+ Atlan. 97: 56. Ja. ’06. 190w.
Sturgis, Russell. Appreciation of pictures. **$1.50. Baker.
“Judging the book strictly on the standards thus set up by its author it is found to be of very uneven merit. We should like it better if the author had taken more pains with his verbal style, which is, barring the occasional technical jargon, a very ordinary journalese.”
– + Ind. 60: 574. Mr. 8, ’06. 290w. + Lit. D. 32: 83. Ja. 20, ’06. 960w.
“Mr. Sturgis strongly resembles Mr. Hamerton in the perverted diligence with which he forces the most unsuitable pairs of artists to work in harness under the same category for his own nefarious book-making ends.”
– Sat. R. 101: 528. Ap. 28, ’06. 320w.
“This is, on the whole, a wise and sensible book, full of wide-minded appreciation of art.”
+ Spec. 96: 101. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.
Sturgis, Russell. Study of the artist’s way of working in various handicrafts and arts of design. 2v. **$15. Dodd.
Reviewed by John La Farge.