... Three Books on Art ■The Art of James McNeill Wiiistler. An Appreciation by T. R. Way and G. R. Dennis. (London George Bell and Sons. Jean Francois Millet and the Barbizon School. By Arthur Thomson. (London George Bell and Sons.) John Constable, R.A. By Lord Windsor. (London The Walter Scott Publishing Company, Ltd. THE time when the art of James McNeill Whistler was treated with flouts ...

... yff Gossip About Books and Their Makers V ^□Tct ZT.Sr*. The Importance of Being Strenuous One of the most obvious tendencies of the moment in literature is a breaking away from the eternally feminine. The new note in fictiar .keyed to 'hat spirit of our time whth .as con., to be d Ted as strenuous. Ter of s' ie, kobert Louis Steve jn wiu. .cor, or, h-ore correctly, the regenerator; for ...

... HIGH LIFE AND LOW Two Novels of Contrast 'Algernon Casterton Some Experiences during the first Twenty-five Years of his Life. By Lady Sykes. (London: Bickers and Son.) THE present epoch will probably be remembered m literary annals as the Age of Vivisection. Society has grown acutely-- it may be rather morbidly-- aware of its own disorders, and welcomes their diagnosis as gladly as our ...

... was not estab lished a moment too soon; nay, several years too late. Had it been in existence in 1900, the exquisite little Rembrandt landscape-- and landscapes by this greatest of the Dutch masters are of extreme rarity-- might be in our National Gallery instead of in the Rijks Museum. The executive is now on the alert, however, and, acting through an independent buyer in whom all place ...

... St. James's Theatre 'THE PROFESSOR'S LOVE STORY'' Mr. E. S. Willard has pursued the wisest possible policy in reviving The Professor's Love Story for the last few weeks of his season at the St. James's Theatre. Not only is, Mr. Barrie a sure draw to theatrical London just now, but the part of Professor Goodwillie is admirably suited to what one may call Mr. Willard's later manner. In the early ...

... Gossip About 1 1 Books and Their Makers I 1 -.Mii Richard Whitcing Back to Town I am glad to know that Mr. Richard Whiteing, whose latest novel, The Yellow Van, is having a great and deserved success, is taking up house in London again. He is so essentially a townsman that it was a surprise to me when he quitted his old home in Bloomsbury for his cottage at Northaw, Hertfordshire, early this ...

... Some New Novels The Yellow Crayon. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Ward, Lock. A Trip to Venus. By John Munro. (Jarrold and Sons.) The Odd-Job Man. By Oliver Onions. (John Murray.) There are plenty of critics now who exhaust their philippics at the expense of modern fiction, but for our own part we doubt if England has ever seen a time when the average of novel-writing was on so high a plane ...

... The Other Side. By G. G. Desmond. (Grant Richards.) Gay. By the Author of Laddie. (W. and R. Chambers.) A was an Angler. By Stanley Cock. (Dean and Son.) yEsop's Fables, Ten Little Niggers, Old Mother Hubbard, There was a Little Man. (Dean and Son, Ltd. The Other Side is a splendid book for very young children, as, besides being printed in good large type on extra strong paper, ...

... Fishing Dry-fly Fishing Some years ago, when references to our anglers fishing with a dry fly began to appear in American papers devoted to sport, a well-known fly fisher of the old, or wet, fly school declared roundly that the thing was an impossibility; that to suppose you could cast a fly on to water and keep it dry was another fish story. Doubtless, he was soon con vinced ot his error, ...

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... Art Gossip Reminiscences I walked through Lord Leighton's house on Sunday amidst the little throng that had gathered there for gossip-- and an occasional glance at the fragmentary relics of his master-handiwork-- but the feeling of sadness that these rooms give one who has known them when their master was alive thrust all criticism aside, and I found it impossible to weigh and balance the work ...

... Shooting The Dog in Sport Dogs used in field sports never had so much attention paid them as is the case nowadays. and although much has been said and written as to alleged decadence of some breeds since the institution of shows close on half a century ago, it must be ad mitted that, so far as appearances go, a great improvement has been effected in not a few varieties. It would be no easy ...