We have received a copy of the programme for the French celebrations of July 14; and if we permit ourselves the freedom of criticism, we would plead that it is really an indirect compliment. What has become of the gracious. French gift for decoration, what of the deserved ly famous Fresh artistic! taste, that this horrid Cubist cover should be perpetrated, to gv out an expression of national taste on. the great national day? We can! identify a part of a champagne bottle with cork fying out, one werd and parts of some others; the letters R. Fi; and something that may be Catherine Wheel. Otherwise the design bears no earthly relationship to anything we can think of, unless it be meant to convey a general impression of drunkenness, a vice], from: which the French people are probably more free than any in tt world, One does not deny a certain diabolical ingenuity in Cubist de signs. (Whether this one is Cubist! or Vorticist we do not know: there is no great difference), But it is essentially the product of diseased brains. As such, perhaps, suitable for a museum, for a record of one phase through which the world will have passed, one is happy to think, sooner or laters but not for a day of national rejoicing.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.