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bilities of religious union that we see in England
to-day, — possibilities which those who have not
noticed the great change that has come about in
recent years may feel are still far distant and vague.
As Archdeacon of Westminster and, at the same time,
Rector of St. Margaret's, Farrar for upwards of ten
years led the religious life of London, in company
with such broad minds as Frederick Denison
Maurice, Dean Stanley, and Dean Church. Less
diplomatic and more out-spoken than they, Farrar
practically placed himself on record in his most
famous work, " Eternal Hope," as ignoring the
exclusive efficacy of Anglicanism. Had his life
begun fifteen years later, it is probable that the
Archbishopric of Canterbury would have been
his. His prolific and versatile writings, accom-
plished while always actively engaged in the high
work of his clerical profession, prove him a man
of extraordinary calibre. Dean Farrar's Life,
therefore, from whatever standpoint it may be
viewed, becomes an important human document,
worth following because of its interest and of its
influence. The book is put out in a manner worthy
of its subject.
RECENT EXCAVATIONS IN THE ROMAN FORUM,
1898-1904. By E. BuRTON-BROWN. Preface
by Comm. Boni. Pages 223. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons (imported). $1.00 7/<t/.
This little book is intended to give a short
account of the excavations in the Forum from 1898
to 1904, and of the light they have thrown upon
the religion and history of the Romans, and through
these upon the character of the people. As far as
possible, well-known facts contained in the many
previous books upon the Forum have been omitted,
but the monuments not recently excavated have been
noticed in their place, in order to make the volume,
as a handbook, complete in itself. Its arrangement
is that by which a visitor may best see the Forum
without passing over the same ground twice.
It is hoped that the account may also interest
those in England and America who are interested
in archaeology. The finely conceived and ex-
haustive researches being made in the valley where
the whole life of Rome centred have been surpris-
ingly rich in important results.
JOHN CONSTABLE, R. A. By JOHN WINDSOR.
Pages 231. Illustrated with Photogravure
Portrait and Nineteen Plates and a Portrait of
David Lucas. London: The Walter Scott
Publishing Co., Ltd. ; New York : Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons (imported). $i.2g 7;^.
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In previous numbers of THE INTERNATIONAL
STUDIO we have had the pleasure of calling the
attention of our readers to the admirable series of
popular art books edited by James A. Manson
under the comprehensive title, " Makers of British
Art." The first five volumes treated of Wilkie,
Romney, Turner, Reynolds, and Landseer. The
sixth and present volume comprises a monograph
on that most characteristic of English landscape
oil-painters, who knew better than any predecessor
or follower to express the lusciousness of English
verdure in field and tree ; and the rich, if somewhat
sombre, effect of the moist English atmosphere, with
all its artistic possibilities and variety:
Zfhy fH?f72, and a host of other types of
English country are immortal, and have made
Constable one of the great masters of the British
school. He is indeed a realistic Turner, not lack-
ing poetry, but avoiding the siren of a vivid
imagination, both in composition and in color.
He is an artist unsurpassed in the harmony of his
composition. Ending with appendices compris-
ing (1) lists of prices fetched by the artist's works,
(2) the chronological order of his pictures, (3) the
public and private galleries in which they are to be
found, (4) an alphabetical list of his pictures, (5) a
bibliography of the works dealing with the author's
subject, and (6) a list of engravings after the artist,
the book leaves nothing to be desired in fulfilling
the purpose for which it was published.
BARTOLOZZI AND HIS PUPILS IN ENGLAND. By
SELWYN BRtNTON, M.A. With an abridged
list of his more important prints in line and
stipple. Pages 96. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons (imported). $1.00 71FA
This is the first of a charming series of booklets
designed to suit the taste of the art-lover. It is
entitled " The Langham Series," an illustrated col-
lection of art monographs, edited by Selwyn Brinton,
the well-known art critic and writer.
The general editor, and, in this case, the author
of the volume, opens with an introduction relating
to the series in general and to the volume in
particular. Mr. Brinton tells us that the purpose of
the series is to follow such by-paths in the vast
territory of art as are overlooked in the more com-
prehensive and ambitious studies. To use a con-
venient but ill phrase, attention is to be called to the
" minor " artists, who, while they have played a con-
siderable part in the history of art, have perforce to
be overlooked in anything short of an encyclopedia.
Bartolozzi is a good subject to start with, for his
influence upon British art in general is widely felt,