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are a valuable contribution to the subject. Her book con- swords, guns, crossbows, daggers, horse armor, shields,
tains also a catalogue of the more important pieces of banners—these and other divisions of the armorer's art
Egyptian jewelry all over the world. In addition to some are taken up under separate headings. The interest in
hundred and sixty photographic illustrations oi the jewelry anus and armor among American collectors and museums
belonging to the Historical Society there are construction grows apace, and this volume is another response to this
drawings of finger rings and a sampler showing technical awakening,
details which would enable a craftsman to reproduce cer-
tain of these objects. Mrs. Williams was formerly assistant LOUIS XVI FURNITURE. By Seymour De
curator in the Egyptian Department of the Metropolitan fcci Brentano's, New York.
Museum and is now honorary curator of the New York

Historical Society's Egyptian collections. A/f ^ Undertaken in llis P^ent volume to

lyl present the absorbing subject of French furniture,

onAMTCTT r.nnrMC a MO DATTAC R, • \/f!l 'particularly of the period of Louis XVI, from a

SPANISH GARDENS AND PATIOS. By Mil- somewhat new angle> fVom a point of vkw at once more

dred Stapley Byne and Arthur Byne. J. B. Lip- intimate and exhaustive yet at the same time as authorita-

pincott Company, Philadelphia. Price, Sly- tive as other compilations. He has accordingly eschewed

, , much of the monumental and more renowned furniture of
A part from a few famous pa aces and gardens very . . . . . , .

a .AKi iiom a lew i.u v _e> j this period ancJ has introduced among the near y five

OsJ little and that in fragmentary form, has been pub- . . , ... . , . ... ° •>

/vj nine, ana max in nagn . 1 hundred illustrations used m this volume many Ies

hshed about the gardens o Spam. I here are several . .

sucu auouc ine gait ; i ^ ,. , ... sumptuous pieces quite as worthy of perpetuation in tii

ess
e

art lover's library.

reasons for this, chief among them being the fact that until

recent years the art of Spain has, since the time of Goya, A preface tQ the illustrations takes up in a dozen or so
been neglected by foreign writers. Then, too, even among paggs ^ esthetic conditions that preceded the sixteenth
the Spaniards themselves, there is almost no record, either Lqu;s ^ ^ jnduced a revuis;on 0f taste over the "con-
pictorial or written, of the gardens, tortions" of Louis XV design. Cochin, the apostle of the

The finest of these, those most typical of Spam, are to n£w m^ jn his Suppiication t0 Silversmiths, Chasers, and
be found in the south and owe much of their beauty to Woodcarvers (1775) pleads that "when they have to make
Moorish traditions. In many cases the gardens are actual & caridie-stick, let the stem be straight, and not contorted,
survivals of the Moorish regime, modified through the ^ ;f & ^ pleasure in twisting it" and he
centuries. As everyone knows it is the oriental character further states that "the man of good taste who should
given its architecture by the Moors which makes Spanish find n;mseIf in possession 0f SUch an apartment (Louis XV)
building peculiarly interesting. That and the tradition fae ^ tQ knQck away a][ the herbage> bat>s wingSj
which to foreign minds is more real than Spam itse . and other tr]via[;t;es w;th a chisel, and lay bare the naked
Spain and romance have become almost synonymous and mouidmg wn;ch would be a sufficient decoration for him."
it is quite possible that many persons would find Spam as The pjates are grouped wjtn reference to general head-
it is less interesting than imagination has pictured it. t ;ngS) as ensembles and interiors, panels, mantel-pieces,
is a bit disquieting to realize that the lofty w s w 11c 1 joorSj consoles, tables, commodes, screens, etc.; and when-
distinguish Spanish gardens were erected, not to obstruct e^ possible the history of each piece is indicated. This
the path of an ardent Don Juan but to oflei protection vo]ume ;s thus an eloquent treatise on the refinements and
from the heat of the sun. . delicacies of the Louis XVI period, and should prove a

Nevertheless, the gardens of those castles in Spam treasure trove to designer and student,
which Mr. and Mrs. Bynne have described and illustrated

are not lacking in beauty and romance. In them one finds ^ HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. By Sir

the small formal garden carried to perfection. 11_isprob- Fletcher, F. R. I. B. A. Seventh Edi-

able that these gardens where the color is supplied by tiles >

, , r a i»cc united to American country tion. Charles Scribner s Sons, New York. Price,
rather than by flowers are less suited w mimiu. j

houses than they are to the city. But for town j""?^^

apartments they have much to offer. And, w c 1 is more rchitects and students have long been familiar with

important, they are things of beauty in themselves and in /I ^ ^ ^ edh;on of wag pubI;shed

the excellent presentation given them in this °°T^'*V^ 1 in 1896. Later editions have been revised and added

will afford the reader, whether he has trave e in pain ^ ^g most important changes having been made in the

or not, much pleasure. sixth. In the present edition several illustrations and maps

have been added and the illustrations have been increased

ARMS AND ARMOR: A catalogue of the ;n s;Ze over those of previous printings. Practicing archi-

collection presented to the cleveland teccs and teachers have accepted this distinguished work

-\t ^ A Itjc Iohn I ONG as their standard history.

Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. joh ^ ^ ^ ^ reader su. banister>s book wln have

severance. By Helen Ives nD'. , more interest than the title might indicate, for it is really

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Privately a comparative history of the architecture of the world

issued treated as a record of civilization. It displays briefly and

, ,. ..i .t,„ c„.,„v.,nce r0\- clearly the characteristic features of the architecture of

handsome volume dealing with the beverance .01 y

Cleveland Museum each country and considers the special influences, geo-

lection of arms and armor in Gilchrist w ith graphic, social and historical, which have contributed to

has come front the penotliaen_^ ^ Bas'hford the formation of each style. Thus the various buildings

prefatory notes by Fre eric en ;n,,„tr;,ted deal- of which it treats become something more than examples

Dean It is catalogue raisonne, profusely illustrated, atai 6 1

T I . B . tmpnts of the collection in an of masonry; they are seen as the expression of an essentially

mg with the various departments oil
informing and succinct manner. Suits of armor, helmets,

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