A Series Of Books On Spanish Art Is Being Issued
by A. Calverley (John Lane, Ss. 6c1.) dealing with The Escorial, Murillo, Spanish Armour, and The Prods, this last being written in conjunction with C. G. Hartley. In these......
Guide To The Mediaeval Rosen At The British Museum. (printed
by order of the Trustees. is. 6d.)—The British Mueeum seems to accept a very wide meaning of the word "Mediaeval." for in this book are included many seventeenth-century......
About A Picture And Alesso Baldovinetti By An Artist. — A...
pamphlet with this title has reached us. It contains but six pages of print, and no publisher's name is given ; but the question raised by the author is an interesting one.......
The Battles ' Of The Scha-ho And Of Miikden. The
Battle on the Scha - Ro ; The Battle of Mukden. Translated from Supplements to the Milittir Wochenblatt by Karl von Donat. With Maps. Comments by Lieutenant-General von......
William Blake. By Laurence Binyon. (methuen And Co....
first volume of a work on Blake, contains a general introduction and the illustrations to the Book of Job. Mr. Binyon writes with admiration of Blake, and knows how to......
John Downman, A.r.a. : His Life And Works. By G.
Williamson. Connoisseur Extra Number. (Connoisseur Office. 5s. net.)—Downman was a clever draughtsman up to a point, but he had the ordinary failing of the English Academician......
Some Theological Books.*
THE Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels is described by the editor as mainly homiletic in its object. "It is, first of all, a preacher's Dictionary." The contributors, who......
Sir William Beechey. By W. Roberts. (duckworth And Co....
was a far stronger man than Downman, but he too had the fatal inclination towards prettiness rather than beauty. Occasionally in his earlier work, especially in groups of......
Royal Academy Pictures, 1907. (cassell And Co. 55.) —...
in having the Academy reduced to black and white. No doubt the good pictures suffer, but they are so few; and against this loss must be set the inestimable gain of having the......
Ve/asques. By A. De Beruete. (methuen And Co. 105. 6d.)—
This is not a brilliant study of the genius and technique of the unrivalled master like that of the late R. A. M. Stevenson. Rather it is a calm, critical study, full of patient......
The Sculpture Of The West. (j. M. Dent And Co.
Is.)—After turning over the pages of this little volume of the "Temple Cyclopaedic Primers," we look at the title-page to see whether it is written by our old friend Professor......
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