Old-Time Newfoundland. By His Honour Judge Prowse Palamedes: The Deserted Village Parry, His Honour Judge: A Welsh Rector of the last Century. Plea for the Useless (A). By W. H. D. Rouse, Litt.D. 643 Port Arthur, its Siege and Fall: a Contemporary Epic. By Richard 663 Prowse, His Honour Judge: Old-Time Newfoundland 208 Rainsford, W. H.: The Two Hares 256 Redistribution of the Fleet (The). By Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, G.C.B. 598 Reprints and their Readers. By Joseph Shaylor. Rhodes Scholar from Germany on Oxford (A). By Hans E. von Ritchie, Mrs. Richmond: Blackstick Papers, No. 10 538 44 1 641 56 Rose of the World. By Agnes and Egerton Castle 14, 145, 289, 433, 577, 721 Schools and Colleges: a Dialogue. By Magister Artium Sidgwick, Frank: When my Ship comes in Soldier and the Plague (The). By Walter Frith . Some Causes of the Japanese Victories. By F. H. E. Cunliffe Special Police Courts for Children. By Mrs. Henrietta O. Barnett Tercentenary of 'Don Quixote' (The). By Austin Dobson 488 652 466 Wallis, Arthur F.: Sea-Painting and Sea-Myth . Weighing a World. By W. A. Shenstone, F.R.S. Welsh Rector of the last Century (A). By His Honour Judge Parry When my Ship comes in. By Frank Sidgwick Wild Animals as Parents. By George A. B. Dewar Wildau, Hans E. von Lindeiner: A Rhodes Scholar from Germany 53 44 Yard, George: Climbing the (Joint-Stock) Tree 216 ON one of the landings of the staircase of the National Gallery, at the entrance of the rooms devoted to British Art, hangs a picture by Gainsborough representing a family group. It is painted with all the full and harmonious sense of colour for which that painter is remarkable, and, besides its artistic merits, the charming composition reproduces that individual personality which Gainsborough seized so wonderfully at times, and which the greatest painters only can convey to us, in some unexplained and yet undeniable manner. The family is that of Mr. James Baillie, who was a younger son of the Baillies of Dochfour, and the picture must have been painted in the last years of the eighteenth century. It is, in truth, a charming composition; and original too, even though the usual garden background is there and the well-known curtain hangs from the marble column. The father, in the dress of the period, with wig and with knee-breeches, stands stately and well-proportioned upon a step; at his right sits the mother of the family, with her youngest child on her knee and the others clustering round her. Mrs. Baillie is not handsome, but looks, nevertheless, imposing and attractive. She sits in some dignity, dressed in her handsome fringed robes, with a satin shoe appearing from beneath the ample skirts. Copyright, 1905, by Mrs. Richmond Ritchie, in the United States of America. VOL. XVIII.-NO. 103, N.S. 1 |