February, 1907 



A M E R I 



CAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XXV 



ing topic whicli, within the limits that circum- 

 scribe the present study, is sufficiently de- 

 veloped. 



Mr. Frantz comes down no later than the 

 end of the eighteenth century in his survey, 

 with the exception of Sevres. The limitation 

 is perhaps a wise one, yet one could wish for 

 a comprehensive survey of French pottery in 

 the nineteenth century as well. The book is 

 abundantly illustrated, both with reproduc- 

 tions of photographs and with colored plates. 

 Both classes of illustrations are admirable in 

 the fullest sense of the word, reproducing ob- 

 jects of real interest and value in themselves, 

 examples of the best sorts of their respective 

 kind, and printed in fine style, the half-tones 

 being remarkably distinct, and the color re- 

 productions of unusual beauty. Nothing, in 

 short, has been left undone to make this book 

 helpful and useful. It is, indeed, a welcome 

 volume. 



The Modern Home. A Book of British Do- 

 mestic Architecture for Moderate In- 

 comes. Edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow. 

 New York. A. C. Armstrong & Son. 



This beautiful illustrated book will be hailed 

 with welcome by all fortunate enough to pos- 

 sess it. It is charming in every respect, in 

 typography, in make-up, in kind of illustrations 

 and in the manner in which they are repro- 

 duced. It is a book not only of houses, but 

 of interiors, of craftswork and the best sorts 

 of interior decoration. It is, in short, an ad- 

 mirable handbook to the best domestic archi- 

 tecture of the present day. 



Twenty years ago America was producing 

 the most delightful country houses being built 

 anywhere. They were charming and delight- 

 ful structures for the designing of which our 

 architects had developed a special cunning. 

 Our architects are still doing good houses to- 

 day but in the past couple of decades the hand 

 of the Beaux-Arts practitioner and the fad of 

 the Georgian have laid heavy hands on our do- 

 mestic work, so that American houses, as a 

 whole, do not exhibit that inherent charm 

 once thought particularly their own. 



Those who have watched the later develop- 

 ments of British domestic architecture have 

 noted with surprise and delight the increased 

 charm of picturesqueness and skill shown in 

 the design of modern British houses. The 

 enormous charm of many of these dwellings 

 has long been well known to unprejudiced 

 observers, and the present book will go far to 

 broaden the knowledge of the excellence of 

 this work. The houses illustrated in it are not 

 only excellent examples of the very best con- 

 temporary English work, but as many of the 

 illustrations are reproduced in color they ap- 

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 ordinary photographic illustrations do not. 

 The book is, in truth, one that every one, even 

 if his interest in building be of the slightest, 

 will enjoy to the fullest. 



An especial interest attaches to the book be- 

 cause of its avowed purpose of depicting 

 houses for persons possessed of moderate in- 

 comes. This is a relative phrase that may 

 mean a good deal and may be taken very liter- 

 ally. An examination of its plates and photo- 

 graphs would make it apparent that the mod- 

 erate income in England must either be greater 

 than the same thing in America, or else the 

 editor's idea of moderate is something much 

 more plentiful than the average reader im- 

 agines. This is the immediate fault of the 

 book and a very notable one it is ; but it is one 

 that has been emphasized by the editor in the 

 title he has chosen. Very many of these 

 houses could not be built by persons of "mod- 

 erate Incomes" without seriously deplenishing 

 their capital luiless one were fortunate enough 

 to inherit a sum of money to defray their cost. 



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