DOI Heft:
No. 165 (December, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Reviews and notices
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0296
Reviews and Notices
"THE RIVER" BY WILLIAM KEITH
REVIEWS AND NOTICES. between them and their environment alike of the past
The Shores of the Adriatic. By F. Hamilton and of the present. Although the public has been to
Jackson, R.B.A. With drawings by the author, a certain extent spoiled for the right appreciation of
(London: Murray.) 2is. net.—Dealing as it does black-and-white work by the many books recently
with a part of Italy that, with the exception of such published with coloured illustrations, lovers of fine
towns as Ravenna, Rimini and Brindisi, is com- architectural construction and decorative detail
paratively little known to English travellers, this will delight in the many fine drawings that enrich
new volume is a very valuable contribution to the Mr. Jackson's delightful volume, amongst which are
literature of the Adriatic. As is well known, specially noteworthy the West Door of S. Valentino
Mr. Jackson is an accomplished practical architect, Bitonio; the Panels from the Ambo of the same
as well as an eloquent lecturer on architectural and church ; the Archivolt of the side Door, S. Maria
archaeological subjects, who has necessarily but Maggiore, JBarletta; the Detail of a Jamb of
little time to devote to travelling. The collection S. Leonardo, between Manfredonia and Foggia, and
of his material in the present instance, he explains, the Detail of the Atrium of S. Clemente in Casanova.
has been spread over several years, but he has Several of the subject photographs, such as the
woven his scattered experiences into a very interest- Shop in Torre de Passeri, and the Comfort and
ing consecutive narrative; and though he says that Discomfort, the latter a portrait-group of a maiden
he has endeavoured to regard everything from the of Bari holding twin babies in swaddling-clothes,
aesthetic point of view, he has been careful in every one in each arm, are very pleasing,
case to tell the whole story of the evolution of the The Thames, from Chelsea to the Nore. Drawn
buildings he describes, to bring out the connection in lithography by Thomas R. Way, with descrip-
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"THE RIVER" BY WILLIAM KEITH
REVIEWS AND NOTICES. between them and their environment alike of the past
The Shores of the Adriatic. By F. Hamilton and of the present. Although the public has been to
Jackson, R.B.A. With drawings by the author, a certain extent spoiled for the right appreciation of
(London: Murray.) 2is. net.—Dealing as it does black-and-white work by the many books recently
with a part of Italy that, with the exception of such published with coloured illustrations, lovers of fine
towns as Ravenna, Rimini and Brindisi, is com- architectural construction and decorative detail
paratively little known to English travellers, this will delight in the many fine drawings that enrich
new volume is a very valuable contribution to the Mr. Jackson's delightful volume, amongst which are
literature of the Adriatic. As is well known, specially noteworthy the West Door of S. Valentino
Mr. Jackson is an accomplished practical architect, Bitonio; the Panels from the Ambo of the same
as well as an eloquent lecturer on architectural and church ; the Archivolt of the side Door, S. Maria
archaeological subjects, who has necessarily but Maggiore, JBarletta; the Detail of a Jamb of
little time to devote to travelling. The collection S. Leonardo, between Manfredonia and Foggia, and
of his material in the present instance, he explains, the Detail of the Atrium of S. Clemente in Casanova.
has been spread over several years, but he has Several of the subject photographs, such as the
woven his scattered experiences into a very interest- Shop in Torre de Passeri, and the Comfort and
ing consecutive narrative; and though he says that Discomfort, the latter a portrait-group of a maiden
he has endeavoured to regard everything from the of Bari holding twin babies in swaddling-clothes,
aesthetic point of view, he has been careful in every one in each arm, are very pleasing,
case to tell the whole story of the evolution of the The Thames, from Chelsea to the Nore. Drawn
buildings he describes, to bring out the connection in lithography by Thomas R. Way, with descrip-
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