May, 1 9 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XIX 



Amphora. A Collection of Prose and 

 Verse Chosen by the Editor of The 

 Bibelot of Portland, Maine; Thomas 

 Svo. Van Gelder hand-made paper. 

 Price. $1.75. 



The origin of this book which might be 

 regarded as a breviary for booklovers is 

 found in the fact that for over twenty years 

 Mr. Thomas Mosher has issued catalogues 

 descriptive of the now famous editions 

 known the world over as "The Mosher 

 Books," and wherever space permitted has 

 printed poems and prose selections of what- 

 ever seemed to him to be of unusual truth 

 and beauty. It had been easier to have gone 

 over old traveled roads and flung together 

 a quantity of reading matter — and nothing 

 more — that on second thought was not 

 worth doing. This dry-as-dust method 

 shuts out a wider vision for the finer spirit. 

 Far otherwise is it if the appeal is solely 

 and sincerely made to the heart of man. 

 Many of Mr. Moshers selections have 

 nothing to do with books merely as aids 

 to improvements, but there is scarcely a 

 quotation that does not deal with the im- 

 agination or that is not suffused with 

 Beauty as an everlasting rose upon the 

 rood of Time. 



Chats ox Old Earthenware. By Arthur 

 Havden. Xew York : Frederick A 

 Stokes. 1909. Cloth Svo. 496 pp. 

 Price, $2.00 net. 



Few books will prove more useful to the 

 collector than Mr. Hayden's "Chats on Old 

 Earthenware," which treats as far as pos- 

 sible in the limits of one volume the subject 

 of old English earthenware in a manner to 

 show how peculiarly national the products 

 of the English potter have been. The 

 tables and illustrations are unusually val- 

 uable as also are the reproductions of pot- 

 ter's marks. The volume is carefully in- 

 dexed. 



Roses of Paestum. By Edward McCurdy. 

 Portland, Maine; Thomas B. Mosher: 

 1912. Ribbed boards. Fcap 8vo. Van 

 Gelder hand-made paper. Slide case. 

 196 pp. Price, $2.00 net. 

 It is a peculiarity of English reviewers 

 that they seldom see at first sight the 

 beauties of a book unless they lie on the 

 surface. This accounts for the crass in- 

 eptitude that first greeted Maurice 

 Hewlett's Earthwork out of Tuscany and 

 it also made a short shrift of these ex- 

 quisite essays which Mr. McCurdy gave us 

 in 1900. He has now revised his text, 

 added a pleasing little proem, AW Italia, 

 and at our request has consented to the 

 present reissue of his book dealing not with 

 Paestum alone or its roses but with me- 

 diaeval Italy and its effect upon a singularly 

 receptive and poetic mind. A poem by Mr. 

 William Aspenwall Bradley serves as a de- 

 dication to this collection of youth's sweet- 

 scented manuscript. "Palmers, Pilgrims, 

 and Romers," is one of the most truly 

 pleasing of these fine essays. One cannot 

 resist the opportunity which this little 

 notice of Roses of Paestum affords the re- 

 viewer of congratulating modern book-mak- 

 ing for having so sincere an exponent to 

 the wedding of fine printing with fine lit- 

 erary productions as one finds in the pub- 

 lisher of the Mosher books. Xo longer need 

 we join in George Gissing's cry, "Ah ! the 

 books that one will never read again !" 



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