Studio: international art (80.1920)

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numerous aquatints and dry-points, as
well as etchings proper. The National
Gallery of New South Wales has lately
acquired some of his aquatints. a a
Considerable progress is being made by
the Sydney group, which includes Lionel
Lindsay, Sydney Ure Smith, Alfred Coffey,
Bruce Robertson, and Eirene Mort. Lind-
say's work ranges from realistic impres-
sions of street scenes, to his fanciful
composition, The Edge of the World. He
has five prints in the Sydney Gallery. A
number of plates have been done by
Sydney Ure Smith, and a good example of
his work is his etching of the Sydney
" Sun " Office, which hangs in the office
of the United Cable Service, in the London
" Times " building. W. M.

REVIEWS.

A Short History of Art. By Julia B.
De Forest. Edited, revised and largely re-
written by Charles H.Caffin. (New York:
Dodd, Mead and Co.; London : Batsford.)
2is. net.—At the hands of Mr. Caffin
this " Short History " re-appears as sub-
stantially a new work. Beginning with
the real primitives—the artists of the
stone age—it concludes with a reference
to those followers of Cezanne who
" attempt to leap back to a condition of
primitive instinct/' ignoring the example
of their master, who " submitted the
results of his instinct to processes of
reasoning with the avowed object of
reconciling his intellectualized sensations

" ENTRANCE TO MELBOURNE "
ETCHING BY VICTOR COBB

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