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ART BOOKS. If we make up our minds to bear with the affectations of the writer and the horrors of the three-colour process, there is much interesting matter in Mr. Lewis Hind's......
A Free Farmer In A Free State.*
THE Dutch have achieved such a brilliant success, not only in creating land for themselves out of the sea, but also in cultivating it to the highest state of efficiency, that it......
A New Edition Of Sir E. T. Cook's Popular Handbook
to the National Gallery (Macmillan and Co. 2 vols. 10s. each net) has been issued. It deals with both foreign and English schools. Its excellence is well known, and we are glad......
Explains In The Preface That There Was A Demand For
another edition in a condensed form of his great book on the Van Eycks. He himself for reasons of health was unable to undertake the labour, and accordingly called to his......
Pennell's Lithographs. It Must Be Confessed That They Are...
appointing, partly because they are so near to being good. The drawings of the great amorphous works of the locks somehow lack the unifying power of the imagination. The......
Homes And Baunts Of John Ruskin:i- Sm Edward Cook Tells
us in his preface that he "was asked by the publishers to supply some letterpress illustrative of the drawings" that Miss Warren had for several years been • Frances Willard :......
Out The Representation Of Animals In Italian Pictures,...
Howe has done his work well and made an attractive volume. The illustrations are gathered together at the end, and the fact that the selection has been made for a special......
Mornings With Masters Of Art. By H. H. Powers. (macmillan
and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—The author tells us in the preface to his volume that his intention is to trace the course of Christian art in Italy from Constantine to the death of......
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