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THE VICAR OF MORWENSTOW.* Tin most graphic terms the personality of as eccentric and amusing an individual as one ever meets with. Stranger things could hardly be imagined of anybody than. are true of Robert Stephen Hawker, and the oddities of his character and history surpass anything to be found in the pages of fiction. Indeed, we have laughed more over Mr. Gould's biography than over any other book which has come under our notice for months, and yet it is the biography of a clergyman in full orders of the Church of England. Niccola Pisano in the first stage marked a fresh point of departure for his art by a return to Græco-Roman standards of the purest type then attainable, in combination with the study of nature. ... .. Giotto opened the second stage by introducing new motives, employed by him with paramount mastery in painting. Under his influIn the one now before us the author's aim ence the sculptors inclined to picturesque effects, and the direction thus given to sculpture lasted is not to review the history of the Italian through the fifteenth century. ... During the arts as such, but rather to examine and de- third stage the results of prolonged and almost Morwenstow is a quaint old village on fine their relation to the general current of exclusive attention to the classics on the part of the north Cornwall coast, from whose high the Italians as a people make themselves maniItalian culture. This involves a careful es- fest. Collections of antiquities and libraries had cliffs one looks out over the broad Atlantic. timate of medieval Christianity as the source been formed in the fifteenth century; the literary It is a wild, romantic shore, inhabited by energies of the nation were devoted to the interof art, and the latter's gradual emancipation pretation of Greek and Latin texts, and the man- fishermen and wreckers. Here Mr. Hawker from ecclesiastical control. We have acners of society affected paganism. At the same came in 1834, having been presented to the cordingly in Chapter I a statement of the time a worldly Church and a corrupt hierarchy living by the Bishop of Exeter; and here had done their utmost to enfeeble the spirit of problem which confronted the fine arts at Christianity. That art should prove itself sensi- he died in 1875, after forty years of grothe threshold of the modern world, an analy-tive to this phase of intellectual and social life tesque but devoted service. The mischiev sis of the specific quality of the modern feel- was natural. Religious subjects were now treated by the sculptors with superficial formalism and ous boy was father of the whimsical man. ing in contrast from the ancient, as seen in cynical indifference, while all their ingenuity was Mr. Hawker's whole childhood and youth its art expressions, and an explanation of bestowed upon providing pagan myths with new was one uninterrupted chapter of pranks, the reasons why painting became the distinhoaxes, and practical jokes. The following guishing form of the art of the modern era. story belongs to the period of his underChapter II passes from these generals to graduate life : the particular of architecture, "always the first of the fine arts to emerge from barbar * Renaissance in Italy. The Fine Arts. By John Ad dington Symonds. Henry Holt & Co. forms. The next four chapters, IV, V, VI, VII. are devoted exclusively to Painting, the lastnamed to Venetian Painting in particular; then Michael Angelo, whose name has appeared incidentally all along, is allotted a Hawker, M. A. By S. Baring Gould. T. Whittaker. chapter by himself; after him Benevenuto Cellini is similarly honored; and a tenth *The Vicar of Morwenstow. A Life of Robert Stephen The Poetical Works of Robert Stephen Hawker. With a Prefatory Notice by J. G. Godwin. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. |