The early numbers of THE NEW CENTURY REVIEW will contain the following articles:— A Persian on the Armenian Massacres The Liberal Leadership ... ... ... ... Rev. H. R. Haweis, M.A. Ll. Atherley-Jones, M.P. W. Blake Odgers, Q.C., LL.D. A. W. Hutton, M.A. Geoffrey Drage, M.P. Justin McCarthy, M.P. ... John C. Kenworthy. John M. Robertson. Norman Kerr, M.D., F.L.S. Rev. R. E. Welsh. Rev. F. W. Aveling, M.A., B.Sc. Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A. Mrs. L. T. Meade. Major Arthur Griffiths. FIRST NUMBER READY DECEMBER 18th, PRICE SIXPENCE NET. Editorial communications should be addressed to THE EDITor, The NEW CENTURY REVIEW, 157, Walton Street, Oxford. Business communications and applications respecting advertisements to THE MANAGER, THE NEW CENTURY REVIEW, Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, E.C. The Review will be sent post free to any address at home or abroad for 8s. per annum. LONDON: IMPERIAL BUILDINGS, LUDGATE CIRCUS, E.C. On receipt of a post-card, Mr. Fisher Unwin will be pleased to furnish the address of the local bookseller where the books detailed in this Catalogue may be inspected. On request, he will also send, post-free to any address, Catalogues and Prospectuses of his various publications. Most of the books mentioned in this list are on view on the Continent at the chief booksellers, at Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Leipsic, Dresden, Geneva, Milan, Brussels, Rome, Amsterdam, Christiania, Venice; also in Cairo and Algiers. UNWIN BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS, LONDON AND WOKING. The Literary Adviser 1896-1897. All the books mentioned in the advice-note HE exhausted Celtic fowl who leans back in the shelter of our capital T, may fitly depict the state of mind of the reader of all the books of the Christmas Season. The reader of the selected few, on the other hand, who benefits by the advice of the judicious critic, wears smilingly in his face a look of interest and enthusiasm even unto the end. He is not inaptly typified by the cheery bird whose beak is adorned by the selfsame chain, which hangs round the neck of his recumbent comrade. And now to our facts. Foremost, among the art-books of the year is certainly the English version of Signor Raffaele Cattaneo's "L'Architettura in Italia," a work great in exposition as in illustration, which Professor le Monnier translated into French. "It is," as the Times says, "a serious attempt to follow the course of Italian art during the dark ages, between 600 and 1000 A.D., and to establish some rational data for determining the relative ages of the existing monuments which belong to that period." Architecture in Italy. 21s.net. The same authority adds that "the account put forward is clear and intelligible, and is free from the contradictions which seem to follow from the acceptance of some of the dates usually given." Signor Cattaneo personally inspected many of the monuments described, and has been able successfully to refute the errors of such writers as Dartein, Selvatico, Rohault de Fleury and Hübsch. The subject is a very difficult one, and the style of the original, abounding in long sentences and decorative touches, offered no small obstacle to the translator, but the Contessa Isabel Curtis-Cholmeley in Bermani at any rate brought to her task the enthusiasm of a devoted student, as readers of her pamphlet on S. Mark will readily acknowledge. Even those, non-architecturally inclined, will delight in so brilliant a chain of reasoning as that by which the Author demonstrates that the present atria of S. Ambroise of Milan are not those of Ansperto. It is apropos of the error thus ably demonstrated that the Architect says: "There is no building or collection of buildings which presents so many temptations to the archæologist to fall into error as the oldest of the Milanese churches, but after M. Cattaneo's discussion more caution at arriving at conclusions will doubtless be exercised." The same journal admits that "M. Cattaneo can claim to have added a new chapter to the history of Italian architecture and sculpture, and one, too, which is not without relation to architecture in various lands. It was no easy task to have undertaken, for only a man of the Old Mortality type would sacrifice so much time in discovering fragments which for generations were ignored, and excusably, for as some represent the degradation of the art of the Greeks, they could hardly be seen without pain." The Standard remarks that the book is "translated into very good English." |