YOU WILL FIND IT IN THE "BRITANNICA."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 67, 12 March 1902, Page 2

YOU WILL FIND IT IN THE "BRITANNICA."

How often iu going through ai exhibi- j tiiiu of pictures or sculpture, or iu pay-; mt; ft visit to one of our Colonial Ait collections, or, as we road th« life of some great artist, do wn fad that aft r all art is to a. gna 1 ; -stunt a clos-.-l book. Th-te are refere-ietm iu ev>ry account which wo read if a graat picture, or even in the pagfis of a great . book, of which wa d . wot co ••(> elrnd .' the fill wearing, and we cauiiot but [j feel that it would add greatly to the interest of life, if we had some bo k , whose pages wa could turn ov rat i random when we are sitting at bomt j and thinking over or talking over the 5 things which we have seen and the I places we have visited, which would i help us to understand aDd appreciate k them better. As we turn from pagu t , page of the " Encyclopedia Bi itannica " , without any. very special purp se iu j our minds we come across arti' le nfter j article, some of them on general art, t some of them upon applied art, o'h'-rs j dealing with small sections atd others 3 narrating for us the stories of greet s artiste. Now thit foreign travel is so 3 cheap and convenient, not a few of us 9 pay at any rite a huni'd visit to some j fo the most famius art centres at Rime . or on the Continent;. As we wand*' 3 about, quaint med (Bval streets wo often I ask ourselves who wern the men who t built these beautiful homes and t*pl«ndi*' f churches, and who were the mm who . painted the-e pictures at. which we a'gaz? with such interest and admita II tion. On our return home, if we have !>iaa hour or an evening 'o spare, we t; ( could turn to our " Encyclopaedia u I JJritannica " and find thi'rs all tha l ; we t, desire to know. The work is easily ft l obtainable. If y>"j are* noacquaiuted r I with the t-asy terns pend for them to !ti ;the Daily Mail, P.O. Box, 285, Weie licgton, at once.