The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12

for 30 years This series of guides is
 the result of this unique experience. The notes of which it is composed were all
 made in the presence of the pictures l themselves, and similarly revised and re- written during successive visits The re- suit accordingly is a body of information l indispensable to all intelligent gallery
 visitors from an unimpeachabe authority.
 brought up to date in every controverted | instance, and extraordinarily vivified by | the method and manner of it's compost
 ton and presentation. The notes are arranged under the names of the painters placed in alphabetical or der. and with the gallery numbers. Any picture in given gallery can be readily found by ascertaining from the picture frame or catalogue either the name or the number.
 The list will includes: L London-National Gallery, Wallace Collection, With a General Introduction and Bbliography for the Series. 9 Paris-Louvre.
 g. Armsterdam-Riiks Museum The
 Hague, Royal Gallery; Harlem, Hals Museum.
 4. Antwerp-Royal Museum; Brussels, Royal Museum.
 3, Munch-Old Pinacothek; Frankfort, Stoedel Institute; Cassel. Royal Gallery. O. btTHD-halSeT F1le0flcn Museum. Dresden, Royal Gallery. 2. Vienna-Imperial Gallery; Buda- Pesth, Museum of Fine Arts. s. St. tersburg-Hermitage 9. Venice-Academy; Milan, Brera, ldi-Pezzoli Museum 1 10. Florence-Uffizi, Pitt, Academy Il. Rome-Vatican Borghese Gallery. F. Rome-Vatican, Borghese Gallery | 12. Madrid-Prado.
 By Robert w. Chambers. Illustrated by Edmund Frederick. D. Appleton & Co.,, 1 Publishers, New York | QUICK ACTION" l Whenever Mr. Robert Chambers writes
 a new book the literary folk "sit up and
 take notice"
 His books are probably more widely
 read more generally liked and more
 fully appreciated than any living author
 today and that is saying a great deal. In his latest story, "Qdick Action. MT.
 Chambers says in a 'prefacen: | Always animated oy a desire to con
 tribute in small way toward scientific investigation, the author offers this hum- 1 ble volums to a more serious audience l tfan he has so far yentured to address. For all those who nave outgrown the 1 superficial amusement of mere fiction | this volume, replete with purpose is written in hopes that it may stimulate l students to original research in certain obscure realms of science, the border 1 lands of which, hitherto, have been | scarcely crossed
 1 There is perhaps no division of science l as important, none so little understood as the science of crystal gazing. "A vast field of individual research l opens before the earnest patient and | sober minded investigator who shall 1 study the subject and discover those oc- cult laws which govern the intimate re- | lations between crystals, playing cards cigarettes, soiled pink wrappers and the l police'
 The six ensuing stories, all told by the l beautiful "crystal-gazer." the Countess Atbalie, to group of her admirers and
 are supposed to be bits of real life which 1 she has seen in her crystal. | Out of the most prosaic circumstances where Jones or Brown or Smith has ven tured on business bent, Il romance springs 1 I'D in the shape of some lovely girl and l immediately there is a wild love affair | with the story terminating happily. l MT. Chambers has written very i'm 1 teresting book, entirely unlike anything l else he has ever done, and it will no