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ALS IK KAN: NOTES: REVIEWS
of the old country seats in Gonzaga
county. The twelve panels are nearly all
profile studies of men, and are exquisite
examples of the decorative tendencies of
the pre-Raphaelite period. The cable
announcing their purchase states that "the
pictures will be restored before shipment
to New York." It is devoutly to be
wished that the vandal's hand may be
stayed and the characteristic charm of
these  genuine  antiques may   not be
obliterated.
  A Roman bronze, which was discovered
fifty years ago by Prince Demidoff, has
also been purchased in Paris. It repre-
sents the Emperor Trebonianus Gallus
who reigned from 251-254 A. D. The
statue, which was found in fragments, was
restored by the expert, M. Andre, and is
an archaeological treasure.
  The library of the museum will be
enriched by a gift from King Edward VII.
It consists of two magnificent volumes,
one of them one of his own copies of the
great work on the armory at Windsor
Castle, and the other a corresponding
book on the furniture in the royal palace.
  It is also rumored that many of Mr.
Morgan's art treasures, which are kept
in his London house, being excluded from
this country by the prohibitive tariff on
art, may be brought over as exhibits for
the museum.
  The "Aretino" by Titian, from the
Chigi palace at Rome, which has been on
exhibition for some time in the Colnaghi
Gallery in London, has been purchased for
America, the price paid being $125,000,
which is very moderate for a work of this
character, as the Aretino is one of Titian's
greatest portraits.
T   HERE has been some talk that when
     the artists repair to town after their
summer outings decided developments will
take place in the matter of the union of
the National Academy of Design and the
Society of American Artists. The City
has been approached to donate a plot of
ground for an art palace under direction
of the united body, and liberal art patrons
stand ready to contribute to defray the
cost of its erection.
THE summer haunts of the New York
     artists have been varied and wide
spread. Scarcely a place along the Atlan-
tic coast from the northernmost rocky
bounds of Maine to the sands of Cape
May that has not had some colony of the
brothers of the brush-and of the sisters
as well. The Adirondacks have been
painted by Shurtleff, the Catskills have
given inspiration to J. Francis Murphy,
P. Cornager, Birge Harrison, Orlando
Rouland, Will Robinson and many others.
A number have conducted summer schools
which interferes very little with personal
work, and the ocean steamers are carrying
another number back to their native
shores. The ever increasing interest in
art productions will find the coming ex-
hibitions replete with the fruits of artistic
labor.
REVIEWS
R ELIGION and Science are made to
join hands and work together toward
the same great end in "God and His
World," a book of "sermons on evolution"
by the Rev. Samuel R. Calthrop, L. H. D.,
pastor of the May Memorial Church at
Syracuse. Bringing to his theme the deep
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