Bone

When Conrad visited these shores a few months ago, artistic and literary America was almost as interested in his friends, the Bones, as in the great word-painter of the Seven Seas. Captain David Bone is master of the good ship Tuscania, while his brother, Muirhead, is probably the most accomplished etcher of Scotland. Muirhead Bone secreted himself from reporters and explored the byways of Manhattan with his pad and copperplate. Wherever he saw an architectural vista he liked, out came the pencil or stylus. An exhibition of the products of his American tour is to be seen this Winter. Meanwhile two samples of his work are on view. At the Metropolitan, with Strang, Cameron and other Scotch etchers, Bone is to be seen at his best --a best which comes little short of Rembrandt, Whistler and Seymour Haden, the high gods of the etcher's Olympus. Besides some of his finest architectural plates, there are lithographs of English shipyards in Wartime.

At the Harlow Galleries is a more miscellaneous group, including several attempts at portraiture, not so successful as his striking transcripts of Piccadilly Circus, Charing Cross Station, St. James' Hall and other London landmarks.