By HUGH STOKES
8o. With 48 Full-page Illustrations. $3.75 net
Francisco Goya y Lucientes ranks with the great masters of modern painting. As a satirist he may be termed the Spanish Hogarth; his portraits recall the best period of the eighteenth century, whilst in his designs for tapestry he frankly emulated the light grace of the French craftsmen. Yet he could treat sterner subjects in a severer style. His large canvases, dealing in a realistic and dreadful fashion with the horrors of the French war, prove that he was artistically the precursor of Manet. His etchings are superb. Goya’s life was as full of incident as that of Benvenuto Cellini. Although a Court painter he was a fervent Republican. At last, sick of Bourbon misrule, he fled to France, and died in Bordeaux, April 16, 1828, at the advanced age of eighty-two.
The Science of Happiness
By JEAN FINOT
Author of “Problems of the Sexes,” etc.
Translated from the French by Mary J. Safford
8o. $1.75 net
The author considers the nature of happiness and the means of its attainment, as well as many allied questions.
“Amid the noisy tumult of life, amid the dissonance that divides man from man,” remarks M. Finot, “the Science of Happiness tries to discover the divine link which binds humanity to happiness through the soul and through the union of souls.”