Gallizier, Nathan. Castel del Monte; a romance of the fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty in Italy. [†]$1.50. Page.
A novel with a most involved and exciting plot which concerns a wicked duke and ex-monk, his lovely kinswoman, Lady Helena, and the beautiful Francesca whom he has taken from a nunnery. There are witches and sorcerers, plots and counterplots, murders and battles. A young nobleman, who loves Lady Helena, is again and again entangled by the wicked duke and dies in her arms at the tragic close of the story.
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[*] Ganz, Henry F. W. Practical hints on painting, composition, landscape, and etching. [*]$1. Lippincott.
This volume “supplies the advice and suggestion, hung on the frame work of graded lessons in drawing and painting, that are ordinarily to be had only in class.... In twelve preliminary lessons the author sets the beginner various tasks in drawing and in painting, with representative illustrations.”—Int. Studio.
[*] “While perhaps a trifle categorical to the reader, this book should prove a convenient walking stick to many who start along the road of painting alone.”
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| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 250w. |
Ganz, Hugo. The land of riddles. $2. Harper.
This book is translated from the German and edited by Herman Rosenthal. The author, a German journalist of Vienna, sent his work originally to the Austrian newspapers in the form of letters. It gives in detail his visit to Russia, the land of riddles, early in 1904, and his conversations with men of all classes of social and official life. He treats of the war; the political situation; the universities, which are “only political camps awaiting the call to arms, and nothing more”; the Jewish question, which there seems no hope of solving, and the unsteady financial standing of Russia, whose foreign credit is a mere bubble. There is a chapter on Ryepin, the great Russian painter, the sale of whose paintings is forbidden abroad, and an account of a visit to Tolstoy. The book as a whole gives a vivid and unpleasing picture of corruption and riddles to which there is at present no answer.
“After reading the introduction, one is apt to get the impression that Mr. Ganz went to Russia with a mind receptive, to say the least, to ‘horrors,’ and that quite naturally he was horrified. The volume has the defects usually inherent to a collection of letters written for popular consumption—prolixity. The writer assumes that his readers are ignorant of everything east of the Vistula.”