BURLINGTON MAGAZINE.
The January issue of this excellent periodical contains an article by Mr. Eric Maelagan on "The Wax Models by Michael Angelo in the Victoria and Albert Museum." It is, as we should expect, scholarly and precisely expressed. The leading article makes an appeal for contributions to enable the invaluable work begun by the late Ulrich Thieme to continue. " Thieme-Becker " is universally recbgnized as, perhaps, the most reliable and exhaustive authority. Before the War the editorial work of this Lexicon cost under 50,000 marks a year. It is now estimated that if one volume were produced each nine months the cost would be 85,000 gold marks. The publisher cannot afford this. It is surely the duty of all who have the interests of art scholar- ship at heart to come to the rescue. Subscriptions may be sent to the Editor, Dr. Hans Vollmer, Redaktion des Lexikons der Bildenden Kfinstler, Robert Schumannstr, 10, Leipzig. Sir Charles Holmes contributes an interesting consideration of Titian's "Venus and Adonis " ; Mr. MacColl continues his article, "French Eighteenth Century Furniture in the Wallace Collection," and Mr. W. G. Constable writes on the El Greco recently acquired by Miss Davies. There is other matter of interest.
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