Wylie, Edna Edwards. Ward of the sewing-circle. †$1. Little.
“This is no book for grown-ups, who have lost the ability to get the child’s point of view, for herein lies its real charm.”
+ Ind. 59: 1541. D. 28, ’05. 350w.
Wyllie, William Lionel. J. M. W. Turner. $3. Macmillan.
“This volume is illustrated in tint and color, with reproductions of most of Turner’s well-known paintings. The author has tried, he says, to look at Turner’s life and work from a non-literary point of view, ‘as they appear to a fellow-painter traveling, however remotely, along the same road.’”—R. of Rs.
“An artist’s history of an artist’s life and work, which is interesting and informing on every page.”
+ Acad. 70: 617. Je. 30, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Wyllie’s style is somewhat crude, and there may be even an occasional lapse in grammar, but he succeeds in sketching graphically the course of Turner’s artistic development.”
+ – Ind. 61: 817. O. 4, ’06. 280w.