International studio (15.1901/1902(1902))

Studio-Talk

Miss A. Bauerle, in her design of Paolo and
Francesca, shows some hesitancy in the details of
her drawing, and Paolo’s cloak is not stirred by the
rapid movement through space. But the design itself
is conceived in a spirit that is touched and charmed
with true imagination. Here is a drawing that
would have appealed to Rossetti. The subject
illustrates some lines in Mr. Stephen Phillips’s
“ Paolo and Francesca.”

The bookplate by Mr. Walter West (illustrated on
page 276) is characterised by all the tender qualities
of line that we are accustomed to associate with this
able designer’s name, this Ex Libris, in addition
to its decorative charm, has what may be called
an historic interest. For in past times, as very

frequently to-day, the girl graduate’s reading was
interrupted by Cupid, who, scrambling his way
over the wheel of fortune, put to flight the grave
owl of wisdom—and made the world happier.

The Winter Exhibition of the Royal Society
of Painters in Water-Colours is specially interesting,
because it includes a larger number than usual
of sketches and studies by the younger members,
and because it shows that recent importations of
clever and progressive workers have done much to
modify what used to be the somewhat old-fashioned
view of the association. Such drawings as The
Moorland Road and The Hill-Side Farm, by Mrs.
Stanhope Forbes ; Pasture, Haze, and A Wet Fay,
by Mr. Edwin Alexander; The Bracken Brae, by

THE DANCE OF THE WHITE ROSE1’

(See Glasgow Studio-Talk.)

BY JESSIE M. KING