Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . llection: Anne Goldthwaites Mother and Child, Ernest D. Roths Venetian Canal,Morris Greenbergs Harbor Lighthouse, and six wood engravings by Charles , engraved by Mr. Johnson. The Brooklyn Society of Etchers has presented to the Print Departmentthe etching by Allen Lewis, A Trip Through the Clouds, awarded the HelenFoster Barnett prize by a jury, consisting of Joseph Pennell and Ciiilde Hassam,for the best etching in the Second Annual Exhibition of the Brooklyn Societyof Etchers, held at the Museum a short time since. 12T THEBROOKLYN MUSEUM QUARTERLY VOL. V
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . llection: Anne Goldthwaites Mother and Child, Ernest D. Roths Venetian Canal,Morris Greenbergs Harbor Lighthouse, and six wood engravings by Charles , engraved by Mr. Johnson. The Brooklyn Society of Etchers has presented to the Print Departmentthe etching by Allen Lewis, A Trip Through the Clouds, awarded the HelenFoster Barnett prize by a jury, consisting of Joseph Pennell and Ciiilde Hassam,for the best etching in the Second Annual Exhibition of the Brooklyn Societyof Etchers, held at the Museum a short time since. 12T THEBROOKLYN MUSEUM QUARTERLY VOL. V. JULY, 191S No. 3 (t CONTENTS Eclipse of the Sun, June 8th, 1918. From the Colored Crayon Drawing by Herbert B. Tschudy. Frontispiece PAGE How the Eclipse Struck the Artist— Herbert B. Tschudy 129 Chinese Wall Vases and Cloisonne— William H. Goodyear 135 Christian Relics from Japan—Stetcart Culin 141 Goethes Italian Journey—William H. Goodyear 153 Museum Notes 176 Museum Membership 181 Museum Publications 182 3 o. ECLIPSE OF THE SUN June 8th, 1918 From the Colored Crayon Drawing by HERBERT B. TSCHUDY T How the Eclipse Struck the Artist HAT rare and startling phenomenon—a total solareclipse—has excited in its ohservers wonder and a feel-ing of awe from very early times. In our day, though still a mysterious and impressiveoccurrence, the cause of the phenomenon is so generally un-derstood that few people, in civilized communities, at least,witness this wierdly beautiful spectacle with the superstitionof earlier times, when the ancient art or science of astrology,with its belief in a connection ])etween the heavenly bodiesand the life of man, was universally accepted. In the sixteenth century astronomy began to rid itselfof astrology and firmly founded itself as a science in the es-tablishing of the system of Copernicus and the convictionthat the Earth itself is a heavenly body. During the lasthalf century the rapid development of astronomical instru-ments, and of the
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