The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-23

found Of more value. At times the reader
will find some difficulty in accepting the
authors point Of view
That there were Scottish painters OF
responsibility was known, but Mr.. William
D. McKay's THE Scottish School of Paint
ing" (Duckworth and Company; Charles
Scribner's sons) is something Of a revela-
ton. He spares us the origins and begins
with George Jamesone, who painted in the
seventeenth century, and winds up with an
alphabetical list of 1856 Scots who have
painted, leaving out the living. Two names
of British renown stand out among these
Sir Henry Raeburn and Sir David Wilkie.
There are good landscape painters, good
por trait painters among the others; above
all, there are historical" and figure painters
whose names were famous for a time. Most
of the regulations were made in London.
1t seems an e%xaggeration to speak Of a
Scottish school" though. Of course, indi-
vidual artists had their pupils, as they have
had everywhere. The author is an artist
and gives much space to the technical
description Of paintings. There are many
illustrations.
In a handsome volume Of over $50 plates,
ROYAL Academy Pictures, 1905" (Cassell
and Company, we are enabled to form some
idea of the chief pictures exhibited this
spring. The reproductions are naturally Of
only a part OF the / 300 contributed, and there
are some notable omissions, probably due
to copyright difficulties, especially Of Amer
leans. The half tones are all good and the
frontispiece ~photogravure very handsome.
II Ia an interesting record Of contemporary
art.
These are the days Of foreign travel, and
where would the traveller be il his "Baede-
ker" were not up TO date7 Two Of the hand
books that are most useful for q summer
trip came to US from Charles Soribner's
Sons-our old friend, 1.-THE Rhine from
Rotterdam TO Constance" In q sixteenth
edition, corresponding to the thirtieth
German edition, and a newer guide, Great
Britain" in a sixth edition. The latter
covers England and Wales from various
points of view, the cathedrals, picturesque
tramps, historical places, but includes
likewise the great business centres outside
of London. The part devoted to Scotland
IL confessedly brief, as a special guide IL
In contemplation.
Many interesting recolleotions Of the war
days on both sides are getting into print
UDAU OlUcu ulllloShbiOhohy Al Up tHc IdSL
more wildly than any history can. Among
those worth looking into is Letters from
a Surgeon of the Civil War" compiled by
Martha Derby Perry (Little, Brown and
Company. They are the letters written
home by DIR. John G. Perry, who served
With the famous Massachusetts, Twentieth
Regiment. They touch on little that is Of
historic importance, but they give the
incidents of daily life, the way in which
things came to the men in the field, written
at the time they happened. Once in a
while a story seems to have been put to-
gether from recent reoollections, but gen
orally the letters tell only Of the days hap
penings. The account Of meeting a rebel
classmates family and that Of the death Of
Major Abbot are fine pictures.
No worthier task can be undertaken than
preserving the poetry and traditions and
local history Of our towns a. Mr.. Charles