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I I TTi 11 rton -olace must of honour be given among to Etche the d season Examples ' s books of from Paintings Messrs Old . Low and , Marston Vew with , Searle notes , b & y . ^ * Mollett B . A . a splendid folio with twenty plates . The etchers employed on the
I t nclude ion some XJnger , of Flameng the , first of D the e los continental HiosJacquemar workers t in M this branch Gue ' rard of art Forberg , and am and ong
IT , , , , eyer , , , I ) « v , f toner ^ iienbach . Th . e , pain Rauber ters whose , Bastien masterp -Lepage ieces , and are Muller reproduced . It include is too often Rembrand the case t , Hals in , such Corot a ,
I I j l f ime merit that or t 3 i purpose e letterpress ; but is this but cannot a runnin be g said accompaniment of Mr . Mollett to the ' s interesting plates , with notes little ; indepen and his
-I I ^ ncies face whicli in wliich will he relieve claims the fox overworked such a picture brain -book , is thoug as htful this a and place suggestive among . the Of the restorative special Tracteristics of the etching as distinguished from the painting or engravingMr . Mollett
I I ites with evident appreciation , and claims for it that it has a power of undefined , working on I ! hp mind which is possessed by no other art except music : * There is a degree of solemnity in
I I the re- mystery historic and of its barbarian shadows art ; ) in of the the still sympathetic greater mystery lines , and ( exemp forms lified which also are in the not traceries imitations of Lit subtly suggestive Ulffc indications of natural forms ¦ . The sketchy uncertainty ¦ of its ¦ b " effects " sets ,
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I I its full ^ alue in a good etching - * Mr . Mollett further points to the educational value of such a book as this , and quaintly suggests that the study is so interesting that the student must
I I rep twentieth ine at century his prospective . If the inability gods cannot to watch this * its iftie further gie us / development it is at any in rate the a approaching privilege to
I receive such a noble book as this , with its comming g ling of the arts of painting and etching , ¦¦ h ¦ the i yielding ¦ t ¦ m M homage to and enriching the ¦ other . All ¦¦ the - ¦ four examples ¦ of Rembrandt ¦ - ^ ir ^ F ^^^^ ¦¦ are ¦
I| ^^^^^ | 111 w ^^ one ^^ lj ^— Ml My ^^^ ^ L ^ b ^ . ^ ^ b ^ K « V >^ vW V ^ k ^™^ ^^ ^^^^ »^^^^^^™ *^^^ ^ fc ^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^» ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ % ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^ ' - ^ ^ ^^~^ —^ ^ " ^^ " ^ ^ " ^^^ ^ ^^ —» ^ '" » - ^^ ¦ ' — ^ - ™ ^^^ ^ —^ — ¦ *^~ ™™ ^^ ^^^ ^^ - *~ ^^ " ^^ ^^^ - ^^^ w ^ p ^^ ¦ ¦ I I portraits Mollett ir ^ iinff . reminds rATYiiTi ; th ^ ls Guyp us na . is alone a . lnn a portrait « survives survives also in in , the the of a dress dress lady oi of with trie the the dignitaries dignitaries Elizabethan ot of the the ruffle . Liutheran Lutheran , which , Uhurch Church as Mr . ..
I I The of whom examp Unger le of Miiller himself , is has a fine iven etching us so b many y Unger splendid of an etchings ' Oriental elsewhere Bazaar , ' and is his the jovial Franz picture Hals , I
I ' Leve de Trouw' an inimitabl g e bit of expressive physiognomy splendidly worked , . There is one ¦ I absolutely original , etchinga portrait of the Abbe * Lisztby Linningwhile two other modern
I I faces from , Holzap the grand fl , who old etch soldier es , from and a the picture iron by Chancellor Hellqvist , . Von , The Moltke popular and , actress Bismarck Sarah , come Bernhardt to us
I skres honours with the statesman and the general , her portrait by Bastien-Lepage being finely m I ^^^ m etched ^^ V ^ v * ^^ ^^ by ^^ w De ^ M ^^ r ^^^ los ^ fc ^^ f ^^ Hios ^ i ^ b ^ V ^ b ^^ w ^ m . V Taken " * ^»^^ i ^ WVk ^^^ ^«^ altog ^^ V ^ * ¦ . ^ r ^^ ¦ M ^ K ether ^^^ ** mm ^ m ^^ r ^ mm , ^ p ^ it ^ ^ r is " ¦ ^ i i ¦ a b uni ^ ^^^^^^ que «* m ^ - »^ book - — - —^ ¦ i i w . — Art — - ^^ ^ v of — a ^^ different - ^ — —i ¦ - ^ - ^ - ^^ ^— ' style ^^ . ^ ^ - ^ ^ m —— - ^^ - v ^ b but ^ - ^ —— » still —¦ —
I and genuine flowers art , by is contained MrEP in Roe Nature which ' s has Serial been Story deli , hting the p the leasant readers gossip of Harper of woods ' s M and agazin fields e
during the last , twelve . . months . . , The illustrations , b g y Messrs . Hamilton Gibson and Dielman , I form a worthy presentation of the perfection of American engraving , with those peculiar
I its nmnceS chief y to characteristics borrow an . expressive Every term feature from and the every sister chang art of ing music aspect , which of the seem natural to be kingdom one of
I I I third in seems We e to w dition have Zealand been is a , travel b caug y J - ht . book ET and . Kerry of faithfull singular -Nicholls y reflected interest , which . because , Tlio we are SLingr it p takes leased Country us to into notice ; hithert or , , has Sxplorations o reached unknown a
I I I collection travel ground -record , and of , with supp illustrations lies an , abundance not interesting only of scientific exciting to the information isodes anthropolog Tne of ist hi Moqui gh and value the Indians , with naturalist a of marvellous Arizona , but a
I hy John C . Bourkeis another book with a ep similar . claim to noticefor it opens up a new , I field and describes , with much vividness and detail the strange , ' Snake-dancewhich
I legen forms ds the of central New England act among by the Charles so-called Gr reli Leland gious is rites a chap of the ter from people an . almos The t Algonquin unknown ,
and < department « m rcnobscot Pcnobs < of jot folk tribes tribes -lore , collected collected supp , lying bv by a bud tne the get author autnor . of curious during duriner , my his His ths sojourn soiourn of the Micmac among among , them tnern Passamaquodd . . The xne book dook y ,
I I i characteristic wiaracte him , of cours ristLc e touches toimli , its fiR two , . , and and sides as as : a a as ccontri ontribution an attractiv bution e to to volume wnat what is is of tast fast legends becoming becoming , with a a their bran orancn ch ori of oi ginal literary literary and
science entitled , if to ¦ \ high j re -m m may \ praise mak , e Tne a phrase Hundred | AJU , and in Greatest both respects Men , produced with its curious by the same illustrations - »— publishers —> -- ^ ¦ , it is a
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representati ° f ^ portraits » -. » vmiv * . , ves ? V representing > kj \ of ^ X . Poetry JL Vf % J tl V I ( , which the fl lAJLV ^ men AA in MlMM . this VAAJLtO whom case V > C *^^ V its ^ includes & AAVA editor uuvw and m all ^ J ^ A form *^ contributors -r * . a «* . s i ^ , of -v * literature —¦— «¦ w but — have — orators — ) , 7 selected Art and , Reli critics & s g ion the ,
^ duction j cienco nilosoph , was Politics y , written History ( including b ( including the late warriors not Mr . onl as Ral y well historians h Waldo as statesmen Emerson properl ) , y and so and -called Industry the , authors . The of general the sections Intro ) - , ivi y TT p and K , Re the
a «™ re Messrs essrs . Matthew Mn . f . f-. TiA « r Arnold Arr ^ y H . Taine ToJnft Max TVTmr Miiller MiillfiT and jE . Kenan nan , . JN Noah oali Jforter Porter , tne late late w Uean "l natural Stanley l , receive Helmholtz some , J . shocka , A . Froude as the , , and John are Fiske turned . over Preconceived leas on account notions of of those greatness who a admitted y than of those who excluded pages butbearing in , mind the very various ideas
1 « "M « » ich 4 wie . V - people 1 »_ form of the world _ ' s are heroes ' , it will - ; generally ^^ , be conceded ¦ . that the from selection - tne Ilia has Deat ,
wnoie , been well and wisely made . The portraits Have been engraved
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1884, page 1271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121884/page/31/
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