Journal des made him a name at the Goupil Gallery last
MUSIC
Arts a list is given of robberies from churches year, and raised a controversy which we
and museums in France during the last three notice elsewhere to-day, is now showing a
years. The church of St. Victor at Xanten, collection of his paintings and drawings at
on the Lower Rhine, has recently lost two Messrs. Cottier's Gallery, New York.
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
valuable tapestries of 1574, which were
stolen on the night of November 24th. The THE SANDON STUDIOS SOCIETY is holding
Style in Musical Art. By C. Hubert H.
Cicerone of December gives a full descrip- an exhibition of pictures in the foyer and Parry. (Macmillan. )—“Style,” says
tion of them and a small reproduction. saloons of the new Repertory Theatre at author, " is the perfect adaptation of means
Liverpool, among the more notable exhibits to ends. " For instance, to take simple cases,
THE Mills of Montmartre, long threatened being the landscapes of M. Albert Lipczinsky, there is one style for instrumental music,
with destruction, have now been saved for the figure subjects of Mr. E. Carter Preston, another for vocal ; one for church, another
for the theatre, &c. The form in which a
Paris. As a result of petitions signed by and a portrait of a lady by Mr. Henry Carr.
work is presented is of great importance,
leading artists and poets, the Conseil
PARIS artists have addressed a letter to and style and form, we are reminded, are
Municipal has decided to purchase the
Don José Canalejas, the Spanish Prime nearly akin. ” On the Sonata form, which,
land on which the windmills are situated, Minister, petitioning for the pardon and for over half a century, has been the centre
and turn it into a public square.
