. American homes and gardens. AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS January, 1913 • ART-ARCHITECTUREi. With four full-page plates in color, and 147 half-toneengravings. Square 8vo. Cloth, $ net. Postage, 25c. * * *This is a fascinating book on a fascinating subject. It iszvritten by a scholar whose passion for accuracy and original researchdid not prevent hint from making a story easy to read. It answers thequestions people arc always asking as to how tapestries differ frompaintings, and good tapestries from bad tapestries. It will interestlovers of paintings and rugs and history and fiction, for it
. American homes and gardens. AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS January, 1913 • ART-ARCHITECTUREi. With four full-page plates in color, and 147 half-toneengravings. Square 8vo. Cloth, $ net. Postage, 25c. * * *This is a fascinating book on a fascinating subject. It iszvritten by a scholar whose passion for accuracy and original researchdid not prevent hint from making a story easy to read. It answers thequestions people arc always asking as to how tapestries differ frompaintings, and good tapestries from bad tapestries. It will interestlovers of paintings and rugs and history and fiction, for it shozvs howtapestries compare with paintings in picture interest, with rugs in tex-ture interest, and with historic and other novels in romantic interest,presenting on a magnificent scale the stories of the Iliad and theOdyssey, the Mneid and the Metamorphoses, the Bible and the Saints,Ancient and Mediaeval History and Romance. In a word, the book isindispensable to lovers of art and literature in general, as well as totapestry amateurs, owners and dealers. MODERN COTTAGE ARCHITECTURE. I
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