International studio (21.1903/1904(1904))

roofs : their own homes, no doubt, which recent
deeds of valour have protected from destruction.
The Hgure of the hardy warrior on the heavy
dappled charger in the foreground is a fine personi-
hcation of power and purpose. Upon the other
picture we see the market-place of the vihage, where
the canal ieads up to it, with its public scales hedged
in by picturesque gabled houses and trees, with a
church steeple behind. The quiet of a late Sunday
afternoon reigns, and the stormy, leaden North Sea
sky weighs down upon the whole.
These sheets measure 100 by 70 cm., and 7g
by go cm. ; that is, some a little over and the
rest a little under a yard in length. They are
accordingly of considerable size, and yet are sold
at the ridiculously cheap price of' six Shillings
and ßve Shillings each.
To meet the demands of the connoisseur, who
enjoys a print that he can take into his hand better
than one hung in a frame upon the wall, these two
firms have also published one portfolio a-piece
of smaller lithographs in colours. Each port-
folio has a very clever device in the shape of a
" mat" or sunk rnount on the back of the cover,

so adjusted that you can slip any one of the litho-
graphs under it and see them in a frame, as it
were. The Voigtlaender Portfolio contains, arnong
others, a fine panoramic landscape by Daur and a
view, by Strich-Chapell, over the roofs of an old
town to distant fertile Relds lying in the sunshine
beyond. The spirit of this lithograph has rnuch in
common with Luntz's work ; its peculiarity lies in
the choice of the point of view, as well as in the
contrast between the tiled roofs lying in the deep
shadow of the foreground and the glaring fields of
the background, tinted by the rays of the setting
sun. Kampmann's z'zz a N/az-w also belongs
to this set. It is similar to the ^4?z/?z7M72
noticed above, and ratber the better one of the two
prints. There is really something reminiscent of
Böcklin in the powerful juxtaposition of the black,
lowering sky and the rieh, fresh green meadow ;
while the swaying of the poplars, with their
white bark, conveys a fine idea of the fury of the
Storni.
In the Teubner Portfolio we Und such beautiful
specimens as Fikentscher's zl/ay, with
deer in a meadow on a hazy morning; Max