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STORIES OF OLD IRELAND AND MYSELF-Sir William Orpen, R. A.-Holt ($3.50). ". . . In Paris I rushed to the Louvre. When I entered the Salle Carrée, there before me was the Mona Lisa. That was a shock. I not only did not like it, I hated it. It made me feel sick. . . . I rushed out. . . . I went back. . . . I was still horrified at thinking her so horrible. The slimy paint, like that of the Yiddish School of the present day! I listened to what people were saying. . . . 'That expression!' . . . 'Leonardo has here expressed womanhood...
Beside Sir William Orpen, R.A., Paddy's pig is a Spaniard. Though he has had no old ones, this is a book about his young days, before they shot to kill in Dublin and before England knighted Orpen for mocking some of her greatest lords in sharp colors with an impish brush. It was a time of talent in Dublin, with George Moore mooning about, John M. Synge writing his plays, James Stephens his poetry, quiet young James Joyce his sketches and energetic Sir Hugh Lane slaving to make Dublin a European Art centre...
...other group in Europe. ... A visitor to the London Royal Academy, or the English Art Clubs, or the new Chenil Gallery venture, invariably finds them filled with visitors capable of comprehending what is hung before them on the walls. . . . Artists who will be represented in our exhibition: John, Orpen, McEvoy, Paul Nash, Philpot, Ernest Proctor...
...have ever hated all nations, professions and communities . . . but principally I hate and detest that animal called man." So wrote the angry Irishman, Jonathan Swift. So has come to think that onetime cable of conservatism, Painter Sir William Orpen. His painting was the exception: A white bear stands in the glare of a Paris prize ring. There is blood at his feet; he has just consummated upon a human bruiser, now unconscious, brutalities so magnificent that spectators of every sex, replete with ecstasy at the spectacle, slobber and clip, heedless of an ape that sits among them, scrutinizing with remote...
...OUTLINE OF HISTORY-H. G. Wells -Macmillan (2 vols., $10.50; 1 vol., $5.00). THE OUTLINE OF SCIENCE-T. Arthur Thomson-Putnam (4 vols., $18.00). THE OUTLINE OF SCIENCE-J. Arthur water-Putnam (3 vols., $13.50). Putnam (2 vols., $9.00). THE OUTLINE OF ART-William Orpen-Putnam (2 vols...