DOI Heft:
No. 34 (January, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Reviews of recent publications
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0274
Reviews of Recent Publications
most delightful guide to a district dear to artists, has designed this little work throughout with con-
would suffice to bring it within the reach of a cor- sistency, and we heartily congratulate him upon the
dial welcome in an art magazine, the sixty-three artistic feeling he has displayed in the arrangement
illustrations by Walter Crane and the eight etchings of each page.
by Heywood Sumner entitle it to be considered More Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights.
an art book. Mr. Crane's illustrations, issued in Edited by E. Dixon. Illustrated by J. D. Batten.
1862, are currently said to be the earliest published (London : J. M. Dent & Co.)—Well printed in a
work by the artist, then in his teens. They are of clear, readable type on good paper. The illustra-
exceptional interest as the first attempt to revive tions by Mr. Batten include many full-page
the interpretation of landscape in the spirit of drawings reproduced by photogravure, and they
Bewick, since the followers of that great English are in every respect excellent.
wood-engraver abandoned the method. Not that Programme of Technological Examinations,
they are imitations of Bewick, but, engraved by 1895-6. (London : Whittaker & Co. 10^.)—This
W. J. Linton, they exhibit the white line which formidable pamphlet of 174 plus cxxxix. pages is proof
"ETCHING IN ENGLAND" (BELL AND RONS) "WINDMILL HILL" BY SIR F. SEYMOUR HA DEN
he has also so strongly championed. Now the of the far-reaching intentions of the City and Guilds
book is available at a reasonable price, all lovers of the London Institute. To discuss adequately its
of illustration ought to get a copy. Mr. Walter treatment of the sixty-five subjects it sets for exami-
Crane's 'prentice work is no less delightful than nation would need a committee of experts, and a
that of his toy-book period, or his latest decorations volume of The Studio for the report. The
for the Kelmscott Press; and in looking at these thoroughly practical aspect of the enterprise is
again we realise how early the decorative instinct, evident, and testing it by those subjects on which
then entirely opposed to popular ideals, manifested one happens to be more or less well-informed, it
itself in all he did. comes out bravely. As fine art cannot exist apart
Good Night. By Dollie Radford. With from good craft, it is a most hopeful augury that
Designs by Louis Davis. (London : David Nutt. the preliminary education of the people should be
Price 2S. 6d.)—Sweet and simple rhymes for young at last so well managed as this programme shows
children, with delightful illustrations. Mr. Davis it to be
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most delightful guide to a district dear to artists, has designed this little work throughout with con-
would suffice to bring it within the reach of a cor- sistency, and we heartily congratulate him upon the
dial welcome in an art magazine, the sixty-three artistic feeling he has displayed in the arrangement
illustrations by Walter Crane and the eight etchings of each page.
by Heywood Sumner entitle it to be considered More Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights.
an art book. Mr. Crane's illustrations, issued in Edited by E. Dixon. Illustrated by J. D. Batten.
1862, are currently said to be the earliest published (London : J. M. Dent & Co.)—Well printed in a
work by the artist, then in his teens. They are of clear, readable type on good paper. The illustra-
exceptional interest as the first attempt to revive tions by Mr. Batten include many full-page
the interpretation of landscape in the spirit of drawings reproduced by photogravure, and they
Bewick, since the followers of that great English are in every respect excellent.
wood-engraver abandoned the method. Not that Programme of Technological Examinations,
they are imitations of Bewick, but, engraved by 1895-6. (London : Whittaker & Co. 10^.)—This
W. J. Linton, they exhibit the white line which formidable pamphlet of 174 plus cxxxix. pages is proof
"ETCHING IN ENGLAND" (BELL AND RONS) "WINDMILL HILL" BY SIR F. SEYMOUR HA DEN
he has also so strongly championed. Now the of the far-reaching intentions of the City and Guilds
book is available at a reasonable price, all lovers of the London Institute. To discuss adequately its
of illustration ought to get a copy. Mr. Walter treatment of the sixty-five subjects it sets for exami-
Crane's 'prentice work is no less delightful than nation would need a committee of experts, and a
that of his toy-book period, or his latest decorations volume of The Studio for the report. The
for the Kelmscott Press; and in looking at these thoroughly practical aspect of the enterprise is
again we realise how early the decorative instinct, evident, and testing it by those subjects on which
then entirely opposed to popular ideals, manifested one happens to be more or less well-informed, it
itself in all he did. comes out bravely. As fine art cannot exist apart
Good Night. By Dollie Radford. With from good craft, it is a most hopeful augury that
Designs by Louis Davis. (London : David Nutt. the preliminary education of the people should be
Price 2S. 6d.)—Sweet and simple rhymes for young at last so well managed as this programme shows
children, with delightful illustrations. Mr. Davis it to be
257