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 REVIEWS OF RECENT BOOKS

A work of extraordinary interest to the student, and especially to

the artist, is " Historic Dress in America," recently issued from the
press of George W. Jacobs & Co., with text by Elizabeth McClellan,
and illustrations by Sophie B. Steel. There has been no lack of
books on the costumes of other countries, but up to the appearance

SKETCH
By Honor6 Daumier

of the present volume there has been no work that has adequately
covered the field for America. The period covered is from I607 to
i8oo, with an introductory chapter on dress in the Spanish and
French settlements in Florida and Louisiana.
In point of execution the work leaves little to be desired. The
author aptly says in her brief preface that " fashion wears out more
apparel than the man," but that happily some relics of bygone days
have been preserved intact which are veritable documents of history
on the subject of dress in America. It is these documents that both
author and illustrator have used in the preparation of the work.
Primarily the book is one for reference and not for perusal, and
its value inheres quite as much in the pictures with which it is copi
ously illustrated as in the historical narrative and in the generous
array of descriptive quotations, gathered together from many sources
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on the subject of dress. No less than three hundred and eighty-five
cuts are given, many of them in color, and these attest both the good
selective judgment of the author and the careful, painstaking work of
her assistant.
The bulk of the volume, naturally, is given to the dress of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the former being devoted to the
costumes of the early English and Dutch colonists and the latter to
the apparel of men, women, and children during successive reigns
from Queen Anne to George III., with a brief survey of dress after
the Revolution. For a work of its kind it is unusually pleasant
reading, but its special value is that it covers adequately and authori
tatively a field on which there has been heretofore a dearth even of
magazine literature. Too much cannot be said in praise of the
superb way inwhich the book -is issued. The letter- press is almost
faultless, and the illustrations both in number and quality make the
book quite unique among similar works published in this country.
Artists who are called upon to illustrate period covered will find it
almost invaluable.
.$ While every other department of pottery has received attention
from ceramic writers, the literature of Hispano-Moresque has remained
scanty in the extreme. The highly decorative qualities which this
pottery owes to its unique combination of striking schemes of
Moresque ornament, frequently employed as a setting to armorial
designs, have nevertheless maintained it among pottery lovers and
collectors. The continued interest of which it has been the object
has not resulted, however, in the elucidation of- its origin or the for
mulation of any satisfactory scheme of classification for the many
varieties of the ware produced during the fifteenth century.
This pottery differs from other ceramic products in that it has
recorded neither marks nor any personal trace of individual potteries.
The last work upon the subject before the volume which John Lane
has issued was published in i86i. The present work by A. Van
De Put, entitled "Hispano-Moresque Ware of the Fifteenth Cen
tury," aims at establishing the chronology of the various styles by
mneans of armorial specimens. The peculiar nature of the information
yielded by heraldry makes it possible to present a series of dated
specimens illustrating the evolution of the styles.
These pieces, in each case thoroughly representative of their class,
are drawn from the Victoria Albert Museum, the British Museum,
the Wallace collection, the Sevres Museum, and from private collec
tions. The work also contains a reconsideration of the part attributed
to the Island of Majorca in the traditional history of Majolica. The
illustrations comprise thirty-two plates, including three in color, a
map of the Valencian potteries, and a genealogical table showing the
royal princes for whom the pottery was made and their relationship.
.$ As a record of the display of paintings and sculpture shown at the
 142 BRUSH AND PENCIL

St. Louis Exposition, an illustrated handbook has just been issued

by the department of art, of which Halsey C. Ives was chief. It is
a small, paper-covered octavo of four hundred pages, with no set
order of countries or artists, but a complete index makes it valuable
for reference. It contains all the awards. The illustrations are in
half-tone, and are generally satisfactory. A brief introduction has
been written by Mr. Ives, and the descriptive text, not very illumi
nating, is by Charles M. Kurtz for the paintings and John J. Zolnay
for the sculpture.
. The Royal Academy in the most vitally interesting part of its
existence has been made the subject of a monograph, under the
editorship of Charles Holme. Such works as have hitherto appeared
on the subject have been either inadequately illustrated or confined
solely to letter-press. This work, published by John Lane, is note
worthy for the abundance and high quality of its illustration. Some
hundred artists are represented in the full-page plates in photo
gravure, half-tone, and colors, and interspersed throughout are fac
similes of autograph letters from academicians of note. Of the origin
and history of the academy W. K. West contributes an account,
pointing out the peculiar situation of the British body among al-t
bodies of the world. The painters of the academy from I768-i868
are described in an able article by W. S. Sparrow, who writes also of
the sculptors, the engravers, and the architects in three subsequent
papers. A convenient apparatus for reference is afforded in the
chronological list of associates and members of the academy.

BOOKS RECEIVED
"French Painting in the Sixteenth Century," by L. Dimier.
Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. $2 net.
"Hispano-Moresque Ware of the Fifteenth Century," by A. Van
De Put. John Lane. $4 net.
"Frans Hals," by Gerald S. Davis. The Macmillan Co. $1.75.
"Handbook of Lithography," by David Cumming. The Mac
millan Co. $2.
"Homer Martin: A Reminiscence," by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin.
William Macbeth. $I.50 net.
"The Log of the Griffin," by Donald Maxwell. John Lanie.
$2 net.
"A Handbook of Plant Form," by Ernest E. Clark. John Lane,
$2.50 net.
"Daunier and Gavarni," by IHenri Frantz and Octave Uzanne.
John Lane. $3 net.