Studio: international art (58.1913)

Reviews and Notices

contribution to the subject of the development
of the theatre in Europe to-day. Mr. Carter,
too, is one of the few critics with any vitality of
style who can write what one disagrees with with-
out giving offence—possibly because he holds
many of his ideas without any great tenacity. He
is in sympathy with the forward movement, and it
is the warmth of this sympathy that urges his pen
and frequently creates in him an almost profound
insight into modern tendencies. If he errs in the
estimate of details, and as we think he does, in the
valuation he puts upon certain individual works of
art, his book still remains a most able attempt to
recognise, amid much apparent confusion of aim,
only "one art" in the work of modern play-
producers, picture-makers and ballet dancers. The
illustrations include studies by Leon Bakst for the
Russian Ballet, a study by Phyllis Vere Camp-
bell, designs for costumes by M. Dresa, a study
by Othon Friesz, designs for the Theatre des

"chanticleer" by albert laessle

(Pennsylvania Academy)

Arts by Rene Piot, views of the Hebbel Theatre
in Berlin, and the Kiinstler-Theater in Munich,
the Fortuny system of stage lighting, designs show-
ing the Dalcroze system of dancing, studies by
Picasso, and among the two or three reproductions
in colours a study of the interior of a crowded
London music-hall by Spencer F. Gore, a list
which will assist the reader to form an idea of the
extent of ground covered by the author.

Textile Design and Colour and Advanced Textile
Design. By William Watson. (London : Long-
mans, Green and Co.) 75. 6d. and 12s. 6d. net.—
In the first of these two volumes, which together
form a comprehensive treatise for the designer of
textiles, the author deals chiefly with cloths com-
posed of one series of warp and one series of weft
threads, and besides explaining the construction
and combination of simple and special weaves he
describes and illustrates the structure of standard
classes of cloths, the theories of colour and the
application of colour to textile fabrics, while
eight chapters are devoted to the designing of
ordinary figured fabrics, the principles of weaving
machinery and textile calculations being also amply
treated. The other volume deals at length with
compound and special cloths in which two or
more series of threads are used in one or both
directions, or which are produced by special
methods. The two volumes in fact bring under
review and explain the method of weaving practi-
cally every kind of fabric known to commerce,
including muslins, damasks, tapestries, gauze,
and the various kinds of pile fabrics. Together
they contain nearly 900 figures embodying close
on 4000 designs, diagrams, and representations.

Highways and Byways in Somerset. ' By
Edward Hutton. Illustrated by Nelly Erichsen
(London : Macmillan and Co.) 5s. net.—There is
no dearth of good reading in this new volume of
the Highways and Byways Series. The author has
very thoroughly explored the natural and architec-
tural treasures of Somerset and steeped himself in
the lore and legend in which it is so rich. For him
this county is the last stronghold of English life, of
English poetry and legend, and he testifies to the
impression of mystery and enchantment experienced
when surveying this "wideland of mere and fen,
with its isolated hills and enclosed valleys, its great
far-stretched upland, and its sea" from Beacon Hill
of the Mendips. Miss Erichsen, who made
drawings for the Derbyshire volume, again proves
herself an accomplished illustrator.

Cambridgefrom Within. By Charles Tennyson,
with illustrations by Harry Morley. (London :

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