House and Garden 
THE FRESCO OF ST. CHRISTOPHER 
/V CCORDING to Dr. Wilhelm Bode, 
director of the Imperial Museum 
in Berlin, the fresco of St. Christopher 
in the New York Metropolitan Museum 
of Art is not by Antonio Pollaiuolo, to 
whom the Museum authorities attribute 
it. 
Indeed, he asserts that it is not of 
Florentine origin at all but of the Sienese- 
Umbrian school, “as is shown by the 
landscape. ” Dr. Bode makes this asser¬ 
tion in the course of a review of Miss 
Cruttwell’s “Antonio Pollaiuolo” in the 
“Burlington Magazine,” and his repu¬ 
tation for accuracy combined with learn¬ 
ing is such that it behooves the Museum 
to verify or correct at once the tag that 
now assigns the fresco to Antonio. 
Incidentally, we may remark that this 
is a wonderful fifteenth century paint¬ 
ing, whoever did it, and that it dominates 
the Gallery of Primitives at the Metro¬ 
politan. Concerning Miss Cruttwell’s 
effort Dr. Bode remarks that: “The 
circulation of such books, which are 
regarded by the public as the results 
of the latest scientific research, only 
impedes the progress of art history.” 
Miss Cruttwell can sympathize with the 
Metropolitan. 
HIGH PRICES FOR WALNUT TIMBER 
TT is claimed that a big dealer has re- 
cently toured a large area in West¬ 
ern New York, buying up all available 
walnut trees that he can find. He has 
been giving farmers $25.00 and $50.00 
each for trees of good average size and 
even higher prices for exceptionally fine 
specimens. Most of this high-priced 
timber will be shipped to Germany. 
The Genesee valley is a natural black- 
walnut producing section but within re¬ 
cent years the trees have been disap¬ 
pearing fast. Now that the timber 
supply is becoming so limited farmers 
are beginning to wake up to their loss. 
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wood instead of plaster, from a single 
redwood tree; and in addition to build¬ 
ing the church over 60,000 shingles were 
taken from the same tree. — N. T. 
Evening Post. 
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