Pattison, James William. World’s painters since Leonardo. *$4. Duffield.
“The author has taken up the long succession of artists of whom he treats in chronological order, without regard to nationality, schools or character of work. In this he has sought to present the influence exerted by contemporaries upon one another, even at great distances.... It is as though he had produced an abridged Bryan’s Dictionary of painters, arranging by date instead of alphabet, and giving the whole affair the lively inspiration of alert thought and ready sympathy.”—Int. Studio.
“The student who uses it merely as a court of last resort on minutiae will have missed its import, which consists rather in its spirit of sincere conviction and its direct delight in men rather than theories.”
| + − | Int. Studio. 30: sup. 24. N. ’06. 720w. |
Patton, John Shelton, and Doswell, Sallie J. University of Virginia: glimpses of its past and present. 25c. Bell.
5–39859.
“An account, based on the correspondence of Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, of the founding of the university, a sketch of the institution’s early history, a description of the Jeffersonian buildings, and accounts of the various phases of the university’s development, together with lists of honor and prize students, orators, participants in the civil war, etc.”—Am. Hist. R.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 473. Ja. ’07. 80w. |