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Awards in " The Studio" Prize Competitions
agreement, it is a book worth placing on one's refer- extreme license and sheer eccentricity too popular
ence shelves ; although it lacks that most indis- at present. As the author pertinently remarks,
pensable item of a handbook—a good index—it is " with the increase of knowledge and experience,
orderly in its plan, and the precepts and examples he will come to see how far rule and precept may
should be of great service to pen-draughtsmen. be wisely relaxed, and will enter on the enjoyment
Theory and Practice of Design, with 700 Illustra- of that true freedom which is the heritage of the
trations. Lessons on Decorative Design (Third well-grounded student." And to whom could this
Thousand). By Frank G. Jackson. (London : description be better applied than to a student of
'^"MORRELL
FIRST PRIZE
SECOND PRIZE " MEDMF.RSHAM "
Chapman & Hall.)—The first of the above books, these two excellent handbooks ? The example we
just issued, is a worthy companion to its admirable are permitted to reproduce shows the wealth of
predecessor, which has already gained deserved idea Mr. Jackson has crowded into hundreds of
popularity. That it could be new throughout, illustrations in this book,
seeing it goes over the well-trodden paths that lead
to the production of applied design, is obviously
impossible. Mr. Jackson has, however, the always A WARDS^ IN "THE STUDIO"
enviable knack of re-stating old truths in afresh /\ PRIZE COMPETITIONS.
way, and in the illustrations he so lavishly presents / % Design for a Label for a Biscuit
gives you old forms rearranged in accordance with _x JL ^1N' 0^ XIV.)
the best taste of to-day, and infused with no little A large number of excellent drawings were
originality of treatment. No amount of study, even sent in; we regret that owing to delay on the part
of these two books, will impart to a would-be de- of the judges, the report was not received until the
signer that instinct of invention which should be moment of going to press, too late for the insertion
his first qualification for choosing the profession ; of any reproductions of the designs.
given that much, however, one is tempted to say The judges report is as follows :
that these volumes carefully studied might equip " After a careful examination of the large number
him to take his place with the best. They are a of drawings sent in, we place
wholesome corrective to a pupil inclined to the " First Prize {Threeguineas)—Ceres (B)(R. A.
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agreement, it is a book worth placing on one's refer- extreme license and sheer eccentricity too popular
ence shelves ; although it lacks that most indis- at present. As the author pertinently remarks,
pensable item of a handbook—a good index—it is " with the increase of knowledge and experience,
orderly in its plan, and the precepts and examples he will come to see how far rule and precept may
should be of great service to pen-draughtsmen. be wisely relaxed, and will enter on the enjoyment
Theory and Practice of Design, with 700 Illustra- of that true freedom which is the heritage of the
trations. Lessons on Decorative Design (Third well-grounded student." And to whom could this
Thousand). By Frank G. Jackson. (London : description be better applied than to a student of
'^"MORRELL
FIRST PRIZE
SECOND PRIZE " MEDMF.RSHAM "
Chapman & Hall.)—The first of the above books, these two excellent handbooks ? The example we
just issued, is a worthy companion to its admirable are permitted to reproduce shows the wealth of
predecessor, which has already gained deserved idea Mr. Jackson has crowded into hundreds of
popularity. That it could be new throughout, illustrations in this book,
seeing it goes over the well-trodden paths that lead
to the production of applied design, is obviously
impossible. Mr. Jackson has, however, the always A WARDS^ IN "THE STUDIO"
enviable knack of re-stating old truths in afresh /\ PRIZE COMPETITIONS.
way, and in the illustrations he so lavishly presents / % Design for a Label for a Biscuit
gives you old forms rearranged in accordance with _x JL ^1N' 0^ XIV.)
the best taste of to-day, and infused with no little A large number of excellent drawings were
originality of treatment. No amount of study, even sent in; we regret that owing to delay on the part
of these two books, will impart to a would-be de- of the judges, the report was not received until the
signer that instinct of invention which should be moment of going to press, too late for the insertion
his first qualification for choosing the profession ; of any reproductions of the designs.
given that much, however, one is tempted to say The judges report is as follows :
that these volumes carefully studied might equip " After a careful examination of the large number
him to take his place with the best. They are a of drawings sent in, we place
wholesome corrective to a pupil inclined to the " First Prize {Threeguineas)—Ceres (B)(R. A.
xxv