. The Argonaut . nd to teach. The work is technical only so far asit deals with the major elements of the artof painting explained for the laity. It livesup to its title perfectly, and for those whohave a desire to study and to knoiv pictures,it will be a great help. It is not a bookfor artists. The style is fluent and the tone of thebook popular. It contains a glossary toterms that will be useful to the student,also that always valuable adjunct to booksof this kind, a bibliography— of books onart readily procurable. There are fifty-sixexcellent full-page reproductions of greatpaintings. Mr. C
. The Argonaut . nd to teach. The work is technical only so far asit deals with the major elements of the artof painting explained for the laity. It livesup to its title perfectly, and for those whohave a desire to study and to knoiv pictures,it will be a great help. It is not a bookfor artists. The style is fluent and the tone of thebook popular. It contains a glossary toterms that will be useful to the student,also that always valuable adjunct to booksof this kind, a bibliography— of books onart readily procurable. There are fifty-sixexcellent full-page reproductions of greatpaintings. Mr. Caffins book is particularlycommendable because of its educationalvalue. It should do much toward spreadinga comprehension of art among the masses. Published by the Century Company: $ Womanhood in book of thirty pages, well printed fromlarge type, and containing six superior re-productions of famous works of art, accom-panied by appreciations from the pen ofPhebe Estelle Spalding—such is the very. Esthcr Singleton, author of Great by Dodd, Mead & Co. well-appearing volume which bears the titleWomanhood in Art. The representativeexamples of womanhood it contains are theVenus de Milo: Eve, by Dagonet: daVinci? Mona Lisa; the Cenci of GuidoReni; the Madonna of the Chair byRaphael, and the Sistine Madonna, also byRaphael. Published by Paul Elder & Co. Spanish and Italian Painters in the Louvre. Paintings of the Louvre is the title ofa volume by Dr. Arthur Mahler in collabor-ation with Carlos Blacker and William A. Slater, which from its size and charactermight be properly called a handbook. It isthe first of a series under the same generaltitle, and deals with only the works of theSpanish and Italian masters. It is at thesame time a condensed history of theseschools, with the essentials set forth in amanner that makes reading agreeable. Thepainters and their works are described inchronological order, and there are one hun-dred and sixty-six repr
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