PAINTED BY ELLA DU CANE
DESCRIBED BY FLORENCE DU CANE
SQUARE DEMY 8VO., CLOTH, GILT TOP, CONTAINING
50 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR.
Price 20/- net. Post free 20/6.
Morning Post.—“Taken as a whole, this ‘gardening’ book is one of the most fascinating that has ever been published, and is worthy of its most fascinating title. Its pictures are all of them beautiful, and admirably reproduced, and the letterpress matches them well.”
Guardian.—“Miss Ella Du Cane catches no little of the Japanese spirit, its delicate harmonies of colour, its wonderful use of blended washes in preference to our cruder European methods of manipulating sharply contrasted tints, its careful study of line, and its studied suppression of all hardness.... The whole forms a singularly attractive gift-book.”
Daily News.—“This is so charming a collection of the dainty landscape scenery for which Japan is now well known that we should have been grateful for it even if it had not been more. It is, however, as well a pleasant and informative discourse on the ritual of Japanese gardening in general, and on the many gardens in particular, which the writer has been privileged to visit.”
Scotsman.—“Prose and pictures together make an uncommonly pretty posy, which would grace even the most severe library.”
Liverpool Courier.—“Horticulture in Japan is bound up with the poetry and folk-lore of the people, and Miss Du Cane brings out this association in a most delightful fashion. In fact, her writing weds the practical and poetical most attractively. The book is illustrated in colour by Miss Ella Du Cane, and her pictures are wholly exquisite impressions. If anything could induce us to imitate the Japanese gardener, these dainty water-colour sketches should.”
Observer.—“The literary pages are entertaining, the plates are delicious.... The book as a whole is vivid and fragrant with masses of wistaria, azalea, iris, lotos, chrysanthemums, and the airy glories of cherry, peach, and plum. Miss Ella Du Cane’s pictures are, indeed, so daintily done—instance at random that bewitching glimpse called ‘Wistaria at Nagaoka’—that those who once take this volume in their hands will turn it over again and again.”