Studio: international art (58.1913)

Reviews and Notices

edition, speaks well both for the work itself and
for the public interest in the movement. In the
first volume M. Benoit-Levy gives a comprehen-
sive account of the Garden City of Letchworth in
Hertfordshire as the most significant of the attempts
hitherto made to organise a town in conformity
with the new ideas; in the second volume he
deals with garden villages and suburbs; and in
the third with "Art and Co-operation in Garden
Cities," in which he sets forth some ideas well worth
the attention of those interested in the movement.

The Van Eycks and their Art. By W. H.
James Weale, with the co-operation of Maurice
W. Brockwell. (London : John Lane). 12s. 6d.
net.—The preparation of this re-organised and
cheaper edition of Mr. Weale's monumental treatise,
which appeared in a limited edition in 1908, has
been entrusted to that shrewd critic, Mr. Brock-
well, who has introduced some important changes
in the catalogue raisonne forming the major part
of the book. This has now been arranged so as to
show the probabilities as to the authorship of
Hubert or John in certain works, and to throw
light on the vexed question of their joint participa-
tion in others. Twenty-four works are all that are
definitely ascribed to one or other of the brothers
or the two jointly; thirty or more of doubtful
authenticity and others that have been lost are
then described, while an appendix shows in tabular
form some 400 works sold by auction as Van Eycks
from 1662 to April 1912, including a few attributed
to a putative sister, Margaret, whose very existence
is doubted. Numerous half-tone illustrations are
included.

Art. By Auguste Rodin. From the French of
Paul Gsell by Mrs. Romilly Fedden. (London :
Hodder and Stoughton.) i6j\ net.—The French
edition of M. Gsell's conversations with the
eminent sculptor was reviewed in these pages
shorty after its appearance, and we have therefore no
need to make our readers acquainted with the
purpose of the book. An excellent translation has
been made by Mrs. Fedden and her text is ac-
companied by more than sixty illustrations chiefly
of sculpture and drawings by M. Rodin himself,
the rest being of works by other artists of note
which are referred to in the "talks."

Pottery and Porcelain. By Frederick
Litchfield. New edition, (London : Truslove
and Hanson, Ltd.) 21s. net.—First published in
a different form and with a more restricted scope
in 1878, Mr. Litchfield's guide to collectors of
pottery and porcelain has in the meantime grown
with each new edition that has been called for,

this perhaps being the best evidence of its popu-
larity ; and now this latest edition, on the produc-
tion of which much care and thought have been
bestowed, makes its appearance in a " considerably
augmented" form. The work as it now stands
covers a very large field for a single volume, the
notices comprising practically every species of
British and foreign ware in repute among collectors,
from Abruzzi to Zweibriicken, and by way of
illustration it contains nine coloured plates in
addition to something like two hundred repro-
ductions in black and white, as well as the various
marks of all the important factories. Besides
expanding his useful " Hints and Cautions," the
author has added a new chapter on " Values and
Prices," which collectors will appreciate. The
book is admirably printed and indexed, but the
bibliography might very well have been extended
to include some of the monographs which have
appeared in recent years, especially in Germany.

Antiques and Curios in our Homes. By Grace
M. Vallois. (London: T. Werner Laurie.) 6s.
net.—This book has been written with the view of
supplying a need for a compact and concise work
dealing in a popular manner with those curios,
pieces of old furniture, silver, pottery, &c, which
may be found in the possession of almost every
family. The author lays no claim to give a learned
disquisition about rare and splendid collector's
pieces, but to give succinctly some information
about the more common and often met with
"antiques." The volume contains a number of
illustrations from photographs, and is divided into
three sections dealing respectively with furniture;
china, pottery, and glass; and silver pewter and
Sheffield plate.

We have received from Messrs. Raines and Co.
of Ealing, Middlesex, who enjoy a high repuiation
for photographic enlarging and printing, a portfolio
of six prints recently shown at the leading exhibi-
tions of pictorial photography by Messrs. F. H.
Evans, F. Judge, A. H. Blake, J. McKissack, Mrs.
Tilden and Miss Marillier. The subjects are varied
and admirably printed by one or other permanent
process, and each print is effectively mounted on
boards measuring 20 by 15 inches. The price of the
portfolio is 15s. post free in the United Kingdom.

We are informed that the engraved Portrait oj
Th. Stein/en by P. Dupont, which was included
among other illustrations of that artist's work in
our last number (p. 157), is the copyright of the
well-known print publisher, Mons. Ed. Sagot, of
the Rue de Chateaudun, Paris.

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