New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-25
,yEW PUBLICATIONS.

IA RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE Paris Il ss,g anu ~ ~
Z By LEON PhLusTRE Oh, ,Ls' and Network ]. W.
EUGENE SApoOA A
BOulon -. or+ mn
,rhe house of A. Quantin. of Paris sends out enc |
.,,l;catiop after another on subjects chleny CON-
noctad With art, and all remarkable 2l'Ke loF tno
.,syapce with which they are arrayed-in 'h0
beauty of French paper and prnt--and ior the car
WITH which. as q rule. they are edited ouon
a steady stream of costly books implies pnpiic 10
which. AZ vet we on this side the water can 1u,''sh
No narallel. for NJ. Quantin does not stand aiohe
there are n half dozen houses III Paris az pfouIS"
"a he in splendid publications, and we are oi'on
forced to wonder how il Is that the pu"ica''oh "
such books can be found profitable IL d. no"ooi'
nloosopt tn know that If we cannot as yet produce
.nch hooks ourselves. cdA encourage 'he" Pi =,
duction by others. since, IN many cas"s' ho enc.
norton of the edition is sent over 10 Ihs co""'i'
md dis used of among our own people. or late years
the American market for these costly DOCKS ni''
established in this city by the enterprise OF the
ae-kuovn foreign bookseller. Mr.. +. w. Chris'ern'
has GROWN To DO very considerable and at last 'no
moort ation OF them has been made sOi' "
snoo;oltv nv MIR J. w Bonton who has become 'no
aoent for several OF the French publishers WIN "'o
chiefly concerned with ART books. =,
The work we are at present conslueIIps 10 o"o
tha latest published by the house OF A. Quantih' anu
nropises to be one of Importance TO the sbuueh' VI
the art of architecture. 1t is intended 10 uo 'o'
France what Professor Wilhelm Lubke has so ANY
oone for Germany; to trace the influence OF the non
aissapce spirit of the sixteenth century I'D 'n0 ~
tecture of the country. Professor Luokos w.
= Caschicbte der ID eutschen Renaissance o'u'O
,ort ts7o73n is book intended more 1or use 'n''n
6eautv. and the illustrations, OF "uch 'n'i0 on
c,ose upou 800 are simply clear prac''o"i "'o
cuts. The work of NJ. Palustre Is oil Lax "oio
sumptuous character in folio. on the hnes' P"poi'
81 on the eneravings etchings. either full page
and separate tom the text, OF prlh'eu vi in.,l"
.a,or and monpted on places left for them in the
text. 1t will thus be seen thasl 10 "n"C !" 80
n;corv called luxurious book. and indeed 1t is TO
be supposed that if it is carried out 10 Tue Gnu vi
the same plan il will be far more iuNurlous '"''
useful. Three parts have already appo''o'' an"
the nrospectus promises to complete the work IN
thlrty parts in all. We are informed tha' al quo
materials are collected aud the work ready fol the
press SO that there will be no delay IN inc
tion The parts are TO appear at intervals VI a'ouV
two months. The first of the three parts ahe"uf
nnh,isbed is devoted to Flanders and Picardy, ana
the other two to the llede-F France rive more 'ho
fourth and eighth inclusive, are to be gwen W 'n
Ile-de- France; then two to Normandy TWO 10 DIN
tany. and SO on, the plan covering the Whoie Oh
France With the objection that to compete
treatment of such subject as that OF the fehalS-
sanee in France thirty of the parts before us must
lie entirely insufficient, we may pass 10 the aSNur-
ance that the space to be given is sufficient lor
rauid and interesting SKETCH and that the iluStra-
tiops hch thus TAR arc almost exclusively Oi
architecture cannot fail to make valuable addl-
ton to the beautiful things III this sort we aeauy
possess.