“If we would understand Japanese art we must accept the conventions,” says the author. The sympathetic attitude which grows out of a careful survey of the forces of Japanese development is necessary for connoisseur and beginner alike. Painting, color printing, sculpture and carving, metal work, keramics, lacquer, and landscape gardening and the arrangement of flowers are covered in the treatment.
“It is by far the best short introduction to the subject of which it treats that has yet appeared.”
| + + — | Dial. 39: 278. N. 1, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] “He talks entertainingly and correctly, and yet rather as a student and reader in Europe, than as an observer in Japan itself.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 50w. | |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 90w. |
Dickberry, F. Storm of London. $1.50. Turner, H. B.
The earl of Somerville, weary of purposeless social life, decides upon suicide one night during a violent storm. When he awakens he looks upon a London from which every vestige of clothes and furniture had been swept away thus removing all outward signs of social distinction. “Yet even when we recognize that the book is in a way an allegory, and a satire upon the shams of modern life, nothing can alter the fact that here is a story which, chapter after chapter, pictures the fashionable life of London, the crowds in the street, the dinners and receptions and public functions, all thronged with men and women in the garb of Adam and Eve before the fall.” (Bookm.)
“The volume may have a certain incisive irony, but it is sadly deficient in good taste.”
| — | Bookm. 22: 37. S. ‘05. 300w. |
“An elaborate and tiresome extravaganza, in which the author handles the idea of an unclothed society with cumbrous and offensive satire. There is enough ability in the book to suggest that the writer might do something better.”