DOI issue:
No. 165 (December, 1906)
DOI article:Reviews and notices
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Reviews and Notices
existence they were not, as has been so often
assumed, always at daggers drawn. Perhaps the
most interesting chapters of the book, in which
there is not one dull page, are those on the
Alhambra, for which, as would be expected, the
writer has a boundless admiration.
Six Lectures on Painting and Aims and Ideals
in Art. By George Clausen, A.R.A., R.W.S.
(London: Methuen.) 31-. 6d. and 5-f. net respec-
tively.—Full as they are of clear definitions of the
principles that should govern art production, and
of suggestions as to how those principles should be
put in practice, these two series of lectures, recently
delivered at the Royal Academy by the present
Professor of Painting at that institution, should be
put into the hands of every young student. Mr.
Clausen is an eloquent speaker and writer as well
as an accomplished painter; he knows how to
select examples of what he wishes to enforce, and
he has a humorous way of stating incontrovertible
facts which impresses them on the memory of his
hearers and readers. Specially noteworthy are the
lectures on " Realism and Impressionism," on
"Imagination and the Ideal," and on "Style,"
which are free from the obscurity that so often
confuses issues on those much discussed subjects.
A Wanderer in London. By E. V. Lucas.
(London : Methuen & Co.) 6s.—Though Mr.
Lucas confesses to being but an indifferent Lon-
doner, he here shows himself to be an uncommonly
shrewd observer of the many and varied aspects of
the great metropolis, and the no less heterogeneous
ways and moods of its teeming population. From
Chelsea to Blackwall, from Hampstead to Southwark,
little that is interesting seems to have escaped his
eye, nor does he hesitate to say what he thinks
whenever occasion calls for plain speaking. Thus
he notes the prevailing indifference of the public to
the memory of the great, as shown by the want of
attention paid to most of the statues erected to
them in London. The author has, of course, a
good deal to say about the great art collections.
The National Gallery is discussed in two chapters,
marked by the candour which characterises his
observations throughout. Of the large number of
illustrations accompanying the text the majority
are reproductions of more or less familiar master-
pieces of painting in this collection, but more to
the purpose are the coloured illustrations by Mr.
Nelson Dawson, who has here given us a number
of up-to-date glimpses of London, even the motor
omnibus not being absent.
Three New Plays. By A. R. Williams. (Lon-
don : T. Werner Laurie.) $s.—■" Fame and the
Artist," a one-act play; "The Street," in three
acts; and "Jack Hamblin : Gambler," in one act,
are the three plays here presented by Mrs.
Williams in a volume which leaves nothing to be
desired in get-up. The author, who gives abun-
dant evidence of dramatic instinct and feeling in
her writing, has selected themes which mark a
distinct departure from the conventional English
drama of the day; and her treatment of them
reveals some of that intellectual earnestness which
characterises the modern German and Scandinavian
"social" drama. The last of the plays, the plot
of which is laid in the Far West, opens with an
expressive coon song by Mr. Paul Bevan, well
known for his renderings of Japanese melodies.
Schmuck und Edelmetall-Arbeiten. Edited by
Alexander Koch. (Darmstadt: A.Koch.) Mk.16.
—This, the ninth of a series of very useful technical
handbooks, gives a great number of reproductions
of typical contemporary German, Austrian, and
French designs for decorative metal work, amongst
which the necklaces, bracelets, combs, and buckles
of Lalique of Paris, Geyzer of Florence, Erler-
Samaden of Munich, Riegel of Kempten, and
Behrens of Dusseldorf, are especially satisfactory.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving. By Mrs.
Archibald H. Christie. Writing and Illuminat-
ing, and Lettering. By E. Johnston. (London :
John Hogg.) 6s. and 6.r. 6d. net respectively.—
These two volumes belong to the "Artistic Crafts
Series of Technical Handbooks," which Prof.
Lethaby is editing—an admirable series of text-
books written by authors who have an intimate
practical acquaintance with the various crafts of
which they treat. The art of embroidery, with which
Mrs. Christie's book principally deals, is one which,
as she says, may be of the highest or the most
homely character, and in its simpler aspects should
be the accomplishment of every woman; and, more-
over, it is one which offers an almost infinite diversity
of work, alike in design and method. Of stitches
alone, some forty kinds are here explained and
illustrated by clearly drawn diagrams ; methods of
work, also amply illustrated, occupy several chap-
ters ; while others are devoted to tools, appliances,
materials, garniture, etc. No less thorough is
Mr. Johnston's treatment of another art which,
like embroidery, has fallen from a high estate. It
is a fascinating art, and this book, with its ex-
haustive and lucid exposition of ways and means,
should help greatly towards the revival of it. The
book contains over two hundred illustrations and
diagrams, and, like Mrs. Christie's volume, has
also a number of collotype plates.
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existence they were not, as has been so often
assumed, always at daggers drawn. Perhaps the
most interesting chapters of the book, in which
there is not one dull page, are those on the
Alhambra, for which, as would be expected, the
writer has a boundless admiration.
Six Lectures on Painting and Aims and Ideals
in Art. By George Clausen, A.R.A., R.W.S.
(London: Methuen.) 31-. 6d. and 5-f. net respec-
tively.—Full as they are of clear definitions of the
principles that should govern art production, and
of suggestions as to how those principles should be
put in practice, these two series of lectures, recently
delivered at the Royal Academy by the present
Professor of Painting at that institution, should be
put into the hands of every young student. Mr.
Clausen is an eloquent speaker and writer as well
as an accomplished painter; he knows how to
select examples of what he wishes to enforce, and
he has a humorous way of stating incontrovertible
facts which impresses them on the memory of his
hearers and readers. Specially noteworthy are the
lectures on " Realism and Impressionism," on
"Imagination and the Ideal," and on "Style,"
which are free from the obscurity that so often
confuses issues on those much discussed subjects.
A Wanderer in London. By E. V. Lucas.
(London : Methuen & Co.) 6s.—Though Mr.
Lucas confesses to being but an indifferent Lon-
doner, he here shows himself to be an uncommonly
shrewd observer of the many and varied aspects of
the great metropolis, and the no less heterogeneous
ways and moods of its teeming population. From
Chelsea to Blackwall, from Hampstead to Southwark,
little that is interesting seems to have escaped his
eye, nor does he hesitate to say what he thinks
whenever occasion calls for plain speaking. Thus
he notes the prevailing indifference of the public to
the memory of the great, as shown by the want of
attention paid to most of the statues erected to
them in London. The author has, of course, a
good deal to say about the great art collections.
The National Gallery is discussed in two chapters,
marked by the candour which characterises his
observations throughout. Of the large number of
illustrations accompanying the text the majority
are reproductions of more or less familiar master-
pieces of painting in this collection, but more to
the purpose are the coloured illustrations by Mr.
Nelson Dawson, who has here given us a number
of up-to-date glimpses of London, even the motor
omnibus not being absent.
Three New Plays. By A. R. Williams. (Lon-
don : T. Werner Laurie.) $s.—■" Fame and the
Artist," a one-act play; "The Street," in three
acts; and "Jack Hamblin : Gambler," in one act,
are the three plays here presented by Mrs.
Williams in a volume which leaves nothing to be
desired in get-up. The author, who gives abun-
dant evidence of dramatic instinct and feeling in
her writing, has selected themes which mark a
distinct departure from the conventional English
drama of the day; and her treatment of them
reveals some of that intellectual earnestness which
characterises the modern German and Scandinavian
"social" drama. The last of the plays, the plot
of which is laid in the Far West, opens with an
expressive coon song by Mr. Paul Bevan, well
known for his renderings of Japanese melodies.
Schmuck und Edelmetall-Arbeiten. Edited by
Alexander Koch. (Darmstadt: A.Koch.) Mk.16.
—This, the ninth of a series of very useful technical
handbooks, gives a great number of reproductions
of typical contemporary German, Austrian, and
French designs for decorative metal work, amongst
which the necklaces, bracelets, combs, and buckles
of Lalique of Paris, Geyzer of Florence, Erler-
Samaden of Munich, Riegel of Kempten, and
Behrens of Dusseldorf, are especially satisfactory.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving. By Mrs.
Archibald H. Christie. Writing and Illuminat-
ing, and Lettering. By E. Johnston. (London :
John Hogg.) 6s. and 6.r. 6d. net respectively.—
These two volumes belong to the "Artistic Crafts
Series of Technical Handbooks," which Prof.
Lethaby is editing—an admirable series of text-
books written by authors who have an intimate
practical acquaintance with the various crafts of
which they treat. The art of embroidery, with which
Mrs. Christie's book principally deals, is one which,
as she says, may be of the highest or the most
homely character, and in its simpler aspects should
be the accomplishment of every woman; and, more-
over, it is one which offers an almost infinite diversity
of work, alike in design and method. Of stitches
alone, some forty kinds are here explained and
illustrated by clearly drawn diagrams ; methods of
work, also amply illustrated, occupy several chap-
ters ; while others are devoted to tools, appliances,
materials, garniture, etc. No less thorough is
Mr. Johnston's treatment of another art which,
like embroidery, has fallen from a high estate. It
is a fascinating art, and this book, with its ex-
haustive and lucid exposition of ways and means,
should help greatly towards the revival of it. The
book contains over two hundred illustrations and
diagrams, and, like Mrs. Christie's volume, has
also a number of collotype plates.
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