DOI Heft:
No. 189 (November, 1912)
DOI Artikel:Some Recent Books
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43451#0385
Some Recent Books
The illustrations in the present volume are
exquisite reproductions of rare prints belonging to
the Happer and Amsden collections and are typi-
cal examples of the versatile master’s art. An
appendix contains facsimiles of Hiroshige signa-
tures, seals and marks (including the cipher char-
acters referred to in the text), facsimiles of other
artists’ signatures and a bibliography of important
books dealing with the subject of Japanese art.
The typographical scheme is striking and most
attractive and, together with the unique but
tasteful binding, produces a characteristic effect
quite appropriate to the subject.
Harriet Hosmer : Letters and Memories. Ed-
ited by Cornelia Carr. With thirty-one illustra-
tions. 8vo. 386 pages. (New York: Moffatt,
Yard & Company.) $3.00 net.
This volume consists of a col-
lection of papers arranged in
such manner as to show how an
earnest and courageous young
artist was led to honor and
success.
Miss Hosmer was an Amer-
ican sculptress, well known in
Rome, where she lived a great
many years. She was a friend
of the Brownings, William Wet-
more Story, John Gibson and
many others of their standing.
From her letters an outline of
her busy and happy career will
be gleaned. To no one did she
write so freely and consecu-
tively of her work and her life
abroad as to her early friend,
Mr. Wayman Crow, to whom
the majority of the letters in
this present volume are ad-
dressed. A few others, to and
from friends, have been added
by way of giving a little more
fully the story of a life that
never seemed so vivid after she
lost the sympathy, almost the
inspiration, of him she called
“The Pater.” In these letters
to him she quotes words of
praise and cheer which were
given to her, not from any
motive of vanity, but with the
desire of justifying his belief in
her power of achievement. The
merry joke and the familiar doggerel which were
characteristic of her have been left unpruned from
these letters, for badinage and rhyme entered so
freely into her conversation that it seems only
natural they should form a part of her writings.
Prominence is given to Old World hosts, hostesses
and homes, because much of her time was passed
among them, not only in enjoying the cordial hos-
pitality of the owners, but in studying their match-
less treasures of art. Forsaking Italy, with its
changing life and scene, she spent the later years
of her lifepartly in England and partly in America.
She was never idle. Her busy brain was unceas-
ingly at work on favorite designs. The end came
unexpectedly. After a brief illness, with mind
undimmed, on the 21st of February, 1908, she
passed into the Higher Life.
“Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art,” F. A. Stokes & Co.
BRIDGE IN RAIN
BY HIROSHIGE
XXI
The illustrations in the present volume are
exquisite reproductions of rare prints belonging to
the Happer and Amsden collections and are typi-
cal examples of the versatile master’s art. An
appendix contains facsimiles of Hiroshige signa-
tures, seals and marks (including the cipher char-
acters referred to in the text), facsimiles of other
artists’ signatures and a bibliography of important
books dealing with the subject of Japanese art.
The typographical scheme is striking and most
attractive and, together with the unique but
tasteful binding, produces a characteristic effect
quite appropriate to the subject.
Harriet Hosmer : Letters and Memories. Ed-
ited by Cornelia Carr. With thirty-one illustra-
tions. 8vo. 386 pages. (New York: Moffatt,
Yard & Company.) $3.00 net.
This volume consists of a col-
lection of papers arranged in
such manner as to show how an
earnest and courageous young
artist was led to honor and
success.
Miss Hosmer was an Amer-
ican sculptress, well known in
Rome, where she lived a great
many years. She was a friend
of the Brownings, William Wet-
more Story, John Gibson and
many others of their standing.
From her letters an outline of
her busy and happy career will
be gleaned. To no one did she
write so freely and consecu-
tively of her work and her life
abroad as to her early friend,
Mr. Wayman Crow, to whom
the majority of the letters in
this present volume are ad-
dressed. A few others, to and
from friends, have been added
by way of giving a little more
fully the story of a life that
never seemed so vivid after she
lost the sympathy, almost the
inspiration, of him she called
“The Pater.” In these letters
to him she quotes words of
praise and cheer which were
given to her, not from any
motive of vanity, but with the
desire of justifying his belief in
her power of achievement. The
merry joke and the familiar doggerel which were
characteristic of her have been left unpruned from
these letters, for badinage and rhyme entered so
freely into her conversation that it seems only
natural they should form a part of her writings.
Prominence is given to Old World hosts, hostesses
and homes, because much of her time was passed
among them, not only in enjoying the cordial hos-
pitality of the owners, but in studying their match-
less treasures of art. Forsaking Italy, with its
changing life and scene, she spent the later years
of her lifepartly in England and partly in America.
She was never idle. Her busy brain was unceas-
ingly at work on favorite designs. The end came
unexpectedly. After a brief illness, with mind
undimmed, on the 21st of February, 1908, she
passed into the Higher Life.
“Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art,” F. A. Stokes & Co.
BRIDGE IN RAIN
BY HIROSHIGE
XXI