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Fine Arts. Dr. Guillard, Professor of Public Law in ' Geschichte der bildenden Kunst. Von THEODOR the University of Berne, recently complained

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Price 4/-, Jena, Hermann Costenoble, the library of the British Museum the best

1878. (London, Williams & Norgate). editions of The Ancient Statutes of Eng. land, and of Rymer's “Fodera.” Mr. A condensed summary of the principal Edward A. Bond writes to say that not only features and more celebrated productions in are these works in the library, but they are | architecture, sculpture, painting and modelling placed on the shelves of the Reading-room amongst all the more advanced nations of the for ready reference, and are, moreover, entered globe. The first chapter deals with the Art in the printed list of the books of reference of the Asiatic people, viz. :--the Chinese, under the respective heads of “ Statutes" Japanese, Hindoos, Assyrians, Phænicians, and “Rymer.” Mr. Bond adds—that the Medes and Persians, and Egyptians, The Trustees of the Museum earnestly desire to second chapter, a short one, is on the Fine make good the actual deficiencies in the | Arts amongst the ancient Mexicans and Perulibrary and invite information of them. vians. The third chapter is occupied with the A book for notices of such desiderata is kept Fine Arts of the Greeks, Etruscans and in the Reading-room, and readers are requested Romans. The fourth chapter represents the to enter in it such books as they are unable to state of the Fine Arts in the middle ages, during find in the catalogues.

the prevalence of the old Christian, Byzantine, Mohammedan, Roman, and Gothic styles.

The work will be completed in two parts, and Natural History,

will contain about 170 illustrations. Those

in the present part represent the most cele. Zur Kenntniss des Baues und der Organi- brated works of art, and are, for the most

sation der Polyphemiden. Von PROF. / part, neatly executed in outline.
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GEORGES HIRTH. 4to. Leipzig, G. Nat. Classe der K. Akad. Wiss. Wien. Hirth. (London, Williams & Norgate.] Wien, Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1877 (1878). There are also special English and French (London, Williams & Norgate].

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Treasures," the first number, which is dated members, skin, nervous system, senses, diges

January, 1879, was published in October, 1878. tive system, fatty bodies, shell glands,

The objects represented in this part are an

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Israel van Meckenen; Albert Durer's coat of family, Polyphemidae. The plates represent,

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of the Holy Trinity, by Albert Durer ; designs Bythotrephes longimanus, Polyphemus OC

by Hans Holbein, junr., for a dagger sheath ulus, Bosmina longirostris, Evadne spinigera,

and for a dagger handle and sheath; a painting Evadne tergestina, Podon intermedius, Ma.

by Hans Holbein, junr., of Christ before crothrix laticornis, and Leptodora hyalina.

Caiaphas; an equestrian figure of Henry II. of
France, assigned to Bernard Salomon; a

German cabinet of the sixteenth century;
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Anthony Vandyck's portrait of Joh. Snellinx; Entwicklungs-geschichte des Menschen und

a faun; a half length suit of armour, presented die Hoheren

by the Duke of Terranova to the Infant Thiere. Von ALBERT KOLLIKER. Zweite ganz umgearbeitete

Philipp, about 1592; engravings from Francis Auflage, Zweite Hälfte. 8vo., pp. xxxiv.

Boucher of a grotto, and of Cupids in clouds. -401 to 1033.

The object of the work is to give cheap fac. Price 18/-. Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann,

simile reproductions of the best products of

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art for the use of artizans. Each part is

priced at 1/6. This is the second edition of Professor Kölliker's elaborate work on the development

Æsthetics. By EUGENE VERON. Translated of man, remodelled and brought up to the

by W. H. ARMSTRONG, B.A. (Oxon.) present state of science. The two halves are

Crown 8vo., pp. xxxi.—423. Price 716. priced at 30/- and contain 606 figures. The Chapman & Hall, 1879. woodcuts are beautifully executed. The The design of M. Véron's work is to relieve present half treats in full detail of the de. | art from the sway of a number of transcenvelopment of the bones, nerves, brain, organs | dental mysteries and fancies with which it of sense, nails, hair, skin, alimentary canal, | has been encumbered by certain enthusiasts lungs, glands, veins and arteries, heart and from the time of Plato to the present day: generative organs. There is an index, a table Man derives his particular enjoyment of of contents, and a list of the woodcuts.

artistic objects from certain combinations o

forms, lines, colours, motions, sounds, rhythms, Gutenberg. Geschichte und Erdichtung aus and images, all of which are amenable to the den Quellen nachgewiesen von A. v. D. laws either of optics or acoustics. M. LINDE. 8vo., pp. viii.-582—xcvii., price Véron consequently begins by classifying or 24/-. Stuttgart, W. Špemann. 1878. grouping the different arts in their logical [London, Williams & Norgate.] order. He then considers the source and

This curious volume is another contribution characteristics of ästhetic enjoyment under

by M. Van der Linde, to the controversy as its physiological, psychological and artistic

to the claims of Coster and Gutenberg to the conditions. He next goes on to discuss the

invention of printing. The history of the canons of taste, and defines art and ästhetics.

invention of printing and the biography of The second part of the work, which is the

Gutenberg are developed in full detail. He more important of the two, is devoted to the

has minute notices of the earlier printed books, classification of the arts under their various

and the methods employed by the earlier heads, architecture, sculpture, painting, the dance, music, and poetry. Mr. Armstrong's

printers. The book contains much controver

sial matter, which swells its bulk while it translation is easy and idiomatic, and is free from those Gallicisms which only too often

detracts from its value. He even reprints all

the criticisms which have been made on his disfigure translations of the present day.

arguments. In the appendix is a list of 650 A copious index is appended to this work.

books referring to early printing, copies of Notes

early documents relating to Gutenberg, and At a recent meeting of the Royal Asiatic an index extending over thirty-two pages. Society, Mr. Arthur Grote in the Chair,

Notes. Captain Burton read a paper “On Coins and

The first of the three courses of lectures Gems discovered by him in Midian,” in which

named after their founder, the late Dr. he called attention to the remarkable remains

Cantor, which are given every year under of ancient cities still to be seen in these parts, the auspices of the Society of Arts, are now and requiring little more than time and careful

being delivered. The subject is “Mathe. research to reveal many and most interesting matical Instruments,” particular attention records of the past. The coins he exhibited

being paid to the methods of their construction were very curious, as showing how well

and use. The lectures in the first course are known types are changed and modified by

six in number, and are set down for as many successive copying, just as the coins of consecutive Monday Evenings. The lecturer ancient Britain, before the Roman sway, were

is Mr. W. Mattieu Williams, author of copied from others current in Gaul, and these,

“ Through Norway with a Knapsack.” The again, from the Greek coins of Philip of

Council of the Society of Arts has issued Macedon, so, Captain Burton's coins showed

tickets to the workmen of the leading firms a gradual degeneration by imitation from

in the trade. The foundation originated the well-known types of Athens. On the

in 1863, Dr. Cantor, who was a surgeon in coins of Athens the predominant type is the the service of the Honourable East India owl, with two large and abnormally-expanded

Company, having bequeathed the great bulk eyes. On nearly all Captain Burton's coins of his estate, amounting to about £10,000, in all of these features had gradually passed equal moieties to Wellington College and the away till nothing was left but a single eye. Society of Arts, to be disposed of virtually Yet it is not impossible to fill up the links so

at the absolute discretion of those institutions. as to show how this strange modification

These lectures are especially devoted to the arose. Besides these coins, Captain Burton

practical treatment, on a scientific basis, of exhibited some curiously-inscribed gems, one manufactures and handicrafts, and kindred of which almost certainly exhibited a specimen

subjects. The second course of the Cantor of very early Kufic, though the characters

| lectures for the present session will be given were of an unusually angular type. Another

| by Dr. W. H. Corfield, M.A., on “Housegem showed writing much resembling the

hold Sanitary Arrangement.” It will consist Mushajjar, or “branch” type of the early of six lectures, to be given on as many Arabic writers.

successive Monday evenings, commencing Feb. 17. The third course, consisting of five

consecutive Monday evening lectures, beginning Useful Arts.

April 21, will be by Mr. W. H. Preece, on Dress. By MRS. OLIPHANT. Crown 8vo., “Recent Advances in Telegraphy.”

pp. 103. Price 2/6. Macmillan & Co. This is one of the “ Art at Home" Series.

Education. One chapter explains the rationale of different Notes articles of clothing, while another is devoted In writing to the Times on the proposed to the history of the subject, and another to withdrawal of Greek from our classical educa. "What is to be done?” The book is | tion, Mr. Oscar Browning remarks that those especially interesting to ladies; though written who believe that national intelligence is the chiefly in the interests of art economical final cause of national greatness and prosperity, considerations are not lost sight of.

| the proposal to surrender Greek will sound like