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The Jews, who were totally unable to express them selves in pictorial and plastic art, which was forbidden them by their religion, poured all their genius into their sacred writings. The very opposite of the Jew, the an cient Egyptian was particularly skilful in sculpture and wall-decoration. But the peculiar formation and position not without…

It is not what we can distinctly see or exactly define that gives us our deepest impressions of nature. It is rather something that we savor of it, an essence, penetrating, volatile and unreducible to any rigid terms of art. Yet art has found a way to fix this indefinable thing, and we have landscape…

A pilgrimage to the newly dedicated church of St. Gregory the Great, which is somewhat remotely situated at Brooklyn Avenue and t. John’s Place, Brooklyn, N. Y., is recompensed by the unexpected sight of a beautiful basilica of urest Roman type whose interior decoration is carried out in fresco buono that ancient and noble ural…

Weller like” “bottle, glass and violin “Queering”, and ” dove of peace. ” Picasso had four paintings in the list of the top 10 highest auction price paintings. In an opinion poll he had been overwhelmingly elected to the greatest artist of the 20th century. And he is the first artist seen his works collected…

The richest collection of tapestries in Europe—at least for its series of fine Flemish hangings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries — is that in the Royal Falace of Spain at Madrid, consisting of more than six hundred pieces. This collection has only been known to the artistic world of late years, a series of…

COFFEE CUPS WHICH FAILED TO RECORD THE SPEED OF THE TRAIN To a Washington group Colonel Wells H. Blodgett of St. Louis told a story of railroad travel which caused his hearers to marvel. His theme was the improvement of transportation facilities in the United States. His argument was that these advantages are coming so…

The President in the chair. Professor Peirce presented a communication upon the Solution of Equations by the Means of Geometric Diagrams. Professor Peirce also presented a communication upon the form assumed by an elastic sac containing a fluid. The positions of unstable equilibrium he found to divide themselves into four special forms, the annular, cylindrical,…

THE exhibition of the curious collection of antiques made by the painter Escosura attracted more attention in New York than any other similar sale of the season. This was due in part to the friendships which the owner had formed while on a visit to this country some years ago. This, it is to be…

A review of Turning myself forward:  The Personal story that led to the Transform and Empower approach by Julia Wolfson. Julia Wolfson has written an amazing testament for people who need to regenerate their engagement in whatever they are doing. Many of us have been touched by Julia’s work in recent years.  We have been affected in…

Some time ago, in a comparative study of European balladries, the problem of the melodies halted me till Professor Cdsar Barja told me that my problem had already been solved by Professor Sigurd B. Hustvedt, who sent me a short time later his valuable pamphlet, A Melodic Index of Child’s Ballad Tunes (Univ. of California…