International studio . THE QUARREL. BYJEAN DE BOSSCHfeRE(From Beasts and Men ) in its love of the grotesque, its its western ancestry is amply provenby such pictures as the Sea-Monsters andthe Fisherman, which is a wild blend ofHieronymus Bosch, Callot, Breughel,Khnopff, a suggestion almost of Hops,and perhaps the slightest dig at Meunier. Especially rich in their satiric powerare the drawings in Beasts and , on page after page, we are given aseries of beasts, or semi-bestial figures,like Spomken and the Giant, who are morehuman than the people one meets everyday in the st
International studio . THE QUARREL. BYJEAN DE BOSSCHfeRE(From Beasts and Men ) in its love of the grotesque, its its western ancestry is amply provenby such pictures as the Sea-Monsters andthe Fisherman, which is a wild blend ofHieronymus Bosch, Callot, Breughel,Khnopff, a suggestion almost of Hops,and perhaps the slightest dig at Meunier. Especially rich in their satiric powerare the drawings in Beasts and , on page after page, we are given aseries of beasts, or semi-bestial figures,like Spomken and the Giant, who are morehuman than the people one meets everyday in the street. What more pathetic 199 STUDIO-TALK. THE lions counsellors BY JEAN DE BOSSCH^EE(From Beasts andlMen*) picturecould there be than They walkedin Silence, which represents only a goat, ahare, and a fox What greater satire onofficial[ pomposity could there be thanThe Lions Counsellors, a procession offrock-coated, top-hatted figures, consistingof one or two queer birds, a bored-look-ing pig, a lion, a donkey, and a mouse <And what finally could be both morelaughable and more pathetic than theunforgettable Chickens Funeral, with itspall, its candles, and its veiled mournersshedding huge tears. All of these quali-ties, as well as others, are brought out inthe ferocious pictures illustrating TheBattle of the Birds and Beasts, which I amalmost tempted to say are the best warpictures ever done, and in the Trial ofReynard the Fox, where every individualin the audience is a separate study of sometrait only too common to our miserablehumanity. Only the satire is somehowveiled by being presented to us in animalguise, and we are ab
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