Studio: international art (2.1894)

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hairs, which, sufficiently flexi-
ble to allow the brush to
pass colour under them, permit
much greater delicacy of pat-
tern than would be possible
without these ties. The upper
one, on page 186, is but the
common stencil plate, such as
Europeans use, elaborated and
skilfully cut in a way no AVest-
ern craftsman could hope to
rival. Later on, when stencil-
ling as it is revived to-day
comes to be treated in The
Studio, we may have occasion
to refer more fully to these
designs, which now are given
more as specimens of the il-
lustration of the really beauti-
ful volume under notice than
for their intrinsic merit, great
although it be. G. W.

Richard [efteries, a Study,
by H. S. Salt. (London :
Swan Sonnenschein & Co.)—
The photogravures, reproduced
by Mr. Walter L. Coll from
drawings by Miss Bertha New-
combe, which appear in the
large paper edition only of this
delightful biography, are among

the best specimens of plates
prepared to accompany text we
have yet seen. Grass Meadow
Coate is full of atmosphere, and
keeps its painter-like quality to
a marvellous degree ; but all of
them have a sense of relation
to the printed page, which is
rare in inserted plates. To
analyse why they are so satis-
factory would be difficult, yet
the fact remains that they are.
The small portion of Richard
Jefferies' writings that deals with
art, is hardly touched upon by
Mr. Salt. One sentence, how-
ever, that he quotes " respecting
the Lions in Trafalgar Square "
— which the poet - naturalist
thought to be truer and more
real than those at the Zoo—
" lions to whom has been added
the heart of a man "—will show
that in a technical magazine the
matter of the book, quite charm-
ing as it is, does not quite fall
within our scope. All the same,
it is a most readable and sym-
pathetic study, well done and
worth doing.

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