DOI issue:
No. 350 (May 1922)
DOI article:Reviews
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21395#0307
REVIEWS
forty and more whose portraits illustrate
this volume there are some whose fame
is limited to a special field, there are others
whose fame is world wide. Beginning
with His Majesty the King, Mr. Hamilton’s
gallery includes portraits of three Prime
Ministers — Gladstone, Balfour and
Asquith — spiritual leaders, such as
Cardinal Manning and “ General ” Booth ;
eminent artists, such as Leighton, Watts,
Onslow Ford, J. M. Swan and Alfred
Gilbert; philosophers and men of science
in the persons of Spencer, Tyndall, Geikie.
What, however, gives the volume its special
interest is the author’s record of the ex-
periences and impressions which the
sittings yielded him—pleasurable on the
whole though not uniformly so. Lord
Leighton does not seem to have impressed
him veryfavourably—“ the cut of his clothes
created the impression that he had no real
tradition behind him.” During one of the
sittings Val Prinsep called on his chief,
and the talk turned on some of the painters
of the day—Whistler, for instance, for
whom neither had any admiration, and
whose Connie Gilchrist they both voted
** an unforgivable impertinence,” and Mr.
J. S. Sargent, for whom, in common with
all the modern French School, beginning
with Manet and ending with Monet, they
predicted “ a well-merited oblivion within
290
WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION TO
THE "GARGANTUA” OF
RABELAIS. BY HERMANN PAUL
(Published by Leon Pichon)
a few years.” “ As for Sargent,” said
Leighton, “ he will go no farther. They
talk of electing him to the Academy, but
that will never be.” Mr. Sargent was
elected an Associate of the R.A. in 1894,
when Lord Leighton was President. 0
A History of Architecture on the Com-
parative Method. By Sir Banister Fletcher,
F.R.I.B.A. (London : B. T. Batsford.)
6th ed. £2 2S. net.—As a general manual
of architectural history, Sir Banister
Fletcher’s history in the form now given
to it is without a rival. The work has
undergone a complete revision and con-
siderable expansion, and numerous im-
provements, designed to facilitate the use
of the book by the student, have been
introduced, but the outstanding feature
of the history is the amazing wealth of
illustration lavished upon it. Numbering
no fewer than 3,500—very many of them
quite new—the illustrations from drawings
and photographs constitute what is with
complete justification claimed to be a
unique panorama of the world’s finest
buildings of every age. 0 0 0
Messrs.Frost andReedof Bristol havejust
published an excellent reproduction in
colours of Mr. JosephFarquharson’s picture
Through the Forest exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1920 and subsequently acquired
by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. 0
forty and more whose portraits illustrate
this volume there are some whose fame
is limited to a special field, there are others
whose fame is world wide. Beginning
with His Majesty the King, Mr. Hamilton’s
gallery includes portraits of three Prime
Ministers — Gladstone, Balfour and
Asquith — spiritual leaders, such as
Cardinal Manning and “ General ” Booth ;
eminent artists, such as Leighton, Watts,
Onslow Ford, J. M. Swan and Alfred
Gilbert; philosophers and men of science
in the persons of Spencer, Tyndall, Geikie.
What, however, gives the volume its special
interest is the author’s record of the ex-
periences and impressions which the
sittings yielded him—pleasurable on the
whole though not uniformly so. Lord
Leighton does not seem to have impressed
him veryfavourably—“ the cut of his clothes
created the impression that he had no real
tradition behind him.” During one of the
sittings Val Prinsep called on his chief,
and the talk turned on some of the painters
of the day—Whistler, for instance, for
whom neither had any admiration, and
whose Connie Gilchrist they both voted
** an unforgivable impertinence,” and Mr.
J. S. Sargent, for whom, in common with
all the modern French School, beginning
with Manet and ending with Monet, they
predicted “ a well-merited oblivion within
290
WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION TO
THE "GARGANTUA” OF
RABELAIS. BY HERMANN PAUL
(Published by Leon Pichon)
a few years.” “ As for Sargent,” said
Leighton, “ he will go no farther. They
talk of electing him to the Academy, but
that will never be.” Mr. Sargent was
elected an Associate of the R.A. in 1894,
when Lord Leighton was President. 0
A History of Architecture on the Com-
parative Method. By Sir Banister Fletcher,
F.R.I.B.A. (London : B. T. Batsford.)
6th ed. £2 2S. net.—As a general manual
of architectural history, Sir Banister
Fletcher’s history in the form now given
to it is without a rival. The work has
undergone a complete revision and con-
siderable expansion, and numerous im-
provements, designed to facilitate the use
of the book by the student, have been
introduced, but the outstanding feature
of the history is the amazing wealth of
illustration lavished upon it. Numbering
no fewer than 3,500—very many of them
quite new—the illustrations from drawings
and photographs constitute what is with
complete justification claimed to be a
unique panorama of the world’s finest
buildings of every age. 0 0 0
Messrs.Frost andReedof Bristol havejust
published an excellent reproduction in
colours of Mr. JosephFarquharson’s picture
Through the Forest exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1920 and subsequently acquired
by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. 0