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will be also the home of a new and living impulse in the world of art. The mighty war we are engaged in teaches us to see many things we ought to have seen long ago, and one is that the Slav element in Europe has more of the divine impetus to create than the Teutonic has ever had or can ever have, except, possibly, in music. And again it is worth saying that this is Celticism, this impulse to create out of uncreated dream rather than manufacture from tangible material. Mestrovic works in bronze, stone, marble, wood and plaster, and the accompanying reproductions from photographs are sufficiently good to indicate his power over and sympathy with the material chosen. Flesh, drapery, hair, all the textures are the work of a cunning hand, and not the least part of the cunning is its ability to yield to limitations. Your material allows you to go so far not one step further. But this, after all, is technique, and there is far more in the work than mere technique. Consider first the group called The Widows," a noble expression of a noble grief. This piece of statuary has been the object of grievous misunderstanding, which one finds it difficult to comprehend. Sym- pathy between mother and daughter in the frustration of that very desire to create which is the first instinct of the true Celt should meet with reverent considera- tion. These poor, symbolic women have lost their husbands in battle. Surely that is enough to say to indicate the line of right thought and appreciation. Consider next The Deposition from the Cross, a wood relief of consummate design and execution, an expression of pure religious emotion. One is inclined to hazard the prophecy that Mestrovic has before him a great future in religious art. His Annunciation is alone in the world of artistic utterance and another relief cut in plaster, Christ and the Woman of Samaria," is as simple an expres- sion in its own medium as the original narrative is in words. Mestrovic is always direct and simple, and SUMMER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL. Throughout the month of August a Summer Shakespeare Festival will be held at Stratford-on- Avon. The Festival's programme includes about fifteen of Shakespeare's plays with an occasional play by a modem author or an old English comedy. Mr. F. R. Benson initiates discussions on the plays each week, and many interesting afternoon lectures are given by well-known people. During the week beginning Saturday, August 1 4th, --if the word be adequately received-religioua in his appeal. He may be fittingly compared with Michael Angelo. It would be easy as it is tempting to write at greater length, and more enthusiastically, of the work of this genius, but it is better to leave everyone to discover greater glories for himself. Mention must, however, be made of The Dancing Woman," The Torso of a Hero," and Portrait of the Artist's Wife." all in marble: and of Portrait of Leonardo Bistolfi (the Italian sculptor), and Portrait of a Lady," both in bronze. These show Mestrovic in less passionate mood than what may be called his work pro patria, and dispose of any charge that might be made of emphasising grief and the expression of the terrible. The following legend may help, by analogy, to bring home the spiritual quality of Mestrovic's work In a south-eastern county of Britain-the county of my adoption-there lived a woman of peasant birth who for many years remained childless, to the grief both of her husband and herself. But at last the day came when she knew the tremor of hope; and she took clay. and kneaded the rude image of a man, and laid it in her bosom. And when her son was born she said to herself, Now, see, he will have in him the clunginess (tenacity) of the land, and he will be strong." And her prophecy was fulfilled. It is something the same with Ivan Mestrovic's work. His statuary is architectural, part of a design larger than itself and the design springs from the rock and cold and heat of Slavonia, not from academic rules and knowledge of what is supposed to be the correct thing. The Widows is a good example of what I mean. I hope others will look and see. John Henderson. [I wish it were possible to give photographs of the temple of heroes. but space does not permit. Those who have access to it should see the special Serbian number of L'Eroka, the Italian fine art review. published at Spezia last year). a Conference on New Ideals in Education will be held under the chairmanship of The Earl of Lytton. This Conference was inaugurated at Cromer last August. Performances of historical plays, exhibitions of heraldic needlework and various handicrafts, and other demonstrations and lectures of special interest in educational work will, it is hoped, be held during the weeks of the Conference.