International studio (35.1908)

Reviews and Notices

Fletcher has contributed some excellent drawings
to the volume, which is in all respects admirably
got up.
How to Collect Contuiental Chuia. By C. H.
Wylde. (London: Geo. Bell & Sons.) 6s.
net.—Mr. Wylde has covered a very great deal of
ground, and his book should be of considerable
value to the collector. He deals with the problem
of identifying the numerous varieties of porcelain-
ware produced on the Continent of Europe, during
chiefly the eighteenth century, and has well illus-
trated his text with forty plates, reproductions from
photographs of actual pieces. The subjects of
French and German porcelain-ware are treated, as
they require to be, at considerable length, a separate
chapter being devoted to the products of each of
the very many famous factories in those countries,
and the author also devotes space to a considera-
tion of the china of almost all the other nations
of Europe.
Wohnung und Hausrat. Beispiele neuzeitlicher
Wohnraume und ihrer Ausstattung. Mit einleiten-
dem Text von Hermann Warlich. (Munich:
F. Bruckmann & Co.) io Mk.—With the excep-
tion of some fifteen pages of introductory text this
volume of nearly three hundred pages consists of
illustrations of furniture and other domestic fittings,
such as stoves, clocks, hangings, wall-papers, glass,
china, embroidery, and even bird-cages, principally
by German designers, including not a few whose
work has been reproduced in our pages. The
words “good and simple,” used by Dr. Warlich in
bis prefaratory note, aptly describe the quality of
the articles illustrated, which may be regarded
as representative of the best work now being
done in Germany in connection with domestic
furnishing.
Umbrien. By Paul Stefan and Ernst Diez.
{Vienna and Leipzig : Hugo Heller & Cie.)
2.50 Mk.—Though there are many excellent
works in German relating to Italian art, there is
none treating of that of Umbria alone ; this little
book of 107 pages, large type, is, therefore, the
first handbook on the subject. The authors
have given an admirable apercu of the province
and its art, and the capital bibliography they
have given at the end provides material for
further study.
Mr. John Lane is issuing a complete series of the
novels of Anatole France, rendered into English
and published at 6.f. per volume net. Judging by
such of the volumes as have already appeared, the
work of translation seems to have been very
conscientiously performed, and the volumes are

got up so attractively in respect of type, paper,
cover, etc., that they should find many purchasers.
The World’s Story-Tellers is the title of a new
series of shilling volumes which Messrs. T. C. and
E. C. Jack are publishing under the editorship of
Mr. Arthur Ransome. Each volume contains two
or three or more complete stories by writers who
have won fame by their short stories. Thus the
first volume of the series contains three of Theophile
Gautier’s most notable tales in Lafcadios Hearn’s
masterly translation; the second contains two by
Hoffmann; and the third is devoted to Edgar Allan
Poe. Future volumes will contain stories by
Balzac, Hawthorne, Tolstoi, Boccaccio, and other
famous writers.
The Photographers Handbook, which Mr. John
Lane has added to his series of “ Country Hand-
books,” is a work which we may without hesita-
tion recommend to beginners. It contains many
excellent illustrations and diagrams, while the text,
written by Messrs. Harrison and Douglas, is a clear
and precise exposition of the first principles and
methods of photographic practice. The price of
this little handbook, neatly bound in cloth,
is 3s. net. For advanced practitioners Messrs.
Dawbarn and Ward’s Photographic Annual\ in-
corporating “ The Figures, Facts and Formulae of
Photography,” will be found extremely useful with
its 300 pages crammed full of information bearing
on all branches of photographic work. A com-
prehensive index and glossary are features of this
publication, the price of which is only is. net.
Messrs. Winsor & Newton have put on the
market a simple but ingenious little appliance which
enables an artist to dispense with an easel while on
a sketching tour. It is called the Wimbush
“ Knee Clip ” Easel, and consists of a pair of steel
clips which fit on the knees and, by means of
screws or other attachments, support the sketching
frame, etc., the top of this being secured by a
similar fixing attached to an umbrella or stick, or
to the specially made stick which can be had with
the clips. Those who have used this neat and
cheap appliance (its cost is only 3s. 6d. complete)
speak very favourably of it.
Messrs. Doulton & Co., the well-known pottery
firm of Lambeth, have, after prolonged experiments,
produced a porcelain filter which, in respect of its
germ-proof qualities, seems to be as near perfection
as any filter is ever likely to be. Scientific experts
have made exhaustive tests of its efficacy as com-
pared with that of other well-known filters, and
found that the Doulton filter alone uniformly
prevented the direct transmission of microbes.
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