Pages on Art. By Charles Ricketts. (Constable and Co. 7s.
6d. net.)—These articles on painting were well worth reprinting—they mostly appeared either in the Burlington Magazine or the Morning Post. One of the most interesting of the essays is the one which deals with Puvis de Chavannes and landscape. Mr. Ricketts takes the view, and we think he is right, that Puvis was one of the most original of land- scape painters, for in truth many of his great decorations, though they contain figures, are essentially landscapes. "With him we escape once for all from the beautiful free convention established by Titian and modified by Corot." The landscape of Puvis was a perpetual protest against what he called "lea pochades d'atelier et de vacance " (studio and holiday sketches). To him a finished work should never be made to appear like a hastily recorded note. In another essay we get a just and sympathetic study of the art of Watts, while others deal with Oriental, Post-Impressionist, and stage art.
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