Ironwork : from the Earliest Times to the End of
the Medieval Period. By J. Starkie Gardner. With 57 illustrations. (Chap- man and Hall.)—This is one of the Art handbooks of the South Kensington Museum. It is proposed in a second volume to carry the account down from the medieval period, through the Re- naissance, to the present time. Even so far as he has carried his history, Mr. Gardner has found the literary material to work upon somewhat fragmentary. Ligier's "La Ferronnerie " broke off in 1875 with the collapse of the Western Empire, and no one has taken up the story continuously from that date. But Mr. Gardner is an expert in ironwork, and has produced a clear and useful account of the history of his craft, which will help to the intelligent study of the excellent collection of specimens at South Kensington and elsewhere.
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