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Lansdale, Maria Horner. Châteaux of Touraine; il. with pictures by Jules Guérin, and by photographs. **$6. Century.
In text, illustrations, and workmanship this volume furnishes the same excellencies that characterized Mrs. Wharton’s “Italian villas” with the Parrish pictures, to which it is a companion volume. Accuracy and authority stamp the sketches of these twelve Touraine chateaux. The charm which casts a spell over pilgrims from every quarter of the globe, says the author, is born of a variety of causes, their captivating beauty, their architectural interest, the loveliness of the surrounding country and the halo of historical associations in which each is wrapped. There are sixteen wash drawings by Jules Guérin besides over forty reproductions in black and tint of photographs.
“Her facts are accurate and authoritative, and at the same time picturesquely presented.”
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“The subjects are well suited to a hand trained in architectural rendering. And the artist has here as elsewhere found himself at ease in restriction to flat tones of a few low-keyed colours. He shows imagination in these sketches and a cleverness in atmospheric feeling.”