DOI Heft:
No. 95 (January, 1905)
DOI Artikel:Book reviews
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26963#0372
Book Reviews
BOOK DECORATION BY H. B. MATTHEWS
Describing the unusually comprehensive training
received by the artist from his youth up, the author
remarks: “If any proof were needed of the correct-
ness of the principles by which he was guided, it
would only be necessary to refer to his drawings to
see how independent he was of those little technical
shifts and contrivances, to which the inferior artist
too often resorts in the struggle to gain attention.
He was not one of those workers who can arrive at
nothing without painful labour, and can only suc-
ceed when provided with a battery of appliances.
The simplest means often sufficed to lead him to the
most admirable results. He was as indisputably
a master in his slighter exercises as in the more
ambitious paintings by which he asserted the com-
pleteness of his professional equipment; and the
qualities upon which the whole of his achievements
were based gave to his sketches and rapid notes an
extraordinary significance.”
Roma Beata. By Maud Howe. 8vo. Pages
362. Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown &
Co. $2.50 net.
Mrs. John Elliott has given us a most delightful
volume of more or less impromptu impressions of
visits to Rome and other parts of Italy. The
material is chiefly taken from letters and diaries.
The author’s husband, Mr. John Elliott, the artist,
was the companion of these sojourns in the sunny
South,and it is perhaps due to the “artist life” they
led that there is a charming flavor of Bohemianism
in the various experiences related, which gives
the volume character and freshness, and signalizes
it, amongst the numerous contemporary records of
the kind, as peculiarly worth while.
The book is illustrated from drawings by Mr.
John Elliott, and from photographs. Mr. Elliott’s
sketches are quite delightful, and are so completely
a part of the book that we only wish it had been
entirely accompanied by his work, though the
photographs are, of their kind, excellent. A few
of the chapter heads will give our readers an idea
of the kind of adventures recounted: “Looking
for a Home—A Visit to Queen Margaret—A
Presentation to Leo the Thirteenth—In the
Abruzzi Mountains—Roman Codgers and Soli-
taries—Ischia—The Queen’s Visit—The King is
Dead, Long Live the King.”
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BOOK DECORATION BY H. B. MATTHEWS
Describing the unusually comprehensive training
received by the artist from his youth up, the author
remarks: “If any proof were needed of the correct-
ness of the principles by which he was guided, it
would only be necessary to refer to his drawings to
see how independent he was of those little technical
shifts and contrivances, to which the inferior artist
too often resorts in the struggle to gain attention.
He was not one of those workers who can arrive at
nothing without painful labour, and can only suc-
ceed when provided with a battery of appliances.
The simplest means often sufficed to lead him to the
most admirable results. He was as indisputably
a master in his slighter exercises as in the more
ambitious paintings by which he asserted the com-
pleteness of his professional equipment; and the
qualities upon which the whole of his achievements
were based gave to his sketches and rapid notes an
extraordinary significance.”
Roma Beata. By Maud Howe. 8vo. Pages
362. Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown &
Co. $2.50 net.
Mrs. John Elliott has given us a most delightful
volume of more or less impromptu impressions of
visits to Rome and other parts of Italy. The
material is chiefly taken from letters and diaries.
The author’s husband, Mr. John Elliott, the artist,
was the companion of these sojourns in the sunny
South,and it is perhaps due to the “artist life” they
led that there is a charming flavor of Bohemianism
in the various experiences related, which gives
the volume character and freshness, and signalizes
it, amongst the numerous contemporary records of
the kind, as peculiarly worth while.
The book is illustrated from drawings by Mr.
John Elliott, and from photographs. Mr. Elliott’s
sketches are quite delightful, and are so completely
a part of the book that we only wish it had been
entirely accompanied by his work, though the
photographs are, of their kind, excellent. A few
of the chapter heads will give our readers an idea
of the kind of adventures recounted: “Looking
for a Home—A Visit to Queen Margaret—A
Presentation to Leo the Thirteenth—In the
Abruzzi Mountains—Roman Codgers and Soli-
taries—Ischia—The Queen’s Visit—The King is
Dead, Long Live the King.”
LXXIV