One suspects Mr. Burn of being a comparatively young man, prepared look critically at the doings and sharply to comment upon the omissions and misdoings of his elders, and of prepared, merely because something Is done or something is left undone by older men in authority over us, to agree that, whilst it seems "obit rum" to him,' he supposes must be all for the best or the "old boys" would not have doneit.or not have left it undone, as the case may be, as they could not be such colossal asses as not to have known this or foreseen that.
We undoubtedly have here a book bby a young or at any rate a youngish man. On this assumption it is not Ineoneelvable that a certain prejudice may arise in the minds of some readers, We have not all, unfortunately perhaps, as yet subscribed to the cult fof the younger man for the job. I say a prejudice, I mean a prejudice engendered by the idea that the young man's views may be a bit intolerant, hho may be a bit of a know-all, and what he says should have just a grain of salt added. Never could a greater mistake be made in Mr. Burn's case. From first to Inst, whether he is discussing the aims and ambitions of the Dictator states (in which T includ leagues, white many Chinese painters. of there times are quoted, The eminent sino-legis gives his abstains from any comment, but the reader feels that the very important question of the reality of the humanity Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, ete. should not be dimin= shed while painting these "holy Personas. Africans oF us, ete, No= body Europe woud accept the painting of the Japanese and Chine martyrs decorative details of the background, Truth and Beauty St. Luca While perusing the interesting pages and looking atthe fine "reproductions Russia), or arguing the "pros" and of "the book under review, one "cons" of the possibilities of peace by understands quite easily that a appeasement: whether he is writing Chinese artist, trying to copy some about foreign affairs, neither pure nor foreign pictures, gave to them, some-imple, or home affairs, which are times but not always, an original and also neither, or whether he is dealing coal touch, just a8 the famous Italian with the Far East (of which we find painters represented the Blessed Vi {oo little), "America or propaganda, gin Mary as a beautiful (not always, there Is not to be found any undue Very inspiring) girl of Florence oF Intolerance nor merely destructive Venice. "Many people have rightly criticism, as 1s so often the ease, but, objected to this practice, while ad-fon the contrary, we find a really miting the "human side of the pro-Rood understanding of the problems duction" and the various landscapes resented and a genuine businesslike hot to be found in the country where these holy persons spent a real human life, Here, asin many things, in medio star virtus. The fact related ft the beginning of this short review
painting, historical personages is to worth remembering, if the art of Join the vernin and the pulehrum into manner of regarding them.
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