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Mr. Edward Arnold's List of New Books 
PAINTING IN THE FAR EAST. 
Bn SntroDuction to the Distort of flMctortal Bet in Bsla, especially 
China anO Tapan. 
By LAURENCE BINYON. 
With 30 Full-page Illustrations in Collotype from Original Chinese and 
Japanese Pictures. One Volume. Crown 4 to. 21s. 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, 
1764-1793. 
21 Aemofr. 
By the Hon. Mrs. MAXWELL SCOTT, 
Author of ‘Joan of Arc,’ ‘Abbotsford and its Treasures,’ etc. 
With a fine series of Photogravure Portraits. Demy 8 vo. 12s. 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.’ 
