Studio: international art (76.1919)

Review

"Venice" (Pesaro Gallery, Milan) by emma ciardi

the best exponents of that branch of art in
London. Mr. N. H. Hawkins began his art
education in Australia, while among others
who have studied in Europe are J. B. Fitz-
maurice, well known as a talented cartoonist,
Margaret Longden, S. P. Judge, J. Kyle, W. P.
Weston, Mary Riter Hamilton, T. W. Fripp,
J. W. Keagey, and Edith H. Killam.

Mr. T. W. Fripp's fine water-colour Sunshine
After Storm was immediately bought by the
Vancouver Art and Historical Association—
the senior organization of this kind in British
Columbia. Mr. J. W. Keagey's etching of a
ship in course of construction marks the advent
of a new industry to British Columbia. It may
be incidentally mentioned that the ranks of the
exhibitors were depleted through the absence of
four members of the Society on military duties.

On one evening during the exhibition the
President, Mr. C. Marega, gave an incisive
address on " Art Criticism." He divided the

critics into four classes, the " cautious," the
" outspoken," the " know-it-all," and the
" malicious." His remarks were followed by
an interesting discussion. B. M.

REVIEW.

The Greek Theatre and its Drama. By Roy
C. Flickinger, Ph.D., Professor of Greek and
Latin, North-Western University. (Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press.) $3 net.—
The theatre of the ancient Greeks is always
with us, and from the discoveries of the last
thirty years or so of research emeige puzzling
questions that offer perennial fascination to
learned controversialists. How did the physical
conditions of the Greek theatre, its structure
and environment, its histrionic restrictions and
scenic conventions, influence the dramatic
writings of iEschylus, Sophocles, Euripides,
and Aristophanes ? Was there, or was there
not, a stage for the individual actors raised
above the level of the orchestra when the chorus

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