YOU WILL RIND IT IN THE “BRITANNICA.”

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4606, 10 March 1902, Page 7

YOU WILL RIND IT IN THE “BRITANNICA.”

How often in going through an exhibition of pictures or sculpture, or in paying a visit to one of our colonial art collections, or, as we read the life of some great artist, do we feel that after all art is to a great extent a closed book. There are references in every account which we read of a great picture, or even in the pages of a great book, of which we do not comprehend the full meaning, and we cannot but feel that it would add greatly to the interest of life, if we hod some book whose pages’ we could turn over at random when we are sitting at home and thinking over or talking over the things which we have seen and the places we have visited, which would help us to understand and appreciate them better. As we turn from page to page of tho “Encyclopaedia Britannica” without any very special purpose in onr minds we come across article after article, some of them on general art, some of them upon applied art, othets dealing with small sections and others narrating for us the stories of great artists. Now that foreign travel is so cheap and convenient, not a few of us pay at any rate a hurried visit to some of the most famous art centres at Home or on the Continent. As we wander about quaint mediaeval streets we often ask ourselves who were the men who built these beautiful houses and splendid churches, and who were the men who painted these pictures at which we gaze with such interest and admiration. On our return homo, if we have an hour or an evening to spare, we could turn to our “Encyclopaedia Britannica" and find there all that we desire to know. The work is easily obtainable. If you are unacquainted with the easy terms send for them to the "Daily Mail,” P.O. Bos 285, Wellington, at once.