February, 191 3 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XVll 



"Consider the lilies how they grow." 

 A fair critic of this learned and delightful 

 work would be loth to believe that either its 

 passive reader or ardent student would de- 

 cline to say, if all histories of a like subject 

 were as well executed : 



Consider the garden-books how they are 

 written.'' 



A Book of Haxd- Woven Coverlets. By 



Eliza Calvert Hall. Boston : Little, 



Brown and Company: 1912. Cloth. 



8vo. Gilt top. Illustrated. 279 pages. 



Price. $5.00 net. 



In "A Book of Hand-Woven Coverlets," 

 Eliza Calvert Hall has set herself the task 

 of raising the apparently commonplace into 

 the "realm of art." Many books have been 

 written about the Oriental rug, but not till 

 now has a similar recognition been accorded 

 the hand-woven coverlet. Yet it is a sub- 

 ject worthy the pen of any American 

 writer, and whoever reads these pages will 

 hereafter see in the American coverlet all 

 that the author sees : "Poetry, romance, 

 religion, sociology, philology, politics, and 

 historv." 



It mav seem a long distance from works 

 of fiction like "Aunt Jane of Kentucky" 

 and "The Land of Long Ago" to a mono- 

 graph on coverlets, but as in the "Aunt 

 Jane" stories she showed us the pathos and 

 romance that lie in humble lives, so in the 

 present volume she shows the beauty, the 

 art. the historic associations, that cluster 

 around the old hand-woven bed-covers of 

 "Aunt Jane's time. 



The material for the book, however, was 

 gathered north, south, east, and west. The 

 work is one of original research extending 

 over a period of four years. The author 

 has the facts of her subject well in hand 

 and leads the reader from chapter to 

 chapter where no detail is dry and every 

 page is interesting. 



A Text-Book of Design. By Charles 

 Fabens Kelley and William Luther 

 Mowll. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 

 Companv: 1912. Cloth, 8vo. Illus- 

 trated. L3A pages. Price, $2.00 net. 

 This text-book of design will be useful 

 to those who are desirous of establishing 

 in their own minds standards of judgment 

 for things which they see about them. 

 especially to those beginners in the study 

 of designs who are not ready for work 

 of an advanced character. "A text-book 

 of Design" is the statement for design of 

 the universal laws of expression which 

 have been so amply developed in music and 

 in literature. The theory here set forth is 

 new in treatment rather than in substance. 

 The theory of pure design now generally 

 accepted is presented with but a few minor 

 points of difference. 



A Wanderer in Florence. By E. V. Lu- 

 cas. New York: The Macmillan Com- 

 pany., 1912. Cloth, 8vo. Illustrated. 

 390'pp- Price, $1.75 net. 

 The natural kindness, the high spirit of 

 the Florentine people, the wonderful mas- 

 terpieces of art created by her great men, 

 who in every age have stood in the front of 

 art and science, rivalize with the gentle 

 smile of her splendid sky to render Flor- 

 ence one of the finest towns, the flower, in- 

 deed, of beautiful Italy. In "A Wanderer 

 in Florence" Mr. E. V. Lucas, one of the 

 most graceful writers of to-day, leads the 

 reader into the true Florentine atmosphere, 

 ^arly as the pages of any book could do 

 that, and anyone who has not forgotten 

 "Romola" will find keen pleasure in this ex- 

 cellent book on Romola's city. 



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