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The Holiday Art Books

The holiday art books
Below, the notable holiday art books
are briefly listed. The attention of those
of our readers who are looking to the
publishers for assistance on the gift problem of
the season is invited to the following titles. With-
out pretending to be exhaustive, the list is as com-
prehensive and as representative as our best
endeavors can make it, and should, in the art field,
serve by way of suggestion for a wide range of
tastes and interests:

OLD SPANISH MASTERS, engraved on wood
by Timothy Cole, with text by Charles H.
Caffin, and notes by the engraver. Bound in
cloth, uniform with Old Italian, Dutch and
Flemish, and English Masters. Text with 31
proofs printed on superfine paper. The
Century Company, New York. Superroyal
octavo, 175 pages. $6.00 net. Postage, 30
cents.

A HISTORY OF TAPESTRY. From the earliest
times until the present day. By W. G. Thom-
son, examiner in art. With four plates in
color and numerous illustrations in black and
white. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York.
$12.00 net.
AN ARTIST’S REMINISCENCES. By Walter
Crane. With 123 illustrations by the author,
and others from photographs. The Macmillan
Company, New York. 8vo. $5.00 net.
PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS. A second series
of Old Masters and New. By Kenyon Cox.
Duffield & Company, New York. Profusely
Illustrated. 8vo. $2.50 net.
THE 'ART OF THE PRADO. A survey of the
contents of the gallery, together with detailed
criticisms of its masterpieces and biographical
sketches of the famous painters who produced
them. By C. S. Ricketts. L. C. Page & Com-
pany, Boston. The Art Galleries of Europe
Series. Each volume, large i2mo., cloth deco-
rative, printed on a special featherweight paper,
profusely illustrated with full-page plates in
duogravure. $2.00 net.
FLORENCE AND THE CITIES OF NORTH-
ERN TUSCANY, WITH GENOA. By
Edward Hutton. With sixteen illustrations in
color by William Parkinson, and sixteen other
illustrations. The Macmillan Company, New
York. i2mo. $2.00 net.

HUBERT AND JAN VAN EYCK. Their life
and their work. By W. H. James Weale.
Copiously illustrated by photogravure repro-
ductions of the works of both artists. John
Lane Company, New York. 4-to.^ $30.00 net.
SALT GLAZED STONEWARE. Germany,
Flanders, England and the United States. By
Edwin Atlee Barber, A.M., Ph.D. Doubleday,
Page & Company, New York. Illustrated.
8vo. 90 cents net.


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FROM “PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS”
BY KENYON COX
DUFFIELD & CO., PUBLISHERS

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