International studio (54.1914/1915)

Book Reviews

which attaches to each and every essay. A
coloured frontispiece after Monticelli and eight
reproductions of great works lend additional
attraction to a book that is destined to be one of
the great art books of the season, and many subse-
quent seasons.
Temple Treasures of Japan. By Garrett
Chatfield Pier. (Frederic Fairchild Sherman,
New York.) $1.00.
A generous collection of artistic data covering
the temples in Japan has been carefully compiled


A glossary and index are a useful addition to a
useful work. Technically, the volume might have
been improved by the use of more modern
type.
Etching. By George T. Plowman. (John Lane
Company: London and New York.) $1.50.
The writer has briefly but succinctly covered
the field of graphic art, paying especial attention
to the needs of the etcher, in which task he has
fitted himself well, through his many years devoted
to the use of pen, pencil and etching needle, and
particularly through his training under Sir Frank
Short in London.
This treatise does not aim to instruct the begin-
ner only, but contains much valuable information
for practised hands. The volume has been en-
riched by many full-page reproductions of the
work of living and defunct artists, besides of draw-
ings and etchings made by the author himself,
illustrating different methods in vogue. A very
useful feature of the book, besides index and
bibliography, is a list of addresses for materials in
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, San
Francisco, London and Paris.
The Print-Collector’s Booklets. Edited by
Fitzroy Carrington. Published for Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston. (Houghton Mifflin Com-
pany, New York and Boston.) $1.00.
These excellent brochures, printed on good
paper and full of fine reproductions, include “The
Men of 1830,” “Charles Jacque,” “Le Pere
Corot,” “ Charles-Frangois Daubigny, Painter
and Etcher,” “The Art and Etchings of Jean-
Franfois Millet,” all these by Robert J. Wick-
enden, and “Maxime Lalanne,” by W. Aspen-
wall Bradley.

IN ROME
ETCHING BY GEORGE T. PLOWMAN
by the author on the spot, and over two hundred
reproductions of various exhibits help to explain
the text. Owing to the restricted space, four or
five illustrations occupy a page and are not very
clear and sharp. They serve rather as notes than
as pictures. To travellers in Japan who have not
Mr. Pier’s leisure to take in all the temples possess-
ing art treasures, it may be pointed out that a very
complete summary of Japanese art may be ob-
tained by visiting Tokyo, Kyoto and Nara, which
contain the three great museums of the
country.

Pottery for Artists, Craftsmen and Teach¬
ers. By George J. Cox. (The Macmillan Co.,
London and New York.) $1.25.
This is a thoroughly practical manual, and by
reason of its modest price should be a popular
work in the hands of artist craftsmen. “To the
scientific critic,” writes the author, “I would offer
a hundred books with a thousand different com-
pounds; among none of them will he find how to
make a Sung bowl or a Rakka drug pot.” The
book is well illustrated, contains a glossary and
appendices, and is well calculated to start many
sincere students upon the dignified pursuit of
making objects of utility in an artistic fashion.

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