The Art Journal (j. S. Virtue And Co.) Is Publishing
a "Jubilee Series." The first number is a reprint of articles and illustrations which appeared in 1849. It is needless to say that it is very different and very inferior to a......
Modern Opera Houses And Theatres. By E. 0. Sachs. 3
vols. (Botsford. .£15 15s.)—The last volume of the monumental work on playhouse architecture has now appeared. The author has spared no pains in so arranging his facts, both......
Life Of George Stubbs, R.a. Compiled By Sir W. Gilbey.
(Vinton and Co. .e3 3s. net.)—Stubbs must be ranked in the depress- ing category of " interesting " painters. He was enormously painstaking and industrious, and a pioneer in......
Brush - Work Studies. By Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. (philip...
system of teaching children to paint here pursued is in many ways an admirable one. Instead of first drawing an outline and then painting up to it, the pupils are told to make......
King Renes Honeymoon Cabinet. By J. P. Seddon. (botsford....
Seddon tells us how in 1861 he designed a cabinet to keep his architectural drawings in, and how the panels were painted by Madox Brown, Rossetti, and Burne-Jones, while William......
Frederic Lord Leighton. By Ernest Rhys. (g. Bell And Sons.
25s.) —The time has not yet come for a complete and lasting estimate of Leighton's work. In many ways he is most difficult to place, he was so near being really great, and it is......
England, It Having Come Over From Holland, It Is In
this country that it has been most practised. One of the earliest masters of the art was Prince Rupert, who, after unsuccessful experiments with fronsides, proved himself most......
Current Literature.
ART-BOOKS. Histoire d,e l'Art dans rAntiguite. Par Georges Perrot et Charles Chipiez. (Hachette et Cie. 37 francs.)—This seventh volume deals with the buildings of Greece of the......