March, 1913 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XIX 



The Bargain Book. By C. E. Jerningham 

 and Lewis Bettanv. New York: Freder- 

 ick Warner & Co". Cloth. Svo. Gilt top. 

 Illustrated. 339 pages. Price $2,50 net. 

 A distinguished connoisseur once said that 

 there is a bargain at every dealer's, and cer- 

 tainly the chances of securing interesting 

 art objects, antiques and curios have seldom 

 been greater than they now are. Readers of 

 the Bargaix Bock will be able to judge for 

 themselves as to the truth of this statement. 

 and those who have no great knowledge of 

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 ing to the general public as to the most hard- 

 ened curio-hunter, illustrating as they do 

 the various reasons why bargains are so 

 numerous at the present time. The whole 

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 and experience. Xot the least interesting 

 and important part of the volume is the 

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 the concluding chapter the authors of ''The 

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 collectors : '"The cultivated American collects 

 seriously." and that undoubtedly is a fact. 



Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art. 



By Ernest F. Fenollosa. Xew York: 



Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1912. 



Cloth, 4to. 2 vols. Illustrated'. Price. 



$10 net. 



Professor Fenollosa was Imperial Com- 

 missioner of Fine Arts for Japan, and this, 

 his life's work, is an inspired product of a 



life of well-directed enthus'asm. 



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""Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art" is 

 not alone for the connoisseur of things Chi- 

 nese and of things Japanese, for quite as 

 much will it interest the lay reader, dealing 

 as it does with the significant creative pe- 

 riods and the fundamental motives. 

 Throughout the work Professor Fenollosa 

 advances new theories. Xaturally these 

 theories awaken discussion, and critics do 

 not appear entirely agreed upon accepting 

 them. However, it must be conceded that 

 the matter presented in this work is more 

 than ephemeral conjecture. It is the result 

 of careful investigation of a constructive 

 nature by a mature and scholarly mind 

 which has had the gift of projecting itself 

 into the Oriental point of view, turning it, 

 as it were, to a thoroughly Occidental inter- 

 pretation. The author of this work states, 

 in his introduction, that its purpose is to 

 contribute first-hand material toward a real 

 history of East Asiatic art, yet in an inter- 

 esting way that may appeal not only to 

 scholars, but to art collectors, general read- 

 ers on Oriental topics, and travelers in Asia. 

 Its treatment of the subject is novel in 

 several respects. Heretofore most books on 

 Japanese art have dealt rather with the 

 technique of industries than with the aes- 

 thetic motive in schools of design, thus pro- 

 ducing a false classification by materials in- 

 stead of by creative periods. This book 

 conceives of the art of each epoch as a 

 peculiar beauty of line, spacing, and color 

 which could have been produced a': no othe" 

 time and which permeates all the industries 

 of its day. Writers of English works on 

 Chinese art have produced rather studies of 

 literary sources than of art itself, and in 

 this respect "Epochs of Chinese and Japa- 

 Art" is a welcome departure. The 

 writer also does much toward uprooting the 



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