New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05

ties,' EN- the 1917 Offensive and
From Over the Top'-in which MEM
Dry seems to identify the exact spot,
the very incident, depicted. There is
a large painting by Mr.. Haydn
Mackey, 'In the Wake Of the Advance;
and elsewhere is Mr.. Mackey's paint
box, which he used there, with shrap-
mel bullet through it. A grisly truth
fitness marks some drawings by Mr..
Austin o. Spare, and there are hum
dreds Of other pictures, including some
Of the italian front, by Mr.. Guy Lips
combe, and certain studies by Mr..
Walter Spradbery, of Mailly Maillet,
looking quite a pleasant place, which
2,000, 900 men who were on the Western
Front will be unable to look at without
a reminiscent chuckle.
"And here are models, as of the good
old Red Cottage at Fricourt, in the
cellars Of which the r. A. M. c. had
headquarters. Is it still there? Is
it rebuilt? If SO, one prays that it
may be rebuilt faithfully of the same
red brick and be still cottage.
at is doubtless a FOOLS dream, the
notion that the full significance Of it
all could ever, by any number Of guides
and lecturers, however inspired, be
impaired to the uninitiated. But it is
the most wonderful story that the
world has ever known. And all the
material Of it is here, needing only q
touch Of illumination. Surely it is the
duty-no less than the duty-of every
man who vas out there to take as
many Of his family and kinsfolk as he
can, and tell them: Thus and so it
| was, in just such mud with shells
such as you see ('You know what air
raids were likeD, that, with the very
object shown in yonder exhibit, Jim
and me Surely, so will the
new generation rise with a better
knowledge Of and greater pride in
England"
A recent number Of The Bookplate
Magazine (The Morland Press Ltd,
London) contains something on the
bookplates Of Major Haldane MacFall
The article is by w. G. Blake Muir
doch, who says in part:
"He Major MacFall] has practiced
nearly every branch of pictorial art:
TYPOGRAPHY, besides painting in oils;
the woodcut, besides pen craftsman
ship. And in this lavish output in
pictorial art there are not many things
better than the finest of his bookplates
ITO have an original conception, to
make it picture truly fair to look
upon. and not just interesting by rea-
son of its subject, 'here is a dual at
tainment which is of the most uncom-
mon order. This was the exploit of
Goya. in the best Of his etchings, as,
too, the triumph Of Fantin- Latour, in
the noblest of his Autographs. And
this is also the achievement Of Major
MacFall, in the rarcst of his ex-libris
There are plenty Of students know
ing some period of history, say, re-
markedly we'll, nevertheless infinitely
few who can really imagine past age,
see it wildly before them. But that
talent is salient in those mirrored in
Major MacFall's historical writings.
He not merely knows, but imagines,
the Spain Of Velasquez. the Italy of
Michelangelo, whence he gives life to
either. And the same gift, the lively
sense for the Old World, is prominent
in those. denoted by his bookplates.
These tell that for him. knights still
gallop afield, the clatter Of their arms
an actually to his ear. These tell
that for him the 1700s have never
passed away"