International studio (57.1915/1916)

In the Galleries

much interesting material in this volume and a
synthetical grouping of the eight principal char-
acters which should ensure a spot upon our
library shelves for this newcomer. The re-
search and analysis to be encountered in these
pages is not profound and does not aim to create
new standards of comparison. The object is
rather to recreate the atmosphere of that obscure
little hamlet and to permit us to live the lives
and share the joys and sorrows of that gifted band
of painters who will always enjoy a big chapter
in the annals of art for all time. In that desire the
author has most assuredly succeeded. The book
is well illustrated, well indexed and bears a dedica-
tion to Arthur Hoeber’s intimate friend, the
gifted sculptor, Robert Ingersoll Aitken.
Joseph Pennell’s Pictures in the Land of
Temples, (j. B. Lippincott Co.,Philadelphia.)
$1.25.
Lithographs of temples whole and temples
ruined starting at Taormina, proceeding around
Sicily, thence to Italy and continuing in Greece,
form an attractive gift book, at this or any other

season of the year. These ancient shrines fitting
so admirably into their well-chosen sites, stir
the imagination of all who can appreciate Greek
art, which reached its fullest development in
architecture serving as models of supreme taste
down the centuries. Mr. Pennell’s ability to
depict such scenes is indisputable, and the book
contains, besides forty illustrations, an excellent
introduction by that seasoned scholar, W. H. D.
Rouse, who knows Greece as the_New Yorker
knows Broadway.
IN THE GALLERIES
The winter exhibition of the New York
Academy will be duly considered in the
February number of the magazine.
There has been a storm of indignation—by no
means a storm in a teacup—over the variety of
treatment-accorded to artists at the Panama-
Pacific Exposition, and a climax has been reached
by the publishing in the American Art News of
an open letter addressed to Edward W. Redfield,
by William Jean Beauley. The latter gentleman


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