DOI Heft:
No. 48 (March, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Reviews of recent publications
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0147
Reviews of Recent Publications
Songs of Love and
Death. By Margaret
Armour. (London:
J. M. Dent & Co.)—
A charming little vol-
ume of verses illus-
trated in a decorative
manner by W. B. Mac-
Dougall whose work is
most quaint and
modern in character.
The example here re-
produced by permis-
sion of the publishers is
an excellent specimen
of the artist's style.
Ex Libris. Essays
of a Collector. By
Charles Dexter
Allen. (Boston and
New York: Lamson,
Wolffe & Co.)—Price
$3 net. The author
has succeeded in mak-
ing a most readable
book. French, Eng-
lish, and American
bookplates are in turn
treated upon in a
chatty, pleasant style,
and the work should
be an extremely popu-
lar one among ama-
teurs of this particular
form of art. The pub-
lishers are also to be
congratulated upon the
tasteful appearance of
the volume. Letter-
drawing by w. b. macdougall from " songs of love and death " preSS, illustrations, and
(j. m. dent and co.) binding, are alike ex-
cellent.
letterpress is introduced by a long preface, written The Photographic Salon, 1S96. (London:
in a vein of very heavy humour, with lengthy reasons Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co.)—21j. The
for the publication of the work. The author also eighteen excellent photogravure reproductions of
expounds his views of the artistic production of photographs in the recent Salon Exhibition, which
books, which would be more impressive if the constitute the contents of this handsome portfolio,
specimen before us did not suffice to prove their form an acceptable memento of the show held last
complete fatuity. The original poems and stories autumn in London. Especially noteworthy are Re-
are mostly poor; but Herr Bierbaun, who published quiem, by A. H. Hinton,^4 Dutch Girl, by A. Maskell,
a monograph upon each of the two painters years and Tlie Mall, by E. Callard. It is to be regretted,
ago, discourses pleasantly enough of Fritz von Uhde however, that the work does not include at least one
and Arnold Boecklin. The best number in the book example by Mr. Craig Annan, the excellence of whose
is a prettily told marchen entitled "Lobetanz." work at the Exhibition was especially noticeable.
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Songs of Love and
Death. By Margaret
Armour. (London:
J. M. Dent & Co.)—
A charming little vol-
ume of verses illus-
trated in a decorative
manner by W. B. Mac-
Dougall whose work is
most quaint and
modern in character.
The example here re-
produced by permis-
sion of the publishers is
an excellent specimen
of the artist's style.
Ex Libris. Essays
of a Collector. By
Charles Dexter
Allen. (Boston and
New York: Lamson,
Wolffe & Co.)—Price
$3 net. The author
has succeeded in mak-
ing a most readable
book. French, Eng-
lish, and American
bookplates are in turn
treated upon in a
chatty, pleasant style,
and the work should
be an extremely popu-
lar one among ama-
teurs of this particular
form of art. The pub-
lishers are also to be
congratulated upon the
tasteful appearance of
the volume. Letter-
drawing by w. b. macdougall from " songs of love and death " preSS, illustrations, and
(j. m. dent and co.) binding, are alike ex-
cellent.
letterpress is introduced by a long preface, written The Photographic Salon, 1S96. (London:
in a vein of very heavy humour, with lengthy reasons Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co.)—21j. The
for the publication of the work. The author also eighteen excellent photogravure reproductions of
expounds his views of the artistic production of photographs in the recent Salon Exhibition, which
books, which would be more impressive if the constitute the contents of this handsome portfolio,
specimen before us did not suffice to prove their form an acceptable memento of the show held last
complete fatuity. The original poems and stories autumn in London. Especially noteworthy are Re-
are mostly poor; but Herr Bierbaun, who published quiem, by A. H. Hinton,^4 Dutch Girl, by A. Maskell,
a monograph upon each of the two painters years and Tlie Mall, by E. Callard. It is to be regretted,
ago, discourses pleasantly enough of Fritz von Uhde however, that the work does not include at least one
and Arnold Boecklin. The best number in the book example by Mr. Craig Annan, the excellence of whose
is a prettily told marchen entitled "Lobetanz." work at the Exhibition was especially noticeable.
141