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September, 1910 



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Catalogue of the Works of Art Be- 

 longing TO THE City of New York. 

 New York : Prepared and issued by 

 the Art Commission of the City of 

 New York, 1909. Large 8vo. ; pp. 241. 

 The City of New York began its valua- 

 ble collection of portraits in 1790 by re- 

 questing Gen. Washington to permit Mrs. 

 Trumbull to take his portrait to be placed 

 in the City Hall as a monument of the re- 

 spect which the inhabitants of this city had 

 toward him. Since this time the city has 

 been acquiring works of art of all kinds. 

 Technically these works of art are under 

 the charge of and they are passed upon by 

 the Art Commission of the City of New 

 York. The constitution of this commission 

 is most admirable. Its present members 

 are: Robert W. DeForest, Frank D. Mil- 

 let, John B. Pine, George B. McClellan, A. 

 Augustus Healy, John Bigelow, Arnold W. 

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 and artistic societies and museums, as well 

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 York would have foisted upon it most 

 atrocious works. This commission is an 

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 a beautiful one, magnificently printed, and 

 it gives a complete catalogue raisonne of all 

 the works in the possession of the city, 

 numbering several hundred. The plates are 

 superbly executed. 



Spring Flowers at Belvoir Castle. By 

 W. H. Divers. London : Longmans, 

 Green & Co., 1909. 8vo. ; pp. 193. 

 Price, $1.80 net. 

 Belvoir Castle is one of the finest coun- 

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 gardener to his Grace the Duke of Rut- 

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 in this garden he has been induced to write 

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 beauty when seen in a mass, but because 

 of their low cost and the small amount of 

 labor required to take care of them dur- 

 ing the summer months and for transplant- 

 ing them in autumn. Thus they are 

 adapted for everyone who has a garden. 

 The illustrations are from photographs 

 taken by the author. They show that he is 

 not only an expert gardener, but a photog- 

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Castles and Chateaux of Old Bur- 

 gundy AND Border Provinces. By 

 Francis Miltoun. Boston : L. C. Page 

 & Co., 1909. i2mo. ; 333 pp. Price, 

 $3- 

 The old Burgundian Province was close- 

 ly allied topographically, climatically, and 

 by ties of family with many of its neigh- 

 boring political divisions, and it is for this 

 reason that this section of France is of 

 particular interest. Not in the royal do- 

 main of France itself, not in luxurious 

 Touraine, were there more of splendor and 

 the costly trappings of the ceremonial of 

 the Middle Ages than in Burgundy, which 



