The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-05

AAlHe my NuuAuaF Muulou Nnu uHAoAlAu
IL hOpeleualy bad lasts in color and
design.
such a dover sketch a. NJ. Caro-Del-
vailleS ia SOrtis' makes other pages
ieiuns In this volume. Juan Cardinals
Spanish types are vital and not without
the po~simistic note Of zulOaga. You
come across with a pleasurable shock
Eugene Carriere's -TWihGht' and on the
opposite page John Golfers solid half
lsngth portrait of Charles Darwin. Paul
VeTlaine Outstrstched on hia bed Of death.
by =. A. Cazala. h a Simple. effectively
trosted subject. some of the posters
are admirable. j. Daachher's Pan
Music was inspired by p Stuck's Daugh-
ters Of SATAN Swans and storks play a
large role in German Illustrations. both
in a symbolic and decorative sense. and
the devil. hide. hOois and horns, h seldom
absent from a page. lie h apparently a
tutelar deity Of tho Munich school. Some
times he h a gOatiah monster playing
pranka on travellers. sometimes a ma
hgnani apparation that turks In dOOrWays
OF IN winding staircase bent upon soaring
httls maids or old women. The witch
oouFuing IN her broomstick d another
familiar spectacle. She ridra up tho
chimney 20 the sabbath with the con-
hdenoe Of q modern aviator. Max Field
hauer delights in startling his audience.
Over the head Of a typical and highly
soandAlinsd philiatins he aends hurting
n lad -sth Sha. ~. - k.t-,- ,srl.-
pinnings Of a faun. She vaults we'll. and
her sneering Enile y Enthusiastically a
symbol 81 aomethink or somebody.
Another of the Feldbauerian inventions
u q mermaid on her head. her heels in the
air rather her fab tail-upon the end oi
which ahs balances a sea horse. The
same artists Brunnhide and her horse
Graha is a well known poster. A. ia the
-Brautinsel' Of Fidus. This latter illus
TRAITOR n devoted TO the nude feminine.
and u oannoi he denied that hs treats his
theme with grace. fantasy and reserve.
The more pronounced. even outrageous
humor % Jugead II missing in this album
and also the pungent pictorial comment
upon national politics; but the list Of
good thing might be prolonged indef-
nitely. This collection. which sells az a
low price, ought to he studied dt probably
IA by numerous English and American
illustratorsD.
The BergamO art publication entitled
-Altraverso eli Abb IL Cartelle. eiite,l
by the Italian critic vittOro Plea. 10 Of
more serious intent and the artists Sc
leCted Of more universal renown than
those in JUgeRd. To take. for example.
the first series OF Signor Pleas work.
Rops, De Groux. GOya. . group Of great
Japanese artists. q study Of carioature
in France and England. . section assigned
to four artists Of Legs Onnay. Berch-
mans, Raasenfaase and MAr6chal-end-
ing with q collectiOn Of the poster ART
Of all the nations. DaumieV. Gavarni
aud Forain are copiously illustrated.
the reproductions in the main being Of
superior quality. Rops 10 nowadays less
q a stranger than q few years ago. thanks
10 the various albums containing the best
of his genius In reproduction. eitheF half.
tone OF etching: bus RedOn Ia still a novel
name on this side OF the Atlantic. though
he has worked In Paris for half q century
a. illustrator. eicber and painter He
prediction - for tho maoabrs. hut a.
he has not a ray OF humOr q sense Of
monotOny u apt 10 ensue after a pro-
ionRet study % his compositions Rops,
De GrOuK. Ensor. all BelQans. are en-
dOwed With the Flemish humor, often
gross yet hearty and appealing RsdOn.
superb artist AZ he unquestiOnably IS,
strikes ,E a. ooldly cerebral In his con-
csptiOns lie illustrated Baudelaire's I
les F1eurs du Ma With success; il was
a book in which RetOn's spleen and irony
could be- best displayed.
Among the artists whose genius found
itH fullest satisfaction in the delineation
n death and the hurrurs Of war. y--sti-
lenoe FIRE and other disagrr~ahls natural
Phenomena are the names u Cabot. Goya. I.
Rethel. Sattlrr. Chariot and Rahet. They I
are accorded liberal spacs In Pleas work
Cabot and Goya need no special com /
nent. They arr classics Ksthel h a /
master In svoking mild horror though I
bis technical methods arr comparatively .
70 latter day eyes. The /
invention and execution % J. Sattler -
more significant His Modern Dance of /
Death 10 highly ingenious. A skeleton .
m stills strides acruss a large Illuminated .
.ome. perforatinE the paEs and dripping .
NIX ~ he goes The wood cut II called /