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This article presents information on the book "The Art of Jacob Epstein," by Robert Black. Though his "Adam" provoked a customary uproar as recently as 1939 and became a kind of touring circus attraction in England and America, the scandalous interest of sculptor Epstein's work has now receded sufficiently to permit a reasonable view of his talent. Such attention has in the past been as much obstructed by the sculptor's deliberate shock tactics and instability among his media as by alternating public excesses of prurient indignation and partisan apology. Epstein's bolder conceptions does have an artistic interest, not only in relation to his own serious claims but with respect to the various efforts of modern sculptors to recover, at whatever expense of taste or erratic experimentation, the monumental quality and motivation which recent architecture has never really succeeded in encouraging in their art as a means of raising it from its fallen dignity as studio, museum, or minor social craftsmanship.

By the generosity of Mr. S. Pepys Cockerell the British Museum has recently come into possession of three volumes of sketches, plans, etc., made by his father, C. R. Cockerell, R.A., during the seven years (1810–1817) in which he was travelling in S. Europe and the Levant.The Collection contains about 500 sketches, a few in water-colour, sepia, and Indian-ink, the rest in pencil, and is of great interest both artistically and archaeologically. On its artistic interest I do not propose to dwell; Cockerell's merits as an artist have always been recognised, and these delicate water-colour and pencil notes, in which there is not an unnecessary or an unmeaning line, are quite up to the level of his finished work.

Of peculiar interest among the Arundel marbles of the Pomfret donation at Oxford, is a slab in the shape of a pediment, ‘in which there is in basso relievo the figure of a man as big as the life with his arms extended as if he was crucified, but no lower than about his paps is seen, the cornice cutting him off as it were; and this extension of his arms is called a grecian measure, and over his arm is a grecian foot.’ The marble thus described by George Vertue, the engraver, was first published in Chandler's Marmora Oxoniensia, Pt. I., Pl. lix., No. 166, but its importance was completely overlooked until the late Prof. Matz, in one of his last papers, published a better drawing and pointed out the artistic interest of the relief as a sculpture belonging to a rather early period of Greek art. On the other hand, the merit of the monument as an authentic document of Greek metrology was set forth, at my request, by my friend Dr. Fr. Hultsch, the author of Griechische Metrologie, whose views are repeated in my Ancient Marbles in Great Britain. The chief result of his exposition was that our relief unites in a most interesting way the indication of the length of a fathom (??????) of 2·06 or 20·07 m. with that of a foot of 0·295 m., which is not, as one might expect, the sixth, but exactly the seventh part of the fathom. As such a division of the fathom does not agree with the well-known facts of Greek metrology, Hultsch imagined that the foot on our marble might rather be a modulusused by sculptors and architects, and he observed that the recent excavations of Olympia seem to show the dimensions of some of the temples, particularly of the very old temple of Heré, to be based on a double measure, on a foot but little longer (of 0·298 m.), as well as on a fathom of 2·084 m. which, again, corresponds to seven of those feet.

The article presents information related to the field of art. The Society of Scottish Antiquaries has once more asked for funds to carry on exploration of the Roman station of Newstead, near Melrose. The importance of this work both for the value and artistic interest of the objects it has served to bring light and the evidence it has afforded as to the Roman occupation of Scotland has been recognized by those who, like professor F.J. Haverfield, are most competent to judge. The other information is that the advisory committee of the National Gallery of Art has been selected. It comprises as follows: Frederic Crowninshield, Fine Arts Federation of New York; Herbert Adams, New York, National Sculpture Society; Edwin H. Blashfield, New York, National Academy of Design; Francis D. Millet, New York; and W.H. Holmes, Washington D.C., the Smithsonian Institution.

This article presents information on several books. The book "University of Pennsylvania: Publications of the Egyptian Department of the University Museum. Eckley B. Coxe Junior Expedition to Nubia," vol. 1, " Areika," by F.L. Griffith. and "An Egyptian Oasis: An Account of the Oasis of Kharga in the Libyan Desert, with Special Reference to its History, Physical Geography, and Water-Supply," by H.J. Llewellyn Beadnell. The University of Chicago expedition spent two seasons in endeavoring to recover completely all inscribed monuments of ancient Nubia or the Sudan. Griffith is to be congratulated Beadneil's volume on "The Oasis of Kharga" is the work of a trained field observer and geologist, and furnishes a very interesting account of the largest of the Egyptian oases.

The article discusses some of the political updates related to the U.S. The U.S. Senate has ratified 43 arbitration treaties since the foundation of the Government, while 7 arbitrations have been effected without referring the agreements to the Senate. Until within the past fifteen years, general international arbitration was hardly more than a hope, which had never been given concrete form by any action of the Government. Many stories, apocryphal or well founded, have been told of the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's private quips and gibes at the expense of Senators, individually and collectively. It is even said that it is partly the Senate's sense of spurned beauty, which has led to its present somewhat strained relations with the Executive.

Investigates into the rise of utilitarianism as the golden age of felicity through festivals and dances has faded away. View that Indians display their old customs at public gatherings held by the whites; Information on the Pueblo civilization, who consider ceremonial dances as the heart and religious center of their life; Fact that to a Pueblo dancing was a solemnly joyous community service, a pledge of good Indian citizenship as well as of religious faith; Discussion of the Deer Dance performed during the winter season; Statement that the theory behind the Deer Dance is, of course, a sort of sympathetic magic and the same one guides the vegetation ritual, which is still more important in Pueblo life; Influence of the whites on the Pueblo ceremonies; Reason for the opposition to Pueblo dances.

The article presents information about some recently published books. J.B. Lippincott Co. announced the publishing of "A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times," by Danish actor Karl Mantzius, in two volumes, with an introduction by William Archer and "Recollections and Impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler," by Arthur Jerome Eddy. A new and enlarged edition of professor Henry A. Beers's "The Ways of Yale in the Consulship of Plancus" is attractive enough to commend itself to Yale men, it any such there be, who have been heretofore ignorant of the merits of this entertaining miscellany.

The article presents the official summary of the Turkish treaty handed to the Turkish delegates on May 11, 1920. July 11 has been fixed by the Allies as the final date for acceptance or rejection. The preamble recites shortly the origin of the war and enumerates the High Contracting Parties, represented by the four principal Allied Powers, the British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan, and the other Allied Powers. The boundaries of Turkey are described in two articles, one dealing with Turkey in Europe and the other with Turkey in Asia. Subject to the provisions of the treaty, the parties agree to the maintenance of Turkish sovereignty over Constantinople.

"No one has the faintest conception of what I am trying for," says the author Henry James in "The Death of the Lion," "and "not many have read three pages that I've written; but I must dine with them first-they'll find out when they've time." The words are tinged with Henry James's own disdain of the fashionable world which wears, and wears out, a man of genius like a spangle on its robe. Perhaps twenty years ago every one had read, or had attempted to read, a recent novel of his; but there has come up a generation of young people who have been permitted, with the connivance of critics, to concede the excellence of his earlier productions and the "impossibility" of his later ones without looking into either.

Focuses on the life and works of film director Andy Warhol; Relevance of art to certain traditions and metaphors about art; Interest of the artist in movies; Information on personality of Warhol; Focus on criticism received by Warhol; Focus on sexualized kind of movies by Warhol; Information on the movie "Star," by Warhol; Comments on the early movies made by Warhol being nontheatrical.

In France, where there is some sense of order and logic, it is not quite enough to get together any chance collection of portraits of women. At the "Exposition de Cent Portraits de Femmes in the Salle du Jeu de Paume in the Garden of the Tuileries," all the portraits are of the eighteenth century. The exhibition in the Garden of the Tuileries is in every way the more interesting of the two. The period covered is, as a whole, finer, more care seems to have been taken in the selection of examples and in their arrangement and the comparison between the French and English work is delightfully suggestive.

This article presents information on the books and reading material. A new and magnificent edition of the German classics is to be published by the Inselverlag of Weimar, and to be called the "Wilhelm-Ernst Ausgabe," in honor of the young Duke of Saxe-Weimar. "The Garden of Asia. Impressions From Japan," by Reginald J. Farrer, is a guide-book in colored words, as the author tells frankly in his preface. Longmans, Green & Co. publish "An Attempt Towards a Chemical Conception of the Ether," by D. Mendeleeff.

Reviews the Theatrical Production "Jesus Christ Superstar," directed by Tim O'Horgan.

This article presents information on socio-political issues. Newspaper readers must have rubbed their eyes last week as they read the announcement that a party caucus had voted to lay aside a Rivers and Harbors bill in order to expedite the passage of more important legislation in the U.S. One might be excused for supposing that the bead-line writer had reversed the facts. But Democratic Senators are actually going to proceed with the consideration of the Trust bills at the expense of the "pork-barrel" measure.

It may be that exhibitions are the best salesrooms, but it is as certain that their influence on artists is, in the long run, deadening, especially when, as in Paris, medals are awarded. An exhibition standard is necessarily set up, and its maintenance implies the sacrifice of individuality. The painter paints to exhibit; while he is at work, he sees, not only the canvas before him, but the gallery where it will be hung with hundreds of others, all struggling fiercely for recognition. The privilege of exhibiting in the Champs-Élysées is not an artistic stimulus, but unfortunately it is to this annual exhibition that most painters look for commissions.

This article presents information on political developments in the United States. The renomination of the U.S. President Harrison was anticipated by everybody who has had an impartial eye for the proceedings of the Convention at Minneapolis. Americans doubt if many persons realize the full significance of the fact that their next Presidential election will be the first one in the history of the country to be decided by an absolutely secret ballot. There are now thirty-five States, more than three-quarters of the whole number, which have new ballot laws upon their statute books.

The article presents information on the economics and profit aspect in the U.S. It gives a brief view of the book "Economics: An Account of the Relations Between Private Property and Public Welfare," by Arthur Twining Hadley. The author's position, as he says, is that of an arbiter, not that of an advocate; and when he has stated both sides of a disputed question, the reader feels that a final adjudication is little more than the formality of entering judgment. According to Hadley, the new problems of modern business life arise most conspicuously in connection with large investments of capital in factories and railroads.

The article throws light on a list of books and reprints by various publishing houses. Some of them are listed as follows. The first part of a life of Fridtjof Nansen has appeared in Norway, Sweden, and Russia. The authors are W. C. Brögger and Nordahi Rolfsen, and in addition to the biography proper there will be some introductory poems. Furthermore, Jacques Naurouze's "A travers la Tourmente" is almost a strong work, but is spoiled by a good deal of needless childishness in incidents, conversations, and style.

This article reports on the fifteenth annual meeting of the American Economic Association, held on December 29, 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the collaboration of the University of Pennsylvania. The larger circumstance responsible for a successful meeting of American political economists at this particular time is, of course, the extraordinary development of economic study in the United States. It has become almost a commonplace to prophesy that the scientific leadership in economic inquiry, which two generations have seen pass from Great Britain to Germany, will ultimately reside in the United States.

Focuses on the presence of dramatists Arnold Bennett and Bernard Shaw in the fight of boxer Georges Carpentier in London, England. View of Shaw that the fight was a glittering human spectacle; Attendance of the Prince of Wales in the game; Attitudes of Shaw and Bennett after the ceremonial preliminaries; Impression of Bennett about the boxer; Analytical perception of Shaw to the knock-out; Performance of Carpentier in the fight.

Focuses on the political condition in Great Britain under the leadership of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Fight between the Unionist and Liberal at Croydon and the Isle of Thanet; Dissatisfaction with the Coalition and no corresponding enthusiasm for the Liberal party; Comparison of Lloyd George with former prime minister Herbert Henry Asquith; Hope decried by the Liberals in the government's anti-dumping bill; Prediction of the prime minister for the continuance of some sort of Coalition government.

This article presents information on several books, "Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers," by Francis Hill Bigelow, "Furniture of the Olden Time," By Frances Clary Morse and "Rings for the Finger," by George Frederick Kunz. Bigelow's book is, from the viewpoint of this time and country, the most significant of these four additions to the stupendous list of collectors' handbooks. The beauty and dignity of American colonial silverwork have of late been appreciated as not previously. Kunz's book of the ring is based on much antiquarian industry. Collecting old jewelry is a popular pastime in the museums and among private collectors. Henceforth no one will describe an ancient signet ring or betrothal ring without consulting this monograph of 380 pages, replete with lore, superstitions, and historical facts.

The article focuses on the annual exhibition at the Pennsylvania. To come to the annual exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy with eyes long accustomed to art exhibitions in London is to be conscious at once of a higher level, a more accomplished average. The show is better hung than almost any in London, except the International in its early days. To be honest, the second glance, from the collection as a whole to individual pictures in it, does not quite fulfil the promise. The achievement in each is less than might be expected from the high general level; the masterpieces are not so many as the excellent training should produce.