THE UNIVERSITY SERIES 



THE FINE ARTS 



By G. Baldwin Brown, Professor of Fine Arts in the 

 University of Edinburgh. i2mo, witli Illustrations, 

 $1.00 net. 

 Contents : Part I. — Art as the Expression of Popular 

 Feelings and Ideals: — The Beginnings of Art — The Festival 

 in its Relation to the Form and Spirit of Classical Art — 

 Mediaeval Florence and her Painters. Part II. — The Formal 

 Conditions of Artistic Expression: — Some Elements of Effect 

 in the Arts of Form — The Work of Art as Significant — The 

 Work of Art as Beautifur. Part III.— The Arts of Form: — 

 Architectural Beauty in Relation to Construction — The Con- 

 ventions of Sculpture — Painting Old and New. 



Yale Art School, New Haven, Conn. 

 Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, 



Gentlemen: — As a text-book for the study of the "Fine Arts, there 

 is nothing in the literature of the subject that answers the requirements as 

 this little book. 



The originality of Professor Brown's work is apparent. Out of a wide 

 familiarity with the classical literature of the subject he has sifted the essen- 

 tial truths. And of the modern writers on aesthetics he knows and digests 

 everything from VVinkelmann to Whistler. But what distinguishes this 

 book from others and gives it a special value is the treatment of the "Fine 

 Arts " from their technical side. This is especially evident in his chapter 

 on painting, which contains many suggestions of value to the young artist 

 and amateur. 



Respectfully yours, JOHN H. NIEMEYER. 



THE LITERATURE OF FRANCE 



By H. G. Keene, Hon. M.A. Oxon. i2mo, $i.oo 

 net. 

 Contents: Introduction — The Age of Infancy (a. Birth) 

 — The Age of Infancy (p. Growth) — The Age of Adolescence 

 (Sixteenth Century) — The Age of Glory, Part I. Poetry, etc. 

 — The Age of Glory, Part II. Prose — The Age of Reason, 

 Part I. — The Age of Reason, Part II. — The Age of " Nature " 

 — Sources of Modern French Literary Art: Poetry — Sources 

 of Prose Fiction — Appendix — Index. 



Edward S. Jovnes, Professor of Modern Languages, South Caro- 

 lina College, — "My first impressions are fully confirmed. The book is 

 interesting and able. It would be difficult to compress into equa com- 

 pass a more satisfactory or suggestive view of so great a subject. As an 

 introductory text for schools and colleges or private readers, I have seen 

 nothing so good. The book deserves, and I hope will receive, a wide 

 welcome.*'. 



