Studio: international art (58.1913)

Reviews and Notices

misplaced enthusiasm is afforded on page 187,
where he contrasts a piece of " Sheffield plate"
with a similar article made by Paul de Lamerie—
a magnificent example of that master's work, perfect
in design and execution. One of the most in-
teresting features of the work is the placing on
record of the method employed in making pierced
work. It had hitherto been difficult to understand
by what process the silver was turned inwards to
cover the base-metal: Mr. Bradbury has clearly
and cleverly shown how this was done. In the
section dealing with the old manufacturers' cata-
logues (some pages from which are reproduced),
the eulogies of the old process of engraving are the
more remarkable since Mr. Bradbury's illustrations
leave much to be desired, and greatly detract from
the value of his wonderful and exhaustive record
of specimens. Included in the work is an account
of the old silver of Sheffield, and of the Britannia
metal trade, with lists of makers' names and marks.

Welsh Painters, Engravers, and Sculptors, 152J-
ipxi. By the Rev. T. Mardy Rees. (Carnarvon:
Welsh Publishing Co. Ltd.) 10s. 6d. net. In this
book brief biographical sketches, accompanied by
short lists of notable works, are given of upwards
of 150 painters, engravers, and sculptors, among
whom Wales may lay claim to many names famous
in the history of art in the past or at the present
day. There are thirty reproductions in half-tone
of portraits of various artists, but the only illustra-
tion upon the production of which much care would
seem to have been bestowed is the portrait of the
author which forms the frontispiece. That of Mr.
Frank Brangwyn, who, though born in Bruges, is
of Welsh extraction, is one of the worst repro-
ductions we have ever seen, and many of the others
are almost as bad. It would have been better had
the author omitted the superfluous " list of sub-
scribers " at the end and substituted an index,
which would have been more useful.

Metalwork and Enamelling. By Herbert
Mar yon. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd.)
■js. 6d. net.—The description of this book as a
" Practical Treatise on Gold and Silversmiths' Work
and their allied Crafts" is fully borne out by its
contents. The author, who is instructor in these
crafts at University College, Reading, has planned
his exposition in such a way that the worker in
metals and enamels is made familiar with the
technical processes which he must master if he is
to become an efficient craftsman, and in this
respect his treatise is differentiated from most
other books on the subject, which discuss these
technicalities as incidental to the elaboration of

particular objects. There is much to be said for
the method adopted by Mr. Maryon, for such pro-
cesses as soldering (to which four chapters are
devoted), stone-setting, repousse work, inlaying,
spinning, casting, and so forth, form as it were the
grammar of the craft, and knowledge of them
is necessary to the making of many diverse kinds of
object. The materials and tools required for these
processes also receive much attention, and there
are many recipes, tables of gauges, and workshop
hints which the worker will find valuable. Diagrams
abound throughout, and in addition there are repro-
ductions of select examples of finished work which
belong more especially to the concluding portions
of the book, where design is touched upon briefly.

La Cote d Emeraude. Painted by J. Hardwicke
Lewis ; described by Spencer C. Musson.
(London : A. and C. Black.) js. 6d. net.—That
part of France which is dealt with in this volume
of Messrs. Black's series under the title of La
Cote dEmeraude is the portion of Brittany con-
tiguous to the great Gulf of St. Malo. The
author describes the various regions in chapters
headed St. Malo, Dinard, Moncontour, Dinan,
Dol, and L'Avranchin, and retails by the way a
number of stories, anecdotes, and characteristic
local legends and superstitions which are interesting
and often amusing. The twenty colour repro-
ductions, after water-colours by Mr. J. Hardwicke
Lewis, agreeably illustrate certain of the various
places described.

Photograms of the. Year 1912. Edited by F. J.
Mortimer, F.R.P.S. (London : Hazell, Watson
and Viney, Ltd.) 2S. 6d. net.—The claim of the
publishers that this issue of the popular photographic
annual shows a marked advance on previous issues
is fully justified by its contents. The quality of
the reproductions, which represent the work of the
leading photographers of the day, is exceptionally
good. Among many subjects of real interest we
note especially Mr. Craig Annan's portrait of Mr.
G. K. Chesterton, that of Mr. William Nicholson
by Mr. Malcolm Arbuthnot, Herr Albert Meyer's
For dem Regen, Baron A. de Meyer's Maria, and
those by Mr. F. J. Hollyer, Mr. Dudley Johnston,
Mile. Laguarde and the editor.

The Year's Art, igi3 (Hutchinson and Co.,
5s. net), is brought well up to date, and among the
numerous other items which crowd this very
useful reference book prominence is given to the
auction-history of the past year—a veritable annus
mirabilis, as Mr. Carter remarks. This feature of
his annual occupies, in fact, more than 50 pages
out of the 600 or thereabouts comprising this issue.

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