6 Mr. Edward Arnold's List of New Books 



PAINTING IN THE FAR EAST. 



Bit SntroDuction to tbe Ibistotg of flMctortal 2lrt in Beta, especially 

 Cbftta an> Japan. 



By LAURENCE BINYON. 



With 31 Full-page Illustrations in Collotype from Original Chinese and 

 Japanese Pictures. One Volume. Crown ^to. 2 is. net. 



This important book is a pioneer work in the artistic interpretation 

 of the East to the West, and in the breaking down of the spiritual 

 barriers between them. For a basis of study of Eastern art, writes 

 Mr. Binyon, 'the public at present has nothing but a few general 

 misconceptions/ He therefore puts forward his volume with the 

 modest hope that it ' may not be thought too presumptuous an 

 attempt to survey the achievement and to interpret the aims of 

 Oriental painting, and to appreciate it from the standpoint of a 

 European in relation to the rest of the world's art. It is the general 

 student and lover of painting,' he continues, ' whom I have wished to 

 interest. My chief concern has been, not to discuss questions of 

 authorship or of archaeology, but to enquire what aesthetic value and 

 significance these Eastern paintings have for us in the West.' 

 Besides its stimulating artistic criticism, the book is full of interesting 

 glimpses of Eastern history and thought in so far as they have 

 affected art, as well as of biographical sketches of Eastern painters. 



MADAME ELIZABETH DE FRANCE, 



1764-1794. 



B /Iftemofr. 

 By the Hon. Mrs. MAXWELL-SCOTT, 



AUTHOR OF 'JOAN OF ARC,' ' ABBOTSFORD AND ITS TREASURES,' ETC. 



With Coloured Collotype and other Illustrations. Demy Svo. 125. 6d. net. 



Among the victims of the French Revolution, perhaps the figure 

 which excites most sympathy is that of the modest and heroic Princess 

 whose life is told in this deeply interesting memoir. Madame Eliza- 

 beth was the sister of Louis XVI. Her life was at first one of calm 

 and quiet. Her studies, her charities, and her intimate friendships 

 filled her time until the storm broke over France, and she left her 

 peaceful Montruil to take her part in the dangers and sufferings of 

 her family, and to be their consoler in the time of trial. It was not 

 till the King and Queen had both been executed that Madame 

 Elizabeth was brought from prison, tried for corresponding with her 

 brother, and condemned to the guillotine. 



The fresh documents lately discovered by M. Lenotre have 

 enabled the author, who, by the way, is a great-granddaughter of Sir 

 Walter Scott, to throw much new light on the life of * The Angelic 

 Princess.' 



