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embraces the period which extends in France from
the accession of Francois I. to the death of Henri
IV., with the addition, by way of preface, of the
reigns of Charles VIII. and Louis XII.
The author’s object in this book has been to set
forth, so far as exact research Has enabled him, the
first chapter of the history of modern painting in
France, without any attempt to enlarge upon the
subject of tapestry, glass-painting or enameling.
The work is based on all the special researches, the
publication of documents, and the scattered sum-
maries, which we owe chiefly to the scholarly gener-
ation of 1850.
Among the subjects treated of are: The Develop-
ment of the School of French Painting, The De-
signs of Francois I. in regard to Italian Art, History
of Rosso in France, The Fontainebleau School
under Henri II., Portrait Painting under Catherine
de Medicis, Historical Painting in France after the
Death of Niccolo, Portrait Painters after 1572,
Historical Painting and Portrait Painting under
Henry IV., Later Destinies of French Painting.
There is an introduction by the author, and an
index. The illustrations, which are very numerous,
are reproductions from the pictures of famous ar-
tists, some of them in the possession of private indi-
viduals, most of them to be found in the Louvre,
Cabinet des Estampes, Paris, the British Museum,
etc.
The book will be found to supply a systematic
and precise statement of all the points in the history
of French painting in the sixteenth century which
have been established up to the present.
Recollections of a Royal Academician. By
John Callcott Horseley, R.A. Edited by
Mrs. Edmund Helps. 8vo. Pages 367. Il-
lustrated. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
$3.00 net.
These “Recollections” were written when the
well-known academician was in his eighty-sixth
year. The editor in her post scriptum tell us that
they were done without the assistance of a single
diary or letter, so clear and retentive was his mem-
ory, even at that advanced age. The author’s
recollections embrace interesting records and anec-
dotes of many celebrated persons, Felix Mendels-
sohn Bartholdy occupying a conspicuous place, hav-
ing been one of the most intimate friends of the
author, who, from his earliest days, lived in an at-
mosphere of musical art, his father being the fam-
ous English musician, William Horseley, Mus.
Bach. Oxon., and his mother the daughter of the
distinguished musician, Dr. Callcott. Sir Edwin

Landseer is another character of whom several
anecdotes are-related, and also Lady Callcott, the
author of the popular “Little Arthur’s History of
England,” which has gone into so many countless
editions. Among his friends at Cheyne Row were
the famous painter J. M. W. Turner and George
Eliot the novelist, of whom he gives us many inter-
esting accounts. In 1858 Mr. Horseley was elected
to paint the portrait of the Princess Beatrice, then
an infant of thirteen months, the picture being in-
tended as a birthday present to the Prince Consort.
Upon his interviews with the late Queen, during the
execution of this work, the author dwells with par-
ticular pleasure, recounting many instances of Her
Majesty’s keen intelligence and art sympathy.
The illustrations of this volume are a very attrac-
tive feature, being principally reproductions from
the author’s drawings and pictures.
A Forest Drama. By Louis Pendleton. i2mo.
Pages 272. Illustrated. Philadelphia: Henry
T. Coates & Co.
The forest which Mr. Pendleton has chosen as.
the scene of his drama is in the great lone land of
northern Canada, where the charm of unending
lakes and rivers with their surrounding hills and
densely wooded shores delight the traveler. Never-
theless, the unfortunate position of our heroine is
such that the splendors of this vast Canadian realm
of maple woods and dark crowding fir trees have for
the time being lost their power to charm. Through
long and tedious years of English boarding school
life she has fretted and pined for her native Cana-
dian woods, for the freedom and unconventional
life of her childhood; but when, escaping from the
trammels of the schoolroom, she 'takes the law into
her own hands and insists upon a lonely journey of
five thousand miles to seek her relatives in the wilds,
of North America, she finds that she has a rougher
road to travel than she had counted upon. Nu-
merous and marvelous are her adventures, in which
the Red Indian plays an important part. Ostensi-
bly acting as her guides in order that she may find
her friends whom she has come so far in search of,,
these aborigines of the dark forest take her on a
weary journey of many days through the great lake-
regions, traveling by canoe all day, sleeping under
tents at night, hearing the cries of the wild animals,
of the forest, but seeing no other human beings.
The account of this weird journey, the ultimate res-
cue of the heroine by her friends, the glimpse we get
of North American Indian life and the strange
legends and superstitions of the Algonquin tribes-
who make their homes in this northern wilderness*

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