DRAKE.
To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's dream,
which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is
the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
PEPYS' _Diary_.
Some people feel sure that it is a mistake to interfere with the play
of a child's imagination by giving him illustrated editions of (p. 207)
great works. This opinion would be shaken by seeing these wonderful
pictures, by means of which we are indeed wafted to dreamland. There
are forty plates in color, and other illustrations.
FINE ARTS
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
POPE.
HURLL, E.M.
Greek Sculpture.
Houghton. .75
The Riverside Art Series contains twelve small volumes on Ancient and
Modern Art, of which four only are included in this limited list. The
very satisfactory illustrations are taken from photographs, and the
major part of each book is devoted to interpretations of the pictures.
This volume contains sixteen examples of Greek marbles, with an
introduction, which includes other information, on some
characteristics of Greek sculpture.
Greek sculpture can be sympathetically understood only by
catching something of the spirit which produced it.
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