New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17

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gent sixty-two of whose pictures are repro
duced by means of heliogravure plates. Plon-
Nourrtt are preparing for the new year an
elaborate work describing the Hotel de Vile of
Paris, written by Narius Vachon; in it the SUI
and Benjamin Constant and the ceilings by
Leon Bonnat and Georges Picard are presented
by siXty-eight phOtogravure illustrations and
by lu2 craycn drawings. The same firm is also
bringing out a book on David dangers, with
two hundred illustrations H F1oury Is getting
ready for publication a work in four volumes
relating to Corot The letterpress by Alfred
Robaut is preceded by life of the great land
scape painter by Etienne Moreau-N elaton, and
the illustrations number two thousand The
price of the work. bound in ordinary vellum. is
400 francs. Goupil is about TO issue a book on
Natter. written by Pierre de Nolhac. custodian
of the Versailles Museum, containing sixty coll
ored photographers from the principal pictures
Of this artist. The same house announces a
work by Henry Lapauze, with eighty-seven re-
productions in typogra vure of the portraits OF
La Tour the great pastelist, the originals of
which are in the La Tour Museum at Saint
Quentin. Another elaborate work soon to be is
sued by Goupil is Les Chefs-d Oeuvre du
Louvre" with fifty reproductions in photogra-
vure of the principal paintings In the great mu-
quez Rubens, BotticelH Clouet, Raphael Leo
nardo da Vinci, Rembrandt Teniers Frans Has
Vatican, Pater. Fragonard and others Re-
nouard announces Les Maftres Contemporaries
AIMEE 1904" by Leonce Benedite custodian of
the Luxembourg Museum-an elaborate work
devoted to contemporary painters of all nations,
illustrated by seventy-two colored plates An
other elaborate work soon TO be issued in COM
pete form by Renouard is Les Grands Ar
tistes.' several volumes of which have already
appeared. The forthcoming volumes are de-
voted to Hogarth. by Francois Beroit; Boucher
by Gustave Kahn; Donatello. by Arsene Alex
andre; Rembrandt, by Emile vorhaeren, and
Meissonier, by Leonce Benedite. Among the
other works to be brought out by Renouard is
the "HistOire Populaire de la Peinture' bv
Arsene Alexandra. in which the critic of the
Figaro treats in four volumes. each illustrat-
ed by go plates. of art In France and of the
German, English. Spanish. Dutch. Flemish and
Italian schools. The photographic firm of F.
Champenois issues a finely illustrated book con-
tanning "Petites Scenes de la Vie" by Albert
Guillaume whose clever Caricatures of the cpl
sodes of the comic and rosy sides of Partisan
life are so keenly appreciated in France and
abroad.
The salient characteristic of the present
book season is that the popular taste calls for
profuse yet carefully executed Illustrations
Picture books are the only ones that are bought
during the holidays. Consequently one finds In
the shop windows an unusual quantity of bright
COlOred. amusing household books for Young
folk Charles Schmid issues Les Rfves de Ia
Seine Travers les Ages comprising upward
OF hundred illustrations, with a preface by
Victorien SardOu. The same house is bringing
out an deliberately illustrated volume by Eugene
Belville. entitled lie CUR dams la Decoration
Moderne," describing all the artistic annIica
tons of leather for decorative purposes 7
Rothschd will soon put the market lie
Livre dor des Roses" by Paul Hariot in which
the varying beauties of the French rose are
depicted in sixty cOlored plates. lie Poinct
de France ct les Dentelliets au KYLE Of All
XVllle Steele is the title of perhaps the best
popular treatise the art of lace making that
has yet appeared. The book is issued by the
Rothschid firm of publishers. is written hv
Laurence de Laprade, with preface by Henry
Lapauze, and has fifty we'll executed illustra
tons of the most beautiful laces worn during
the reign of Louis XIII to that of Iouis XVI
AS might readily be surmised the approacb-
ing celebration of the centenary of Sainte
Beuve, who born December % 1904 has
called forth a quantity of books bearing upon
the life and writings OF the famous critic des
lundis. The publishing house of the ..nfercure
de France" issues a two-voume work on Sahnte-
Beuve by Leon scene ana Les Correspondence
Inedite de Sainte- Beuve, avec NJ 81 Mime Juste
Olivier" is also brought out by the same house
while Fontemong is selling a book of ..F,tudes
sur Sainte- Beuve," by q. Michaut Sainte-
Beuve has become the victim of "up-to-date'
ndscretion. and now has the weak and trivial
side of his character put under a piercing and
decidedly irreverent light. II is related that.
being a stanch Conservative, he fled In terror
from Paris at the first symptoms of the revo-
luton of ls4S He twitted George Sand with
being a Communarde; he demolished Chateau
brand in his lectures at Liege; and he never
was a Christian, but rather an ultra skeptical
agnostic" His liaison with the beautiful Nine
dArbouville which lasted eight years and was
only terminated by the death of that accom-
plished lady in ls4s. is recounted In detail In