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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vi. SEPT. 7, 1912.

A- Beaumont ; and on questions of foreign policy we have ])apers by M. Sokolovitch ('The Albanian Question'), Mr. Archibald Hurd ('The Triumph of Germany's Policy'), Mr. Archibald Colquhoun {' Agree with Thine Adversary' on the Far East), and Mr. Norman Bentwich ('The Russian Passport Question '), while Mr. Sydney Brooks contributes an interesting study of ' France and the Republic.'

THE first article in the September Burlington Magazine is Mr. Albert van de Put's argument identifying the portrait of a " Knight " at the Dulwich Gallery, attributed to Van Dyck, as that of Emanuel Philibert of Savoy, Prince of Oneglia, and therewith as a work of which Bellori makes mention as having been executed at Palermo in 1624 hitherto regarded as lost. Mr. Willy F. Storck describes in detail the mediaeval mural paintings remaining to us, which give us render- ings of ' Les Trois Morts et les Trois Vifs.' It seems a pity that the plates which illustrate the descriptions have to be sought in a separate number. Mr. Hobson's third paper on Chinese cloisonn^ enamel, if a little heavily written and somewhat scanty in illustration, is decidedly interesting. In his series ' Principles and Evolu- tion of Furniture - Making ' Mr. Romney Green has arrived at the relation between Art and Science, which is in this connexion largely a question of how much is to be permitted in the way of division of labour. We cannot think that any effective solution of the difficulties has been here suggested, and their statement is by now a well-worn theme, yet the protest against the regime of the engineer is well made out. Mrs. Hungerford Pollen has a pleasant article on ' Ancient Lace at the Royal Museum, Brussels ' ; and Mr. E. Lancaster Burne writes instructively, but all too slightly, on the fascinating subject of windmills. Mr. G. G. Coulton's ' Artist Life in the Middle Ages ' promises somewhat more than it achieves, and rambles into too many different keys, but presents us with some half- dozen delightful illustrations, and sets forth, too, details about the relation between mediaeval artists and other craftsmen which, if not un- heard of, are, at any rate, good to realize in imagination over again. Sir Martin Conway's second article on the treasury of S. Maurice D'Agaune is not inferior to the former one in interest, even in charm; and there follows it from the pen of Mr. Selwyn Brinton a very sympathetic and stimulating account of the life and work of Fra Vittore Ghislandi, whose work at the Exhibition of Portraits held at Florence last year rejoiced lovers of art with something of the nature of a discovery.

The Nineteenth Century for this month is an unusually good number. In the way of historical . and literary studies we have the second instal- ment of ' Some Unpublished Letters of Lord Chesterfield,' put together by Mrs. Loudon, which struck us as more interesting in itself than the former one, and also as displaying more favour- ably Chesterfield's grace and animation as a letter-writer and a writer of French ; ' Fresh Light on Cromwell at Drogheda,' by Mr. J. B. Williams, to whom our own columns are largely indebted, a paper bringing together evidence from contemporary newsbooks, licensed for a few days after their licensing had been prohibited, which will certainly have to be taken into account

by any future historian who should wish to mini- mize the atrocities perpetrated at Drogheda ; a happy and illuminating paper on the life and character of the late Emperor of Japan, by Mr. J. H. Longford, late Consul at Nagasaki ; and " Lewis Melville's" discussion of ' The Passing of the English Jew,' in which a small matter, perhaps, in a question of uncommon interest we were glad to notice a reference to the work of Amy Levy. Both Sir Bampfylde Fuller in ' India Revisited ' and Capt. Corbett-Smith in ' Some Aspects of Chinese Reform ' give us valu- able information and stimulating suggestions as to what to look forward to in the near future ; yet we note with regret that they ascribe progress to the great and ancient nations concerned in direct proportion to their assimilation of Western ideas and modes of life, leaving it to be implied that nothing will be lost thereby, and that there is nothing to be hoped from them on the lines native to their own traditions. Prof. Lindsay's ' The Case for and against Eugenics ' is well worth reading, in spite of the fact that it has not quite the impartiality promised by the title, but states the case " for " much more thoroughly than the case " against." Canon Moyes in ' Pere Hyacinthe's Marriage ' must, we think, by his clear statement of facts have set to rest once for all the curious misapprehensions which have obtained upon this subject. Mrs. Charlton's ' Animals in their Relation to Empire ' deserves consideration, in spite of the fact that an unusually rambling style and an addiction to large commonplaces make it rather tedious reading.

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