DOI Heft:
No. 249 (December 1913)
DOI Artikel:Reviews and notices
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Reviews and Notices
artist is at his very best and his work of this kind is
always instinct with a simplicity, a grace and charm
that is peculiarly characteristic of his art.
The Wind in the Willows. By Kenneth
Grahame. Illustrated by Paul Bransom. (Lon-
don : Methuen and Co.) 7s. 6d. net.—We count
ourselves among the warmest admirers of Mr.
Grahame’s charming books and this perhaps makes
one especially critical of any illustrations to them.
The pictures here reproduced are we presume
intended to form the special interest of this new
edition of “ The Wind in the Willows,” but we are
sorry to say we find them somewhat disappointing.
Mr. Bransom is certainly a clever artist and his
drawings are not without charm, but in illustrating
this book he seems somehow to have failed. The
author tells the story of some obviously “fairy
tale ” animals, but in depicting the various characters
with so much fidelity to nature and with a disregard
for all human characteristics and other appur-
tenances so minutely and quaintly described by the
author, the artist seems to us to have entirely
missed the spirit of this delightful romance.
Piedmont. By Estella Canziani and Eleanour
Rohde. (London: ChattoandWindus.) 215.net—
Some few years ago we had the pleasure of noticing
Miss Canziani’s extremely interesting volume
dealing with the costumes, traditions and songs of
Savoy, and now in the companion volume before
us she and her collaborator give an equally interest-
ing account of them experiences and investigations
in Piedmont, a region no less rich in legendary
lore and still to a large extent faithful to its
ancient traditions and usages. The narrative is
obviously the result of intimate personal acquaint-
ance with the people and places described and is
told in fascinatingly simple language wholly free
from affectation. The student of folk-music in
particular will feel indebted to Miss Canziani for
transcribing the words and music of many of the
songs of the Piedmontese peasants and for several
examples of their dance-music. The pictorial
accompaniment to the letterpress consists of fifty
illustrations in colour besides numerous line draw-
ings by Miss Canziani and they supplement the
text admirably by their veracious portrayal of peasant
types and local scenery.
A Sea Anthology. Selected and illustrated by
Alfred Rawlings. (London: Gay and Hancock.)
35. 6d. cloth : 65. leather.—A small book of dainty
water-colour sea-pieces reproduced as accompani-
ment to a selection of poems and prose passages
from great sources. The cover is of dark green
cloth with extremely attractive gold embellishment.
Among the daintiest books for the nursery that
have come under our notice this season are the
Little Rhyme Books published by Augener Ltd.
each containing a selection of favourite rhymes
accompanied by charming illustrations in colour by
H. Willebeck Le Mair, a young lady with a remark-
able talent for decorative composition. There are
four of these little books, which are priced at 15. net
each, and all are very tastefully got up.
Messrs. Yamanaka and Co., the well-known
importers of Japanese and Chinese works of art,
are showing during the present month in their
London galleries at 127 New Bond Street, an ex-
tremely interesting collection of Chinese bronze
statuettes.
We have received from the Duchess of Suther-
land’s Cripples’ Guild a beautifully illustrated
brochure showing numerous examples of the silver
and silver-plated articles of domestic use and
ornament produced in the workshops started by
the Duchess fourteen years ago at Trentham,
Staffordshire, for the training of helpless cripples
as craftsmen. The articles produced, which are
all hand-wrought, are on sale at the Guild’s London
showrooms, 13 and 14 New Bond Street.
Messrs. L. and C. Hardtmuth, of Kingsway, the
European agents for the famous Waterman Foun-
tain Pens and Koh-i-Noor Pencils, which they offer
in many attractive styles and shapes suitable for
presentation, are introducing two simple but useful
devices for hanging pictures and other purposes.
One is the Moore Push-Pin, which has a solid
transparent glass head and a thin but strong steel
point which can be pushed into wood and plaster
without the use of a hammer and does not injure
the wall, the head forming a firm and invisible
support for small pictures. The other appliance
is the Push-Less Hanger, consisting of a brass
suspender held by a special nail inserted slantwise ;
it is made in two sizes—one for pictures up to
10 lbs. in weight, the other for anything up to
100 lbs.
In the Poster competition recently organised by
the Three Arts Club over one hundred and twenty
designs were received, and the prize of ^jio was
awarded to D. M. Hazlett, of Bournemouth, a
design by Archibald Wells being also selected for
the Club’s Arabian Nights’ Ball. There will
probably be another competition next month, with
first and second prizes.
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artist is at his very best and his work of this kind is
always instinct with a simplicity, a grace and charm
that is peculiarly characteristic of his art.
The Wind in the Willows. By Kenneth
Grahame. Illustrated by Paul Bransom. (Lon-
don : Methuen and Co.) 7s. 6d. net.—We count
ourselves among the warmest admirers of Mr.
Grahame’s charming books and this perhaps makes
one especially critical of any illustrations to them.
The pictures here reproduced are we presume
intended to form the special interest of this new
edition of “ The Wind in the Willows,” but we are
sorry to say we find them somewhat disappointing.
Mr. Bransom is certainly a clever artist and his
drawings are not without charm, but in illustrating
this book he seems somehow to have failed. The
author tells the story of some obviously “fairy
tale ” animals, but in depicting the various characters
with so much fidelity to nature and with a disregard
for all human characteristics and other appur-
tenances so minutely and quaintly described by the
author, the artist seems to us to have entirely
missed the spirit of this delightful romance.
Piedmont. By Estella Canziani and Eleanour
Rohde. (London: ChattoandWindus.) 215.net—
Some few years ago we had the pleasure of noticing
Miss Canziani’s extremely interesting volume
dealing with the costumes, traditions and songs of
Savoy, and now in the companion volume before
us she and her collaborator give an equally interest-
ing account of them experiences and investigations
in Piedmont, a region no less rich in legendary
lore and still to a large extent faithful to its
ancient traditions and usages. The narrative is
obviously the result of intimate personal acquaint-
ance with the people and places described and is
told in fascinatingly simple language wholly free
from affectation. The student of folk-music in
particular will feel indebted to Miss Canziani for
transcribing the words and music of many of the
songs of the Piedmontese peasants and for several
examples of their dance-music. The pictorial
accompaniment to the letterpress consists of fifty
illustrations in colour besides numerous line draw-
ings by Miss Canziani and they supplement the
text admirably by their veracious portrayal of peasant
types and local scenery.
A Sea Anthology. Selected and illustrated by
Alfred Rawlings. (London: Gay and Hancock.)
35. 6d. cloth : 65. leather.—A small book of dainty
water-colour sea-pieces reproduced as accompani-
ment to a selection of poems and prose passages
from great sources. The cover is of dark green
cloth with extremely attractive gold embellishment.
Among the daintiest books for the nursery that
have come under our notice this season are the
Little Rhyme Books published by Augener Ltd.
each containing a selection of favourite rhymes
accompanied by charming illustrations in colour by
H. Willebeck Le Mair, a young lady with a remark-
able talent for decorative composition. There are
four of these little books, which are priced at 15. net
each, and all are very tastefully got up.
Messrs. Yamanaka and Co., the well-known
importers of Japanese and Chinese works of art,
are showing during the present month in their
London galleries at 127 New Bond Street, an ex-
tremely interesting collection of Chinese bronze
statuettes.
We have received from the Duchess of Suther-
land’s Cripples’ Guild a beautifully illustrated
brochure showing numerous examples of the silver
and silver-plated articles of domestic use and
ornament produced in the workshops started by
the Duchess fourteen years ago at Trentham,
Staffordshire, for the training of helpless cripples
as craftsmen. The articles produced, which are
all hand-wrought, are on sale at the Guild’s London
showrooms, 13 and 14 New Bond Street.
Messrs. L. and C. Hardtmuth, of Kingsway, the
European agents for the famous Waterman Foun-
tain Pens and Koh-i-Noor Pencils, which they offer
in many attractive styles and shapes suitable for
presentation, are introducing two simple but useful
devices for hanging pictures and other purposes.
One is the Moore Push-Pin, which has a solid
transparent glass head and a thin but strong steel
point which can be pushed into wood and plaster
without the use of a hammer and does not injure
the wall, the head forming a firm and invisible
support for small pictures. The other appliance
is the Push-Less Hanger, consisting of a brass
suspender held by a special nail inserted slantwise ;
it is made in two sizes—one for pictures up to
10 lbs. in weight, the other for anything up to
100 lbs.
In the Poster competition recently organised by
the Three Arts Club over one hundred and twenty
designs were received, and the prize of ^jio was
awarded to D. M. Hazlett, of Bournemouth, a
design by Archibald Wells being also selected for
the Club’s Arabian Nights’ Ball. There will
probably be another competition next month, with
first and second prizes.
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