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THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO
March, 1912
JOHN LANE CO. I List New 1912 Books
114 West 32 d St., New York continued from page 20
THE STORY OF A PLOUGHBOY. By James Bryce. nmo.
Cloth, $1.25 net. Postage, 12 cents.
***This book presents country life in all its important aspects. In this,
however, it differs from all other novels of the soil in our own or in any language—its
author writes from experience. He has lived what he describes, and under the
power of his realism readers will feel that they are not so much glancing over
printed pages as mixing with living men and women. The story also appeals
strongly to the many earnest minds now concerned with the questions of land and
industrial reforms. To such its very faithfulness to life will suggest answers,
startling perhaps, but certainly arresting.
THE SHADOW OF POWER. By Paul Bertram. i2mo. Cloth,
$1.25 net. Postage, 12 cents.
romance of the days when the King of Alva held the Netherlands fast in
his iron grasp and the power of king and church cast its shadow over the land.
There was no hope of progress and the most enlightened could only smile grimly,
skeptically upon the errors of the age. Such also was the man whose story is here
told; proud, daring, ruthless, like all the lieutenants of the great Duke—yet lifted
by his education above the blind fanaticism of his time, seeking truth and freedom,
like his great contemporary, the Prince of Orange.
WAYWARD FEET. By A. R. Goring-Thomas, author of “Mrs.
Gramercy Park,” ‘‘The Lass with the Delicate Air,” etc. i2mo.
Cloth, $1.25 net. Postage, 12 cents.
* ff This is the narrative of a young girl brought up in a fishing village on the
coast of France'. Her mother, dying, left her to the care of an aunt, a hard,
worldly woman; married to a Jew, who carried on a piano warehouse business in
Paris. While tragic in theme, the story has many amusing moments.
GUARDED MOUNTS. By John Oxenham, author of “The Coil of
Carne,” “The Long Road,” etc. i2mo. Cloth, $1.25 net. Post-
age, 12 cents.
romance of the eighteenth century, dealing with some French refugees
of that period, the Marquis de St. Aubin and his son and daughter, who take ref-
uge in England, where they find a distant relative who installs them in his own
house in sight of St. Michael's Mount.
BIOGRAPHY and HISTORY
FOOTPRINTS OF FAMOUS AMERICANS IN PARIS. By John
Joseph Conway, M.A. 32 full-page illustrations. 8vo. Cloth,
$3.50 net. Postage, 20 cents.
***Franklin, Jefferson, Monroe, Tom Paine, La Fayette, Paul Jones, etc.,
etc., the most striking figures of a heroic age, working out in the City of Light the
great questions for which they stood, are dealt with here. Longfellow, the poet of
the domestic affections; matchless Margaret Fuller, who wrote so well of women in
the nineteenth century; Whistler, master of American artists; Saint-Gaudens,
chief of American sculptors; Rumford, most picturesque of scientific knight-
errants and several others get a chapter each for their lives and achievements in
Paris. The book has a strong literary flavor. Its history is enlivened with anec-
dote. It is profusely illustrated.
RECOLLECTIONS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT. By his Valet,
Francois. Translated by Maurice Reynolds. 8vo. Cloth, $2.50
net. Postage, 20 cents.
*ffDuring the last ten years of his life Guy de Maupassant, the celebrated
French novelist, was almost constantly accompanied both at home and abroad by
his faithful servant Francois, who has just published an account of the days he
spent caring for his beloved master—Guy de Maupassant—who remained a
bachelor; he was not only a talented author but also a good sportsman, a first-rate
shot, an excellent swimmer, a clever oarsman. He loved the water as much as he
loved playing practical jokes on his numerous friends and acquaintances. Like
most Frenchmen, he was very fond of female society ... in fact, Guy de
Maupassant had a fatal fascination for women by being good looking and of a
generous nature. Francois has here given a most interesting picture of the mas-
ter to whom he was so devoted.
THE ANARCHISTS. Their Faith and Their Record. By Ernest A.
Vizetelly, author of “Emile Zola, Novelist and Reformer.” 6 il-
lustrations. 8vo. Cloth, $3.50 net. Postage, 20 cents.
***This is the first real history of the Anarchists ever attempted. Among
the striking episodes which Mr. Vizetelly pictures are the unsuccessful attempts
on the German Kaisers and the Spanish Kings, the Black Hand rising in Anda-
lusia and the Barcelona outrages, the affair of the Chicago Anarchists, the two
years' Bomb Terror which prevailed in Paris, the assassinations of Humbert of
Italy, Elizabeth of A ustria and others.
(Continued on page 24)
“Great Engravers—Albrecht
Durer, His Engravings and Wood-
cuts.” (Frederick A. Stokes & Company,
New York.) 80c. net, six volumes ready.
There is a perennial interest in the en-
gravings and wood-cuts of Diirer, which is,
perhaps, rather strange if one considers
their peculiar qualities. Their beauti-
fully faultless drawing, shown forth more
saliently than in a painting, fascinates the
student and affords certain inspirations
which are apparent in much of the work of
Howard Pyle and of Maxfield Parrish.
The early medieval costumes, portrayed
in minutest detail, the distant castles,
sometimes precariously perched on un-
likely pinnacles of rock, the elaborate land-
scapes, all these constitute the lasting
charm of Diirer’s work as an engraver and
go to make up the particular value of this
book.
From “Great Engravers’’
“ERASMUS,” BY ALBRECHT DURER
The preface is supplemented by a
bibliography and a complete chronological
list of plates engraved by Diirer, divided
into line engravings, dry points and etch-
ings as one class, and wood-cuts as another.
In addition to the more familiar and
favorite of Diirer’s engravings, there are
illustrated a number less often seen. Thus
there are shown The Prodigal Son, St.
Eustace, many of The Apocolypse series
and some of the heraldic plates, while
among the better known are reproductions
of The Knight, Death and The Devil, St.
Jerome in His Study, Melancholia, St. An-
thony and Erasmus.
In the same series of “Great Engravers”
there are presented monographs designed
to cover in a reasonably concise manner
the highest attainments in steel, copper-
plate and wood engraving of the world.
With Diirer representing Germany, Wat-
teau and Boucher are taken as French en-
gravers, Goya for Spain, J. R. Smith for
England, Mantegna for Italy and Van
Dyck for Holland. It seems a little curi-
ous that Van Dyck should be chosen be-
fore Rembrandt, but the subsequent vol-
umes, which are proposed, may supply
this very important chapter in the his-
tory of engraving as well as some consider-
ation of certain other English engravers,
such as Bewick, Holroyd, the “Dalziels,”
D. G. Rossetti and other noteworthy ex-
ponents of the art.
THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO
March, 1912
JOHN LANE CO. I List New 1912 Books
114 West 32 d St., New York continued from page 20
THE STORY OF A PLOUGHBOY. By James Bryce. nmo.
Cloth, $1.25 net. Postage, 12 cents.
***This book presents country life in all its important aspects. In this,
however, it differs from all other novels of the soil in our own or in any language—its
author writes from experience. He has lived what he describes, and under the
power of his realism readers will feel that they are not so much glancing over
printed pages as mixing with living men and women. The story also appeals
strongly to the many earnest minds now concerned with the questions of land and
industrial reforms. To such its very faithfulness to life will suggest answers,
startling perhaps, but certainly arresting.
THE SHADOW OF POWER. By Paul Bertram. i2mo. Cloth,
$1.25 net. Postage, 12 cents.
romance of the days when the King of Alva held the Netherlands fast in
his iron grasp and the power of king and church cast its shadow over the land.
There was no hope of progress and the most enlightened could only smile grimly,
skeptically upon the errors of the age. Such also was the man whose story is here
told; proud, daring, ruthless, like all the lieutenants of the great Duke—yet lifted
by his education above the blind fanaticism of his time, seeking truth and freedom,
like his great contemporary, the Prince of Orange.
WAYWARD FEET. By A. R. Goring-Thomas, author of “Mrs.
Gramercy Park,” ‘‘The Lass with the Delicate Air,” etc. i2mo.
Cloth, $1.25 net. Postage, 12 cents.
* ff This is the narrative of a young girl brought up in a fishing village on the
coast of France'. Her mother, dying, left her to the care of an aunt, a hard,
worldly woman; married to a Jew, who carried on a piano warehouse business in
Paris. While tragic in theme, the story has many amusing moments.
GUARDED MOUNTS. By John Oxenham, author of “The Coil of
Carne,” “The Long Road,” etc. i2mo. Cloth, $1.25 net. Post-
age, 12 cents.
romance of the eighteenth century, dealing with some French refugees
of that period, the Marquis de St. Aubin and his son and daughter, who take ref-
uge in England, where they find a distant relative who installs them in his own
house in sight of St. Michael's Mount.
BIOGRAPHY and HISTORY
FOOTPRINTS OF FAMOUS AMERICANS IN PARIS. By John
Joseph Conway, M.A. 32 full-page illustrations. 8vo. Cloth,
$3.50 net. Postage, 20 cents.
***Franklin, Jefferson, Monroe, Tom Paine, La Fayette, Paul Jones, etc.,
etc., the most striking figures of a heroic age, working out in the City of Light the
great questions for which they stood, are dealt with here. Longfellow, the poet of
the domestic affections; matchless Margaret Fuller, who wrote so well of women in
the nineteenth century; Whistler, master of American artists; Saint-Gaudens,
chief of American sculptors; Rumford, most picturesque of scientific knight-
errants and several others get a chapter each for their lives and achievements in
Paris. The book has a strong literary flavor. Its history is enlivened with anec-
dote. It is profusely illustrated.
RECOLLECTIONS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT. By his Valet,
Francois. Translated by Maurice Reynolds. 8vo. Cloth, $2.50
net. Postage, 20 cents.
*ffDuring the last ten years of his life Guy de Maupassant, the celebrated
French novelist, was almost constantly accompanied both at home and abroad by
his faithful servant Francois, who has just published an account of the days he
spent caring for his beloved master—Guy de Maupassant—who remained a
bachelor; he was not only a talented author but also a good sportsman, a first-rate
shot, an excellent swimmer, a clever oarsman. He loved the water as much as he
loved playing practical jokes on his numerous friends and acquaintances. Like
most Frenchmen, he was very fond of female society ... in fact, Guy de
Maupassant had a fatal fascination for women by being good looking and of a
generous nature. Francois has here given a most interesting picture of the mas-
ter to whom he was so devoted.
THE ANARCHISTS. Their Faith and Their Record. By Ernest A.
Vizetelly, author of “Emile Zola, Novelist and Reformer.” 6 il-
lustrations. 8vo. Cloth, $3.50 net. Postage, 20 cents.
***This is the first real history of the Anarchists ever attempted. Among
the striking episodes which Mr. Vizetelly pictures are the unsuccessful attempts
on the German Kaisers and the Spanish Kings, the Black Hand rising in Anda-
lusia and the Barcelona outrages, the affair of the Chicago Anarchists, the two
years' Bomb Terror which prevailed in Paris, the assassinations of Humbert of
Italy, Elizabeth of A ustria and others.
(Continued on page 24)
“Great Engravers—Albrecht
Durer, His Engravings and Wood-
cuts.” (Frederick A. Stokes & Company,
New York.) 80c. net, six volumes ready.
There is a perennial interest in the en-
gravings and wood-cuts of Diirer, which is,
perhaps, rather strange if one considers
their peculiar qualities. Their beauti-
fully faultless drawing, shown forth more
saliently than in a painting, fascinates the
student and affords certain inspirations
which are apparent in much of the work of
Howard Pyle and of Maxfield Parrish.
The early medieval costumes, portrayed
in minutest detail, the distant castles,
sometimes precariously perched on un-
likely pinnacles of rock, the elaborate land-
scapes, all these constitute the lasting
charm of Diirer’s work as an engraver and
go to make up the particular value of this
book.
From “Great Engravers’’
“ERASMUS,” BY ALBRECHT DURER
The preface is supplemented by a
bibliography and a complete chronological
list of plates engraved by Diirer, divided
into line engravings, dry points and etch-
ings as one class, and wood-cuts as another.
In addition to the more familiar and
favorite of Diirer’s engravings, there are
illustrated a number less often seen. Thus
there are shown The Prodigal Son, St.
Eustace, many of The Apocolypse series
and some of the heraldic plates, while
among the better known are reproductions
of The Knight, Death and The Devil, St.
Jerome in His Study, Melancholia, St. An-
thony and Erasmus.
In the same series of “Great Engravers”
there are presented monographs designed
to cover in a reasonably concise manner
the highest attainments in steel, copper-
plate and wood engraving of the world.
With Diirer representing Germany, Wat-
teau and Boucher are taken as French en-
gravers, Goya for Spain, J. R. Smith for
England, Mantegna for Italy and Van
Dyck for Holland. It seems a little curi-
ous that Van Dyck should be chosen be-
fore Rembrandt, but the subsequent vol-
umes, which are proposed, may supply
this very important chapter in the his-
tory of engraving as well as some consider-
ation of certain other English engravers,
such as Bewick, Holroyd, the “Dalziels,”
D. G. Rossetti and other noteworthy ex-
ponents of the art.