DOI Heft:
No. 40 (July, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Reviews of recent publications
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0139
Reviews of Recent Publications
written here and published must necessarily suffer
when removed from the surroundings amid which
the lectures were delivered, and that to present it
to an audience no longer consisting of his own
pupils can hardly fail to make some part of his
work more or less unintelligible. This conviction
of his will be felt to be true by every one who
reads the lectures. They require a special atmos-
phere and a particular setting. As they stand they
are only moderately helpful to the general public.
They are evidently written by a man who has
strong and definite convictions on art questions,
but we feel the need of his personal illustrations
and of an actual knowledge of his individual modes
of work to appreciate the force of his arguments
and the meaning of his phrases. The book is, in a
word, too limited in its motive and too local in its
application to quite justify publication on both
sides of the Atlantic.
The Compleat Angler by Walton and Cotton.
Edited by Richard Le Gallienne. Illustrated
by E. H. New. (London : John Lane.) Paris
I., II., and III., is. each.—It would have been
difficult to have selected an artist to illustrate this
work more entirely in sympathy with it than Mr.
New is proving himself to be. In the scenes in
and around Waltham which are figured in the early
chapters there is much tender drawing and pleasant
distribution of parts. The drawing of the Bull's
Head Hotel at Turnford, which we here reproduce,
may be accepted as a fair example of the illustrations.
This edition shows every promise of being one of
the most desirable to possess of this quaint and
admirable work.
The England of To-Day. From the Portuguese
of Oliveira Martins. Translated by C J. Will-
day. Price 55. (London : George Allen.)—Eng-
lishmen are curious to learn the opinions of other
people upon their national characteristics, and are
not unduly sensitive when the foreign critic speaks
of their foibles and defects.
The series of works " As Others see Us/' pro-
mised by Mr. George Allen—a series consisting ot
" Impressions of England and of English Life by
various Continental Authors "—will be a welcome
one, although it must be admitted that the first
volume is not particularly edifying.
Mr. Oliveira Martins is not a flatterer. We have
written here and published must necessarily suffer
when removed from the surroundings amid which
the lectures were delivered, and that to present it
to an audience no longer consisting of his own
pupils can hardly fail to make some part of his
work more or less unintelligible. This conviction
of his will be felt to be true by every one who
reads the lectures. They require a special atmos-
phere and a particular setting. As they stand they
are only moderately helpful to the general public.
They are evidently written by a man who has
strong and definite convictions on art questions,
but we feel the need of his personal illustrations
and of an actual knowledge of his individual modes
of work to appreciate the force of his arguments
and the meaning of his phrases. The book is, in a
word, too limited in its motive and too local in its
application to quite justify publication on both
sides of the Atlantic.
The Compleat Angler by Walton and Cotton.
Edited by Richard Le Gallienne. Illustrated
by E. H. New. (London : John Lane.) Paris
I., II., and III., is. each.—It would have been
difficult to have selected an artist to illustrate this
work more entirely in sympathy with it than Mr.
New is proving himself to be. In the scenes in
and around Waltham which are figured in the early
chapters there is much tender drawing and pleasant
distribution of parts. The drawing of the Bull's
Head Hotel at Turnford, which we here reproduce,
may be accepted as a fair example of the illustrations.
This edition shows every promise of being one of
the most desirable to possess of this quaint and
admirable work.
The England of To-Day. From the Portuguese
of Oliveira Martins. Translated by C J. Will-
day. Price 55. (London : George Allen.)—Eng-
lishmen are curious to learn the opinions of other
people upon their national characteristics, and are
not unduly sensitive when the foreign critic speaks
of their foibles and defects.
The series of works " As Others see Us/' pro-
mised by Mr. George Allen—a series consisting ot
" Impressions of England and of English Life by
various Continental Authors "—will be a welcome
one, although it must be admitted that the first
volume is not particularly edifying.
Mr. Oliveira Martins is not a flatterer. We have