As the fog still further cleared
milk acidulated by the paralactic cocco-
away, glimpses of the corona appeared again, bacillus, the remainder of the two daily IF Whistler was not a master (and the
and the fog under the sun became fairly brilliantly meals which they recommend being made point is still in dispute), at all events he
illuminated with iridescent colours, which did not
up, of vegetables, fruits, and farinaceous had more disciples than most men of
appear to be part of the corona, but in places
blended into it.
milk acidulated by the paralactic cocco-
away, glimpses of the corona appeared again, bacillus, the remainder of the two daily IF Whistler was not a master (and the
and the fog under the sun became fairly brilliantly meals which they recommend being made point is still in dispute), at all events he
illuminated with iridescent colours, which did not
up, of vegetables, fruits, and farinaceous had more disciples than most men of
appear to be part of the corona, but in places
blended into it.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
The im- the Tissues (other than Liver) of Rabbits under
insects act as carriers of disease, and in mobilization may be due to a fungus Various Diets and during Inanition,' communi-
this way infect both man and animals. disease (empusa) which is known to
cated by Dr. A. D. Waller,-Mr. C. I. Martin on
A Note on the Protozoa from Sick Soils, with
The latest addition to disease-carriers is attack the fly and cause death. This some Account of the Life-Cycle of a Monad
the common house fly. It is only during hypothesis may be true or may not; Flagellate, communicated by Prof. E. A. Minchin,
---Mr. E. W. A. Walker on. Further Observations
the last twelve years that this insect of at present we have no evidence that the
on the Variability of Streptococci in relation to
innocent appearance has been regarded disease attacks the fly during the descent certain Fermentation Tests, together with some
with eyes of suspicion by Army medical of the curve.
Considerations bearing on its Possible Meaning,
communicated by Prof. F. Gotch,-Messrs. A.
officers and other supervisors of health in
Another point which makes it difficult Harden and w. 'J. Penfold on The Chemical
various parts of the world.
to accept the fly-mechanism theory is that, communis (Escherich) obtained by Cultivation in
Action on Glucose of a Variety of Bacillus coli
The cause of malaria has been so success- if we accept the idea of immobilization Presence of a Chloroacetate' (Preliminary Notice),
fully traced to the mosquito, and plague and then compare the curves for diarrhea -Mr. V. J. Harding on 'The Action of Enzymes on
to the rat flea, that our health authorities and typhoid, we find that it will fit the Harden,-and Prof. F. Keeble and Dr. E. F;
Hexosephosphate,' communicated by Dr. A.
are hoping to prove that the germs of case for diarrhoea, but that it will not Armstrong on · The Oxydases of Cytisus Adami,'
typhoid fever and summer diarrhea are explain the secondary rise in the typhoid coinmunicated by Prof. W. Bateson.
conveyed by the house fly. Army authori-curve which invariably takes place during
SOCIETY ANTIQUARIES. —June 13. -Dr.
ties on
the whole, according to Mr. its descent. We therefore cannot have c. H. Read, President, in the chair. -Mr. George
Howard, seem to have no doubt about it both ways. We would remind Mr. Jeffery, the Society's local secretary for Cyprus,
the influence of flies in spreading typhoid. Howard that it is far from certain that communicated a paper on the Franciscan church
They tell us in many instances that the summer diarrhea is an infectious disease at Famagusta in that island. This church was
drinking water was above suspicion ; but at all. In certain respects it bears a
built by Henry II. de Lusignan in the year 1300,
and it appears to have been connected with the
it is certainly no easy matter on a resemblance to typhoid, but we do not royal palace by a gallery. The plan of the church
campaign to be sure that such water is know the microbe which produces it, and is somewhat peculiar, the apse, being formed
not infected, unless the Japanese plan of the evidence from hospitals and work- wide, is aisleless, consists of three bays, and is
boiling it is adopted.
houses in this country is conflicting covered with a quadripartite vault. In each bay
Among the short extracts from many on the point. In the majority of instances transeptal chapels were added at a later date.
investigators crowded into the book, the authorities say that the disease, The building is now a complete ruin, and most
of the walls are reduced to a few feet above the
it is a pity that the author did not think according to their experience, is not
ground level, but sufficient remains to make it
fit to mention
a paper read at the Royal infectious. Medical officers of health, possible to produce a complete restoration on
Society of Medicine on April 7th, 1910, on the other hand, occasionally bring paper. There are some slight remains of the
conventual buildings.
by Dr. Niven of Manchester. This is by forward cases in which adults as well as
Mr. Jeffery also communicated a paper on a
far the most comprehensive work that children are affected in the same house.
Latin bishop's tomb in the great mosque (formerly
has been done on this subject. It is the It is difficult to see, in present cir-
the cathedral of St. Nicholas) at Famagusta. The
tomb commemorates Leonegarius de Nabinalis,
result of continuous observations extending cumstances, what preventive measures Bishop of Famagusta and Tortosa, and is dated
over a period of seven years, and showing can be taken to quell the ravages of this 1365. ut consists of an incised slab; with
the relationship that exists between the fatal malady. Attention to hygienic laws, his pastoral staff, under & canopy. The in-
number of flies and the prevalence of which are at present being insisted upon scription is in Lombardic capitals.
typhoid and summer diarrhea in Man in the Schools for Mothers, will probably find of eleven British gold coins in a hollow llint
chester.
do more to mitigate the severity of the near Rochester. The designs on the coins are
The discussion that took place on the disease than any hard-and-fast rules from different dies, but are of the same type, that
paper on May 27th is highly instructive. which may be drawn up by medical evolved from the gold stater of Philip of Macedon.
Several eminent authorities looked upon officers of health. Better housing condi- of a painting once at Holveston Hall, Norfolk.
Dr. Niven’s statistics as showing that a tions and plenty of fresh air and open
The picture dates from about 1635, and shows
a stepped platform of nine stairs, on each of
correlation existed between the iy curves spaces are needed. It is a remarkable fact which stands a male figure, represented at
and the disease curves, but they insisted that among the richer classes the disease different stages of life from 10 to 90.
that correlation and causation must not is almost unknown. This would surely containing a baby, labelled 1 to show he is one
be confounded with one another.
point to the housing problem as being of year old, and to the right of the last step is a
skeleton leading away the figure of the old man
Every one agreed that the rise of the paramount importance.
of 90. The picture is interesting from the point
curve of fresh diarrhea cases followed Mr. Howard has some hard words for of view of costume. It is possible that the figure
closely the rise of the fly curve (i. e. the the American Medical Association, be- but, on the other hand, the painting is quite as
number of flies) in point of time. The cause they refuse to believe that the house likely to be a memento mori, and not a portrait
enormous increase in the number of flies fly can act as the chief cause of typhoid at all.
Mr. Edward Conder exhibited a cast of a
(the apex of the fly curve) would lead in urban districts ; they admit, however, sculptured stone tablet found at Newent, Glou-
one to expect that, at the beginning its carrying powers in regard to rural cester. The stone is of eleventh-century date,
of the fall of the fly curve, there would typhoid. Mr. Howard's suggestion that and on
one side is depicted a Crucifixion in a very
be a similar rise in the number of fresh the house fly should be called the typhoid bolding a cross and a crooked staff, surrounded
cases of diarrhæa, the flies still being fily is not acceptable to the American by smaller figures in grotesque attitudos. At the
able to convey the infective material; Medical Association. We are of opinion edge are the names of the four Evangelists and
but this does not take place.
that the latter are perfectly justified in Edred again.
June 20. -Sir Hercules Read, President, in the
On examining the curves both for flies refusing to give prominence to the fly
and summer diarrhea for five years, it
as a carrier of typhoid, when it has not chair. - The President exhibited some Anglo-
was found that the period of descent in been proved that it occupies a more including portions of two urns, an iron sword
the curve for diarrhoea was always ante- prominent place than other carriers which and shield boss, and a circular gold pendant.
The President also exhibited a Sassanian
cedent to the fall of the curve for flies.
are already well known.
silver bowl of the fifth century A. D. It is orna-
mented with figures of four men on horseback
The House Fly, Disease-Carrier. By L. O.
hunting the boar, ibex, and lion. The figures are
Howard, Ph. D. (John Murray. )
armed with a sword, with very long grip, or bow,
which is clearly of the composite form. At the
In
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bottom of the bowl is a bust surrounded by con-
the digestive tube have a useful as well as a
ventional birds. The bowl is a peculiarly fine
harmful part to play.
example of Sassanian art.
Dr. P. Norman, Treasurer, and Mr. F. W. Reader
Science Gossip.
A MINOR planet discovered by Herr Palisa
read a paper on recent discoveries of Roman
remains in London, which was a sequel to one
of Vienna last October turns out to be of
read before the Society in 1906. The main points With the spread of cinematograph theatres exceptional interest on account of the
of the paper are as follows: First, an account was throughout the country, the use of uninflam. position and form of its orbit. This minute
given of four bastions of the City wall, two of mable films has become a matter of great object--not more than four or five miles
which had been partly excavated at the expense
of the Society.
importance, and we might with advantage in diameter—which is technically known as
Of these two, one on the site of
Christ's Hospital has been preserved by the Post
imitate Russia in making the sale of any MT. of 1911, has the same perihelion distance
Office authorities, while the other, under the others illegal. The collodion employed in as Eros, but an orbit of nearly double the
vestry of All Hallows-on-the-Wall, though still the manufacture of cinematograph films is eccentricity, the period being 2*6 years.
notable discovery is that of a narrowfkoman'aitch generally made from nitro-cellulose dissolved Thus although its mean distance from the
in a mixture of camphor, methylic alcohol,
outside the City wall. This was observed in
sun is considerably greater than that of
America Square, at All Hallows, and at Christ's
and ether; but the same effect can be pro- Eros, on account of the greater eccentricity
Hospital. An addition to the Roman gate at duced by the substitution for the nitro- of its orbit it will approach the earth at the
Newgate was found, which proved the width from cellulose of one of the acetylated celluloses, oppositions which occur in the neighbour-
east to west to have been about 31 ft.
or, in other words, of a cellulose prepared hood of perihelion as closely as Eros does
A tower at the Old Bailey, believed by John
with acetic instead of nitric acid. A col. in the same circumstances. It will thus,
Wykeham Archer to be medieval, was redis-
covered and carefully examined, and proved to
lodion thus prepared can be dissolved in along with the latter planet, be at these
be comparatively modern. The authors also acetone and other substances, and acetylated times our nearest celestial neighbour, with
described a piece of the south wall of the City cellulose is actually used in the produc- the exception of the moon.
found last year. This is quite different in con- tion of electrical insulators. Its high price,
struction from the Roman wall on the east,
It appears from observations of the solar
north, and west, and was probably of later date: compared with that of nitro-cellulose, has
hitherto been against its general adoption ; eclipse made by Prof. Fowler at South
MICROSCOPICAL. —June 19. -Mr. H. G. Plimmer,
but with the cheap acetone we are promised Kensington on April 17th last, that it is
President, in the chair. - A paper by Lord Avebury as a by-product of synthetic rubber, this possible to see the bright lines in the spectrum
was read, giving a short account of the develop- objection should now be overcome. Dr. of the solar chromosphere during some phases
ment of pollen and of recent researches on fertiliza- | W. K, Main in an article in the current of an eclipse which is not quito total, or
tion, which show more and more complexity. number of the Revue Scientifique gives the during the partial phase of a total eclipse.
A paper On some New Astrorhizidæ and their
Structure’ was contributed by Messrs. E. Heron-
details of its preparation, and says that it This may modify the arrangements for
Allen and Earland. Two new ecies of Psammo- is already being turned out in Germany future solar eclipses, as hitherto it has been
sphæra and one of Marsipella were described from and the United States in considerable supposed that these lines can only be seen
Sea in connexion with the work of the Inter- cinematograph films throughout the world stantaneously in total solar eclipses, when
specimens
dredged by Mr. Earland in the North quantities. He estimates the production of in the "fash” spectrum which appears in-
Dr. J. F. Gaskell communicated A Method of at 300,000 metres per day.
the chromospheric stratum round the edge
embedding Tissues in Gelatin. '
of the sun is alone uncovered by the moon.
The presentation of a testimonial and illu- PROF. METCHNIKOFF's last recipe for The Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of
minated address to Mr. F. A. Parsons, who has long life is given in a communication made the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical
recently retired from the post of Assistant Secre- by him and Dr. Eugène Wollmann to the Society will shortly consider the question of
tary, took place. Mr. Parsons had served the
Society for nearly sixteen years.
Académie des Sciences during this month. observation of the total eclipse of the sun
He there tells us that senile decay is in of 1914-August 21st-which will be visible
METEOROLOGICAL. . —June 19. -Dr. H. N. Dick- / great measure caused by intestinal poisons, as a total eclipse from Norway and Sweden
son, President, in the chair. -Dr. G. C. Simpson, of which indol and the phenols are among and other parts of Europe, when these newly
meteorologist to the British Antarctic Expedition the chief. These are much less readily acquired ideas may take effect.
1910, read a paper on Coronæ and Iridescent absorbed by the great intestine than is
Clouds. ' During September, 1911, he was one
of a party led by Capt. Scott to survey McMurdo
sugar, and it would, on the same authority,
Sound, and on the 24th, while enveloped in fog, be advantageous to create a source of sugar
be observed a fine fog-bow. It was opposite the in this last. The idea of the writers is,
sun, and a measurement of the radius with a therefore, to administer substances which,
tbeodolite gave 38°.
FINE ARTS
white, but å reddish tinge could be seen on the shall not be converted into sugar until
The bow was virtually owing to the presence of certain microbes,
outer side. As the fog dissipated, the upper
sky became clearer, and the sun shone over the they arrive at the great intestino. They
top of a heavy bank of fog. For some minutes conclude, that the ideal food of man would
and the diameter of this corona seemed unusually a day, with 500 or 600 grammes of clotted
the sun had a brilliant corona with bright colours, be a small quantity of meat, or 120 grammes Memories of James McNeill Whistler. By
T. R. Way. (John Lane. )
large ; but there was no opportunity to make a
measurement.
As the fog still further cleared
milk acidulated by the paralactic cocco-
away, glimpses of the corona appeared again, bacillus, the remainder of the two daily IF Whistler was not a master (and the
and the fog under the sun became fairly brilliantly meals which they recommend being made point is still in dispute), at all events he
illuminated with iridescent colours, which did not
up, of vegetables, fruits, and farinaceous had more disciples than most men of
appear to be part of the corona, but in places
blended into it. During the whole period the
substances. With this they claim to have genius. Some of these disciples depress
temperature was between -15° and -21° F. The reduced the production of indoxyl and the
reduced the production of indoxyl and the us, others affect us in quite a contrary
fur of the sleeping bags and the wool of sweaters urinary phenols to a minimum.
became covered with hoarfrost. These observa-
way, and there are a few whose accounts
tions show that water can exist in the atmosphere A CURIOUS point arises with regard to of the man and artist we can be genuinely
at much lower temperatures than has, generally the experiments made by M. Michel Co. grateful for. Mr. Way writes of Whistler
generally admitted that, while halos are caused hendy at the Institut Pasteur at Paris, the worker ; for the most part he does
by the refraction and reflection of ice crystals, and recently noticed in these columns. By not dwell on the many episodes that kept
coronæ are due to diffraction effects of either isolating chickens under entirely aseptic
isolating chickens under entirely aseptic Whistler's name constantly before the
small drops of water or thin ice needles. From conditions, he has succeeded, as he
certain observations made in the Antarctic, Dr.
Simpson was led to doubt the possibility of ice
in making them live without microbes, public, episodes at once trivial and un-
crystals ever forming diffraction effects. This
His concern is to show how
and finds that their bodily strength is forgettable.
is an important question for meteorology, for, thereby fairly maintained. But their diges. the “ butterfly” toiled to produce those
if it is true, we have a powerful instrument tive organs remain charged with a higher things of beauty that dazzled younger
for determining the constitution of a cloud :
if there is a corona, the cloud must be composed tion, and it is therefore necessary for them many of them now, when they are no
proportion of the useless products of diges. contemporaries and continue to dazzle
of water, while, if there is a halo, it must be
composed of ice.
to consume a greater quantity of food than longer youthful. Some day, we suppose,
Mr. W. W. Bryant read a paper on The | animals normally brought up. When
Adoption of a Climatological Day.
such chickens are
the real truth about Whistler will come
released from their
aseptic life and allowed to run with their out. Rumours of it, indeed, have been
Mox. Royal Institution, 6. -Oeneral Meeting,
fellows, their digestive tubes are invaded already whispered by more than one
Aristotelian. 8. -A Modern Materialist, 4 Study of the
Philosophy of George Santyana,' Mr. D. L. Murray.
within twenty-four hours by millions of former devotee ; and the idol set up,
Jewish Historical Society of England, 8. 30. A Dutch Burial- bacteria without any apparent injury. to first in an exclusive by-way, and later in
health, and thereafter they generally thrive. the public market-place, is hardly so
Light throtra on Roman Scotland by the Excavations at The conclusion is drawn from this that the firm in its niche as it was a few years ago.
Faraday. 8. Electrocapillary Pulsation of a Mercury
defence of the organism against bacteria
Mod. Lewis : "On the Variation of the Conductivity of is hereditary, and not acquired; but it
There is evidence of this in Mr. Way's
may quite as well be that the bacteria in volume; not positive evidence indeed,
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
Ground and its English Connexions. Rev. Isidore Harris.
TUES. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 4. 30. -The
Cappuck, near Jadbergh, in 1911-12. ' Mr. O. H. Stevenson.
Meniscus, Meskrs. A. P. Roshdestwensky And W. 0.
Aluminium Anode-Pilms with Temperature, Mr. G. E.
Bairsto.
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re-
was
but rather negative, inasmuch as there
Robert Lee's Workshop, 501. ; The Five Sisters
is a welcome omission of excessive super-
SIR L. ALMA TADEMA.
of York, 2501. Muirhead Bone, The Shot Tower,
latives.
621. ; Ayr Prison, 1001. ; Rye from Camber, 501. ,
Admiration we find, and appre- The world of art is the poorer for the Liberty's Clock, 602, Claude Gellée, Le Bouvier;
ciation, but the writer keeps his head on death of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema at 551. Meryon, St. Etienne du Mont, first state,
the whole. Whistler is placed before us, the age of 76. On Tuesday last, at Wies. on green paper, 701. ; L'Abside do Notre Dame
not as though he was the most wonderful baden, he succumbed to the malady against Rembrandt, The Landscape with a Ruined Tower
de Paris, second state, on ivory-white paper, 3301.
artist who ever lived and painted, but
which he had been fighting for some time. and Clear Foreground, third state, 671. ; The
as one who reached a certain high achieve-
Born at Dronryp in Friesland, he was left Landscape with the Obelisk, 771. ; Olement de
fatherless at an early age, and, in spite of Jonghe, first state, 5801. ; Jan Lutma, second
inent, not necessarily the highest, in
the straitened means of his family, reso-
state, 1551. ; La Mère de Rembrandt au Voile
artistic endeavour. This is the impression lutely devoted himself to art. He was being soir second state, 841. The total of the sale was
conveyed rather than the view stated ; taught before he was 5, and exhibited at 15.
for Mr. Way does not pass judgment. He got his training at Antwerp, and made At the sale of Lord Cranbrook's pictures by
He admires
and describes here and there, his name with The School for Vengeance ; the sketch by Sir Thomas Lawrence of Master
and then proceeds to his main purpose,
the Education of the Children of Clovis
Standish fetched 9031. ; a man's portrait by
which, as we have said, is to show us
at the Antwerp Exhibition in 1861. The Lucas de Heere, 230 guineas; and two drawings
commissions of Baron Loys and the dealer by Wheatley, 195 guineas.
the worker in the workshop, toiling at
Gambart added to his reputation. As early
the bench. Few men have laboured so
as 1865 his work was shown in the French
hard to acquire a mastery of their means Gallery, Pall Mall, and in 1870 he came to
of expression as Whistler. His industry England to settle permanently. He was
Fine Art Gossip.
and concentration were astonishing, and, made A. R. A. in 1876, and R. A. in 1879.
whatever the final opinion may be on his He was knighted in 1899, and received the
art and its claim to rank with the
master-Order of Merit in 1905. A genial and kindly Arts League, which is published four times
No. 9 of The Journal of the Imperial
pieces of the world's geniuses, there is no
doubt that the artist himself will always mainly exercised on subjects from the pagan tion and the Formation of Public Taste,
For years his careful and learned work, tion at Crosby Hall and Elementary Educa-
a year, has, besides articles on Mural Decora-
stand out as one whose capacity for world of Greece and Rome, won him a
taking pains was infinite. There is some- unique reputation. His output was incesº important notes on the new Copyright Act
thing almost old-maidish in Whistler's sant, but all his pictures, large and small, and the Shops Act. The interpretation of
fussiness over the details of printing an show, a finish in detail and a scholarship to artists, while the sale of pictures to the
etching and the selection of a paper for
his lithographs ; and during the various 1896, a picture
typical of many which we
or an anecdotic interest, as in The Coliseum, advantage of the proprietors of an exhibi-
tion comes apparently within the definition
stages of painting a picture he seems to
have noticed, frequently emphasized for of retail trade, and so is subject to the pro-
have been in a constant state of anxiety, the public the charm of graceful figures visions, which have been in force since
He could talk of little else, and, indeed, brilliantly dressed, and moving in a milieu May 1st. In calling attention to this un
seems to have expected others to limit in which every detail-balcony mouldings, expected difficulty the League is doing good
their remarks in a similar way. Mr. Way marble floors, fans, vases, or roses
service, for artists certainly need a
sponsible body which will look after their
brings out one capital point, that Whistler worked out with elaborate technique.
was always ready and even anxious for His latest picture in the current Academy interests and take the initiative. Negotia-
tions in which
as many as twenty-five
the advice of his friends in matters To do the same thing for so many years is societies
are represented are in progress to
relating to his art. In the conduct of not, perhaps, to achieve greatness.
his affairs he seems to have resented the
THE third annual dinner of the Allied
slightest interference or suggestion ; such
Artists' Association will be held next
purely personal concerns he must manage
Saturday, July 6th, at 8 P. M. , in the Holborn
as he thought best; but the exclusive THE COOPERS AND JOHN HOSKINS. Restaurant. Mr. Frank Rutter, Curator
artist could listen to and be guided by
of the Leeds Art Gallery, will be in the chair.
Aldwick, Sutton, Surrey.
others, even be influenced to the extent
Among the speakers will be Prof. Michael
of altering an arrangement! This is dealing with the incomparable Samuel Grein.
BEING engaged on an illustrated work Sadler, Mr. Walter Sickert, and Mr. J. T.
Tickets can be obtained from
the most valuable addition to a knowledge Cooper" (acknowledged to be the greatest the Secretary, Allied Artists' Association,
of Whistler we have come across of late. English miniature painter), his brother 67, Chancery Lane, W. C.
It rather disposes of the legendary art Alexander, and uncle John Hoskins, &c. ,
A SIGNED work by Floriano Ferramola has
dictator and the still more legendary I should be greatly obliged if owners of lately been discovered at Brescia, a half-
being who made a mystery of his work, originals by these artists would very kindly length of Christ bearing the Cross. ' In style
holding that an artist should listen to
favour me with particulars of authenticated it differs materially from Ferramola's other
examples in their possession, or known to
no one, but go his own way in his own
authentic paintings, which belong for the
them, with a view to the same being in-
manner, and stand or fall by the result.
cluded in my lists. A full description with
most part to the second decade of the six-
teenth century; here, on the contrary, the
The chief value of this book lies in such the provenance of the miniature, and, character of the work is that of the close of
revelations and glimpses behind the scenes.
where practicable, a sight of the original, the Quattrocento or the first years of the
Of Whistler the man, as he postured in
would be especially esteemed by
Cinquecento, and in type and treatment the
publio, we have heard quite enough.
J. J. FOSTER, picture shows a remarkable connexion with
He and Oscar Wilde have had of recent
Author of ‘Miniature Painters, British the Christ' by Vincenzo Foppa in the
years an amazing amount of writing
and Foreign,' 'The Stuarts in Art,' &c. Chéramy Collection in Paris. From this
point of view the picture at Brescia is of con.
devoted to their doings. One is almost
siderable interest. It shows a phase of
tempted to say that their chief claim to the
Ferramola's art hitherto unknown, and
title of “ master” will be in their capacity
proves that the tradition that he was a
SALES.
for taking pains-over the selection and
pupil of Foppa was undoubtedly correct,
training of disciples ! It is high time On Monday, the 17th inst. , and Tuesday, the though his later work affords little or no
that their posing was forgotten, and ings and drawings : An important collection of
18th, Messrs. Sotheby sold the following engrav; proof of this. The mutilated inscription
is
the artist in each of them studied with
. . . . Opus Floriani. . . . Brex [? ]. . . .
151 engravings after the works of J. Constable,
sanity and a sense of proportion. When
above suspicion. The picture, probably
A collection of engravings after the old
masters formed by the late Rev. W. J. Loftie,
once in a church at Brescia, hung for many
this is attempted, books like Mr. Way's | 2451. Rembrandt, Portrait of Ephraim Bonus, years in the rooms of a charitable institution
will be found a valuable help. These second state, 551. William Blake, a drawing in that city forgotten and unrecognized.
‘Memories,' as they stand, are not a
tempera Christ interceding for the
It has now been placed in the gallery at
Magdalen, 711.
very illuminating contribution to Whist-
Brescia, which, strangely enough, has long
lerian literature ; indeed, they make no
On Wednesday, the 19th inst. , Messrs. Sotheby contained a faithful copy of it, made, some
sold the greater portion of Sir Frederick Wed.
such claims. But students, of etching more's collection of etchings, with a fow of his
twenty years later in date, by Marco Pal.
and lithography especially, will find them
other engravings, the chief
prices realized being characters. Both pictures go back to a
mezzano, whose signature it bears in Hebrew
the following: Whistler, The Kitchen, second
suggestive and interesting.
state, 60%. ; Little Venice, 691. D. Y. Cameron common original,
4001.
in
of
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errors
Occur
was
near
THE fresco discovered last year in the some part in politics under the reign of her and, though there are no diagrams, the
church of S. Francesco at Brescia is in an son as well as in that of her husband, which explanations, even of the organs connected
unusually good state of preservation, and would agree well enough with the classical with breathing, are clear. Articulation, pro-
the purity and brilliancy of the colour are account of her relations with Ninyas as nunciation, &c. , are dealt with in a practical
striking. This applies to the upper portion well as with Ninus. Moreover, it was, as way. Much of the advice given concerns
of it which represents
the Madonna Prof. Lehmann-Haupt himself established speakers as well as singers ; the author,
adoring the Infant Saviour, with a glory of by his journey through Western Asia about for instance, calls attention to the frequent
angel musicians above; of the lower part twelve years ago, in the reign of Adad-nirari bad reading of the lessons in church.
nothing is left, and only a fragment of the that the Medes first began to press upon the
figure of the kneeling donor remains, which kingdom of Assyria, and it may, therefore, Songs for Little Singers, with Music by
is much to be regretted, as the head, so well be that the memory of the great queen
Alicia Adelaide Needham.
W.
insects act as carriers of disease, and in mobilization may be due to a fungus Various Diets and during Inanition,' communi-
this way infect both man and animals. disease (empusa) which is known to
cated by Dr. A. D. Waller,-Mr. C. I. Martin on
A Note on the Protozoa from Sick Soils, with
The latest addition to disease-carriers is attack the fly and cause death. This some Account of the Life-Cycle of a Monad
the common house fly. It is only during hypothesis may be true or may not; Flagellate, communicated by Prof. E. A. Minchin,
---Mr. E. W. A. Walker on. Further Observations
the last twelve years that this insect of at present we have no evidence that the
on the Variability of Streptococci in relation to
innocent appearance has been regarded disease attacks the fly during the descent certain Fermentation Tests, together with some
with eyes of suspicion by Army medical of the curve.
Considerations bearing on its Possible Meaning,
communicated by Prof. F. Gotch,-Messrs. A.
officers and other supervisors of health in
Another point which makes it difficult Harden and w. 'J. Penfold on The Chemical
various parts of the world.
to accept the fly-mechanism theory is that, communis (Escherich) obtained by Cultivation in
Action on Glucose of a Variety of Bacillus coli
The cause of malaria has been so success- if we accept the idea of immobilization Presence of a Chloroacetate' (Preliminary Notice),
fully traced to the mosquito, and plague and then compare the curves for diarrhea -Mr. V. J. Harding on 'The Action of Enzymes on
to the rat flea, that our health authorities and typhoid, we find that it will fit the Harden,-and Prof. F. Keeble and Dr. E. F;
Hexosephosphate,' communicated by Dr. A.
are hoping to prove that the germs of case for diarrhoea, but that it will not Armstrong on · The Oxydases of Cytisus Adami,'
typhoid fever and summer diarrhea are explain the secondary rise in the typhoid coinmunicated by Prof. W. Bateson.
conveyed by the house fly. Army authori-curve which invariably takes place during
SOCIETY ANTIQUARIES. —June 13. -Dr.
ties on
the whole, according to Mr. its descent. We therefore cannot have c. H. Read, President, in the chair. -Mr. George
Howard, seem to have no doubt about it both ways. We would remind Mr. Jeffery, the Society's local secretary for Cyprus,
the influence of flies in spreading typhoid. Howard that it is far from certain that communicated a paper on the Franciscan church
They tell us in many instances that the summer diarrhea is an infectious disease at Famagusta in that island. This church was
drinking water was above suspicion ; but at all. In certain respects it bears a
built by Henry II. de Lusignan in the year 1300,
and it appears to have been connected with the
it is certainly no easy matter on a resemblance to typhoid, but we do not royal palace by a gallery. The plan of the church
campaign to be sure that such water is know the microbe which produces it, and is somewhat peculiar, the apse, being formed
not infected, unless the Japanese plan of the evidence from hospitals and work- wide, is aisleless, consists of three bays, and is
boiling it is adopted.
houses in this country is conflicting covered with a quadripartite vault. In each bay
Among the short extracts from many on the point. In the majority of instances transeptal chapels were added at a later date.
investigators crowded into the book, the authorities say that the disease, The building is now a complete ruin, and most
of the walls are reduced to a few feet above the
it is a pity that the author did not think according to their experience, is not
ground level, but sufficient remains to make it
fit to mention
a paper read at the Royal infectious. Medical officers of health, possible to produce a complete restoration on
Society of Medicine on April 7th, 1910, on the other hand, occasionally bring paper. There are some slight remains of the
conventual buildings.
by Dr. Niven of Manchester. This is by forward cases in which adults as well as
Mr. Jeffery also communicated a paper on a
far the most comprehensive work that children are affected in the same house.
Latin bishop's tomb in the great mosque (formerly
has been done on this subject. It is the It is difficult to see, in present cir-
the cathedral of St. Nicholas) at Famagusta. The
tomb commemorates Leonegarius de Nabinalis,
result of continuous observations extending cumstances, what preventive measures Bishop of Famagusta and Tortosa, and is dated
over a period of seven years, and showing can be taken to quell the ravages of this 1365. ut consists of an incised slab; with
the relationship that exists between the fatal malady. Attention to hygienic laws, his pastoral staff, under & canopy. The in-
number of flies and the prevalence of which are at present being insisted upon scription is in Lombardic capitals.
typhoid and summer diarrhea in Man in the Schools for Mothers, will probably find of eleven British gold coins in a hollow llint
chester.
do more to mitigate the severity of the near Rochester. The designs on the coins are
The discussion that took place on the disease than any hard-and-fast rules from different dies, but are of the same type, that
paper on May 27th is highly instructive. which may be drawn up by medical evolved from the gold stater of Philip of Macedon.
Several eminent authorities looked upon officers of health. Better housing condi- of a painting once at Holveston Hall, Norfolk.
Dr. Niven’s statistics as showing that a tions and plenty of fresh air and open
The picture dates from about 1635, and shows
a stepped platform of nine stairs, on each of
correlation existed between the iy curves spaces are needed. It is a remarkable fact which stands a male figure, represented at
and the disease curves, but they insisted that among the richer classes the disease different stages of life from 10 to 90.
that correlation and causation must not is almost unknown. This would surely containing a baby, labelled 1 to show he is one
be confounded with one another.
point to the housing problem as being of year old, and to the right of the last step is a
skeleton leading away the figure of the old man
Every one agreed that the rise of the paramount importance.
of 90. The picture is interesting from the point
curve of fresh diarrhea cases followed Mr. Howard has some hard words for of view of costume. It is possible that the figure
closely the rise of the fly curve (i. e. the the American Medical Association, be- but, on the other hand, the painting is quite as
number of flies) in point of time. The cause they refuse to believe that the house likely to be a memento mori, and not a portrait
enormous increase in the number of flies fly can act as the chief cause of typhoid at all.
Mr. Edward Conder exhibited a cast of a
(the apex of the fly curve) would lead in urban districts ; they admit, however, sculptured stone tablet found at Newent, Glou-
one to expect that, at the beginning its carrying powers in regard to rural cester. The stone is of eleventh-century date,
of the fall of the fly curve, there would typhoid. Mr. Howard's suggestion that and on
one side is depicted a Crucifixion in a very
be a similar rise in the number of fresh the house fly should be called the typhoid bolding a cross and a crooked staff, surrounded
cases of diarrhæa, the flies still being fily is not acceptable to the American by smaller figures in grotesque attitudos. At the
able to convey the infective material; Medical Association. We are of opinion edge are the names of the four Evangelists and
but this does not take place.
that the latter are perfectly justified in Edred again.
June 20. -Sir Hercules Read, President, in the
On examining the curves both for flies refusing to give prominence to the fly
and summer diarrhea for five years, it
as a carrier of typhoid, when it has not chair. - The President exhibited some Anglo-
was found that the period of descent in been proved that it occupies a more including portions of two urns, an iron sword
the curve for diarrhoea was always ante- prominent place than other carriers which and shield boss, and a circular gold pendant.
The President also exhibited a Sassanian
cedent to the fall of the curve for flies.
are already well known.
silver bowl of the fifth century A. D. It is orna-
mented with figures of four men on horseback
The House Fly, Disease-Carrier. By L. O.
hunting the boar, ibex, and lion. The figures are
Howard, Ph. D. (John Murray. )
armed with a sword, with very long grip, or bow,
which is clearly of the composite form. At the
In
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bottom of the bowl is a bust surrounded by con-
the digestive tube have a useful as well as a
ventional birds. The bowl is a peculiarly fine
harmful part to play.
example of Sassanian art.
Dr. P. Norman, Treasurer, and Mr. F. W. Reader
Science Gossip.
A MINOR planet discovered by Herr Palisa
read a paper on recent discoveries of Roman
remains in London, which was a sequel to one
of Vienna last October turns out to be of
read before the Society in 1906. The main points With the spread of cinematograph theatres exceptional interest on account of the
of the paper are as follows: First, an account was throughout the country, the use of uninflam. position and form of its orbit. This minute
given of four bastions of the City wall, two of mable films has become a matter of great object--not more than four or five miles
which had been partly excavated at the expense
of the Society.
importance, and we might with advantage in diameter—which is technically known as
Of these two, one on the site of
Christ's Hospital has been preserved by the Post
imitate Russia in making the sale of any MT. of 1911, has the same perihelion distance
Office authorities, while the other, under the others illegal. The collodion employed in as Eros, but an orbit of nearly double the
vestry of All Hallows-on-the-Wall, though still the manufacture of cinematograph films is eccentricity, the period being 2*6 years.
notable discovery is that of a narrowfkoman'aitch generally made from nitro-cellulose dissolved Thus although its mean distance from the
in a mixture of camphor, methylic alcohol,
outside the City wall. This was observed in
sun is considerably greater than that of
America Square, at All Hallows, and at Christ's
and ether; but the same effect can be pro- Eros, on account of the greater eccentricity
Hospital. An addition to the Roman gate at duced by the substitution for the nitro- of its orbit it will approach the earth at the
Newgate was found, which proved the width from cellulose of one of the acetylated celluloses, oppositions which occur in the neighbour-
east to west to have been about 31 ft.
or, in other words, of a cellulose prepared hood of perihelion as closely as Eros does
A tower at the Old Bailey, believed by John
with acetic instead of nitric acid. A col. in the same circumstances. It will thus,
Wykeham Archer to be medieval, was redis-
covered and carefully examined, and proved to
lodion thus prepared can be dissolved in along with the latter planet, be at these
be comparatively modern. The authors also acetone and other substances, and acetylated times our nearest celestial neighbour, with
described a piece of the south wall of the City cellulose is actually used in the produc- the exception of the moon.
found last year. This is quite different in con- tion of electrical insulators. Its high price,
struction from the Roman wall on the east,
It appears from observations of the solar
north, and west, and was probably of later date: compared with that of nitro-cellulose, has
hitherto been against its general adoption ; eclipse made by Prof. Fowler at South
MICROSCOPICAL. —June 19. -Mr. H. G. Plimmer,
but with the cheap acetone we are promised Kensington on April 17th last, that it is
President, in the chair. - A paper by Lord Avebury as a by-product of synthetic rubber, this possible to see the bright lines in the spectrum
was read, giving a short account of the develop- objection should now be overcome. Dr. of the solar chromosphere during some phases
ment of pollen and of recent researches on fertiliza- | W. K, Main in an article in the current of an eclipse which is not quito total, or
tion, which show more and more complexity. number of the Revue Scientifique gives the during the partial phase of a total eclipse.
A paper On some New Astrorhizidæ and their
Structure’ was contributed by Messrs. E. Heron-
details of its preparation, and says that it This may modify the arrangements for
Allen and Earland. Two new ecies of Psammo- is already being turned out in Germany future solar eclipses, as hitherto it has been
sphæra and one of Marsipella were described from and the United States in considerable supposed that these lines can only be seen
Sea in connexion with the work of the Inter- cinematograph films throughout the world stantaneously in total solar eclipses, when
specimens
dredged by Mr. Earland in the North quantities. He estimates the production of in the "fash” spectrum which appears in-
Dr. J. F. Gaskell communicated A Method of at 300,000 metres per day.
the chromospheric stratum round the edge
embedding Tissues in Gelatin. '
of the sun is alone uncovered by the moon.
The presentation of a testimonial and illu- PROF. METCHNIKOFF's last recipe for The Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of
minated address to Mr. F. A. Parsons, who has long life is given in a communication made the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical
recently retired from the post of Assistant Secre- by him and Dr. Eugène Wollmann to the Society will shortly consider the question of
tary, took place. Mr. Parsons had served the
Society for nearly sixteen years.
Académie des Sciences during this month. observation of the total eclipse of the sun
He there tells us that senile decay is in of 1914-August 21st-which will be visible
METEOROLOGICAL. . —June 19. -Dr. H. N. Dick- / great measure caused by intestinal poisons, as a total eclipse from Norway and Sweden
son, President, in the chair. -Dr. G. C. Simpson, of which indol and the phenols are among and other parts of Europe, when these newly
meteorologist to the British Antarctic Expedition the chief. These are much less readily acquired ideas may take effect.
1910, read a paper on Coronæ and Iridescent absorbed by the great intestine than is
Clouds. ' During September, 1911, he was one
of a party led by Capt. Scott to survey McMurdo
sugar, and it would, on the same authority,
Sound, and on the 24th, while enveloped in fog, be advantageous to create a source of sugar
be observed a fine fog-bow. It was opposite the in this last. The idea of the writers is,
sun, and a measurement of the radius with a therefore, to administer substances which,
tbeodolite gave 38°.
FINE ARTS
white, but å reddish tinge could be seen on the shall not be converted into sugar until
The bow was virtually owing to the presence of certain microbes,
outer side. As the fog dissipated, the upper
sky became clearer, and the sun shone over the they arrive at the great intestino. They
top of a heavy bank of fog. For some minutes conclude, that the ideal food of man would
and the diameter of this corona seemed unusually a day, with 500 or 600 grammes of clotted
the sun had a brilliant corona with bright colours, be a small quantity of meat, or 120 grammes Memories of James McNeill Whistler. By
T. R. Way. (John Lane. )
large ; but there was no opportunity to make a
measurement.
As the fog still further cleared
milk acidulated by the paralactic cocco-
away, glimpses of the corona appeared again, bacillus, the remainder of the two daily IF Whistler was not a master (and the
and the fog under the sun became fairly brilliantly meals which they recommend being made point is still in dispute), at all events he
illuminated with iridescent colours, which did not
up, of vegetables, fruits, and farinaceous had more disciples than most men of
appear to be part of the corona, but in places
blended into it. During the whole period the
substances. With this they claim to have genius. Some of these disciples depress
temperature was between -15° and -21° F. The reduced the production of indoxyl and the
reduced the production of indoxyl and the us, others affect us in quite a contrary
fur of the sleeping bags and the wool of sweaters urinary phenols to a minimum.
became covered with hoarfrost. These observa-
way, and there are a few whose accounts
tions show that water can exist in the atmosphere A CURIOUS point arises with regard to of the man and artist we can be genuinely
at much lower temperatures than has, generally the experiments made by M. Michel Co. grateful for. Mr. Way writes of Whistler
generally admitted that, while halos are caused hendy at the Institut Pasteur at Paris, the worker ; for the most part he does
by the refraction and reflection of ice crystals, and recently noticed in these columns. By not dwell on the many episodes that kept
coronæ are due to diffraction effects of either isolating chickens under entirely aseptic
isolating chickens under entirely aseptic Whistler's name constantly before the
small drops of water or thin ice needles. From conditions, he has succeeded, as he
certain observations made in the Antarctic, Dr.
Simpson was led to doubt the possibility of ice
in making them live without microbes, public, episodes at once trivial and un-
crystals ever forming diffraction effects. This
His concern is to show how
and finds that their bodily strength is forgettable.
is an important question for meteorology, for, thereby fairly maintained. But their diges. the “ butterfly” toiled to produce those
if it is true, we have a powerful instrument tive organs remain charged with a higher things of beauty that dazzled younger
for determining the constitution of a cloud :
if there is a corona, the cloud must be composed tion, and it is therefore necessary for them many of them now, when they are no
proportion of the useless products of diges. contemporaries and continue to dazzle
of water, while, if there is a halo, it must be
composed of ice.
to consume a greater quantity of food than longer youthful. Some day, we suppose,
Mr. W. W. Bryant read a paper on The | animals normally brought up. When
Adoption of a Climatological Day.
such chickens are
the real truth about Whistler will come
released from their
aseptic life and allowed to run with their out. Rumours of it, indeed, have been
Mox. Royal Institution, 6. -Oeneral Meeting,
fellows, their digestive tubes are invaded already whispered by more than one
Aristotelian. 8. -A Modern Materialist, 4 Study of the
Philosophy of George Santyana,' Mr. D. L. Murray.
within twenty-four hours by millions of former devotee ; and the idol set up,
Jewish Historical Society of England, 8. 30. A Dutch Burial- bacteria without any apparent injury. to first in an exclusive by-way, and later in
health, and thereafter they generally thrive. the public market-place, is hardly so
Light throtra on Roman Scotland by the Excavations at The conclusion is drawn from this that the firm in its niche as it was a few years ago.
Faraday. 8. Electrocapillary Pulsation of a Mercury
defence of the organism against bacteria
Mod. Lewis : "On the Variation of the Conductivity of is hereditary, and not acquired; but it
There is evidence of this in Mr. Way's
may quite as well be that the bacteria in volume; not positive evidence indeed,
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
Ground and its English Connexions. Rev. Isidore Harris.
TUES. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 4. 30. -The
Cappuck, near Jadbergh, in 1911-12. ' Mr. O. H. Stevenson.
Meniscus, Meskrs. A. P. Roshdestwensky And W. 0.
Aluminium Anode-Pilms with Temperature, Mr. G. E.
Bairsto.
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re-
was
but rather negative, inasmuch as there
Robert Lee's Workshop, 501. ; The Five Sisters
is a welcome omission of excessive super-
SIR L. ALMA TADEMA.
of York, 2501. Muirhead Bone, The Shot Tower,
latives.
621. ; Ayr Prison, 1001. ; Rye from Camber, 501. ,
Admiration we find, and appre- The world of art is the poorer for the Liberty's Clock, 602, Claude Gellée, Le Bouvier;
ciation, but the writer keeps his head on death of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema at 551. Meryon, St. Etienne du Mont, first state,
the whole. Whistler is placed before us, the age of 76. On Tuesday last, at Wies. on green paper, 701. ; L'Abside do Notre Dame
not as though he was the most wonderful baden, he succumbed to the malady against Rembrandt, The Landscape with a Ruined Tower
de Paris, second state, on ivory-white paper, 3301.
artist who ever lived and painted, but
which he had been fighting for some time. and Clear Foreground, third state, 671. ; The
as one who reached a certain high achieve-
Born at Dronryp in Friesland, he was left Landscape with the Obelisk, 771. ; Olement de
fatherless at an early age, and, in spite of Jonghe, first state, 5801. ; Jan Lutma, second
inent, not necessarily the highest, in
the straitened means of his family, reso-
state, 1551. ; La Mère de Rembrandt au Voile
artistic endeavour. This is the impression lutely devoted himself to art. He was being soir second state, 841. The total of the sale was
conveyed rather than the view stated ; taught before he was 5, and exhibited at 15.
for Mr. Way does not pass judgment. He got his training at Antwerp, and made At the sale of Lord Cranbrook's pictures by
He admires
and describes here and there, his name with The School for Vengeance ; the sketch by Sir Thomas Lawrence of Master
and then proceeds to his main purpose,
the Education of the Children of Clovis
Standish fetched 9031. ; a man's portrait by
which, as we have said, is to show us
at the Antwerp Exhibition in 1861. The Lucas de Heere, 230 guineas; and two drawings
commissions of Baron Loys and the dealer by Wheatley, 195 guineas.
the worker in the workshop, toiling at
Gambart added to his reputation. As early
the bench. Few men have laboured so
as 1865 his work was shown in the French
hard to acquire a mastery of their means Gallery, Pall Mall, and in 1870 he came to
of expression as Whistler. His industry England to settle permanently. He was
Fine Art Gossip.
and concentration were astonishing, and, made A. R. A. in 1876, and R. A. in 1879.
whatever the final opinion may be on his He was knighted in 1899, and received the
art and its claim to rank with the
master-Order of Merit in 1905. A genial and kindly Arts League, which is published four times
No. 9 of The Journal of the Imperial
pieces of the world's geniuses, there is no
doubt that the artist himself will always mainly exercised on subjects from the pagan tion and the Formation of Public Taste,
For years his careful and learned work, tion at Crosby Hall and Elementary Educa-
a year, has, besides articles on Mural Decora-
stand out as one whose capacity for world of Greece and Rome, won him a
taking pains was infinite. There is some- unique reputation. His output was incesº important notes on the new Copyright Act
thing almost old-maidish in Whistler's sant, but all his pictures, large and small, and the Shops Act. The interpretation of
fussiness over the details of printing an show, a finish in detail and a scholarship to artists, while the sale of pictures to the
etching and the selection of a paper for
his lithographs ; and during the various 1896, a picture
typical of many which we
or an anecdotic interest, as in The Coliseum, advantage of the proprietors of an exhibi-
tion comes apparently within the definition
stages of painting a picture he seems to
have noticed, frequently emphasized for of retail trade, and so is subject to the pro-
have been in a constant state of anxiety, the public the charm of graceful figures visions, which have been in force since
He could talk of little else, and, indeed, brilliantly dressed, and moving in a milieu May 1st. In calling attention to this un
seems to have expected others to limit in which every detail-balcony mouldings, expected difficulty the League is doing good
their remarks in a similar way. Mr. Way marble floors, fans, vases, or roses
service, for artists certainly need a
sponsible body which will look after their
brings out one capital point, that Whistler worked out with elaborate technique.
was always ready and even anxious for His latest picture in the current Academy interests and take the initiative. Negotia-
tions in which
as many as twenty-five
the advice of his friends in matters To do the same thing for so many years is societies
are represented are in progress to
relating to his art. In the conduct of not, perhaps, to achieve greatness.
his affairs he seems to have resented the
THE third annual dinner of the Allied
slightest interference or suggestion ; such
Artists' Association will be held next
purely personal concerns he must manage
Saturday, July 6th, at 8 P. M. , in the Holborn
as he thought best; but the exclusive THE COOPERS AND JOHN HOSKINS. Restaurant. Mr. Frank Rutter, Curator
artist could listen to and be guided by
of the Leeds Art Gallery, will be in the chair.
Aldwick, Sutton, Surrey.
others, even be influenced to the extent
Among the speakers will be Prof. Michael
of altering an arrangement! This is dealing with the incomparable Samuel Grein.
BEING engaged on an illustrated work Sadler, Mr. Walter Sickert, and Mr. J. T.
Tickets can be obtained from
the most valuable addition to a knowledge Cooper" (acknowledged to be the greatest the Secretary, Allied Artists' Association,
of Whistler we have come across of late. English miniature painter), his brother 67, Chancery Lane, W. C.
It rather disposes of the legendary art Alexander, and uncle John Hoskins, &c. ,
A SIGNED work by Floriano Ferramola has
dictator and the still more legendary I should be greatly obliged if owners of lately been discovered at Brescia, a half-
being who made a mystery of his work, originals by these artists would very kindly length of Christ bearing the Cross. ' In style
holding that an artist should listen to
favour me with particulars of authenticated it differs materially from Ferramola's other
examples in their possession, or known to
no one, but go his own way in his own
authentic paintings, which belong for the
them, with a view to the same being in-
manner, and stand or fall by the result.
cluded in my lists. A full description with
most part to the second decade of the six-
teenth century; here, on the contrary, the
The chief value of this book lies in such the provenance of the miniature, and, character of the work is that of the close of
revelations and glimpses behind the scenes.
where practicable, a sight of the original, the Quattrocento or the first years of the
Of Whistler the man, as he postured in
would be especially esteemed by
Cinquecento, and in type and treatment the
publio, we have heard quite enough.
J. J. FOSTER, picture shows a remarkable connexion with
He and Oscar Wilde have had of recent
Author of ‘Miniature Painters, British the Christ' by Vincenzo Foppa in the
years an amazing amount of writing
and Foreign,' 'The Stuarts in Art,' &c. Chéramy Collection in Paris. From this
point of view the picture at Brescia is of con.
devoted to their doings. One is almost
siderable interest. It shows a phase of
tempted to say that their chief claim to the
Ferramola's art hitherto unknown, and
title of “ master” will be in their capacity
proves that the tradition that he was a
SALES.
for taking pains-over the selection and
pupil of Foppa was undoubtedly correct,
training of disciples ! It is high time On Monday, the 17th inst. , and Tuesday, the though his later work affords little or no
that their posing was forgotten, and ings and drawings : An important collection of
18th, Messrs. Sotheby sold the following engrav; proof of this. The mutilated inscription
is
the artist in each of them studied with
. . . . Opus Floriani. . . . Brex [? ]. . . .
151 engravings after the works of J. Constable,
sanity and a sense of proportion. When
above suspicion. The picture, probably
A collection of engravings after the old
masters formed by the late Rev. W. J. Loftie,
once in a church at Brescia, hung for many
this is attempted, books like Mr. Way's | 2451. Rembrandt, Portrait of Ephraim Bonus, years in the rooms of a charitable institution
will be found a valuable help. These second state, 551. William Blake, a drawing in that city forgotten and unrecognized.
‘Memories,' as they stand, are not a
tempera Christ interceding for the
It has now been placed in the gallery at
Magdalen, 711.
very illuminating contribution to Whist-
Brescia, which, strangely enough, has long
lerian literature ; indeed, they make no
On Wednesday, the 19th inst. , Messrs. Sotheby contained a faithful copy of it, made, some
sold the greater portion of Sir Frederick Wed.
such claims. But students, of etching more's collection of etchings, with a fow of his
twenty years later in date, by Marco Pal.
and lithography especially, will find them
other engravings, the chief
prices realized being characters. Both pictures go back to a
mezzano, whose signature it bears in Hebrew
the following: Whistler, The Kitchen, second
suggestive and interesting.
state, 60%. ; Little Venice, 691. D. Y. Cameron common original,
4001.
in
of
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near
THE fresco discovered last year in the some part in politics under the reign of her and, though there are no diagrams, the
church of S. Francesco at Brescia is in an son as well as in that of her husband, which explanations, even of the organs connected
unusually good state of preservation, and would agree well enough with the classical with breathing, are clear. Articulation, pro-
the purity and brilliancy of the colour are account of her relations with Ninyas as nunciation, &c. , are dealt with in a practical
striking. This applies to the upper portion well as with Ninus. Moreover, it was, as way. Much of the advice given concerns
of it which represents
the Madonna Prof. Lehmann-Haupt himself established speakers as well as singers ; the author,
adoring the Infant Saviour, with a glory of by his journey through Western Asia about for instance, calls attention to the frequent
angel musicians above; of the lower part twelve years ago, in the reign of Adad-nirari bad reading of the lessons in church.
nothing is left, and only a fragment of the that the Medes first began to press upon the
figure of the kneeling donor remains, which kingdom of Assyria, and it may, therefore, Songs for Little Singers, with Music by
is much to be regretted, as the head, so well be that the memory of the great queen
Alicia Adelaide Needham.
W.
