MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc. 9 

 HUBERT AND JOHN VAN EYCK : Their Life 



and Work. By W. H. James Weale. With 41 Photogravure 



and 95 Black and White Reproductions. Royal 4to. £~, 5/. net. 



Sir Martin Conway's Note. 

 Nearly half a century has passed since Mr. W. H. James Weale, then resident at 

 Bruges, began that long series of patient investigations into the history of A''eiherlandish 

 art luhich was destined to earn so rich a harvest. When he began work liTernlinc was 

 still called Hemling, and ■was fabled to have arrived at Bruges as a wounded soldier. 

 The van Eycks were little more than legendary heroes. Roger Van der Weyden was little 

 viore than a name. Most of the other great Nethe7-landish artists were either wholly 

 forgotten or named only in connection with paintings with which t/iey had tiothing to do . 

 Mr. Weale discovered Gerard David, and disentangled his principal works fro7>t Mcvi- 

 line's, with which they were then confused. 



VINCENZO FOPPA OF BRESCIA, Founder of 



THE Lombard School, His Life and Work. By Constance 

 JocELYN Ffoulkes and Monsignor Rodolfo Majocchi, d.d., 

 Rector of the Collegio Borromeo, Pavia. Based on research in the 

 Archives of Milan, Pavia, Brescia, and Genoa, and on the study 

 of all his known works. With over 100 Illustrations, many in 

 Photogravure, and 100 Documents. Royal 410. ;^3. 11/. dd. net. 



*jf* No complete Life of Vincenzo Foppa has ever been luritten: an omission which 

 seems almost inexplicable in these days of over-pr>'oduction in the tnatter of bio- 

 graphies of painters, and of subjects relating to the art of Italy. The object of the 

 authors of this book has been to present a true picture of the master's life based 

 upon the testimony of records in Italian archives. The authors have unearthed a large 

 amount of new 7naterial relating to Fopfia, one of the most interesting facts brought to 

 light being that he lived for twenty-th7-ee years longer than was formerly supposed. The 

 illustrations will include several pictures by Foppa hitherto unknown in the history of art. 



MEMOIRS OF THE DUKES OF URBINO. 



Illustrating the Arms, Art and Literature of Italy from 1440 to 

 1630. By James Dennistoun of Dennistoun. A New Edition 

 edited by Edward Hutton, with upwards of 100 Illustrations. 

 Demy 8vo. 3 vols. 42J. net. 



*»* For many years this great book has been out of print, although it still remains the 

 chief authority upon the Duchy of Urbino from the beginning of the fifteenth century. 

 Mr. Huttofi has carefully edited the whole work, leaving the text substantially t/te same, 

 but abiding a large mimber of new notes, comments and references. Wherever possible 

 the reader is directed to original sources. Every sort of work has been laid under 

 contribution to illustrate the text, atid bibliographies have been supplied on many subjects. 

 Besides these notes the book acquires a new value on account of the mass of illustrations 

 •which it now contains, thus adding a pictorial comment to an historical and critical one. 



THE PHILOSOPHY OF LONG LIFE. By 



Jean Finot. A Translation by Harry Roberts. Demy 8vo. 

 (9 X 5f inches), js. 6d. net. 



■ *»* This is a translation of a book which has attained to the position of a classic. It 

 has already been tratislated into almost every language, and has, in France, gone into four- 

 teen editions in the course of a few years. The book is an exhaustive one, and although 

 based on science and philosophy it is in no sense absi}-use or remote from general interest. 

 It deals with life as embodied not only in tnan and in the animal and z'egetable worlds, but 

 in all that great world of {as the author holds) misnanied " inaniinate " nature as ivell. 

 For M. Fitiot argues that all things have life and consciousness, and that a solidarity 

 exists which brings together all beings and so-called things. He sets himself to work to 

 show that life, in its philosophic conception, is an elemetital force, and durable as nature 

 herself. 



