Evening star., 1909-08-28

the open under 1.-The enigmatic empire of
nature and of the night.
Given. a girlhood of theatrical vaga-
bondage, a loveless, childless marriage
some years of living more gay than
virtuous moral redemption. professional
success-wtth youth soon to pass-and
with a woman's longing for the supreme
gift of motherhood -.
Given, a lover in the pride of his in
tellect and manhood; we'll born, with
sufficient fortune
Given. the open-"where the night
speaks. speaks persistently, of the be-
ginning and end of things visible--when
voices from the unknown call out In the
nighr, wind-and from. out the blank
black purple spaces between the shining
archlpelagoes of the stars
How stands the score?
In .Miserere Nobis' there are but two
characters. a man, young, well born and
dying. and the old priest to whom he
confesses his crime and Its lifelong cause
There is a cot in a hospital ward, with
inclosing screens denot!ng that its Oc-
cupant is in. his death agony. The walls
are whffeEashed up to certain point,
where THE sieonoclastic hand of twentieth
century sanitation spares mellow fres-
Goes of pleasure-lov1ng gods, wanton
nymphs and goat-shanked satyrs, who
look down on tortured latter-day human
ity upon the narrow beds below. White
robed nuns nursing in their hospital, a
grim, ancient building, haf-palace. half
JOrtfcSS, WOTk quietly dt d SCi uDOCo oCoi
table in the center of the ward, and
that is all. Except the story
ONCE UPON A TINE; a Collection of
Stories. BY Carl Holiday, author of
THE Cotton Picker and Other
Poems." etc. New York: Broadway
Publishing Company.
A novelty in fantastic literature is offer
ed in these tales. which begin with THE
Mountain With the Bald Head" and end
with THE Land OF Dreams. In the
opening story the mountain at first was
beautifully green, but the clouds forever
playing around his head made him SO
nervous that, at last, he drove them
away. And when they were gone, the
sun scorched him by day, and at night
the tormenting moon leered down at him
and made his eyes ache. When he had
suffered until his head was as bald as a
turnip. every blade of grass gone and his
trees as dry as matches, the dear clouds
returned to comfort him. but, forever
equally whimsical, delightful little stories
in the book. which is dedicated Ito the
worlds children, both great and small"
THE MASTER PAINTERS OF BRIT
AIN. Edited by Gleeson White
sometime editor OF, The Studio au-
thor OF English Illustration; the
Sixties" New York: The John Lane
Company.
The purpose Of this work as explained
by the author is 10 present a selection OF
the best paintings of the most notabit
artists of Great Britain. giving such al
account of the painters and of their works
as shall afford view of the development
of painting in that country and particu
larly of the relation and Indebtedness OF
one artist to another. No effort appears
to support any school of art, but the ain
has been to represent all the different
schools without discrimination. Tht
question of personal taste does not enter
into the consideration, but the works ars
chosen solely with reference TO their &C
ceptance by the art world as masterpieces
even though some may be greater thar
others The work is arranged chronolog
ically with division into four periods
the first ranging from Hogarth 10 Wilkie
that is to say, through the eighteenth ant
the early part of the nineteenth centuries
the second from Mulready to Millais th'
third from Hook to Caldecott, and tn
fourth inclusive OF artists of the presen
time who are still producing. and wh'
may yet create the works that will b
known henceforth as their creates
achievements. Preceding each of th
: plates, of which there are about 123, Il
: an explanatory note fully explaining th
theme of the picture with interesting fact
about the artist, information about tn
picture itself, it's origin, its fate, and
4 few words OF criticism from the editor o
E the work. AS an introduction to eacl
D section is an historical and critical essa.
comprehensively covering the period an,
: analyzing the influences which affecte,
e the work of characteristic contributors L
the art of the time. 4 biogra aphical ap
J pendix gives brief sketches of the artist
e whose works appear in the volume.
a The reproductions are excellent, tn