28 JANUARY 1911, Page 10

The Bubdiyat of Omar Khdyydm. Illustrated by Abannindro Nath Tagore.

(The Studio. 158. net.)—The interest of this port- folio of pictures lies in the fact that they are by an Indian artist, who has wisely not tried to assimilate Western art, but has remained faithful to the pictorial traditions of his own country. In-the best of these illustrations there is that curious immaterial feeling, that power of seeing through the worldly envelope to the underlying spirit, which is the special performance of Eastern art. The most striking of the series is the drawing showing the lovers sitting at the door of the tent, with the night sky behind them, pausing for one moment before "the caravan starts for the dawn of nothing."