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Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila & Zaragoza
by Albert F. CalvertThe six cities of Spain which form the subject of the following pages are little known to English travellers. Yet no one who would understand the country can afford to pass them by. Not only are they compact of artistic and architectural treasures, but within their walls much of the history of the Spanish nation has been made. Oviedo—that little ci..
The children and the pictures
by Pamela GreyNatalie had been left downstairs, there was no doubt about it. She was not in her cradle, she was not in the toy cupboard, she was not on the shelf, she was not on the dresser; she must be downstairs on one of the drawing-room tables, and what is more, face downwards.This is what passed in the mind of Natalie’s mistress as she lay warmly in her bed..
Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century
by Laurence BinyonWhen, towards the close of the last century, Adam Bartsch began that monument of his industry and patience, Le Peintre Graveur, he devoted the first volumes of his twenty-one, not to the early engravers of Germany or Italy, but to the Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century. These were, in fact, the idols of the amateur of that day; and the indisc..
The Social Ladder
by Charles Dana GibsonThis is the seventh book in the regular series of Mr. Gibson’s published drawings. Each book contains eighty-four of Mr. Gibson’s best cartoons, and all are uniform in size, shape and binding. Thanks are due Messrs. Mitchell & Miller for their co-operation in making this volume as representative and complete as possible. This book is published ..
English Folk-Song and Dance
by Frank KidsonA simple air of eight or sixteen bars may not appear difficult to evolve, or even worth evolving at all, much less of record; but when the matter is further considered, we have to acknowledge that seemingly trivial melodies have wrought effects which have upset thrones and changed the fate of nations. Where they have not had this great political in..
Goya, an account of his life and works
by Albert Frederick CalvertIt has been said that in England everybody knows of Cervantes, but very few persons have more than a nodding acquaintance with Don Quixote, and Goya’s reputation in this country is even less securely founded. The great Aragonese is indeed little more than a name to the general public, and his work is literally unknown. Two little books—Mr. W. Rothe..
Emblems of Mortality
by John S. HawkinsThe Work here presented to the Reader is a Copy, with a small Variation noticed hereafter, as to the Cuts, and a Translation, as to the Letter Press, of one well known to the Curious by the Title of Imagines Mortis, or The Images of Death; which is reported to be in reality indebted for its Existence to an Event that Boccace did but feign as the Oc..
Prints - A Brief Review of Their Technique and History
by Emil H. RichterPrints have long been an undisturbed domain of the collector and scholarly connoisseur. Centuries of study and research are resulting in the identification and description of this vast amount of material. The literature on prints embodies these results in the form of handbooks, histories, catalogues for reference, essays, and specializing treatises..