International Studio Volume 34, Nos. 133-136 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...with some success. The last chapter is somewhat melancholy reading, commenting as it does oa the degeneration of the robust style of true majolica into finicking imitation; of porcelain; but on the whole the impression left on the reader is one of hopefulness for the future in Italy of a craft the appreciation of which has of late years been revived by the beautiful examples unearthed in recent excavations. Children's Children. By Gertrude Bone. With Drawings by Muirhead Bone. (London: Duckworth.) 6s. net.--Strongly as Mrs. Bone appeals to one's sympathies in this narrative of humble l.fe, it is the illustrations by her husband that especially attract us in this volume. Though these drawings have a distinction in treatment which lifts them altogether above the bulk of illustrative work of to-day, there are many illustrators practising the art more naturally and consequently with greater charm than Mr. Muirhead Bone. His style is always the grand one here--and certainly the mood of some of the drawings is very impressive. Sometimes in a drawing of slight proportions Mr. Bone shows a resourceful and poetic use of line--in others the picture is highly finished. We should approve of a greater uniformity in their style for the purposes of illustration, whatever the style determined upon. For sketches in all degrees of finish are interesting in a portfolio, but mixed in a book they fail to add their share to the precious qualities connived at by a careful choice of type, etc., and which are of advantage in any book which seeks in narrative form to create and sustain one mood throughout. Messrs. Chatto and Windus have recently commenced the publication by instalments of three works which promise to be of epoch-making importance in the annals of colour reproduction...