“Mr. Newbolt’s ... essay is written in an easy, unaffected style, without partiality or any undue parade of the technical knowledge which adds a special value to an etcher’s criticism of etchings.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 448. Ap. 13. 300w. |
“The only fault that can be found with them is the colour of the paper on which they are printed. It is too deep in tone, an unwise concession to a popular prejudice against white paper for purposes of this kind.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6; 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 370w. | |
| Nation. 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 150w. |
“It is a satisfaction to all art-lovers that a collection of the Strang etchings has now been published, with an excellent prefatory account of them and their creator by Mr. Frank Newbolt.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w. |
Strange, Edward Fairbrother. Hokusai; the old man mad with painting. (Langham ser., an illustrated collection of art monographs, v. 17.), *$1. Scribner.
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Not only gives “a resumé of what is known of the life of the great Japanese artist and a discriminating guide to those qualities which make the greatness of his art, but tends to give the reader a sounder understanding of what art is than many a volume ten times its size and ten times more pretentious.”