| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 220w. |
“These very personal little essays are amusingly frank, and clever in a journalistic way, but they have none of that delicacy of form—and spirit—which pleases the artistic sense.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 60w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 116. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
Bell, Malcolm. Old pewter. (Newnes’ lib. of the applied arts.) *$2.50. Scribner.
W 6–139.
Contains little if any new information but deserves recognition on account of the numerous carefully chosen illustrations.
“His various brief chapters show a considerable mastery of, and love for, his subject. One of the weak points of the letterpress is the ‘Useful books of reference,’ a list which occupies only a single page immediately before the index. The only works named in this insignificant list that deal with church pewter are wrongly cited.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 803. Je. 30. 550w. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 30: 186. D. ’06. 60w. |
“Treats its subject very successfully.”