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Book Reviews

able for the even tenor of its good fortune, is not
without its lesson, and that of his wife—a Canadian
who responded to the stimulus of the Art Students’
League of this city, made an early cult of William
M. Chase, despaired in Munich, and grew more
cheerful in a discovery of limitations in Brittany—
shows perhaps more of the romantic struggle with
self-expression. Both painters are facile in literary
expression as well, Mrs. Forbes having, for exam-
ple, won membership in the Royal Water Colour
Society, with her illustrations for an original fairy
story, “King Arthur’s Wood,” noticed at the time
in these columns, and Mr. Forbes being a ready
speaker in behalf of his art. The biographer profits
thereby in adding here and there a touch of auto-
biography.
The book will be valuable in showing the devel-
opment of that human sympathy which, character-
istically British, has drawn much British art along
the anecdotic road, and which, acted upon by the
technical inspiration of the Continent, proceeds to
an inspiriting devotion to truth and sincerity. Mr.
Forbes, who is first and foremost a master of
draughtsmanship, believes in the reiterated char-
coal sketch, in the unremitting study of form. “ Na-
ture,” as he puts it, “ is hard to beat.” The follow-
ing words from the painter himself give point to his
convictions:
“I have never painted with such directness,” he
says, “ as on those fortunately rare occasions when
I have worked at sea, and I have carried large pic-
tures right through to the last touch in smithies,
stable sheds, and amid all sorts of queer surround-
ings, under conditions which when starting seemed
absolutely hopeless and prohibitive. My own cus-
tom has always been to work as much as possible on
the spot, and practice has taught me that this offers
certain advantages over any other method.”
Engraving and Etching. A Handbook for the
Use of Students and Print Collectors. By Dr.
Fr. Lippmann, Later Keeper of the Print Room
in the Royal Museum, Berlin. Translated from
the Third German Edition, revised by Dr. Max
Lehrs, by Martin Hardie, National Art Li-
brary, Victoria and Albert Museum. 8vo. With
131 Illustrations. Pages xvii, 3x2. Imported by
Charles Scribner’s Sons. $3.00 net.
The Scribners have done a service to students
and print collectors by bringing out Martin Hardie’s
translation of the third German edition of Dr.
Lippmann’s “Engraving and Etching,” revised by
Dr. Lehrs. The author’s death in 1903 threw the

revision of the handbook, then in preparation for a
third edition, to his successor in the office of Keeper
of the Print Room in the Royal Museum, Berlin.
Dr. Lehrs has remodelled to some extent the history
of German and Netherlandish engraving in the fif-
teenth century, in accordance with the results of
recent research. The book carries the subject to
the beginning of the nineteenth century. The more
recent developments of the art have not been in-
cluded, because, as the author says, “ the advent of
steel-engraving, of lithography and of modern
mechanical processes has caused so wide a revolu-
tion in the reproductive arts that nineteenth century
engraving appears to require a separate history of
its own and an entirely different treatment.” The
illustrations of the book, which number 131, repre-
sent phases of the art from the time of the Master
of the Playing Cards to that of Goya in Spain,
Klein in Germany, Turner in England, the so-
called classical engravers, the pupils and followers
of Volpato and Morghen in Italy; Lebarbier and
Vien, Moreau and Prud’hon in France, and de Wit
and the Kobells, father and son, in the Low Coun-
tries. The illustrations are all made to the exact
size of the originals, though in some cases a detail
only of the original is reproduced.


OOKS RECEIVED
Famous American Songs, by Gustav Kobbe. With nu-
merous illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. Limp leather, $2.50
net. Postage, 15 cents. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York.

Animal Serials. Collected drawings by E. Warde Blaisdell.
Oblong Svo. Cloth, $1.00 net. Postage, 10 cents. Thomas Y. Crowell
& Co., New York.

The Happy Family, by George Hodges. 12mo. Cloth, gilt top,
75 cents net. Flexible leather, $1.50 net. Postage, 8 cents. Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co., New York.

Great Riches, by Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard Univer-
sity. With photogravure portrait. 12mo. Cloth, 75 cents net. Flexible
leather, $1.50 net. Postage, 8 cents. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New
York.
Tannhauser. Wagner’s Music Drama retold in English verse by
Oliver Huckel. 12mo. Four illustrations. Cloth, 75 cents net. Limp
leather, $1.50 net. Postage, 8 cents. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New
York.
Famous Actor Families in America, by Montrose J. Moses.
With forty full-page illustrations and bibliography. 8vo. Cloth, $2.00
net. Postage, 20 cents. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York.
All the Year in the Garden. A Nature Calendar. Compiled by
Esther Matson. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00 net. Limp leather,
boxed, $1,50 net. Postage, 10 cents. Thomas Y. Criwell & Co., New
York.
The Jessamy Bride, by Frankfort Moore. With colour illustrations
by C. Allan Gilbert. 12mo. $2.00. Duffield & Co., New York.
The Punch and Judy Book, by Helen Hay Whitney. With colour
illustrations by Charlotte Harding. Square, Svo. $1.25. Duffield &
Co., New York.
Mother Goose, Her Book, with illustrations in colour, by Harry L.
Smith. Square, Svo. 75 cents. Duffield & Co., New York.
Little Nemo in Slumberland, by Winson McCay. Illustrated in
colour. 4to. 75 cents. Duffield & Co., New York.

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