Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Cook Collection Art Review By Patricia Stalder 3 The Building of ,lalna By Mazo de la Roche Book Review By Vera Morrison The Toledo Museum of Art has on exhibit sixteen of the five hundred paintings from the invaluable Cook Collection of Richmond, Surrey, England, which has been sent to the United States to insure its safety. The Collection was begun more than seventy-five years ago by Sir Francis Cook, a prominent London merchant. Cook's standard of judgment has always been that of quality, not that of fashion or the cur- rent estimate of money value. Because of this he has made few mistakes and even has had many pleasant surprises. All the schools of art are represented completely, and each work is not only a masterpiece of the artist but also of his particular school. Filippo I.ippi's The Adoration of the Magi is considered the gem of the collection. Two other outstanding works are Diego Velasquez's The Omelet Maker and Albrecht Diirer's The Procession to Calvary . Other Master artists whose works are displayed are Rem- brandt, Rubens, Van Dyke, Clouet, and Raphael. These paintings have never before been exhibited in the 'United States, and the Toledo Museum is indeed privileged in having them. In 1927 an unknown Canadian writer, Mazo de la Roche, won the At1antic's 310,000 Prize with her novel, jalzm. Since, it has been translated into a dozen different languages. With The Building ny' jalzza. Miss de la Roche has now written nine books about the Whiteoak family, books with the warmth and tenacity of Trollope which have established her as Canada's leading novelist. Gertrude Atherton says of her, I wish she would write a jalna book a year for the rest of her life. In her new novel Miss de la Roche goes back to the year 1850. She shows us Adeline, the tem- pestuous, impulsive, Irish beauty, whose husband, Captain Phillip Whiteoak, gives up his commission in the Hussars in India to go to the new country, Canada. The uncut, romantic country of Canada is given a chance to shine forth on its own. The little jeal- ousies, the humor, and the fierce attachments that come the way of the Whiteoak family lend brilliance to the story. THE SCROLL