COPYRIGHT BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION A BRITISH HOSPITAL IN BOMBAY FOR WOUNDED EAST INDIANS This noble building is known as the Lady Hardinge Hospital, after the wife of the retiring Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge. To it are sent East Indian soldiers who have been wounded in the great European war INTERIOR OF THE LADY HARDINGE HOSPITAL IN BOMBAY COPYRIGHT BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION CONVALESCENT EAST INDIAN SOLDIERS AT THE A FRENCH ARTIST'S SKETCH OF This picture, drawn by Lucien Jonas, one of the artists appointed by the French Government to make offici at the front. A kind-hearted French trooper is carrying a wounded English soldier to a place where he helpless man and a relief for the t FROM MARIE ANTOINETTE,' BY LADY YOUNGHUSBAND; REPRODUCED BY COURTESY OF THE MACMILLAN COMPANY CHILDREN OF LOUIS XV-A PAINTING BY N. BELLE The child at the sight in the above picture, the Dauphin, was born in 1729 at Versailles, and strongly resembled his moth Marie Leszczynska, the Queen, in character as well as person. Though the son of a King who was a notorious profligate, he grew up to be a conscientious and upright man. He was the father of Louis XVI, who perished on the guillotine during the French Revolution. The little girl at the left was one of the eight daughters of Louis XV and Marie Leszczynska The pictures on this and the opposite page might both be taken for reproductions of paintings, while the fact is that one is a photograph of a painting and the other is a photograph from life. Mrs. Kasebier's photograph of a twentieth-century child is an attempt to make a photographic counterpart of the famous portrait of "Baby Stuart " by Van Dyck. While this attempt may perhaps be regarded as a bit of pictorial by-play, it nevertheless suggests, in connection with the photographs on the following four pages, the tendency among students of photography to approximate some of the results of the painter. Not only do we find this endeavor among well-known individual photographers, whose work is to be seen from time to time in the so-called Photographic Salons, but some of our universities and other educational institutions are recognizing the possibilities of photography as an art by introducing courses of instruction along this line, and at least one summer school devotes itself distinctively to the art side of photography. These courses may appeal mainly to serious students; but every owner of a camera may begin to appreciate the finer side of the pastime of " taking pictures "by devoting a little study to the rules of composition in making his exposures, to the effects of light and shade in producing pleasing results, and to the use of different kinds of photographic papers and developers in giving "hard" or "soft" effects. Such magazines as the "Photo-Era," "The Camera," "American Photography," and "Photo-Graphic Art" may be recommended to persons interested in improving their photographic work, also the series of monographs called "The Photo-Miniature" |