VANDERLIP, FRANK ARTHUR. What happened to Europe. *$1.50 (3c) Macmillan 940.314
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For the second edition of this work Mr Vanderlip has written a new preface of twenty-one pages in which he analyzes the financial and economic development in Europe in the ten months following the writing of his book. “On the whole,” he says, “the events which have since occurred have been in harmony with the broad analysis made last May [1919].” He believes that America has missed a great opportunity and thinks that there is now little that we can do. “Our first task now is to put our own house in order.” Descriptive note with critical excerpts for the first edition will be found in the Annual for 1919.
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VAN DIEREN, BERNARD.[[2]] Epstein. il *$12.50 (26c) Lane 735
Jacob Epstein, whose genius the author of this volume compares to that of Rembrandt, is said to be one of the greatest living sculptors. He belongs to that order of original creative minds “who have made the world, made humanity what it is in its best aspects. Human achievement is their work, human thought takes its foundation from what they have recognized and revealed, and the sum total of knowledge progresses by cumulative effect from one of such masters to the next one.” As it is the author’s opinion that words can not help in the appreciation of an art that does not speak to the spectator in its own language, the observations of the book are chiefly devoted to the problems of appreciation and understanding of art in general. The book contains fifty reproductions in collotype of the sculptor’s work.
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“The reproductions are beautiful in the profoundest sense. The volume is an accessible enrichment to the world of art.”