Studio: international art (52.1911)

Reviews and Notices

closely they studied from nature the stronger
would they find themselves when art and nature
were united in their work later on. The aqua-
tints of Mr. W. P. Robins, the figure composi-
tion of Mr. J. Gould, and the still-life studies
of Mr. J. Anns were the subjects of special
praise from Mr. Murray.

A class for modelling from life, directed by
Mr. Cecil Brown, has been instituted at the
School of Animal Painting, in Baker Street.
A basset hound was the first model and the new
class was so much appreciated that it is likely
that modelling from life will take a permanent
place in the curriculum of the school. Mr. W.
F. Calderon's recent addresses on the anatomy
of the horse and dog attracted many artists and
students. Mr. Calderon built up by degrees in
coloured chalks a life-size drawing of the entire
external anatomy of a horse, checking and
explaining every point as he went along by
referring to a living horse that stood beside the
diagram with the important joints marked in
chalk on his smooth brown coat. W. T. W.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES.

Tintoretto. By Evelyn March Phillips.
(London : Methuen & Co.) 15s. net.—There
are, it is true, already many excellent biographies
of II Tintoretto in circulation, but for all that
the new study of the great Venetian's life and
work justifies its appearance, so full of origin-
ality is the criticism it contains and so important
are some of the facts it adds to current know-
ledge. The introduction on Environment has
the merit of recognising clearly all the subtle
contemporary influences that were brought to
bear on the painters of the lagoon city as well
as those of heredity, and it is very evident that
the task of unravelling them and noting how
they affected the wonderful group of masters
for whom, Miss Phillips says, " Giorgione called
the tune," has been full of fascination. From
the technical point of view, however, the most
valuable portion of the deeply interesting volume
are the reproductions and the analysis of the
newly-discovered drawings of the master that
were brought to the British Museum in 1907.
They number more than eighty, and, says Miss
Phillips, they admit us to an almost over-
whelming intimacy with the mind of the master.
He is absolutely unreserved and makes us free
of every shade of feeling. Here is no careful
working out of an inner vision, but one hot

trial after another dashed off this way and that
way as if the painter were compelled to clear
his brain of the many alternatives with which it
was thronged."

Shadows of Old Paris. By G. duval.
Illustrated by J. Gavin. (London: Francis
Griffiths.) 12s. 6d. net.—Visitors to Paris—
and they are innumerable—would do well to
carefully read this delightful book. So many
strangers sojourning in this great capital fail
to see the old remains, so crowded with remin-
iscence of romantic history ; and this is much
to be regretted, for to see them properly, under
an efficient guide, leaves impressions which
carry with them a lasting and never to be for-
gotten charm. Mr. Gavin's illustrations are
excellent, especially those reproduced from etch-
ings, which have considerable artistic merit.

The Picture Printer of the Nineteenth Cen-
tury : George Baxter, 1804-1867. By C. T.
Courtney Lewis. (London : Sampson Low,
Marston & Co.) 21s. net.—What with the
volume already published by the same author,
and the present bulky volume, there is surely
not much left to be said about Baxter, whose
achievements as a colour-printer have, moreover,
been discussed at greater or less length in various
other books which have come under our notice
during the past three or four years. This
volume is, of course, intended for the edification
of that large and increasing number of people
who collect ' Baxters," and who will find in it a
veritable encyclopaedia of information about the
man and his productions. Besides a consider-
able number of black-and-white reproductions
there are some score in colour—remarkably
good ones, too; but, lest there should be any
temptation to pass them off as originals, these
have been made on a different scale.

English Secular Embroidery. By M. A.
jourdain. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench,
Trubner & Co.) 10s. 6d. net.—Collectors of
old embroidery of the Tudor, Orange, and
Georgian periods, will find much to interest
them in this work. The choice examples selec-
ted for illustration form a valuable record of a
delightful English art.

The plate which the Art Union of London
is issuing to its subscribers this year is an
etching by Mr. W. L. Wyllie, R.A., entitled
Proclaiming our Sailor King, 1910, represent-
ing war vessels assembled to fire a salute on
the occasion of King George's accession. The
plate is sure to prove a popular one with the
Union's subscribers.

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