International studio (50.1913)

Reviews and Notices

culties attendant upon photographing interiors of
churches, and stained glass especially.
Survey of London. Vol IV. Parish of Chelsea
(Part II). By Walter H. Godfrey. (London:
The London County Council.)—The first part
of the Survey of the Parish of Chelsea has already
been published by the Committee for the Survey of
the Memorials of Greater London, who are co-
operating with the Council in the survey. The
second part contains over one hundred plates
giving views of old houses or details of houses,
chiefly from photographs, as well as reproductions
of old maps and plans. The district embraced in
it boasts of many houses of considerable interest,
such as Beaufort House, the home of Holbein’s
friend Sir Thomas More, Lindsey House, the house
where Turner lived near by, and numerous others.
The introductory notes embody the result of ex-
tensive research, so that the volume has all the
authority which a permanent record of this
character should have. There remains one more
volume to complete the Survey of Chelsea, and this
we understand is in preparation.
Church and Manor. By Sidney Oldall Addy,
M.A. (London : George Allen and Co.) io^.
net. — Antiquarians will be interested in this
scholarly treatise in which the author traces the
development of Church and Manor. Mr. Addy’s
standpoint is best expressed in the following words
from his preface: “ The economic history of
mediaeval England will gain much in simplicity if
it can be shown that lord and priest were once the
same person; that the hall cannot at an early time
be distinguished from the church ; and that ecclesi-
astical benefices were themselves manors, with all
the privileges which belonged to feudal lordship.”
In the text the author has assembled a great store
of historical and archaeological evidence in support
of this point of view.
In The Art and Craft of Home-Making fAvMy
and Co., 35. 6d. net.), Mr. Edward W. Gregory
offers home-makers—and chiefly those of moderate
means—sound advice and reliable information on
a multitude of subjects connected with the starting
and upkeep of the home, and the text is accom-
panied by a large number of drawings and photo-
graphs of furniture and fittings. An appendix on
“ The Cost of Furnishing ” is followed by a budget
of “ Household Recipes ” containing many useful
“ wrinkles.”
Mr. Batsford has issued a second edition of The
Principles of Design fs. 6d. net), a text-book for
teachers, students and craftsmen by G. Woollis-
croft Rhead, R.E., a work intended especially

for students preparing for the examinations held by
the Board of Education in the United Kingdom.
To bring the book into line with the recent changes
decreed by the Board in these examinations, the
author has added short chapters on the elementary
principles of Light and Shade, the laws of Colour
Harmony and Contrast, and the treatment of
Drapery. The work is very fully illustrated, there
being no fewer than 425 line drawings by the
author in addition to 16 half-tone plates.
Mr. Batsford also sends us a copy of a work on
Composition (yps. 6d. net) by Frof. Arthur
Wesley Dow, Director of Fine Arts in the
Teachers’ College, Columbia University, New
York, which has been very popular with art
students and teachers in the United States, and is
now in its seventh edition. The purpose of the
book is to present authoritatively the synthetic
method of teaching art by a series of exercises in
art structure, and the scheme is carried out in three
main sections, dealing respectively with “ Line,”
“ Notan ” (a Japanese expression signifying dark-
light) and “ Color Theory,” the last section being
entirely new. Frof. Dow’s system has been
elaborated after a close study of Oriental and
especially Japanese art, examples of which have
been freely utilised among the numerous illus-
trations, many of these being in colour.
A reference book which is sure to prove very
useful is the Directory of Museums in Great Britain
and Ireland, compiled by Mr. E. Howarth of the
Sheffield Museum and Mr. H. M. Platnauer, and
published by the Museums Association. The in-
formation has been tabulated by numbers according
to a general scheme and embodies all the essential
facts relating to the various museums. Some 60
pages at the end are devoted to museums in India
and the British Dominions, the same scheme being
adhered to, and there is a copious index.
Mr. Arthur Hayden’s notable work on Royal
Copenhagen Porcelain, which was reviewed in these
columns a few months ago, has been translated into
German by Dr. C. F. Reinhold and under the
title of Kopenhagener Porzellan is published by
Karl W. Hiersemann of Leipzig at 48 marks. The
author’s name appears on the title-page with the
addition of the words “ Ritter des Dannebrog-
Ordens,” the Knight’s Cross of the Dannebrog
Order having been conferred upon him by the late
King of Denmark for his services in connection
with this work. The illustrations to the English
edition (published by Mr. Fisher Unwin) have
been supplemented in the German edition by
thirty-four text illustrations and sixteen plates.
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