BOOKS BY JOHN C VAN DYKE 



Professor of the History of Art in Rutgers College 

 PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 



The Meaning of 

 Pictures 



With 31 full-page illustrations. i2mo, $i.a5 net 



* * It may be questioned if any other book of its scope 

 has ever shown 'the meaning of pictures' in a way that 

 will make it so clear to the average English reader." 



— 7'he Dial. 



" A book that is always calm and cool and right." 



— New York Evening Post. 



'* Essentially sound and rational." — Outlook. 



«* We could ask nothing better for the training of art 

 taste in America than the wide circulation and careful 

 reading of this sound and sensible introduction." 



— The Congregationalist. 



*• An unusual quality in art criticism, plain common 

 sense with a delightful avoidance of technical jargon." 



— New York Sun. 



" 'The Meaning of Pictures' has in abundant measure 

 a happy kind of originality, the most genuine sort of help- 

 fulness, and rare power to stimulate." — Boston Herald. 



