New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-17
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
BOOKS ON ART SUBJECTS.

undertaken by NM. Georges Perrot and Charles
Chipiez have been prosecuted with thoroughhess
more German than French. In volumes that nave
long been firmly established in the literature OF
their subject these authors have treated exhaust
lively the art Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Assyria, fhoe-
nicia and it's dependencies. Sardinia, Judea SYRIA
and Asia Minor They have just published TWO
new volumes, and yet they admit that they nave
only run the first part Of the course they nav
laid out for themselves. The new volumes. HIS
tory of Art in Phrygia, LYDIA, Cara and Lycia,
and History of Art in Persia lNew-1 DIX n ~
Armstrong & Som, leave the lndefatigao'e
arcbaeolooist free at last to attack the relics oil
Hellenic civilization, upon which. as they say,
tb.;r eves have ever been fixed In the frst OF
,be two they trace the origin and history OF the
pbrvoians discussing the customs and sacred ri'cs'
tho fnnereal religious and military archtec'ure'
tho sculpture the ornamental and lndustrlai aI'e
of ,he nation that anticipated Greece III ~ ii'-
nortant and beautiful d form of design az 'he
yolute; and they give brief but coihpienc I.
studes of the civilizations OF the Lydlaiio, N''i"
ga 7 vc;ans In the second volume NM Perrot
and Chipiez have even more fascinating n'"''
10 deal with for in Persia they ma 'ie i"'o :,
most snlendid phase of ancient Oriental art, the
phase that is summed up IN the ceieoraVeu Up
Hall Of Xerxes and the other great structures
nf
IGNITION Of the authors They have little 10 say
NJ Susa. and this is Disappointing. hecohcc'n's
NJ Dieulafoy's superb collection of fragments III
.ho Louvre every student must regret that fuii
oooount of il has not been included IN thls his
tory. where such an account would be peculiarly
,rolcomo But the authors courteously eApi'in
that they feel they ought TO leave the Hohoi'
md perilso of the Susan enterprise eh'l'e'S !" w.
D;ouiafov: and considering the devotoh WIN
which the latter gentleman ana Ills WIZ ',,
carried ON their work we can only agree WIN NM
De-. .pd Cbipcz These latest volumes, ilhe
,h.;r predecessors are furnished with many eoou
illustrations They are the most accep'ape car
most possible of the work that Is prohhseu AZ Vn'
announcement of the authors that tieS Will NV
Ieyote themselves wholly to the plastic ar' o'
Hellas.
Mice Ellen Russell Emerson's book cntl'le"
3Nosks Heads and Faces boston ana Ne" 1oiA
IIouohton. Miflin l. Coz is not likely 10 n'"So
a favored place for itself in the library ol "''
student of art for, although II ohers son'o wi"
siacrations respecting the rise ana deVeiop'nen'
of art, those considerations are ALMOST i
tricably imbedded in mass OF notes Oh pii
;aOos-;deas of which the author has no DOUBT
derived q conception satisfactory 10 herseii iio"'
s,udv Of pic,ographic topographic and other da'a'
hu, which she has failed to arrange in such oruer
&C 20 give the reader clear and balanced no"on
90 hur suhect as a whole The work has many
interesting and instructive passages reid,ihs :"
r,e earliest manifestations OF symbolism ~
America. Egypt, Greece and other countries a"'
tho mart which, the imitation OF the physioshon'9
of man has played III these manifestations 10 NV
dicated cleverly, if not with the authority an'
sustained power Of an author VINO eluo,'""o ~.
Genesis of q class of ideas only TO iohow ~''i
e,,o,rt;on and 70 mark their inevitable ana com
r,e+e fruition. But it is just this absence ol
LOGICAL method Of good classllcatloh' 'h"' heeP'
Miss Fmersons book from giving ehtlre Ha"7''"
,ion She shows by reference TO documents, "''',
=. ,.sscIs Of clac in sculptures Of wood ana
s,one are wrought the sentiments OF peoples "no''
,napners and customs have no other record. ohe
49, No, succeeded in drawing up a scheme OF
development.
"The Dawn of Art in the Ancient "oriu ~
William Martin Conway tNcw-lorK; Macmillan ~
Col is called. in SUBTITLE an "ro"'c"e
sletch II is very weighty for sketch, ana
- -, srhiec,s such as the architectural legacy
loft bv Egypt to Greece, which might better nave
h.en treated at greater length; but Mr. Conway
concentrations are we'll considered and luminous
md his little volume is a welcome contribution 10
tho ,ore of ancient art Writing as he docs OF
or. in the stone age, and, as q result, oil ue
totemism which is one of the most interesting
characteristics of paleolithic man. he has done
we'll to reprint from The English illustrated
Magazine the essay the cats Of ancient Egypu
which he published therein some time ago. ana
which gives first-rate survey in short space oil
the ascendancy gained by the cat elan In Egypt
tbousands of years ago, the elevation OF their
totem until it reached it's apotheosis in the person
of Pasht the goddess of Bubastis, and the Venera-
fbe fell
centuries after as was proved by the opening
of the cat cemetery at Ben-Ilasan in the summer
of 1855.
In The Art Teaching Of John Ruskin' New
York: G. p Putnams Sons, Mr. w. G. Col
lngwood has condensed all of his authors utter
apces on aesthetics, tabulating them very sys-
tematically Though the book is curt 1t is use
full and ought to be popular among readers who
have no time to explore Ruskin's works for them
selves.