. Review of reviews and world's work. ictionary down to theletter F. Three new volumes of The Musicians Library (Dit-son) are entitled Wagner Lyrics for Soprano, Wag-ner Lyrics for Tenor, and Ten Hungarian Rhapso-dies, by Frauz Liszt. The Wagner lyrics are edited byCarl Armbruster. They contain as frontispieces full-page portraits, with autograph of the composer, and anintroduction by the editor. The volume of Hungarianrhapsodies is edited by August Spanuth and John also has an excellent portrait of the composer as afrontispiece, an introduction by the editor (in this caseMr. Spanuth),
. Review of reviews and world's work. ictionary down to theletter F. Three new volumes of The Musicians Library (Dit-son) are entitled Wagner Lyrics for Soprano, Wag-ner Lyrics for Tenor, and Ten Hungarian Rhapso-dies, by Frauz Liszt. The Wagner lyrics are edited byCarl Armbruster. They contain as frontispieces full-page portraits, with autograph of the composer, and anintroduction by the editor. The volume of Hungarianrhapsodies is edited by August Spanuth and John also has an excellent portrait of the composer as afrontispiece, an introduction by the editor (in this caseMr. Spanuth), and a series of suggestions to the special claims for these volumes of The MusiciansLibrary are that they are carefully edited by an au-thority on the subject, who is at the same time an en-thusiast, and that they are accurate in text and ade-quate in typographical form. These claims, it must beadmitted, are fully justified. All the volumes of thisexcellent series are beautifully printed. ART BOOKS AND CHRISTMAS DANIEL BOONE. (From Women in the Fine Arts.) A MINIATURE encyclopaedia of Women in tin-Fine Arts (Houghton, Mifflin)has been preparedby Clara Erskine Clement, author of A Handbook ofLegendary and Mythological Art. The work consistsof brief biographical and descriptive sketches of women artists and sculptorsfrom the seventh cen-tury to the work is illustratedwith many full-pagereproductions of fa-mous works of art bywomen. R e p r o d u c t i o n s ofnearly four hundred fa-mous paintings ofscenes in the life ofChrist are included inthe sumptuous collec-tion entitled TheGos-pels in Art (NewYork: Siegel CooperCompany). The broadclaim is made for thepublishers that noschool of art and no fa-mous painter throughall the centuries fromFra Angelico to Puvisde Chavannes has beenomitted. The intro-ductory chapter, on The History of Art in Its Rela-tion to the Life of Jesus, was contributed by M. LeonceBenedite, director of the Luxembourg. T
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