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The holiday art books
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The Holiday Art Books

Outline or the History of Painting from
1200-1900 a.d. By Edmund von Mach, Ph.D.,
Author of “ Greek Sculpture, Its Spirit and
Principles,” “ A Handbook of Greek and Roman
Sculpture,” Editor of the American Section of
the “ Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden
Kunstler.” 4to. Pages iv, 186. $1.50 net.
Postage, 15c. Boston: Ginn and Company.
This should prove a convenient class summary
and in general a useful tabulation of painters and
periods. Part One contains 28 tables devoted
geographically to schools and in which the
prominent artists are set down with dates and
graded in three ranks by different types. The
tables are also arranged with a view to classifying
photographs, stereopticon slides and books, by
use of the table and division numbers and a group
designation number for the individual. Part Two


Courtesy Charles Scribner's Sons
ILLUSTRATION FROM MANUAL OF
(reduced) historic ornament

contains a pronouncing list of artists with dates and
references. Part Three contains a brief account
of the history of painting, compactly done.
A Manual of Historic Ornament. Treating
upon the Evolution, Tradition and Development
of Architecture and the Applied Arts. Prepared
for the Use of Students and Craftsmen. By
Richard Glazier, Hon. Associate of the Royal
College of Art, Associate of the Royal Institute
of British Architects, Head Master of the
Municipal School of Art, Manchester. Second
Edition. Revised and Enlarged with 600 Illus-
strations by the Author. 8vo. Pages iv, 168.
S3.00 net. New York: Imported by Charles
Scribner’s Sons.
In his revision this year of his “Manual of
Historic Ornament,” the Head Master of the
Manchester Municipal School of Art has included
additional matter and illustrations in the more
important sections. The subject of architecture has
received considerable amplification, as additional
illustrations are given of the Greek, Romanesque
and Gothic styles, together with the Italian, French
and English Renaissance, making this branch of
the work more comprehensive and useful to the
general reader. The section dealing with the
applied arts has also been enlarged. Additional
plates of gold and silver work, bronzes, furniture,
wood carvings and bookbindings have been in-
serted, together with a number of the beautiful
initial letters of the early printed books of the latter
part of the fifteenth and the early sixteenth
centuries, illustrating the vitality, inventiveness and
skill of the craftsmen of the past.
The general scheme of this useful handbook
hardly needs recapitulation. The first third of the
book is occupied with a summary of various styles
of ornament according to the ordinary classifica-
tions and including Mahometan, which covers in
general Arabian, Moresque and Sicilian. The
Persian and Indian styles are separately treated.
In the second part the arrangement is topical, and
applied arts are discussed in individual sections.
Included are mosaic, ceramics, terra cotta, glass,
enamels, precious metals, wrought iron, bronzes,
furniture, wood carving, ivories, textiles, initial
letters and frets. Each of these subdivisions in
both parts is faced by a full page plate containing
various specimens of the ornament or applications.
Rembrandt. Seventy plates in Colour and Photo-
gravure. With a Study of the Master Work by
Emile Michel. Large qto. Red and gold Bind-

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