DOI issue:
No. 79 (September 1903)
DOI article:American studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26229#0316
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THE PLACE OF INDUSTRIES IN ELEMENTARY EDUCA-
TION. By KATHARINE ELIZABETH DOPP. 121110.
Pages 208. Index. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press ; London: P. S. King & Son.
The tide of this book fuHy indicates its subject,
and the author is so well known that further recom-
mendation of the volume is superfluous. The sub-
jects under discussion comprise " The Significance
of Industrial Epochs " ; " The Origins of Attitudes
that Underlie Industry" ; and " Practical Applica-
tions of the Theory." The book is a contribution
to the general movement of elementary education,
which has occupied the public mind in recent years,
and endeavors to suggest ways of bringing into
vital relations forces and materials which heretofore
have remained almost untouched.
EDGES. By ALICE WOODS. Sq. 8vo. Pages 208.
Illustrations by the Author. Indianapolis : The
Bobbs-Merrill Company.
The first thing that strikes one when he opens this
book is the peculiar coffee-colored paper on which
it is printed. The effect is not unpleasant, inasmuch
as the type is well chosen to suit this peculiarity.
The book-making, as usual with the Bobbs-Merrill
work, is attractive and original. As regards the
story, it is somewhere along the lines of The Golden
Girl type; letters and dialogues, sentiments and
opinions — or perhaps scarcely opinions, rather
impressions - are interchanged between people of
Anglo-Saxon Bohemianism. This kind of story is
particularly pleasant for summer reading, since it so
lightly taxes the attention and, at the same time,
gently entertains.
THE ANCIENT HALLS OF THE Cl'I'Y GUILDS. Drawn
in Lithography by THOMAS R. WAY, with some
account of the History of the Companies, by
PHILIP NoRMAN, F.S.A. Large 4to. Edition
limited to 100 copies for America. John Lane :
New York. $10.00
In the volume on the " Ancient Royal Palaces
of London," published last year, Mr. Way dealt with
the official residences of the sovereigns of England.
The present volume is concerned with the official
residences of the merchant princes of London.
Few of the City Halls are of very great antiquity,
nearly all having been destroyed in the Great Fire
of London in the iyth century ; yet most of those
illustrated in this book were rebuilt within a few
years after that catastrophe, and many of the finest
buildings are the work of Sir Christopher Wren and
his immediate followers. They are thus of great
artistic as well as antiquarian interest, and worthy to
rank with the Royal Palaces, with some of which
Wren's name is also closely connected.
The artist has been fortunate in obtaining the
collaboration of Mr. Philip Norman, F.S.A., whose
intimate study of the history and antiquities of the
City of London entitle him to rank as the first
living authority on the subject.
RUPERT OF HENTZAU. By ANTHONY HOPE. 12ni0.
Pages xvi + 386. 8 full-page Illustrations by
CHARLES DANA GlBSON. New York : Henry
Holt & Co.
We find upon our desk this early example of
Mr. Gibson's illustrative powers. A comparison of
these early drawings with the artist's present work
is distinctly interesting. It is curious that in study-
ing the drawings of the male characters through
these illustrations one imagines that one sees even
greater strength than in his current work ; whereas,
the drawings of the female 'figures fall very far be-
hind the familiar and characteristic sketches which
have gone to make up the far-famed " Gibson girl."
This gives food for thought. There is no doubt
but that Mr. Gibson has studied draughtsmanship
of his women to good account since the time he
illustrated Rupert of Hentzau ; but it is difficult to
account for the superiority, as it seems to us, of
these earlier drawings of his men.
CURRENT ART EVENTS
TiiE OHio MECHANICS INSTITUTE, Cincinnati,
Ohio, sends us its annual catalogue, with announce-
ments for the season 1903-4. The School of Indus-
trial Art connected with this Institution seems in a
healthy condition. Those interested should apply
clviii
for particulars, Ohio Mechanics Institute Building,
S. W. corner 6th and Vine Streets, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO forwards us this
month a booklet of iyo pages, describing its activi-
THE PLACE OF INDUSTRIES IN ELEMENTARY EDUCA-
TION. By KATHARINE ELIZABETH DOPP. 121110.
Pages 208. Index. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press ; London: P. S. King & Son.
The tide of this book fuHy indicates its subject,
and the author is so well known that further recom-
mendation of the volume is superfluous. The sub-
jects under discussion comprise " The Significance
of Industrial Epochs " ; " The Origins of Attitudes
that Underlie Industry" ; and " Practical Applica-
tions of the Theory." The book is a contribution
to the general movement of elementary education,
which has occupied the public mind in recent years,
and endeavors to suggest ways of bringing into
vital relations forces and materials which heretofore
have remained almost untouched.
EDGES. By ALICE WOODS. Sq. 8vo. Pages 208.
Illustrations by the Author. Indianapolis : The
Bobbs-Merrill Company.
The first thing that strikes one when he opens this
book is the peculiar coffee-colored paper on which
it is printed. The effect is not unpleasant, inasmuch
as the type is well chosen to suit this peculiarity.
The book-making, as usual with the Bobbs-Merrill
work, is attractive and original. As regards the
story, it is somewhere along the lines of The Golden
Girl type; letters and dialogues, sentiments and
opinions — or perhaps scarcely opinions, rather
impressions - are interchanged between people of
Anglo-Saxon Bohemianism. This kind of story is
particularly pleasant for summer reading, since it so
lightly taxes the attention and, at the same time,
gently entertains.
THE ANCIENT HALLS OF THE Cl'I'Y GUILDS. Drawn
in Lithography by THOMAS R. WAY, with some
account of the History of the Companies, by
PHILIP NoRMAN, F.S.A. Large 4to. Edition
limited to 100 copies for America. John Lane :
New York. $10.00
In the volume on the " Ancient Royal Palaces
of London," published last year, Mr. Way dealt with
the official residences of the sovereigns of England.
The present volume is concerned with the official
residences of the merchant princes of London.
Few of the City Halls are of very great antiquity,
nearly all having been destroyed in the Great Fire
of London in the iyth century ; yet most of those
illustrated in this book were rebuilt within a few
years after that catastrophe, and many of the finest
buildings are the work of Sir Christopher Wren and
his immediate followers. They are thus of great
artistic as well as antiquarian interest, and worthy to
rank with the Royal Palaces, with some of which
Wren's name is also closely connected.
The artist has been fortunate in obtaining the
collaboration of Mr. Philip Norman, F.S.A., whose
intimate study of the history and antiquities of the
City of London entitle him to rank as the first
living authority on the subject.
RUPERT OF HENTZAU. By ANTHONY HOPE. 12ni0.
Pages xvi + 386. 8 full-page Illustrations by
CHARLES DANA GlBSON. New York : Henry
Holt & Co.
We find upon our desk this early example of
Mr. Gibson's illustrative powers. A comparison of
these early drawings with the artist's present work
is distinctly interesting. It is curious that in study-
ing the drawings of the male characters through
these illustrations one imagines that one sees even
greater strength than in his current work ; whereas,
the drawings of the female 'figures fall very far be-
hind the familiar and characteristic sketches which
have gone to make up the far-famed " Gibson girl."
This gives food for thought. There is no doubt
but that Mr. Gibson has studied draughtsmanship
of his women to good account since the time he
illustrated Rupert of Hentzau ; but it is difficult to
account for the superiority, as it seems to us, of
these earlier drawings of his men.
CURRENT ART EVENTS
TiiE OHio MECHANICS INSTITUTE, Cincinnati,
Ohio, sends us its annual catalogue, with announce-
ments for the season 1903-4. The School of Indus-
trial Art connected with this Institution seems in a
healthy condition. Those interested should apply
clviii
for particulars, Ohio Mechanics Institute Building,
S. W. corner 6th and Vine Streets, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO forwards us this
month a booklet of iyo pages, describing its activi-