Studio: international art (13.1898)

Reviews of Recent Publications

F.S.A. (London : George Bell &
Sons.) Price ioi\ 6d. net.—The
opening of the new wing of the
National Gallery in London, in which
is hung the national collection of por-
traits, has no doubt caused a revival of
interest in the numerous historical
portraits of celebrated British charac-
ters which exist in museums and private
houses throughout the British Isles.
Efforts have from time to time been
made to catalogue the most important
examples, and it is to be hoped that a
record of them may be, ere long, avail-
able for public reference. Mr. Wheat-
ley's excellent work should do much to
rouse the interest of the public in this
subject, which is of equal importance
from its purely historic as from its
artistic point of view. The large
number of illustrations of political,
literary, and artistic notabilities with
which this work is adorned, together
with the varied mass of interesting
matter relating to his subject which
the author has brought together, makes
an unusually fascinating volume.

Mary Powell and its Sequel, De-
borah's Diary. With twenty-six illus-

drawing by hugh thomson. from » highways and byways tKlti0nS ^ J°HN JELLIC0E ^ HeR"

in devon and Cornwall" (macmillan) bert Railton. (London : John C.

Nimmo.)—The interest which has been
aroused in the work of Miss Manning

Macmillan & Co., Limited.) Price 6s.—It is by the recent republication of her stories, Cherry

evident that the author of this work is thoroughly and Violet and The Household of Sir Thomas More,

acquainted with his subject. His book teems with both of which have been reviewed in the pages of

pleasant descriptions and chatty anecdotes, and would The Studio, cannot fail to be sustained in the book

form a most agreeable companion to a tourist in the now before us. The Maiden a?id Married Life of

West country. The illustrations by Joseph Pennell Mary Powell [afterwards Mistress Milton) is cum-

are numerous and, it is needless to add, clever. bersome only in its title. Miss Manning has shown

Reproduced for the most part from lithographs, a rare insight of character in dealing with the per-

originally drawn upon a much larger scale, they sonality of the great English poet, John Milton; and

suffer greatly in effect by over-reduction. The fault her work, fiction though it be, cannot fail to render

is a serious one, and one that has been too fre- somewhat clearer to the mind certain episodes of his

quently committed of late in reproductions of the life. The illustrations by John Jellicoe and Herbert

work of this artist, both in English and American Railton are appropriately conceived, and executed

publications. No man would be more ready than with the well-known ability of these draughtsmen,
he, we should imagine, to detect such a defect in Erinnerungen aus Rubens. Von Jacob Burck-

another's work, and why he should permit it in his hardt. (Basel : C. F. Lendorff.) 4.50 marks.—

own passes comprehension. Hugh Thomson's The late Herr Jacob Burckhardt is well known

contributions are vigorous and full of character, as as the author of a " History of the Renaissance

may be seen from the one we are permitted to in Italy," and other works on art. The present

reproduce. volume, which appears posthumously, deals in a

Historical Portraits. By Henry B. Wheatley, somewhat discursive manner with the life and
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