DOI issue:
No. 94 (January, 1901)
DOI article:Reviews
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19786#0315
Reviews
Bbcklin, and serve rather to mislead the student
than to elucidate the text.
Cameos. By Cyril Davenport, F.S.A. (London:
Seeley & Co., Ltd.) Price js. net.—The excellent
series of monographs on artistic subjects which
Messrs. Seeley & Co. have published has received
it is in many respects a " record" publication.
The illustrations by E. Doepler, which appear
on every page, are not only powerful in design
and execution, reflecting much credit upon
the artist, but they are also excellently repro-
duced and printed. This is another instance
ILLUSTRATION BY WILLIAM HYDE FROM "THE CINQUE PORTS" (LONDON : BLACKWOOD & SONS)
a welcome addition in Mr. Cyril Davenport's work
on Cameos. Liberally illustrated by coloured and
other photo-engravings, mainly from examples in
the British Museum, the result is a handbook
alike attractive in appearance and valuable to the
amateur and collector.
Walhatt, die Gotterwelt der Germanen. By
E. Doepler and Dr. W. Ranisch. (Berlin : Martin
Oldenbourg.)—The application of coloured illus-
tration to the decoration of books has made a
most remarkable advance in recent years. A new
impetus has undoubtedly been given to such illus-
tration by the newly discovered photo-mechanical
methods which, month by month, appear to attain
a greater state of perfection. The Walhall is
probably the most important book which has yet
been illustrated by these latter-day methods, and
of the great strides in art which are now being
made in Germany.
The Cinque Ports. By Ford Maddox Hueffer.
Illustrated by William Hyde. (London : W.
Blackwood & Sons.) Price, ^3 3s. net.—The
author treats his subject historically and descrip-
tively, and he draws many morals, some of which
are good and some not altogether evident. In his
contemplative moods he is inclined at times to be
melancholy ; but he is, on the whole, an agreeable
and instructive cicerone, and a lover of the five
ports—any or all of them—will find profit and
pleasure in the perusal of his book. Mr. Hyde's
romantic landscape illustrations are admirable.
The fourteen photogravure plates are excellent
reproductions of distinguished drawings, while the
numerous text illustrations fulfil their purpose. By
283
Bbcklin, and serve rather to mislead the student
than to elucidate the text.
Cameos. By Cyril Davenport, F.S.A. (London:
Seeley & Co., Ltd.) Price js. net.—The excellent
series of monographs on artistic subjects which
Messrs. Seeley & Co. have published has received
it is in many respects a " record" publication.
The illustrations by E. Doepler, which appear
on every page, are not only powerful in design
and execution, reflecting much credit upon
the artist, but they are also excellently repro-
duced and printed. This is another instance
ILLUSTRATION BY WILLIAM HYDE FROM "THE CINQUE PORTS" (LONDON : BLACKWOOD & SONS)
a welcome addition in Mr. Cyril Davenport's work
on Cameos. Liberally illustrated by coloured and
other photo-engravings, mainly from examples in
the British Museum, the result is a handbook
alike attractive in appearance and valuable to the
amateur and collector.
Walhatt, die Gotterwelt der Germanen. By
E. Doepler and Dr. W. Ranisch. (Berlin : Martin
Oldenbourg.)—The application of coloured illus-
tration to the decoration of books has made a
most remarkable advance in recent years. A new
impetus has undoubtedly been given to such illus-
tration by the newly discovered photo-mechanical
methods which, month by month, appear to attain
a greater state of perfection. The Walhall is
probably the most important book which has yet
been illustrated by these latter-day methods, and
of the great strides in art which are now being
made in Germany.
The Cinque Ports. By Ford Maddox Hueffer.
Illustrated by William Hyde. (London : W.
Blackwood & Sons.) Price, ^3 3s. net.—The
author treats his subject historically and descrip-
tively, and he draws many morals, some of which
are good and some not altogether evident. In his
contemplative moods he is inclined at times to be
melancholy ; but he is, on the whole, an agreeable
and instructive cicerone, and a lover of the five
ports—any or all of them—will find profit and
pleasure in the perusal of his book. Mr. Hyde's
romantic landscape illustrations are admirable.
The fourteen photogravure plates are excellent
reproductions of distinguished drawings, while the
numerous text illustrations fulfil their purpose. By
283