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ends with the Alps of Savoy and Mont Blanc.
It should be stated that the book is richly illus-
trated with full-page tissued plates, printed on
thick paper, in brown-toned ink. The illustrations
are evidently reproductions from photographs, but
are treated in such a way that they have none of the
photographic and mechanical flatness which mere
half-tone reproductions so often suffer from. Very
often the architectural pictures of ancient monu-
ments have something of the richness of etchings;
■while those of modern scenes are reproduced with
a softness of tone that gives them the effect of wash
drawings. The whole publication is a credit to
both author and publisher.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
In Miners’ Mirage-Land. By Idah Meacham Stro-
bridge. With cover design and chapter decorations
by J. Duncan Gleason. 8vo. Pages 129. Los
Angeles: Baumgardt Publishing Company.
A National Paean. By Walter Allen Rice. Svo.
Pages 94. Boston: Richard G. Badger. $1.50.
Selected Poems of John Boyle O’Reilly. i6mo.
Pages 89 + xiii. New York and Boston: Ii. M.
Caldwell Company.
Sonnets from the Portuguese. By Elizabeth Barrett
Browning. Size 6JX8J. Pages L. Vellum $2.50
net. Special edition, parchment, $25.00 net.
Painted Shadows. By Richard Le Gallienne. i2mo
Pages 339. Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
$1.50.
Poems. By Alexander Francis Chamberlain, Ph.
D. i2mo. Pages 77. Boston: Richard G. Badger.
$1.50.
The Heavenly Dykes. By June E. Downey. 121110.
Pages 63. Boston: Richard G. Badger. $1.00.
Poems By William M. Bryam. i2mo. Pages 109.
Boston: Richard G. Badger. $1.50.
Crux Aetatis. By Martin Schutze. i2mo. Pages
54. Boston: Richard G. Badger. $1.00.
The Poems of William Morris. Selected and edited by
Percy Robert Colwell. With Introduction, Bibli-
ography, Notes, Index and Photogravure Portrait.
8 vo. Pages 394. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell &
Co. Cloth, $2.00; half calf, $3.50; limp seal, $4.50.
The Greek Poets: An Anthology. Edited by Nathan
HaskellDole. 8vo. Pages36o. New York: Thomas
Y. Crowell & Co. Cloth, $2.00; half calf, $3.50; limp
seal, $4.50.
URRENT ART EVENTS.
Some two hundred pictures of modern
American and European artists selected
by the joint committee of the Society
of Art Collectors, recently incorporated, including
William T. Evans, chairman of the American sec-
tion, and Frederic Bonner, chairman of the foreign
section, have been shown in the American Fine Arts

Building. Among the exhibits were two Corots,
Le Lac Nemi, loaned by Mrs. Thomas Newcombe,
and La Charette, loaned by Mrs. John T. Martin;
a number of Daubignys, six Delacroix, among them
The Wild Tiger, which was on exhibition among
the “ one hundred masterpieces ” in Paris ten years
ago; The Picture Shop, by Decamps, and Going
to Pasture, by Jules Dupre. George Innes, Isabey,
Fuller and Jongkind, Homer Martin and Winslow
Homer were represented. The Sheep Shearers and
The Quarries were among the canvases by Millet.
Two famous Rousseaus were on view: The River
Oise, from Richard Graves’s collection, which had
not been seen here since the Barye exhibition fifteen
years ago; and the The Great Oaks of Bas Breau
from Sir William Van Horne’s collection. Twelve
canvases by Whistler were included, among them
Black and White, Nocturne in Blue and Silver,
Battersea Beach, The Falling Rocket, Symphony in
Grey and Green, Harmony in Green and Rose, The
Music Room. The Whistlers were somewhat out-
side the stated field of the exhibition, the purpose
of which was primarily to compare the work of the
Barbizon School that flourished in France in the
early thirties, with its followers in this country.
Two of the Whistlers, The Falling Rocket and The
Ocean were loaned by Mr. Samuel Untermeyer and
Mr. Richard Canfield. The other eight came from
Detroit, from the galleries of Mr. Frere and Mr.
Hecker. The proceeds of the exhibition were
devoted to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
The Department of Art of the St. Louis
Exposition has issued an illustrated handbook
containing a complete list of awards as certified
by the Superior Jury to the National Commission.
Mr. Charles M. Kurtz, the Assistant Chief of the
Department, has been appointed to the Director-
ship of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, which is to
occupy the new Albright Art Gallery. He expects
to open the Academy with an exhibition of paint-
ings and sculpture within a few months.
Mr. B. Kobayashi, of Tokio, the art critic and
publisher, is here on his annual trip. Visitors to
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition will have seen
his exhibits, which have been highly praised. He
intends to exhibit collections of fine prints and
paintings in Boston and New York in the near
future.
Miss Harriett Keith Fobes has been exhibit-
ing in her studio in Carnegie Hall her work in
leathers, books and dyed woods.


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