Fletcher, A. E. Thomas Gainsborough. [*]$1.25. Scribner.

A volume in the “Makers of British art” series. “If, in the present volume, we are not taught much as to Gainsborough’s technique we gain a good picture of Gainsborough’s age and its degradation in taste; of Gainsborough’s family; of the famous Bath period (the turning point in the painter’s career of Gainsborough’s landscape work) and its relation to Constable’s; of the London life, the king’s favor, the Academy, and, finally, the noble passing. Of the great triumvirate of English portrait painters—Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney—working at the same time, Gainsborough was not only the most brilliant artist in, but also the founder of the English landscape school.” (Outlook).

“Excellent thought and carefully gauged appreciation is conveyed in a too dramatic, one might almost say, journalistic, tone.”

+ + —Int. Studio. 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05, 190w.

“Mr. Fletcher has nothing new or important to tell us of Gainsborough’s art, but he has succeeded, in spite of the handicap of a wordy and inefficient style, in writing a fairly entertaining biography.”

+ —Nation. 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 140w.
+N. Y. Times. 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 550w.

“Mr. Fletcher’s is the latest of the rapidly increasing number of Gainsborough biographies. His is a good biography, but not a remarkable book of criticism. For that one will seek Sir Walter Armstrong’s book; not that entire satisfaction is to be had from it either.”

+ —Outlook. 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w.

Fletcher, Banister, and Fletcher, Banister Flight. History of architecture. [*]$6. imp. Scribner.

A fifth edition, revised and enlarged. The volume is intended for students, craftsmen, and the general reader. It contains over 2000 illustrations including photographs of buildings, exteriors and interiors, maps, plans, and diagrams, and includes a bibliography, a glossary, and a full index.