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 MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc. 9 HUBERT AND JOHN VAN EYCK : Their Life and Work. By W. H. James Weale. With 41 Photogravure and 95 Black and White Reproductions. Royal 410. ^^5 5/. net. Sir IMartin Conway's Note. Nearly half a century has passed since Mr. IV. H. James Weale, then resident at Bruges, began that long series of patient ijivcstigations into the history of Netherlandish art ■which was destined to earn so rich a hardest. When he began 7uork ISIemlinc was still called Hem ling, and was fabled to have arrived at Bruges as a wounded soldier. The van Eycks were little more than legendary heroes. Roger Van der Weyden was little more than a name. Most of the other great Netherlandish artists were either wholly '^orgotten or natned only ijt connection with paintings with luhich they had nothing to do. Mr. Weale discovered Gerard David, and disentangled his principal works from Mem- line's, with which they were then confused. VINCENZO FOPPA OF BRESCIA, Founder of THE Lombard School, His Life and Work. By Constanxe JocELYN Ffoulkes and Monsignor Rodolfo Majocchi, D.D., Rector of the Collegio Borromeo, Pavia. Based on research in the Archives of Milan, Pavia, Brescia, and Genoa, and on the study of all his known works. With over 100 Illustrations, many in Photogravure, and 100 Documents. Royal 4to. ^^3. 11/. 6d. net. seems almost inexplicable in these days of over-production in the matter of bio- graphies of painters, and of subjects relating to the art of Italy. The object of tlie authors of this book has been to present a true picture of the master s life based ■upon the testimony of records in Italian archives. The authors have unearthed a large amount of new fnaterial relating to lappa, one of the most interesting facts brought to light being that he lived for twenty-three years longer than was formerly supposed. The illustrations -will include several pictures by Foppa hithertt unknown in the history of art. MEMOIRS OF THE DUKES OF URBINO. Illustrating the Arms, Art and Literature of Italy from 1440 to 1630. By James Dennistoun of Dennistoun. A New Edition edited by Edward Hutton, with upwards of 100 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 3 vols. 42J. net. chief authority upon the Duchy of Urbino frotn the beginning of the fifteenth centu'ry. Mr. Hutton has carefully edited the whole work, leaving the text suhstantialh the same, but adding a large number of nezu notes, comments and references. Wherever possible the reader is directed to original sources. Every sort of work has been laid u7ider contribution to illustrate the text, and iibliographies have been supplied on many subjects. Besides these notes the book acquires a new value on account of the mass of illustrations •which it now contains, thus adding a pictorial comment to an historical and critical one. THE PHILOSOPHY OF LONG LIFE. By Jean Finot. A Translation by Harry Roberts. Demy 8vo. (9x5! inches). 7/. 6d. net. has already been translated into almost every language, and has, in France, gone intofrur- teen editions in the course of afeiv years. The book is an exhaustive one, and although based on science and philosophy it is in no sense abstruse or remote from general interest. It deals ■with life as embodied not only in man and in the animal andz'egetable ■worlds, but itt all that great world of {as the author holds) misnamed ^'inanimate" nature as well. For M. Finot argues that all things have life and consciousness, and that a solidarity exists which brings together all beings and so-called things. He sets himself to work to show that life, in its philosophic conception, is an elemental force, atid durable as nature herself.
 * No complete Life of Vincenzo Foppa has ever been written : an omission which
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 * ♦* This is a translation of a book which has attained to the position of a classic. It