International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

ing this sense in Mr. Duiac we credit him
with something better than that which we
deny to him. The dreamy attitude of Mr.
Duiac was the foii of a whoie coilection of
Phil May drawings in the other room. Phii
May's genius was the genius of a Dickens.
As a realist he was not interested in the
reality of beauty as Degas, or even Beardsiey,
but in the reaiity of the existence of ordinary
people, who are disturbed in mind by the
word beauty and not conscious of its presence
in the aspect of their everyday iife.

' MISS LU.LAH MCCARTHY AS DONA ANA" BY MEHCENT STONE
(ioupil Saion last month the iiiustration of the
statuette of by Meiicent
Stone. Miss Stone is not a proiihc worker, but aii
her work has its own character, a certain dehcacy
of conception, charming enough in these days of
ciumsiness and embryo-Rodinesque work.

The drawings which we reproduce by Phii
May, though inciuded in the exhibition just
referred to, have not been reproduced before.
They show the artist's pencil skilfuliy treating
two diverse subjects. In that of the costumed
figure the modei might stand for Sir Walter
Scott's Wiidrake in " Woodstock," in one of
that hero's iess admirabie moments, the very
antithesis of the erudite bibiiophiie on the
opposite page.

Mr. Harry Becker, whose vigorous work in both
oii and water coiours wili be remembered by
visitors to the Royai Academy Exhibitions of
recent years, was at the early age of fourteen one
of a group of enthusiastic students in the Academy

Exceiient as were Mr.
Edmund Duiac's iilustra-
tions for "The Arabian
Nights," he has made a
considerabie advance in
his pictures for " The
Tempest" exhibited at the
Leicester Galleries. If an
artist is grotesque he must
be so with variety, or he
wiii tire his public. We
do not beiieve that the
true vein of Mr. Dulac
is the grotesque, since
in his iast book it took
the very iimited form of
a gentie exaggeration of
the features of his maie
ftgurcs ; his invention in
the grotesque scarceiy
seemed to go beyond this.
A sense of beauty is apt
to iimit a man's irrever-
ence, and in acknowledg-
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"ARRtVAL OF THE DUTCH RBFUGEES tN COLCHESTER" (PAINTING)
BY HARRY BECKER