DOI issue:
No. 94 (January, 1901)
DOI article:Reviews
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19786#0314
Reviews
issue a further publication dealing more fully with
this branch of art. Some useful chapters dealing
with the technicalities of the classes of needlework
referred to have been written by Mrs. Head and
added to the book, which is further embellished by
a large number of illustrations of old samplers,
reproduced by the well-known three-colour process,
which, inadequate as it is for the finest class of
colour printing, is well suited to the present
purpose. The volume has an attractive and
appropriately designed cover, and is beautifully
printed throughout.
Physiog7iomische Sttidien. By Albert Boree.
(Stuttgart : Julius Hoffmann.)—The idea of this
book is excellent, and it is carried out with a
thoroughness typically German. It consists of one
hundred and nineteen autotype studies of a single
face. Every emotion, one might say every shade
of emotion, is represented. The model from whom
the photographs have been taken is certainly a
master of facial expression, and the photographs
themselves are so clear that they should be of real
service to artists. The text is very brief, but
nevertheless of real value. Most of the illustrations
are taken when the model is supposed to be de-
claiming a passage from a classical play, such as
" Romeo and Juliet," Schiller's " Tell," and " Mimra
von Barnhelm." In addition there are notes on
the position of various- muscles at particular
moments of passion, mirth, or distress. The book
is certainly worth the attention of the audience for
whom it has been prepared.
Tiberitis's Villa and ot/ter Roman Buildings on the
Isle of Capri. Expounded and illustrated by C.
Weichardt. (Leipzig : K. F. Koehler. London :
Th. Wohlleben.)—This work is mainly devoted to
an attempt to picture the original condition of the
Villa Jovis, on the Isle of Capri, once the resi-
dence of the Emperor Tiberius. The few remains
which exist of the actual palace are sufficiently
recognisable to enable the ground-plan of this his-
torical building to be traced; and the author's know-
ledge of the contemporaneous Roman work has
enabled him to build up in fancy a structure for
which he claims, at least, a " strong probability of
accurate results." His book is illustrated by
numerous photographs, plans and sketches, besides
some ornamental head-pieces and borders designed
in Roman style by the author's pupils at the Royal
Academy of Arts, Leipzig.
The Chronicle of a Cornish Garden. By Harry
Roberts. Illustrations by F. L. B. Griggs.
(London and New York: John Lane.)—This
excellent little work describes the formation of a
282
small Cornish garden and of the changing work
required in it, and of its condition throughout the
seasons of the year. It is not only practical, but it
possesses a pleasant literary flavour which renders
it doubly acceptable to those who are sincere lovers
of Nature, and take delight in observing intelli-
gently all its varied moods. It is a worthy com-
panion to the gardening works of Dean Hole,
Ellwanger, Ellacombe, and Earle. Mr. Griggs'
illustrations are ideal, and are not supposed to
represent any existing garden. They are, how-
ever, drawn with excellent judgment and skill, and
are by no means impossible presentments.
Tagebuch-Aufzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1866,
1868,1869 iiber Arnold Bocklin. By Rudolf Schick.
—This is a deeply interesting and in some respects
a unique book. It is a journal, not of the expe-
riences of the author, but of his life where it
happened to touch that of another whose person-
ality overpowered his own. Rudolf Schick, an
artist who died young, with all his enthusiasms
still undamped, was to Arnold Bocklin what
Eckermann was to Goethe, or Boswell to Johnson,
and he considered nothing connected with his hero
too trivial to record. As winner of the Govern-
ment prize for the best historical painting, Schick
went to Rome in 1864, and was there introduced to
Bocklin, who was at that time still fighting his hard
battle against prejudice, and had not yet won the
fame so soon to come to him. The young German
student, however, who at once recognised in him
a master spirit, begged to be allowed to become
his pupil : and once admitted to his studio, he never
failed to jot down day by day his master's pithy
remarks, whether on art in general or on the mode
of mixing colours, &c. Although Schick himself
was a man of no mean gifts, his poetic landscapes
and able portraits winning him considerable recog-
nition, he rarely alludes in these notes to any work
of his own, but completely merges his individuality
in that of his teacher. When Bocklin removed to
Basel, and began the wonderful series of frescoes
in the Museum there, he missed his pupil so much
that he persuaded Schick to join him, and the old
intercourse was resumed, with the same results :
daily records of the progress of the master, with
the minutest possible information as to his views
on fresco painting. On the death of the younger
artist in 1887 this journal was found amongst his
papers, but it was not until the year 1900 that it
was rescued from oblivion, and issued in its present
form by Hugo von Tschudi. It is a pity that the
thumb-nail sketches are of so inferior a character ;
they convey absolutely no idea of the work of
issue a further publication dealing more fully with
this branch of art. Some useful chapters dealing
with the technicalities of the classes of needlework
referred to have been written by Mrs. Head and
added to the book, which is further embellished by
a large number of illustrations of old samplers,
reproduced by the well-known three-colour process,
which, inadequate as it is for the finest class of
colour printing, is well suited to the present
purpose. The volume has an attractive and
appropriately designed cover, and is beautifully
printed throughout.
Physiog7iomische Sttidien. By Albert Boree.
(Stuttgart : Julius Hoffmann.)—The idea of this
book is excellent, and it is carried out with a
thoroughness typically German. It consists of one
hundred and nineteen autotype studies of a single
face. Every emotion, one might say every shade
of emotion, is represented. The model from whom
the photographs have been taken is certainly a
master of facial expression, and the photographs
themselves are so clear that they should be of real
service to artists. The text is very brief, but
nevertheless of real value. Most of the illustrations
are taken when the model is supposed to be de-
claiming a passage from a classical play, such as
" Romeo and Juliet," Schiller's " Tell," and " Mimra
von Barnhelm." In addition there are notes on
the position of various- muscles at particular
moments of passion, mirth, or distress. The book
is certainly worth the attention of the audience for
whom it has been prepared.
Tiberitis's Villa and ot/ter Roman Buildings on the
Isle of Capri. Expounded and illustrated by C.
Weichardt. (Leipzig : K. F. Koehler. London :
Th. Wohlleben.)—This work is mainly devoted to
an attempt to picture the original condition of the
Villa Jovis, on the Isle of Capri, once the resi-
dence of the Emperor Tiberius. The few remains
which exist of the actual palace are sufficiently
recognisable to enable the ground-plan of this his-
torical building to be traced; and the author's know-
ledge of the contemporaneous Roman work has
enabled him to build up in fancy a structure for
which he claims, at least, a " strong probability of
accurate results." His book is illustrated by
numerous photographs, plans and sketches, besides
some ornamental head-pieces and borders designed
in Roman style by the author's pupils at the Royal
Academy of Arts, Leipzig.
The Chronicle of a Cornish Garden. By Harry
Roberts. Illustrations by F. L. B. Griggs.
(London and New York: John Lane.)—This
excellent little work describes the formation of a
282
small Cornish garden and of the changing work
required in it, and of its condition throughout the
seasons of the year. It is not only practical, but it
possesses a pleasant literary flavour which renders
it doubly acceptable to those who are sincere lovers
of Nature, and take delight in observing intelli-
gently all its varied moods. It is a worthy com-
panion to the gardening works of Dean Hole,
Ellwanger, Ellacombe, and Earle. Mr. Griggs'
illustrations are ideal, and are not supposed to
represent any existing garden. They are, how-
ever, drawn with excellent judgment and skill, and
are by no means impossible presentments.
Tagebuch-Aufzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1866,
1868,1869 iiber Arnold Bocklin. By Rudolf Schick.
—This is a deeply interesting and in some respects
a unique book. It is a journal, not of the expe-
riences of the author, but of his life where it
happened to touch that of another whose person-
ality overpowered his own. Rudolf Schick, an
artist who died young, with all his enthusiasms
still undamped, was to Arnold Bocklin what
Eckermann was to Goethe, or Boswell to Johnson,
and he considered nothing connected with his hero
too trivial to record. As winner of the Govern-
ment prize for the best historical painting, Schick
went to Rome in 1864, and was there introduced to
Bocklin, who was at that time still fighting his hard
battle against prejudice, and had not yet won the
fame so soon to come to him. The young German
student, however, who at once recognised in him
a master spirit, begged to be allowed to become
his pupil : and once admitted to his studio, he never
failed to jot down day by day his master's pithy
remarks, whether on art in general or on the mode
of mixing colours, &c. Although Schick himself
was a man of no mean gifts, his poetic landscapes
and able portraits winning him considerable recog-
nition, he rarely alludes in these notes to any work
of his own, but completely merges his individuality
in that of his teacher. When Bocklin removed to
Basel, and began the wonderful series of frescoes
in the Museum there, he missed his pupil so much
that he persuaded Schick to join him, and the old
intercourse was resumed, with the same results :
daily records of the progress of the master, with
the minutest possible information as to his views
on fresco painting. On the death of the younger
artist in 1887 this journal was found amongst his
papers, but it was not until the year 1900 that it
was rescued from oblivion, and issued in its present
form by Hugo von Tschudi. It is a pity that the
thumb-nail sketches are of so inferior a character ;
they convey absolutely no idea of the work of