Henrietta Ronner : the Painter of Cat Life and Cat
Character. By M. H. Spielmaun. (Cassell and Co.)—Art as well as science is being highly subdivided, when an artist finds it worth while to live for painting cats. This Madame Bonner has done for the last twenty years, deserting for them her former subject, the dog, a change which the writer of this monograph attributes, in part at least, to the want of grace in the Belgian dog. As to the merits of the pictures, opinion will probably differ. That they are very pretty indeed, no one will deny; but it will be said that they are too highly idealised, and that something of human expres- sion has been given them. On the other hand, enthusiasts for the cat, and there are such, will say that nothing can be too beautiful or too full of expression for the animal, and certainly the grace of its attitudes cannot be exaggerated.
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