Studio: international art (58.1913)

Reviews and Notices

Chatto and Windus.) js. 6d. net.—A few years
ago we reviewed in these columns a delightful book
" Oxford from Within," and now from the same
publishers comes this companion volume, giving a
pleasantly graphic and interesting description of
life at the University of Cambridge with all its
peculiarities and foibles as well as its more serious
side, The illustrations after drawings in colour
and in sepia by Mr. Morley are very good and he
succeeds admirably in getting the atmosphere of
his subject.

A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most
Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century.
By C. Hofstede de Groot. Translated and
edited by Edward G. Hawke. Vol. V. (London :
Macmillan and Co. Ltd.) 2$s. net.—Gerard ter
Borck is the chief of the group of old Dutch
masters whose works are described in this fifth
volume of Dr. Hofstede de Groot's catalogue, the
title-page of which acknowledges that it is based on
the work of John Smith. One of the salient
characteristics of this painter of genre pictures
and portraits is his consummate skill in rendering
textures and light and shade, and especially his
masterly handling of the costumes of black velvet
and silk which came into vogue in his time, while
his habit of repeating himself, not merely in isolated
details but often to the extent of reproducing
exactly a complete figure or costume, is another
astonishing trait. The other painters dealt with
are Caspar Netscher, Godfried Schalcken, Pieter
van Slingeland, and Eglon Hendrik van der Neer.
As in previous volumes, there is a copious index of
public and private collections and owners possess-
ing the works catalogued.

Church Bells of England. By H. B. Walters,
M.A., F.S.A. (Henry Frowde : Oxford University
Press.) is. 6d. net.—To those who are interested
in this subject—and the existence of a considerable
bibliography would seem to be evidence of there
being many to whom this branch of archaeological
study appeals—this work will be welcome as the
attempt by one who has made a special study of
church Dells for over twenty years, to gather
together all the available information into a com-
prehensive manual of campanology. The interest-
ing text is copiously illustrated by 170 photographs
and drawings.

The ^Childhood of Animals. By P. Chalmers
Mitchell, M.A., LL.D., D.Sc, F.R.S. With
coloured plates by E. Yarrow Jones, M.A., and
drawings by R. B. Brook-Greaves. (London :
W. Heinemann.) \os. net.—The topic cn which
the learned_ Secretary of the Zoological Society of
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London writes with so much authority in this
volume is a very fascinating one. It is only in
recent years that the manifold phenomena of
childhood, human as well as animal, have been
studied at all systematically, and though the author
makes it clear that his object has not been to
present a formal treatise, the subject is dealt with
at considerable length under various headings, of
especial interest in the series of chapters being
those which concern the duration of youth in
mammals, birds, &c, the three on their colours
and patterns, the limitation of families, brood-care,
the taming of young animals, and particularly the
final ones on " The Purpose of Youth " and " Edu-
cation." Every naturalist will be grateful to Dr.
Chalmers Mitchell for the rich fund of facts and
observations here brought to a focus, and the
interest of the volume is heightened by a series of
excellent plates and text illustrations which assist
the author's exposition.

English and Welsh Cathedrals. By Thomas
Dinham Atkinson. (London : Methuen and Co.)
10s. 6d. net.—To sketch "the histories of our
cathedral churches in their broader aspects" has
been the aim of the author of this book, who, while
he does not lay claim to any new discoveries in
connection with the well-worn topic, condenses a
great deal of interesting information in his clear
and concise narrative. The illustrations consist of
some excellent photographs and a score of coloured
plates from drawings by Mr. Walter Dexter of
rather uneven merit. Plans of the cathedrals are
also given and a useful chart illustrating diocesan
history.

The Chapels Royal. By the Ven. Archdeacon
William Sinclair, D.D. (London: Eveleigh
Nash.) 20s. net.—This interesting account of the
Chapels Royal by Archdeacon Sinclair deals with
the subject more especially from the point of view
of recounting the various interesting and important
scenes and events which have been witnessed within
their walls. There are eighteen of these Chapels
Royal in Great Britain, to each of which a separate
chapter of the book is devoted, and excellent
illustrations are provided by Mr. Louis Weirter.

La Cite Jar din. Par Georges Benoit-Llvy.
(Paris: Editions des Cites-Jardins de France.)—The
garden-city movement has " caught on" not only
in England, but also in Germany, France, and
America, and it has no more enthusiastic student
and advocate than M. Benoit-Levy. The fact
that his work on the " Cite-Jardin," only one
among several contributions made by him to the
literature of the subject, has reached a second