New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-16

81 J. Alfred Gotch. r. A. s.. i. r; !.
= a Illustrated. i2mo. PIP VIA 30
Charles Scrihners Sons.
THE LIVES OF THE BRITISH ARChl-
tets. Prom William ~ Myk~ham %
Sir William chambers. BY r. Beresford
sss Charles srfibnsr's sons u.s. ~
~ ENGLISH HOMES. The Internal char
ncier. Furniture and Adornments 81
Some 81 the Most Notable Houses ~
England. Accurately Depicted from
PhotoEraphs Specially Taken. by Charles
Latham. The letterpress edited and an
i9trodp,tion written by IA u AKraY rd diP-
pp II. siS Charles Sorihner's sons.
The buildings - England make the
best and most Characteristic Of her ar
iistie monuments II her historians of
painting not infrequently feel obliged
90 FAN into apologetic mood. recognizing
the fact thar until the rise ~ Hogarth
the school has practically nothing 10
show that IS comparable 10 Continental
achievements. the balance Is easily re-
dressed where architecture is concerned.
There also 20 he sure. one must reckon
with British Indebtedness 40 foreign in
huenoes. hut even when YOU have ac-
counted for the importation Of French
and Italian ideas YOU sin have a vast
amount OF precious material essentially
British IN all its salient qualities. Of
this material Mr.. Gotch makes the most
fn a short survey of IT Growth ~ the
English House" which cannot be too
warmly praised. Tracing the subject
throueh some seven hundred years. from
she Norman keep 10 the fashionable
eighteenth century city mansion, he
manages 20 expose an ~ the important
lines ~ development very clearly and in
q readable. interesting manner. His nu-
merous halftones from photographs
really illuminate his buildings inside and
cut and. what is more. he has included
a number - plans and other drawings.
An ideal little book. alike for the student
and the lavman
Both these readers win also md profit
sn Miss Chanoellor's contribution 20 the
well known Red Library" a well hal
anced book On The Lives IL the British
Architects" The subject is dark in the
Middle Ages. for the cathedral builders
On Great Britain. as i'm Europe. were
wont 90 remain anonymous. hut the au-
thor can tell as something about Wvke-
ham. and she has even Earnered a few
notes un one or two ~ his contempt
Iaries and predecessors She has better
luck when she comes down % Tudor
times. and some ~ her most interesting
pages relate 20 old John Thorpe, who
may NOT have been n colossal genius hut
certainly had fine large way with him.
BUT the first outstanding figure In Eng
iish architectural biography is. 81 course.
Inieo Jones. and 20 him Miss chancellor
devotes a fairly generous chapter. II he
had never done anything save the great
Banqueting Hall he would have been
secure Of remembrance Wren naturally
looms large in this book. The rest are
figures 81 lesser calibre. but Robert
Adam and Sir William Chambers are
not by any means negligible types. ana
there are divers other architects here
COMMUNICATED who, if not great mas
tiers. are al an -ents worth knowing.
Miss Chancellor sketches them with a
light touch and with "A Judgment show
ing some Familiarity with architecture
as ar art Findings and portraits pro-
vide a useful series OF illustrations.
Reference may here Appropriately be
made 10 the third OF those stately folios
which. under the title OF In English
Homes" assemble an extraordinary ar
ray Of documentary evidence on a fasci-
oating subject AIR Latham's photo
graphs are superb and they are repro
iuced IN halftones So large and So fine
that from them one might almost re-
construct the buildings illustrated. This
photographic too is man Of taste,
with a pictorial sense, and knows how Ia
produce such plates as viii take AS into
the very atmoslheIe 81 his buildings.
Their dignifed facGGes. their majestic
Interiors, their carved and painted dec
orations and an their beautiful furniture
are SET forth I'm a really intimate man
ner Mr.. Tipping's text adds the his
torical and personal lore which best
serves 20 Kivify ana humanize these sur
Vivals of a glorious social past Thus
far We have had three 81 these volumes.
II is 40 be hoped that the series may
continue indefinitely
A few miles south of Geneva is the
village If MofneX. where the tourists
may see tablets communicating the
visits n Richard Wagner and Ruskin
But the neiRhhorhood has peculiar in
terest because If its associations with
Henri Albert Gosse. the most fanatical
~ all Rousseaus disciples. a book re-
nently published by Nile Danielle Plan
gives some account - this extraordi-
nary person-'le solitaire De- Mornex"
ohio was born in 1913 and died in 1916
on the rocky summit 81 the Petit
GalAve. which overlooks the village. H.
made q summer home for himself. 10
avoid coDtact with men and 90 hold
lonely communion with nature. He
was Interested IN science, and arranged
o small geological garden and cabinet
Of mineralogy. when summer began
Gosse would SCI out from Geneva for this
retreat. leading an ass laden With pro-
visions and books. and he would take up
his residence al this kind Of ErmifGgf.
hard by the celtic caves and mediseval
ruins ~ the place.
His admiration TOR ms master went
60 FAR As o. make him initiate even the
mo -