... £r Scottish Art Through The Centuries A Special Section of The Sphere Illustrating the Royal Academy Winter Art Exhibition at Burlington House BY THE EARLIEST SCOTTISH ARTIST OF NOTE: George Jamesone's self portrait Is one of the many outstanding but not widely known pictures in the Royal Academy Exhibition of Scottish Art which opened this week at Burlington House. The artist depicts himself ...

... Europe's Winter Playground: -j n WONDER, ADMIRATION AND AWE are written on the countenances of these _ spectators as they watch the ski-jumping contest for the Morven Cup held on the Olympia Leap at St. Moritz, where the season is now in full swing 1HE ACCORDIONS STRIKE UP A MERRY TUNE as the first tailing party of the season starts out from a St. Moritz hotel en route to the Lake of Sils. ...

... The Beaked Spirit of Meiringen Ancient New Year Rites in Switzerland DURING the last century the festival of Christmas has so grown in popularity that New Year, at least in England, has taken second place. Yet it is New Year, and not Christmas, that is the really important festival to anyone interested in the distant past of the human race, and the survival of pagan rites even until to-day, ...

... . abts Encslanb Wrotham Hill Kent TX7HEN next you take your ways about the hills and fields, reflect that it is the labour of man that has given them their final beauty. No traveller two centuries ago coidd laud the lovely countryside too manj' were the marshlands and the wastes, too frequent the unkempt, forbidding woods that harboured lawlessness. And do you know aught of survey work or ...

... Notes hROM Near and Far Cruising in Equatorial Seas The Turlle Crawl at Grand Cayman: A Sultan's Shattered Dream IN these rather cold and cheerless days I have been seeking warmth and comfort by looking through travel plans for visiting those places where the sun is shining; not a watery effort, but with the strength that drives you to a sandy cove to have a dip in the cooling sea. My fancy at ...

... GORDON TO GUTHRIE Scottish Portraiture Throush The Centuries HENRY HOULDSWORTH OF COLTNESS, BY SIR JOHN WATSON GORDON, .the leading portraitist in Scotland after the death of Raeburn. Many distin guished Englishmen crossed the border to sit for him Lent hv Cahtain I, tinea P. N. HnuLlsu'rirth SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY ANDREW GEDDES The artist was a contemporary of Watson Gordon and might have ...

... Scotland's Wealth of Artists A Chronological Survey of the Out standing Names in the Exhibition of Scottish Art now at Burlington House RAUBURN, with his flowing genius and brilliant brushwork, Ramsay, the portraitist of prolific, consistent output, and Wilkie, an outstanding historical painter of his generation, are household names that stand out in the proud pageant of painting and, needless ...

... LIVERPOOL BUILDS A MIGHTY NEW EXCHANGE Memories of the Old Building Where Economic History Was So Often Made e IT is amazing how a revolution can take place in the heart of a great city so gradually that its citizens appear unaware of what is happening. Yet a stranger, a visitor, such as myself, pauses in amaze ment. I stopped dead in my tracks when I found myself gazing up at a fine ten ...

... Rounding Cape Horn A New and Remarkable Series of Pictures Taken On One of tbe Rare Occasions When the Dread Point Can Be Clearly Viewed From the Sea I AFTER TURNING THE CORNER and the ship is about to run into the calm waters of the south Atlantic, the camera gains a last glimpse of the Horn, which is seen away to the left just behind the jagged outline of Deceit Rocks On right 57 deg. SOUTH ...

... ALLAN RAMSAY AND RAEBURN SCOTLAND'S PROLIFIC PORTRAITISTS M Kb. YOUNG A fine example of the work of Allan Ramsay (1713-1784;, whose magnificent portraits have been given a room to themselves at the Royal Academy Exhibition of Scottish Art. Ramsay was one of the most prolific painters of his time and, in the opinion of Walpole, he exceeded Reynolds as a portrayer of women. Ramsay was a member ...

... MICHAEL FARADAY LECTURES AGAIN TO THE CHILDREN Professor Kendall's Impersonation at the Royal Institution THE MIXTURE IS HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE, I WILL NOW TICKLE IT WITH A FEATHER AND SEND IT OFF, said Professor James Kendall, Edinburgh University Professor of Chemistry, in the course of the second of his six Christmas Lectures for Children at the Royal Institution. He was enthusiastically ...

... TANGANYIKA NATIVES STAGE AN ANTI-GERMAN DEMONSTRATION: Men of the central Kavirondo reserve marching with a banner to a mass meeting where they urged in very definite terms that Great Britain should not on any account consider handing the territory back to Germany. Demonstrations of this character, but on the whole of an orderly nature, have been taking place in many parts of the country of ...