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on sale on November 1, 1945, and, despite a rise in price made neces- 
sary by increased production costs, has continued to sell so well that 
a third edition is now being printed and a fourth is under discussion. 
A catalog entitled “Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Col- 
lection,” comprising 200 halftone reproductions, was issued in Febru- 
ary 1946, in connection with the opening of the new galleries con- 
taining recent additions to the Kress Collection. The National Gal- 
lery of Art, the Harvard College Library, and Pantheon Books col- 
laborated in the publication of “Drawings from Ariosto by Frago- 
nard,” by Elizabeth Mongan of the Gallery staff, Philip Hofer, and 
Jean Seznec—a distinguished example both of scholarship and print- 
ing. Huntington Cairns, Secretary of the National Gallery of Art, 
edited a collection of George Saintsbury’s essays in a volume entitled 
“French Literature and Its Masters,” published by Alfred A. Knopf 
in connection with the centenary of Saintsbury’s birth. 
Articles were published by Huntington Cairns on Sociology and the 
Social Sciences, in the volume “Twentieth Century Sociology”; The Ju- 
ristic Bases for International Law, in Iowa Law Review, May 1946; 
A Logician of Science, in The Sewanee Review, January 1946; Proust 
and Painting, in The Art Bulletin, March 1946; Methodology of the 
Social Sciences, in the University of Chicago Law Review, December 
1945; by John Walker on the protection and salvage of art, in the Na- 
tional Geographic Magazine, January 1946; by Fern Rusk Shapley on 
two paintings in the Gallery’s collection in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 
July 1945, and the Art Quarterly, winter 1945. 
Mr. Cairns also contributed an article, Philosophy as Jurisprudence, 
to “Essays in Honor of Roscoe Pound,” to be published by Oxford Uni- 
versity Press in the fall of 1946. Charles Seymour, Jr., submitted an 
article to the Henri Focillon memorial issue of the Gazette des Beaux- 
Arts to be published in December 1946. A comprehensive article on 
the Gallery, its collections, installations, and history was prepared by 
Joseph Blake Eggen for early publication in Mouseion. 
Volumes by members of the Gallery staff in press by the end of the 
year included “The Limits of Art,” by Mr. Cairns, an extensive com- 
pilation of selections of poetry and prose that have been held to be the 
ereatest of their kind in critical literature from Aristotle to the pres- 
ent; “Le Chevalier Delibere,” with an introduction by Elizabeth Mon- 
gan; “Three Centuries of American Painting,” by James Lane; and 
the first of a new series of handbooks, with special reference to the 
collections of the National Gallery of Art, entitled “The Search for 
Line,” by Lois Bingham, of the educational staff. 
Work in preparation for early publication progressed on a book 
being compiled by Erwin Christensen which will give, under the title 
“Made in America,” an over-all picture of the Index of American De- 
