Studio: international art (28.1903)

Reviews

judgment; and, although each is complete in itself,
the various essays by Dr. Anderson, Dr. Fleming,
and other well-known writers on pre-historic
remains, early and mediasval history, etc., form a
consecutive narrative, each leading up naturally
to the next. The fine full-page plates include a
photogravure of the quaint Darnley Cenotaph
from Holyrood, and the celebrated Ruthwell
Cross of Dumfries, each of the four exquisitely
sculptured sides being given; with a thoroughly
representative series of well-known portraits,
whilst interspersed in the text are hundreds
of minor illustrations, beginning with survivals
of the Stone age and ending with a portrait of
Lockhart by Maclise. Under the head of
"Aspects of Scottish Life," the editor himself and
Mr. Robert Renwick discourse pleasantly on
Scottish Burghs and Guilds, giving several fac-
similes of their Charters and Seals. Deer
Stalking, Fishing and Falconry, as practised in
the remote and the near past, are described by Sir
Herbert Maxwell; the various phases of Archery,
Golf, and Curling are traced with sympathetic
pen by Mr. Kerr; the Scottish Universities are
reviewed by Dr. Murray. In a word, no single
aspect of social or public life is omitted in a
work of permanent value, which certainly ought
to find a place on the bookshelves of every
Scotsman.

Jeanne d'Arc. Edited by T. Douglas Murray.
(London: Heinemann.) r 55. net.—So long as there
remains a spark of true chivalry in modern times the
tragic story of the martyred Maid of Orleans will exer-
cise an irresistible fascination over the imagination.
Her early life, her public career, and her condem-
nation to death have been subjected for many
generations to every variety of criticism, yet the
various problems they present have never yet
been finally solved. In the deeply-interesting
volume, enriched with contemporary portraits and
other illustrations, issued by Mr. Heinemann
there is no attempt at any new ■ or original
criticism of Jeanne d'Arc. This very reserve,
however, adds greatly to the value of its con-
tents, which are thus left to stand on their own
merits. They consist of excellent translations of
all the documents connected with the three cele-
brated trials, the so-called Lapse, the Relapse, and
the Rehabilitation, ordered twenty-five years after
the death of the Maid by Pope Calixtus. The
official Latin text of the last trial, which proved
beyond a doubt the innocence of the accused, is
now for the first time rendered faithfully into
English, and will be found of infinite service to the
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student alike of history or of humanity ; for, as
Mr. Murray justly remarks, the decree of the Pope
has added a true romance to human story. " In
all that we know of the world's great ones," he
adds, " we can find no parallel for the Maid of
Domremy."

Encvcloptzdia Britannica. Edited by Sir Donald
Mackenzie Wallace, Arthur T. Hadley, LL.D.,
and Hugh Chisholm. Vols. XXXI. and XXXII.
(London : Adam & Charles Black and " The
Times.")—The articles of particular interest to
artists and art lovers in these two volumes—the
seventh and eighth of the new series, and the
thirty-first and thirty-second of the complete work
— are " Mosaic," by Sir W. B. Richmond ;
" Mural Decoration," by Walter Crane ; " Illus-
trated Journalism," by Clement K. Shorter ;
"Medals," by M. H. Spielmann; "Ornament,"
by Lewis F. Day; " Pastel," by M. H. Spielmann ;
" Pigments," by Professor A. H. Church ; " Por-
traiture," by Sir George Reid; "Pottery and
Porcelain," by William Burton, C.B.; " Puvis de
Chavannes," by Henri Frantz; " Dante Gabriel
Rossetti," by F. G. Stevens ; " Ruskin," by Frederic
Harrison ; " Schools of Painting," by M. H.
Spielmann, Leonce Benedite, Fernand Khnopff,
Richard Muther, and Professor J. C. Van Dyke;
and " Sculpture," by M. H. Spielmann, Leonce
Bene'dite, and Rupert Hughes. There are also
interesting and well-informed articles on " Theodore
Rousseau," by D. C. Thomson ; " Auguste Rodin,"
"Briton Riviere," "Sir W. B. Richmond," "Sir
George Reid," "Giovanni Segantini," by Henri
Frantz; " Karl von Piloty," " John Pettie,"
"John Loughborough Pearson," "Sir Noel Paton,"
"Alphonse de Neuville," " Munkacsy," "W. Q.
Orchardson," and " Sir E. J. Poynter."

A Hamlet in Old Hampshire. By Anna Lea
Merritt. (London : Kegan Paul & Co.) 6s. net.—
All who complain of the dulness of the country or
moan over the loneliness of single life, should read
this brightly-written record of the years spent by
the author in a remote village of Hampshire, with
no companions but her dog and the wild birds she
taught to love her. Full of wit and pathos, these
essays are evidently records of actual experiences,
actual conversations held, yet they are written with
such fine tact that the most sensitive reader who
recognises his or her own portrait would find it
difficult to take offence. The chapters on " My
Garden," "My Neighbours," and "Hidden Trea-
sure" are perhaps the most fascinating—the last
especially, with its story of a broken spirit healed
and resignation won, after strenuous struggle and