DOI issue:
No. 198 (September, 1908)
DOI article:Reviews and notices
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0363
Reviews and Notices
added. The one thing that somewhat militates
against the weight of the conclusions arrived at by
the Dutch editor is his naif admission that he has
suppressed criticism likely to give offence to col-
lectors, so as, to quote his own words, “ not to risk
depriving himself of their co-operation, without
which the completion of the enterprise would be
to some extent involved in doubt.”
The Arts Connected with Building. Lectures on
Craftsmanship and Design delivered at Carpenter’s
Hall, London. Edited by T. Raffles Davison.
(London : B. T. Batsford.) $s. net.—With the
laudable aim of stimulating the ambition of crafts-
men towards a high ideal of attainment the
Carpenter’s Company instituted the series of
lectures which, after being delivered at the
Company’s Hall in the spring of this year, are
now, by publication in permanent form, placed
within reach of a wider public. Thirteen lectures
were delivered — three by Mr. Weir Schultz on
“Reason in Building”; two by Mr. AMysey on
“ Ideas in Things ”; two by Mr. F. W. Troup
on “ The Influence of Material on Design in
Woodwork” and “External Leadwork,” and single
lectures by Mr. Guy Dawber on “Woodwork,”
Mr. Romney Green on “The Influence of Tools
on Design,” Mr. Baillie Scott on “Ideas in Building,
False and True,” Mr. Charles Spooner on “ House
and Church Furniture,” Mr. L. A. Turner on
“ Decorative Plasterwork,” and Mr. Starkie Gard-
ner on “ Decorative Ironwork.” The papers, which
are illustrated by numerous fine examples of old
and contemporary work carefully selected to give
point to the remarks of the lecturer, teem with
thoughts and suggestions of the utmost importance
to all concerned in the arts and crafts connected
with building, and though ostensibly addressed to
young craftsmen and students of architecture and
design, they provide profitable and exhilarating
reading for many who have left their novitiate
far behind.
Fastel: A Treatise for Beginners. By J. R. K.
Duff. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton,
Kent & Co.) is. 6d. net. Mr. Duff disclaims any
intention to teach artists, although he thinks that
those accomplished in other mediums may learn
from his notes something about pastel to their
advantage. It is probable that the artist may
learn something, and certain that the student can
learn a great deal from Mr. Duff, who is him-
self a master of the medium of which he writes.
His book contains practically all that the young
pastellist can learn by reading. The other things
—and the best—in pastel as in all other branches of
the arts, can only be learnt by incessant study and
practice. The hints given by Mr. Duff on sketch-
ing from nature, and on the outfit necessary for the
worker in pastel, are especially valuable.
T?-ees and Tree Drawing. By Edward C.
Clifford, R.I., R.D.S. (London: George
Rowney & Co.) is. A knowledge of the character-
istics of trees is of essential value to the student
of landscape, who can make good some of his
probable deficiencies in this respect by studying
Mr. Clifford’s manual. He gives careful and
elaborate drawings of the commoner English trees
in their summer garb, and separate studies of the
trunks and leaves of each. These drawings are
accompanied by descriptions of the families of the
trees and of their habits of growth, and the student
who consults this book will not be likely to make
such blunders as that of the painter of a picture
described by Mr. Clifford, in which young silver
birches were shown growing in the shade of a
thick beech wood.
Mr. D. J. Rider, Bookseller, London, has just
published, under the title of Three Literary Lions,
a series of caricatures by Joseph Simpson, of
certain well-known London literary men. Mr.
Simpson has earned for himself a foremost place
among modern caricaturists, and his reputation will
be well maintained by three forceful drawings.
The fourteenth annual issue of Repertoire
General des Collectionneurs de la France, com-
piled and published by E. Renart, “libraire-
expert” of Maisons-Alfort, Seine, price 15 francs,
is a stout volume of nearly 900 pages, con
taining comprehensive lists of collectors of every
kind of object, scientific, artistic, literary, &c. ; also
of learned and artistic societies, museums, libraries,
auctioneers, dealers in antiquities and second-hand
books in France and its dependencies. In the list
of collectors, pictographic symbols are employed
to indicate the speciality of each. M. Renard, who
has also compiled similar directories for foreign
countries, has evidently bestowed a prodigious
amount of labour on these publications.
A dainty booklet, which those who contemplate
buying furniture will find interesting reading,
comes to us from the well-known establishment of
Messrs. Heal in Tottenham Court Road. It is
written by Mr. Joseph Thorp, who tells how, in
himself, a dormant aesthetic sense, willing to
tolerate even mid-ATctorian monstrosities, became
in time awakened to extreme and lasting pleasure
by a close study of the work and methods of
Messrs. Heal & Son.
329
added. The one thing that somewhat militates
against the weight of the conclusions arrived at by
the Dutch editor is his naif admission that he has
suppressed criticism likely to give offence to col-
lectors, so as, to quote his own words, “ not to risk
depriving himself of their co-operation, without
which the completion of the enterprise would be
to some extent involved in doubt.”
The Arts Connected with Building. Lectures on
Craftsmanship and Design delivered at Carpenter’s
Hall, London. Edited by T. Raffles Davison.
(London : B. T. Batsford.) $s. net.—With the
laudable aim of stimulating the ambition of crafts-
men towards a high ideal of attainment the
Carpenter’s Company instituted the series of
lectures which, after being delivered at the
Company’s Hall in the spring of this year, are
now, by publication in permanent form, placed
within reach of a wider public. Thirteen lectures
were delivered — three by Mr. Weir Schultz on
“Reason in Building”; two by Mr. AMysey on
“ Ideas in Things ”; two by Mr. F. W. Troup
on “ The Influence of Material on Design in
Woodwork” and “External Leadwork,” and single
lectures by Mr. Guy Dawber on “Woodwork,”
Mr. Romney Green on “The Influence of Tools
on Design,” Mr. Baillie Scott on “Ideas in Building,
False and True,” Mr. Charles Spooner on “ House
and Church Furniture,” Mr. L. A. Turner on
“ Decorative Plasterwork,” and Mr. Starkie Gard-
ner on “ Decorative Ironwork.” The papers, which
are illustrated by numerous fine examples of old
and contemporary work carefully selected to give
point to the remarks of the lecturer, teem with
thoughts and suggestions of the utmost importance
to all concerned in the arts and crafts connected
with building, and though ostensibly addressed to
young craftsmen and students of architecture and
design, they provide profitable and exhilarating
reading for many who have left their novitiate
far behind.
Fastel: A Treatise for Beginners. By J. R. K.
Duff. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton,
Kent & Co.) is. 6d. net. Mr. Duff disclaims any
intention to teach artists, although he thinks that
those accomplished in other mediums may learn
from his notes something about pastel to their
advantage. It is probable that the artist may
learn something, and certain that the student can
learn a great deal from Mr. Duff, who is him-
self a master of the medium of which he writes.
His book contains practically all that the young
pastellist can learn by reading. The other things
—and the best—in pastel as in all other branches of
the arts, can only be learnt by incessant study and
practice. The hints given by Mr. Duff on sketch-
ing from nature, and on the outfit necessary for the
worker in pastel, are especially valuable.
T?-ees and Tree Drawing. By Edward C.
Clifford, R.I., R.D.S. (London: George
Rowney & Co.) is. A knowledge of the character-
istics of trees is of essential value to the student
of landscape, who can make good some of his
probable deficiencies in this respect by studying
Mr. Clifford’s manual. He gives careful and
elaborate drawings of the commoner English trees
in their summer garb, and separate studies of the
trunks and leaves of each. These drawings are
accompanied by descriptions of the families of the
trees and of their habits of growth, and the student
who consults this book will not be likely to make
such blunders as that of the painter of a picture
described by Mr. Clifford, in which young silver
birches were shown growing in the shade of a
thick beech wood.
Mr. D. J. Rider, Bookseller, London, has just
published, under the title of Three Literary Lions,
a series of caricatures by Joseph Simpson, of
certain well-known London literary men. Mr.
Simpson has earned for himself a foremost place
among modern caricaturists, and his reputation will
be well maintained by three forceful drawings.
The fourteenth annual issue of Repertoire
General des Collectionneurs de la France, com-
piled and published by E. Renart, “libraire-
expert” of Maisons-Alfort, Seine, price 15 francs,
is a stout volume of nearly 900 pages, con
taining comprehensive lists of collectors of every
kind of object, scientific, artistic, literary, &c. ; also
of learned and artistic societies, museums, libraries,
auctioneers, dealers in antiquities and second-hand
books in France and its dependencies. In the list
of collectors, pictographic symbols are employed
to indicate the speciality of each. M. Renard, who
has also compiled similar directories for foreign
countries, has evidently bestowed a prodigious
amount of labour on these publications.
A dainty booklet, which those who contemplate
buying furniture will find interesting reading,
comes to us from the well-known establishment of
Messrs. Heal in Tottenham Court Road. It is
written by Mr. Joseph Thorp, who tells how, in
himself, a dormant aesthetic sense, willing to
tolerate even mid-ATctorian monstrosities, became
in time awakened to extreme and lasting pleasure
by a close study of the work and methods of
Messrs. Heal & Son.
329