“Is not so specialized a piece of work as is the standard biography by Crowe and Cavalcaselle. It is tersely and vividly written, precisely the book for the general reader.” Royal Cortissoz.
| + + | Atlan. 95: 276. F. ‘05. 320w. |
“It is quite up-to-date in its attributions. The side on which their usefulness does not seem to increase or greatly enlighten is that of a new word concerning the technical performances of great colourists, draughtsmen and virile painters. But this lapse Gronau has in common with others who write of artists and their work. Such books as these become, in a sense, a kind of superior guidebook to galleries, palaces and churches, but they are not quite what a student or a connoisseur would desire when wishing to be enlightened on the methods, ways, and practices of a master painter. Present book is excellent of its kind.” Frank Fowler.
| + | Bookm. 20: 556. F. ‘05. 870w. |
“Dr. Gronau’s volume, marked by cautious accuracy and disinterested love of truth, is a model for works of its class. It is a thing of high art in itself, and is certainly the best life of Titian that has appeared.” George Breed Zug.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 1000w. |
Grout, Abel Joel. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope. 26. ed. $1.75 A. J. Grout, 306 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, N. Y.
This second edition “which follows the same general plan as the first edition, is expanded to include 169 of the ‘more common and more easily recognized mosses of the northeastern United States,’ as well as fifty-four of the hepaticæ of the same region.... The text contains something like 118 figures and 39 full-page plates.”—Science.
“In the matter of typography and illustrations, the work is so much of an improvement over its predecessor that it deserves special commendation.”
| + + | Science, n.s. 21: 816. My. 26, ‘05. 230w. |