DOI Heft:
No. 107 (February, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Reviews
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19875#0081
Reviews
been exercised in the choice of type and in the
arrangement of the pages. The fount employed
for the text is altogether out of harmony with the
character of the illustrations, the head-lines, and
the titles. The repetition ad nauseam of the full-
page fancy border surrounding the title of each
picture is positively offensive, not on account of
the repetition only, but also because it is a border
evidently designed to surround a page of text, and
not a simple title. Drawings of the character of
those by Messrs. Nieuwenkamp and Veldheer are
only satisfactory for book illustrations when the
selection of type and the arrangement of page
harmonise with them.
Modernes Kunstgewerbe. Ueber Kunst der JVeu-
zeit. Heft VI. By W. Fred. (Strasburg : J. H. E.
Heitz.) Price 2s. 6d.—In this slender volume of
essays Herr Fred gives a lucid and comprehensive
survey of the condition and tendencies of the
artistic crafts. Starting from the last Paris Ex-
hibition, he passes in review the influences
beginning with Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites,
which find expression to-day in Ashbee's furniture,
Tiffany's glass, or Obrist's embroideries. His
appreciation of England's position in the van of
the movement towards beauty in daily life is
gratifying, and his studies of the work of English-
men, especially that of Mr. C. R. Ashbee, are very
sympathetic. A writer so familiar with England
should not, however, have put the Isle of Man
in Scotland nor misspelt English names, such as
Makkail, Ralph Caldecott, etc. The article on
Van de Velde is especially good, showing a
thorough artist and a thorough modern, delighting
in the machinery contemned of Ruskin.
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Porc, and The
Lotus Eaters, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, with
decorations by T. R. R. P. (London : Gay & Bird),
3J-. 6d. each net, or printed on vellum 10s. 6d. each
net. — The floral illustrations of these dainty
volumes interpret well the spirit of the master-
pieces they adorn. The first published work of
their author, who is evidently entirely in touch
with her subjects, they yet betray no prentice hand.
The initial letters are generally appropriate, and
the flowers introduced in the borders of the pages,
in spite of their necessarily conventional treatment,
are evidently studied direct from nature. Especially
beautiul are the poppies in The Raven and the wild
arums in The Lotus Eaters.
The Frescoes in the Sixtine Chapel. By Evelyn
March Phii.lipps. (London: John Murray.)—
There is rarely-an excuse nowadays for a new book
on the Italian Old Masters. Great subjects may
easily be made a weariness to the mind by incessant
new books about them, and it is much to be
feared that the Italian Old Masters have suffered a
great deal from the endless loquacity of their pen-
been exercised in the choice of type and in the
arrangement of the pages. The fount employed
for the text is altogether out of harmony with the
character of the illustrations, the head-lines, and
the titles. The repetition ad nauseam of the full-
page fancy border surrounding the title of each
picture is positively offensive, not on account of
the repetition only, but also because it is a border
evidently designed to surround a page of text, and
not a simple title. Drawings of the character of
those by Messrs. Nieuwenkamp and Veldheer are
only satisfactory for book illustrations when the
selection of type and the arrangement of page
harmonise with them.
Modernes Kunstgewerbe. Ueber Kunst der JVeu-
zeit. Heft VI. By W. Fred. (Strasburg : J. H. E.
Heitz.) Price 2s. 6d.—In this slender volume of
essays Herr Fred gives a lucid and comprehensive
survey of the condition and tendencies of the
artistic crafts. Starting from the last Paris Ex-
hibition, he passes in review the influences
beginning with Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites,
which find expression to-day in Ashbee's furniture,
Tiffany's glass, or Obrist's embroideries. His
appreciation of England's position in the van of
the movement towards beauty in daily life is
gratifying, and his studies of the work of English-
men, especially that of Mr. C. R. Ashbee, are very
sympathetic. A writer so familiar with England
should not, however, have put the Isle of Man
in Scotland nor misspelt English names, such as
Makkail, Ralph Caldecott, etc. The article on
Van de Velde is especially good, showing a
thorough artist and a thorough modern, delighting
in the machinery contemned of Ruskin.
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Porc, and The
Lotus Eaters, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, with
decorations by T. R. R. P. (London : Gay & Bird),
3J-. 6d. each net, or printed on vellum 10s. 6d. each
net. — The floral illustrations of these dainty
volumes interpret well the spirit of the master-
pieces they adorn. The first published work of
their author, who is evidently entirely in touch
with her subjects, they yet betray no prentice hand.
The initial letters are generally appropriate, and
the flowers introduced in the borders of the pages,
in spite of their necessarily conventional treatment,
are evidently studied direct from nature. Especially
beautiul are the poppies in The Raven and the wild
arums in The Lotus Eaters.
The Frescoes in the Sixtine Chapel. By Evelyn
March Phii.lipps. (London: John Murray.)—
There is rarely-an excuse nowadays for a new book
on the Italian Old Masters. Great subjects may
easily be made a weariness to the mind by incessant
new books about them, and it is much to be
feared that the Italian Old Masters have suffered a
great deal from the endless loquacity of their pen-