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LITERATURE

... asgoeV is very inaldequate, anid gives only asonlt one- sixth of the civ. Tiis shoukld ie rectilHel. Ani excetlent pnoket-miap shows the liies of the ln1lisil railax', and the e of the Ca!ed(o- maun in Scotlanrd. 'Messts i'erev Farnan & Co., Watling Street ...

LITERATURE

... as it well desolves, a wide popularity among Sabbath- school teachers and other students of the Bible. Tie nitew edition shows itumerous marks of n editorial care, and is in many respects a con- n. sdlerable imtprovement on the original. MNlessrs George ...

THE ROUSSEL EXHIBITION

... half-nude half- length figure of a young girl who presses a cluster of purple irises against her bosom, the brookside flowers and the humen flower both relieved against a background of delicate pink. Work like this, or like the beautiful Profile, a girl in ...

LITERATURE

... (London: Chatto & Wiudus.)- The stories in this collection are somewhat J unequal, and if niose of them show Bret Harte s at his best, one of them shows him at his worst. The thoroughly characteristic tale which tives the title to the volume is a remarkablv ...

NEW BOOKS

... he said, after showing the cathedral, 'this is very superior to the kirk of Mains.' 'I'm nae sae sure o' that, sir. Ye see, sir, she's eeseless big; she has nae lsft; an' she's sair fashed wi' tbae pillars.' Mr J. Ninian Comper shows himself very learned ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... figures of Mere him-, self and of Erasmus are not inadequately drawn, the spirit of the cultured and pious 2 :household at Chelsea has been happily caught, i .and the authoress does not yield to the besetting 1 temptation of making her language too archaic ...

ROYAL SCOTTISH WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY

... ick,his daughter, sends three flower studies -Blackthorn and Rboden- dron (No. 18), a large drawing which we noticed on a former occasion, and Apple Blossom (No. 55), and Old-Fashioned Flowers (No. 99). Can flowers ever become old-fashioned? Al ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEKS

... Beatitudes. By Robert Eyton, Rector of Upper Chelsea, &c. (London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trbibner & Co., Ltd.)-There is nothing subtle or profound in these 17 discourses on the Beatitudes, nor is any attempt made to show the unity and progress of thought in the ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... Sp7eed, The I7.1nstratedi ~nglishn Lilrdry.-Srtcr Resceitns. By Thomas Carlyle. With Portrait after J. M'Neill Whistler. The Chelsea Classics. (London- Service & Paton. 5 Henrietta Street.) Under the Greenwood Tree. By Thomas Hardy. The Wessex Novels. Vol ...

WATER-COLOUR EXHIBITION

... d on loan. The result is an exceedingly bright and varied show, in which pictures of sea and land are well balanced, and in which also there are notable studies of the . figure and of flowers. All the galleries of the Institute have been utilised. In ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... satisfactory in that part which shows the acquisitions made by Sweden in Ge-ninnyv during the Thirtv Years :War. We fail to nld in it such important names as Bremen andI Ver- den, Wismar and Stralsund, nor is there any- thing to show the temporary Swedish occupa- ...

ART CLUB EXHIBITION

... artistic Flower i Piece (No. 3-1), and of several studies bv Stuart Park mention may be made at. this time of his White Begonias tNo. 43) as exceptionally fine. E. A. Walton. a member of 'the club now resident in the historical Chevne Walk, Chelsea, is ...