DOI Heft:
No. 57 (December 1897)
DOI Artikel:Reviews of recent publications
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18390#0245
Reviews of Recent Publications
several colours ; An t><>rd
des Schooners^ Durango,
by Professor Carlos (irethe ;
and an effective landscape,
Das Thai, by (i. Gamper.
Main' of the plates arc well
worth framing, and the
whole scries is an excellent
witness to the perfection at
which the lithographic art
has arrived in Germany.
The Secret Rose. By W.
B. Yeats. With Illustra-
tions by J. B, Yeats.
(London: Lawrence& Bul-
len.)—No one who looks at
the illustrations of The
Seeret Rose with the know
ledge that they are the work
of the author's father, can
doubt for a moment whence
Mr. Yeats inherits his gift
of imaginative vision, and
it is this endowment of the
seer which gives to the
volume its peculiar distinc-
tion and charm. Of each
little story it may be said
that it has the satisfying
completeness of a poetic
idyll, often sorrowful, but
always suggestive; while
PRINTED VELVET. " PERVENCHES" BY FELIX AUBERT tllC Pctals °f tllC R°SC 1111
(See Paris Studio-Talk) fold their fragrance and
their sweet glory of colour,
a window opens out of the
win.)—The history of Italian Architecture from the home' of the visible into the universe of the un-
sixth to the eleventh century is one which exhibits seen ; and these slight stories, woven, it may be, of
many notable developments, both of structure and Irish tradition, are not unworthy of comparison
ornament. The author, in dealing with this important with those old fairy tales which are the outcome of
subject, treats firstly upon the Latin-Barbarian Archi- the poetry of all nations, the growth of centuries,
tecture during the Lombard rule, and then proceeds Canterbury Cathedral. By the Very Rev. Dean
to discuss the influence of the Byzantine upon Italian Fremantle. (London: Isbister & Co., Ld.) Price
art, reserving to Architecture on the Lagoons and in is. net.—Simultaneously with the excellent Cathe
Venetia separate chapters. He has brought much dral Series now being issued by Messrs. Bell & Sons,
close observation and intelligent criticism to bear a dainty collection of handbooks to Cathedrals is
upon his subject, and, if the illustrations which being published by Messrs. Esbister & Co. We do
accompany the text are somewhat marred in effect not care to venture upon a comparison between the
by over-reduction, they are, at least, well selected. two. Both are excellent, and possess points of ad
Ltthographieen. 1897. (Karlsruhe: E. Kundt). vantage over each other. The volume under review
Inis is a larg< portfolio containing twelve litho- is charmingly illustrated throughout with pen-and
graphs mounted upon cards. Among these may ink sketches bv W. Lapworth. Other volumes are
V»"nl
be especially mentioned a fine drawing, Auch Eine pictured by Herbert Railton, Alexander Anstec1
K*onex by Heinrich Heyne, an interesting study in and F. (i. Kitton. The artistic presentment ol
201
several colours ; An t><>rd
des Schooners^ Durango,
by Professor Carlos (irethe ;
and an effective landscape,
Das Thai, by (i. Gamper.
Main' of the plates arc well
worth framing, and the
whole scries is an excellent
witness to the perfection at
which the lithographic art
has arrived in Germany.
The Secret Rose. By W.
B. Yeats. With Illustra-
tions by J. B, Yeats.
(London: Lawrence& Bul-
len.)—No one who looks at
the illustrations of The
Seeret Rose with the know
ledge that they are the work
of the author's father, can
doubt for a moment whence
Mr. Yeats inherits his gift
of imaginative vision, and
it is this endowment of the
seer which gives to the
volume its peculiar distinc-
tion and charm. Of each
little story it may be said
that it has the satisfying
completeness of a poetic
idyll, often sorrowful, but
always suggestive; while
PRINTED VELVET. " PERVENCHES" BY FELIX AUBERT tllC Pctals °f tllC R°SC 1111
(See Paris Studio-Talk) fold their fragrance and
their sweet glory of colour,
a window opens out of the
win.)—The history of Italian Architecture from the home' of the visible into the universe of the un-
sixth to the eleventh century is one which exhibits seen ; and these slight stories, woven, it may be, of
many notable developments, both of structure and Irish tradition, are not unworthy of comparison
ornament. The author, in dealing with this important with those old fairy tales which are the outcome of
subject, treats firstly upon the Latin-Barbarian Archi- the poetry of all nations, the growth of centuries,
tecture during the Lombard rule, and then proceeds Canterbury Cathedral. By the Very Rev. Dean
to discuss the influence of the Byzantine upon Italian Fremantle. (London: Isbister & Co., Ld.) Price
art, reserving to Architecture on the Lagoons and in is. net.—Simultaneously with the excellent Cathe
Venetia separate chapters. He has brought much dral Series now being issued by Messrs. Bell & Sons,
close observation and intelligent criticism to bear a dainty collection of handbooks to Cathedrals is
upon his subject, and, if the illustrations which being published by Messrs. Esbister & Co. We do
accompany the text are somewhat marred in effect not care to venture upon a comparison between the
by over-reduction, they are, at least, well selected. two. Both are excellent, and possess points of ad
Ltthographieen. 1897. (Karlsruhe: E. Kundt). vantage over each other. The volume under review
Inis is a larg< portfolio containing twelve litho- is charmingly illustrated throughout with pen-and
graphs mounted upon cards. Among these may ink sketches bv W. Lapworth. Other volumes are
V»"nl
be especially mentioned a fine drawing, Auch Eine pictured by Herbert Railton, Alexander Anstec1
K*onex by Heinrich Heyne, an interesting study in and F. (i. Kitton. The artistic presentment ol
201