Studio: international art (79.1920)

STUDIC-TALK

“ THE RIBBON COUNTER”
BY REGINALD HIGGINS
(DECORATIVE ART group)

and the productions of wholesale manu-
facturers. This part of the Institute's
programme has reached the stage of ful-
filment in an exhibition now being held
at the commodious building forming the
head-quarters of the Institute at Knights-
bridge, opposite the Guards' barracks,
and as a beginning it is certainly deserving
of commendation. We hope to refer more
fully to it in our next issue, and to illus-
trate a few of the things shown. a a

PRAGUE.—Though the third centen-
ary of Shakespeare's death came at
a time when Europe was in the throes of
a gigantic struggle, the occasion did not

pass unheeded even here among the
Czechs, where the great poet-dramatist's
genius has many earnest students and
worshippers. Among these is the painter-
etcher, Jan Konupek, who seized the
occasion to render homage to this unique
figure in the world's literature by a cycle or
set of sixteen large plates (published by Mr.
Dyk of Prague), in which he has essayed an
interpretation of certain episodes in the
tragedy of Hamlet. One of these is here
reproduced—one in which the artist has
chosen for his subject the meeting of
Hamlet and his father's ghost. In this, as
in the other plates of the series—and also
in the set he has done of Macbeth—the

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