DOI issue:
No. 81 (December, 1899)
DOI article:Reviews of recent publications
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0239
Reviews of Recent Publications
The Suitors of Aprille. By
Norman Garstin. Illustrated by
Charles Robinson. (London and
New York : John Lane.) Price
3s. 6d.—Newlyn, so long well
known as the home of a certain
school of painters, seems likely
to become also famous for its
authors. Mr. Garstin's excellent
notes and articles on art matters
will be familiar to readers of The
Studio. The Suitors of Aprille
is a charmingly told tale, and
Mr. Robinson's illustrations, as
may be seen from the one here
reproduced, are of that excellent
quality we are accustomed to find
in his work.
Wee Folk and Good Folk; being
Child Stories for Older Folk. By
L. Allen Harker. With illus-
trations by Bernard Partridge.
(London: Duckworth & Co.)
Price y. 6d.—The many readers
of The Outlook have already made
triends with six of these charming
stories, but one and all of us will
be glad to find them tastefully
bound into a volume, together with
four new stories and two more re-
prints. Mr. Partridge's illustra-
tions have character, although the
line, as is usual in this artist's work,
is somewhat "scratchy." drawing by ckarles robinson
The Book of the Art of Cennino from The Suitors of Aprille (john lane)
Cennini. A Contemporary Prac-
tical Treatise on Quattrocento
Painting. Translated from the Italian, with Notes pera, early oil painting, grounds and size, gilding,
of Mediasval Art Methods, by Christina J. Her- early varnishes, and so forth. The book is really
ringham. (London : George Allen.)—Miss Her- an exceedingly learned and valuable one, and one
ringham has certainly performed a most useful work which artists and art craftsmen will find not only
in giving us a full and correct translation from the useful but amusing. There are some quaint con-
Florentine MSS. of this remarkable treatise. The ceits in the Traltato itself. Cennini goes into all
translator says that she has really used the treatise manner of technicalities. He tells how to make a
to learn tempera painting, and has tried to find pen for the purpose of drawing, how to grind
out by its aid how to produce the various effects colours, how to colour drapery in fresco, and a
of fifteenth-century painting. In two prefatory hundred or two things besides. He also gives
chapters Miss Herringham discourses interestingly sage advice on such recondite matters as to why
on the author of the Trattato and the pedigree women should abstain from using medicated waters
of the Trattato, and in a series of informing on their skins, and how to clean and wash off
chapters which follow the translation of Cennino pigments from the human face. Altogether, this
Cennini's treatise, she deals with mediasval art book is good sport.
methods generally — the chemical behaviour of Greek Terra-cotta Statuettes : Their Origin,
egg-vehicles, fresco and its resemblance to tern- Evolution, and Uses. By Marcus B. Huisit,
214
The Suitors of Aprille. By
Norman Garstin. Illustrated by
Charles Robinson. (London and
New York : John Lane.) Price
3s. 6d.—Newlyn, so long well
known as the home of a certain
school of painters, seems likely
to become also famous for its
authors. Mr. Garstin's excellent
notes and articles on art matters
will be familiar to readers of The
Studio. The Suitors of Aprille
is a charmingly told tale, and
Mr. Robinson's illustrations, as
may be seen from the one here
reproduced, are of that excellent
quality we are accustomed to find
in his work.
Wee Folk and Good Folk; being
Child Stories for Older Folk. By
L. Allen Harker. With illus-
trations by Bernard Partridge.
(London: Duckworth & Co.)
Price y. 6d.—The many readers
of The Outlook have already made
triends with six of these charming
stories, but one and all of us will
be glad to find them tastefully
bound into a volume, together with
four new stories and two more re-
prints. Mr. Partridge's illustra-
tions have character, although the
line, as is usual in this artist's work,
is somewhat "scratchy." drawing by ckarles robinson
The Book of the Art of Cennino from The Suitors of Aprille (john lane)
Cennini. A Contemporary Prac-
tical Treatise on Quattrocento
Painting. Translated from the Italian, with Notes pera, early oil painting, grounds and size, gilding,
of Mediasval Art Methods, by Christina J. Her- early varnishes, and so forth. The book is really
ringham. (London : George Allen.)—Miss Her- an exceedingly learned and valuable one, and one
ringham has certainly performed a most useful work which artists and art craftsmen will find not only
in giving us a full and correct translation from the useful but amusing. There are some quaint con-
Florentine MSS. of this remarkable treatise. The ceits in the Traltato itself. Cennini goes into all
translator says that she has really used the treatise manner of technicalities. He tells how to make a
to learn tempera painting, and has tried to find pen for the purpose of drawing, how to grind
out by its aid how to produce the various effects colours, how to colour drapery in fresco, and a
of fifteenth-century painting. In two prefatory hundred or two things besides. He also gives
chapters Miss Herringham discourses interestingly sage advice on such recondite matters as to why
on the author of the Trattato and the pedigree women should abstain from using medicated waters
of the Trattato, and in a series of informing on their skins, and how to clean and wash off
chapters which follow the translation of Cennino pigments from the human face. Altogether, this
Cennini's treatise, she deals with mediasval art book is good sport.
methods generally — the chemical behaviour of Greek Terra-cotta Statuettes : Their Origin,
egg-vehicles, fresco and its resemblance to tern- Evolution, and Uses. By Marcus B. Huisit,
214