Studio: international art (82.1921)

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"PRISONER, WHEN ARRESTED, CLUNG TO
THE RAILINGS." ILLUSTRATION FROM
H. M. BATEMAN'S " BOOK OF DRAWINGS "

(By permission of the Proprietors of Punch)

of mirthful medicine, which in times of
depression like those we are now passing
through, is of infinitely more value than
the drugs and potions of the apothecary.
These four pen-men who provide us
with such a bounteous feast of merri-
ment are " Ists " of a different order
from those whom Mr. Pennell denounces
—they are humorists and at the same
time artists at once sound in technique
and sane in the quality of their humour.
True, this humour, in the case of some of
them, lurks more in the accompanying
legends than in the drawings themselves.
Mr. Bateman is the chief exception to this
statement; in nearly every case his
drawings tell their own tale without any
assistance from the words. But if humour
is not so patent in the work of the others,
they all alike share that " unconquerable
gaiety" which Mr. Bernard Partridge
notes as a characteristic of his late colleague
on " Mr. Punch's " staff. 000
A Handbook of Indian Art. By E. B.
Havell. (London : John Murray.)—
The various books written by Mr. Havell
during the past dosen years, and more
especially his " Indian Sculpture and
Painting," now out of print, have done

much to awaken a more general interest
in the subject. The present volume,
intended as much for the general reader
as for the student, covers in a concise
form the ground explored in the earlier
volumes. More than half the book is
devoted to architecture and its evolution
throughout successive periods, and the
author's aim here is to enable the reader
to correlate stupa, temple, monastery,
palace, mosque and tomb with the thought
and life of the period to which they belong,
while in the section on sculpture he ex-
plains the leading ideas underlying the
Buddhist and Hindu conceptions of the
Deity and of divine worship, as expressed
in the finest works of various epochs.
The volume, which throughout is abun-
dantly illustrated, concludes with a brief
account of the principles of painting as
practised in India and the characteristics
of the chief schools. 0000
Comm. By John Milton. Illustrated
by Arthur Rackham. (London : W.
Heinemann.)—In Mr. Rackham's illustra-
tions to this reprint of Milton's " Comus "
—" A Maske presented as Ludlow Castle,
1634, on Michaelmasse night," as the
original title informs us, the characteristics

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