DOI issue:
No. 33 (December, 1895)
DOI article:Reviews of recent publications
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0206
Reviews of Recent Publications
^___ tion. The printers also, Messrs.
'1 y Gilbert & Rivington, deserve praise
^^^^^-^-^^^ f°r their share : the portrait studies,
mtJ/jMj^- plate XXII. especially, are excellent
impressions. Altogether, the com-
mon-sense criticism of the so-called
^J£: composite views, with a very drastic
\\ Wr' warning against skies taken at one
rfgM) time of day being fitted to fore-
grounds taken at quite another,
^fe&^.v predispose one to rank the book
^m^^f highly. For common-sense is, or
^PfifL should be, as closely allied to art as
V \Wil t0 science) and the clear advice
' ) mingled with formulae and statistics
is really far more worthy of the
' ' somewhat ambitious title than many
a treatise which has phrased its utter-
ance in more pompous manner.
-((I A Childs Garden of Verses.
• If By R. L. Stevenson. Illustrated
' by Charles Robinson. (London :
Tohn Lane.)—In The Studio for
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES" (JOHN LANE).
DESIGN BY CHARLES ROBINSON
to say in praise of this book, and yet the
standard of excellence in composition and
pictorial arrangement which it sets up is
not a very high one. No painter would
have chosen so curious a group as Frith
(in the Derby Day), Leighton (in the S.K.
frescoes), George Morland, Millet, Colin
Hunter, and Gustave Dore. Not that the
works of any of the past or present artists
here named are unworthy the study of a
photographic artist, but they are a very
oddly selected batch. Still perhaps it was
wiser for the authors to select familiar
examples, which they had themselves
studied, and with which their audience
would be probably well acquainted. The
whole book is clearly written and minute
in its practical advice. The illustrations
are entirely satisfactory. One of Hammer-
smith Bridge in the great frost, and another
of Venice, reflect credit alike on the photo-
grapher, who is not named, and on Messrs.
Swain, who produced the blocks in que.- "THE CHILD'S GARDEN 0F VERSES " <JOHN LANE)-
r 1 DESIGN BY CHARLES ROBINSON
i9i
^___ tion. The printers also, Messrs.
'1 y Gilbert & Rivington, deserve praise
^^^^^-^-^^^ f°r their share : the portrait studies,
mtJ/jMj^- plate XXII. especially, are excellent
impressions. Altogether, the com-
mon-sense criticism of the so-called
^J£: composite views, with a very drastic
\\ Wr' warning against skies taken at one
rfgM) time of day being fitted to fore-
grounds taken at quite another,
^fe&^.v predispose one to rank the book
^m^^f highly. For common-sense is, or
^PfifL should be, as closely allied to art as
V \Wil t0 science) and the clear advice
' ) mingled with formulae and statistics
is really far more worthy of the
' ' somewhat ambitious title than many
a treatise which has phrased its utter-
ance in more pompous manner.
-((I A Childs Garden of Verses.
• If By R. L. Stevenson. Illustrated
' by Charles Robinson. (London :
Tohn Lane.)—In The Studio for
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES" (JOHN LANE).
DESIGN BY CHARLES ROBINSON
to say in praise of this book, and yet the
standard of excellence in composition and
pictorial arrangement which it sets up is
not a very high one. No painter would
have chosen so curious a group as Frith
(in the Derby Day), Leighton (in the S.K.
frescoes), George Morland, Millet, Colin
Hunter, and Gustave Dore. Not that the
works of any of the past or present artists
here named are unworthy the study of a
photographic artist, but they are a very
oddly selected batch. Still perhaps it was
wiser for the authors to select familiar
examples, which they had themselves
studied, and with which their audience
would be probably well acquainted. The
whole book is clearly written and minute
in its practical advice. The illustrations
are entirely satisfactory. One of Hammer-
smith Bridge in the great frost, and another
of Venice, reflect credit alike on the photo-
grapher, who is not named, and on Messrs.
Swain, who produced the blocks in que.- "THE CHILD'S GARDEN 0F VERSES " <JOHN LANE)-
r 1 DESIGN BY CHARLES ROBINSON
i9i