New-York tribune., 1907-01-20
MORE ART BOOKS.
Recent Popular Studies of Painting
and Other Subjects.

toms LEIGHTON reviewed in this place last
week: critical monographs like the 'Correggio'
Of Mr T. Surge Moore, elaborate treatises, |
In a form meant for the working library like
Nj Russell Sturgis's History of Architecture"
the first volume OF which has recently been |
issued. Also have "A great number of vol
Umcs inoXpensiyely put forth for a wide audi ,
enee These are generally well written, judi /
ciously illustrated, and, in short, practically |
useful. Take, for example, the "Newnes's Art
Library which is published in this country by
i. Warne & Co. We have just received three
new volumes in this series which is to say
three collections of excellenty reproduced il /
llstTs5ions, and all Of them are welcome
The first is given TO Michael Angelo" The /
introGuction his life and art is instructively
written by Or. Gronau and the forty-eight full /
page halftones that follow embrace a good Sc |
lection from the paintings on the vault of the |
S-tne Chapel. We especially appreciate the !
abundant space given to the purely decorative |
f-ures. those wonderful studies of adolescent !
forms in which the painter expressed some Of
his noblest ideas on the decorative treatment of
Tho human figure A second volume celebrates |
"Delacroix," the Introductory essay being
written by Henri Frantz. Nowhere else could 1
The student obtain better survey OF the art /
Of the great romanticist. The Illustrations show
nearly every phase Of that art In delightful I,
contrast TO this volume is the third. which is /
assigned 10 'Ingres." introduced by Octave
Uzanne. and illustrated with reproductions from /.
the most important Of the paintings and por-
traits. We might be disposed to complain of the /
absence of drawings from this volume but no /
doubt il is intended to include Ingres in the /
special series devoted by the same publishers
10 Modern Master Draughtsmen." We may
note. by the way. that in the Newnes series of |
Great Etchers,' imported here by the Serb /
ners. there has just been published q volume |
on The Etchings of William Strang." This |
modern young Briton is really great" |
cteher, and. coming after Van Dyck and Meryon !
in the same series he lets down the standard !
Of the latter Nevertheless he is an accom- /
plished craftsman and amateurs of the subject |
Will be glad 10 have this representation of his /
etched work TO place alongside the illustrated /
catalogue, compiled by Mr.. Binyon, which was |
published by the Macmillans not long since
Students interested in Lord Leighton for
whom Mrs Barrington's two volumes are per
haps too sumptuous and costly. will find their
purposes adequately served by Mr. Edgcumbe
Staley in his Lord Leighton Of Stretton. p. p |
A, contributed 10 THE Makers of British
Art" a series imported hy the Scribners II
Is true that this biographer, like the other is
without critical authority. He begins his pref
ace with the assertion that Frederick Leighton |
was the High Priest of the cult of Eclectic .
Beauty: he was also the most significant of all :
the Makers of British Art. From whatever
point of view We behold him-whether as
Draushtsmau Coloii-t Mo3eIler. Orator. or
Leader Of men, he MAS head and shoulders (
above his contemporaries Obviously Mr. F
staley is no guide to the values OF Leighton's
ART But he gives clear account of his hero's
hfe. he does very Well in all matters Of fact .
and his appendices supply useful data 5
CARDS all Of the works dates and sizes being
given wherever possible. There are the usual
halftone Illustrations. with photogravure from
the portrait in the Ufizi for frontspiece.
A charming contribution TO the minor ntera-
ture Of modern English art is Mr.. II. NJ Gun I
dalTs ''Brket Foster (the Macmillan Company.
The subject OF this volume facile, pictu-
rescue water colorist and illustrator. His work,
though never brilliant often pleasing, espe-
cially when il touched the idyllic sentiment Of
English landscape. Many attractive specimens
OF II here reproduced in colors. The pencil
drawings OF architectural subjects are, if any
thing, better than the works in color; they
tainy show a firmer touch. Foster had low
able personality Of which Mr. Cundan has made !
the most in his smooth entertaining text. From
the Macmillans there also comes a curious book
by Mr c. Lewis Hind, called The Education /
OF an Artist" II purports TO relate the ad- !
ventures Of Claude Williamson Shaw, who
studies painting in Cornwall and Paris, and
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