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THE GREATEST TRADITION

Christ In Art

By Muriel Penn, Reuters Correspondent

VERY year, especially for the

London.

season,

Els es put out a variety of Bible stories for one

children and variously presented versions of the Old and New Testaments for grown-ups.

This year, one of the 5-star Christmas gifts emanat- ing from the book world, is as original of conception as it is attractive in production. Max Parrish & Co., Ltd., have had the iden of presenting the Life of Christ in a series of reproductions of great masterpieces of art paintings, sculpture, mosaic, enamel, manuscript illuminations and stained glass up to the end of the 16th century.

The 44 plates, all in colour The scene of the seizure of our and each separately mour.ted Lord in the Garden of Gethse- no that it can easily be detach- mane is taken from the ed for framing if desired, have Melissanda Psaller in the Bri- keen chosen from among the tish Museum, while the pier- works of Botticelli, Leonardo cing of Our Lord's side and the do Vinci, Fra Angelice, Giotto, Agony in the Garden are

Tintoretto, El Greco, shown Tition,

In " 15th century Caravaggio, Rembrandt. Pieter Limoges enamel, now in the Bruegel the Elder and

Museum many Tatt

In Cincinnati, others, by Marvin ROSA, the Ohio, and an early 18th cen respec well-known art historian who tury Limoges enumel, is consultant to the Ancient tively. Art Institute.

A curlous 15th century

In an Introduction to the Spanish painted and glded reller volume, published under the records the Flight Into Egypt, tile "The Life of Christ in while the last plate of all, the Masterpieces of Art" (Max Arzension, is taken from Parrish Ltd -55/-). Mr Rexs simple, 14th century Florentine surveys the history and deve- Ilumination whlets now in lopment of Christin art from the Morgan Library ja New Its beginnings in the secrecy York. of the catacombs In 'Rome to ita Nowering, triumphant, ku the Middle Ages and the be ginning of easel painting during the Renaissance.

and

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1957.

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ROBERT PITMAN'S book page

PEN

Miss Gellhorn tries to

"F

OR heaven's sake don't bring Hemingway into this, I beg of you," said the lady with the whisky-coloured hair. "For me that's all old his- tory. Done with. People might think I'm latching on to his reputation-and believe me, that's just about the last thing on earth I would ever choose to do."

In an elegant room above London's elegant Chester Square, Miss Martha Gellhorn, the American author, was telling me about the big shadow she has never quite been able to shake off.

And who, you may ask, iš Miss Gellhorn?

Tragic Novel

WELL, see what the re-

her.

viewors have said about

In 1942 she wrote a stir-. ring, tragic novel about an American woman in Prague just before the Germans

Keep an eye on marched in

your nails

Whether by chance or inten- tion, too, there is many nu ar resting colour contrast as plate fullows plate. The gloomy browns and yellows burred Agures of Rembrandt's "Dusetni from the Cross" are DEOPLE find all sorts of reasons to go to the doctor Sometimes they don't even bother for a "tonie." 311 this succeeded by the clearly defined book," he writes, are the profgures of Pilate and the Watch with a reason. Like dictators, they say, "Just write me

set on a stained glass window-mut a prescription for a tonic, Doc."

ke background of pink and blue, from an Illumination lakesi

"The Illustrations

duct of many decades of de- velopment-s much as 10 cen- turies in some cases; of the in- terpretation of an inconceivable cumber of students of the Gos- pol story; and of the imagina- ilon and Inspiration of what is, in the opinion of many, the of art that pretes! tradition the world has ever seen...

"The Ulustrations are all from periods not later than the Renaissance, but they are by Various artists, from different countries, and in a great varlely of media,"

Readers may wonder why Mr Ross stopped at the Renais sance. Here, in his own words, is the explanation:

"In the Renaissance, we find the beginning of on isolated form of creation casci art -

that marked the ascendancy of

Bul

a doctor isn't a rubber Convex,

A typical review began:~ "Miss Martha Gellhorn (who is the wife of Ernest Hemingcan)...

In 1945 Miss Gellhorn

curved was;

in

wrote a novel called Liana about a native woman the Caribbean. But one re- viewer's first comment *This novel by Ernest Hemingway

Then at the end of 1948 Ernest and Martha were divorced.

from для enly 14th century stamp, so I asked Mr Hudson nais, however, are seen in as Mra "

English padter.

why he wanted a lonie.

"It's my Angernalis," he said, putting his hands out towards me like a sleep walker.

The predominantly cold blue und grey of a glowny sea in Tintorello's "Christ at the Sea of Galilee" is followed by the warnt clear blue and pink ct the Florenting "Ascension",

the while

thin, colour of two 12th century Siculo-Byzantine mosaics from

of Monreale in the cathedral

the Sicily are separated by heavy, dark reds, blues, browns lately. and even black, of Tintoretto's "In the House of Mary and Martha."

★ ★ ★

Fingernails can tell a doctor a deat about a patient's great luminous health. So the next time your G.P. looks at your nalls, you'll know he's not just Interested [1 whether you've had a manicure

The freed colours of Leonardo

the Individual. Gradually, the du Vinci's fimous "Last Sup- simpler doctrinal concepts were per" are followed by the deep- lost to sight, and the direct ionco ulinost R-dimensional storytelling that left the be- glided purple, blue and green of holder in no doubt about events the enamel depicting the or interpretations disappeared..

Agony in the Carden and this

All in a doctor's

day: by CEDRIC

A doctor can see, for example, whether a patient is a nail-biter and thus has a worrying, nervous tem- perament.

Sometimes there are trans-

CARNE

verse ridges ka nolls which may ladicate that the patient has had

recent, severe illness.

in

excessively

coclution with lung trouble.

Mr Hudson's fingernails were soft and they broke easily. I felt this may be the result of his not taking enough calcium in his diet.

а

success-

Martin

shake off

a big shadow

"The place was creeping with Krauts...I sous repolled."

She wrote

"Oh. definitely the Finnisli ful play, but the para On the first night after D Day

she was in Normandy. (In the war. It was so mysterious. You gropha in the newspapers

court divorce

Hemingway see, it was fought in the dark. had little to

say about

claimed that Martha deserted nes3. And the snow made it all. the playwright beyond "She their home to go there.) Then so quiet.

she went to Java for the war between the Indonesians and the Dutch.

The main sources of calcium in our food ore milk and cheese, Meat, on the other hand, con- tains very little caletum. And, contrary to popular belief, is the former wife of Ernest green vegetables are also poor Hemingway."

la calcium content.

But even a man regularly ate up calclara like a calcium

fanatic, it wouldn't do any good unless he was taking Vitamin D as well.

For the bones

"Vitamin D is necessary the absorption of calelum the body, I explained.

Marked For Life

her house in Chester Square Miss Gellhorn told me: "Being one of Hemingway's ex-wives is to be marked for life. It's as if I'd been named as one of. into the 10 best-dressed women in the world. What's it got to do with my own work? Nothing." Miss

for

the

Calcium is required in body for various reasons. First,

of bone

1s

How far these ridges are from by the bones. Ls followed by yet another con-

Gellhorn walked "The spiritual attitude of the trist in the pate pinks, gold the ends of the nails tells the Western world today. reflecting and grey of a detail from Glotto doctor when the illness took The factors which regulate across the big room to pour 24 does so many divergent showing the Kiss of Judas. place. More cermmonly, though, the calcification

nre drinks. She said: "At "this viewpoints and patterns of be

people have longitudin ridges also concerned with the nor time of day I'm having Hef, is no longer able to produce This book, like the Gospels or furrows in their nails. Amal development of teeth, not sherry. Sherry with ice. It works of religious art that, like themselves, is for all ages and fortune-teller may

think

that to mention fingernails. A tooth doesn't hit the liver so hard so many in this book, freshly conditions of men and nails of that sort indleste which is initially badly formed and Krvently express the uni- women. Each will and there man of destiny. Some doctors because of calcium or Vitamin D that way. I got used to it fed fulth of great masses of enjoyment and comfort through just belleve II suggests a gouty deficiency is more able to in Spain with ice." mankind.

the universal appeal both of the constituilco.

deeny in later life. In adults In the Spanish Civil War Spoon-shaped nails may be too, if we should do some minor Martha Gellhorn was a war The plates, are accompanied Christian story and of art it-

with Essociated

anaemia. damage to n tooth, calelum by extincts from

King sell,

needed for its full recovery.

correspondent. She was in James translation of the

her twenties then. After- Gospels, chosen and combined

"I have been having gomo to form a continuous and com-

wards she reported the war trouble lately with my teuth," plete narrative, Text

Mr Hudson suld surprised.

between China and Japan. picture are arranged side by alde and any reader wanting to know more about the history of the pleture and where The original is how to be found enn refer 10 the excellent CX- planatory notes in the second part of Mr Ross's Introduction.

the

four

und

Appropriately, since the book published for Christmas, the

Mr. Whiskers

who just can't

a rat

say 'No' to a whisky

"Apart from banes and teeth," I said, "calcium hos other important functions in the body. For example, the exclt- ablilt of the nerve centres and the nerve fibres depends upon the calcium content in the blood,"

:

Changed diet

Once the calcium is absorbed

jeeket features a print of the THE rat race, like its human counterpart, încludes born into the blood stream it is re- plate used for Nativity de-alcohol addicts-whiskery rodents who cannot say tali from Botticelli's famous picture of the Birth of Christ, "No" to a whisky.

in the National Gallery 10

London, white the frontispieco

Scientists revealed this secret of the animal world

1s a detail of a Crucifix by by setting up a bar for the exclusive use of 25 rats.

Cimabue.

One of the attractive features

of this book is that, well-known

in every detali as is its subject,

fi is still full of surprisce,

For weeks the rats were faced

with troughs filed with water or whisky and water.

Every reader will And in it be

"Last

Nine of the rats turned out to strict teetotalers. Fourteen

highly prized and dearly loved others did not mind what their works like Botticell's Nativity, tipple was. And two gave up water

da Leonardo Supper Rembrandt's "Descent completely after their first sip of from the Croes", or Fra An- whisky.

Vinal's

gelico's The Mary's at the

Almost human with one big

Tumb". But who, with all the difference. more popular pictures of the Cruciixion in mind, would expoct

Or

to find that of the 16th century the crtist Matthies Grunewald?

have thought to

who would

gulates by the controlling mechanion of four parathyroid glands. These lie close to the thyroid gland in the nock. If theac glands overwork they take too much calcium from the miclum bank of the bones. The result? Too much calcium etr culates in the blood.

If they underwork, too Uttle calcium circulates in the blood Benum. If the parathyroids акс not order, the calcium economy. of the body breake down causing such things as calcium stonez in the kidney, or bones that are more liable than connal to fructure.

"What about that tonle?

Mr Hudson repeated.

I told him all he needed was

t more balanced diet containing cheese and milk and cheese and

Apart from the two "We'll drink it anyhow" topers rats refused to drink whisky at a crowded bar. But scientists R. J: G. Gillespie and C. C. Lucas, of choose from among the various Canada's University of Toronto, pointed out that if the bread and cheese, representations of the Angels water trough was crowded they drifted to the whisky announcing the Nativity to the bar. None of the rate, not even

"Cheese!" Mr Hudson amilod the pair of heavy as if I were taking his photo Shepherds the ong In stained

drinkers, ever becamo "drunk," gidas In Chartres Cathedral?

graph.

After that she reported the Finnish war.

During the blitt she was in She was at Casino. Lopdon

As I took my sherry, I asked: "Why did you go to Spain in the first place?"

were at a

In Germany.

Then Martha told me: "Harry

Gellhorn Hopkins

gave me a job at 34 dollars a week almply reporting on un- employment,

"I met Wells at the time, Ho was great, He liked to meet all the young people who were working with me on relict. Mind you, I can't stand young peoplo myself now. They bore

ne spittess.

Miss Gellhora, aged 48, got up Chester and looked out into Square. She talked about her husband T. S. Matthews, ex- editor of Time, Sho talked about her next-door neighbour, Virginia Cowles ("We're old buddies. We were reporting In Spain together.") She talked about her home in St. Louis, Missouri, and her father, a German-born surgeon.

♡

She said: "I feel I shouldn't but by now I loathe the Ger- mang. I went to

the concentration camps again - re- cently. They're all neat and tidy. "Eut the horror is still there like solid concrete. Yet in Cer- many I met only one man who felt any kind of guilt for it-and he shot himself.”

Swaggered Around

Was

MISS GELLHORNS big eyes rew cold and narrow. Sho said: "Take Yugoslavia.

there German cruelty wote than anywhere else. Yut when I went there just after the war the place was already Krouls. Eimply creeping with They'd all

come back to scu where they were in the war, And they brought cheap watches and cheap nylons to sell on the black market. They swaggered around and complained about the food. I was revolted."

Neor us on a table lay a book cardboard cover. in a rough

"I got no idea of how good the Russians were going to become at war. Their prisoners were so innocent and pathetic, Dreadful uniforms. You could have killed them jusl for being "I was doing some research

so badly dressed.” and some of the books I wanted

It was the reason for my visit. library nt Stuttgart

Miss Gellhorn smoothed Miss Gellhorn said: "That's While I was down her smart, low-cut, black the proof of my new book-to studying there I got more and dress. Stre was wearing a be published In February,” I more appalled by the Nazis.

choker of pearls. I asked: looked at the title-TWO BE "They appointed a new young What did you wear when you TWO (publishers---Longmans). Nazi over the actual chler of

nt the front?" "An old were chief palr the brary, This new would ride up

of trousers, A thick to the windows swenter. And war correspon. of the library on horseback and dent's labs, of course." shout out: 'Everything nil right there?' Then he would ride nway, having done his work for the day.

A Tough Career MARTHA CELLHORN

Four Stories

MISS GELLHORN said: "It's

stories about surringe.

I've called the first story 'For

has better, for worse, the second For richer, for poorer,' and so "When I read the Stuttgart 42 a tough career. But she

cn. I hope you like it."! about the does not look tough. And any- popers shouting

I took the proof copy. As I schweinhunds who were fight thing she writes overflows with stepped out into Chester Square ing for the republic in Spain, 1

warmth and pity. Take her I saw Barbara Gonlen, another made up my mind. Anything first book, The Trouble I've the Nazis were against, I was Seen (preface by H. G. Weils). neighbour, bending herself into In 1935 it caught the world by Miss Gellhorn said: "Don't make a small car. On the doorstep for. So I went off to Madele and sent off articles from there,

the sieve with its stories of me sound too madly silly. Any I was an ardent paclist then."

the American unemployed.

and talks who sita One was the story of Pete about herself for an hour la who is forced to go out selling bound to seem such a blither- laces in the street. He finds ing, conceited ass. TISS GELLHORN sighed. that his rival is a blind mon; Since then I have read her "After that it was Just so he dumps all his wares on new book. And its shrewdness The blind man's tray, crying: and skill condems my impres- war, war, war."

"You take 'em, You sell. That's slon: it would take hard work your work. I'm not blind, to pin saything madly silly on buddy,"

Martha Gelhor,

MIS

So Mysterious

I swirled the ice in my sherry, I said: "Which war aficion out

most in your mind

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