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Hot Water Heating and Ventilation 
By ALFRED G. KING 
Octavo, 402 Pages. Containing 304 Illustrations 
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use of precious and semi-precious stones as 
talismans and amulets, the talisnianic use 
of special stones, the use of engraved and 
carved gems as talismans, ominous and lu- 
minous gems, crystal balls and crystal gat- 
ing, religious uses of precious gems, the 
High-Priest’s lircaslplatc, liirthstones. plane- 
tary and astral influences of precious stones 
and the therapeutic use of precious and 
semi-precious stones. 
Tan Vermeer of Delft. By Philip L. 
Hale. Boston: Small, Maynard & Com- 
pany. 1913. Cloth. Large quarto. Il- 
lustrated. 389 pp. Price, $10 net. 
“We find the best men by a process of 
elimination,” says Philip Hale in “Jan Ver- 
meer of Delft.” “At the outset it may seem 
strange to call Vermeer the greatest painter 
who has ever lived. Yet if one^ looks at 
j)ainting from the realistic standpoint one of 
necessity arrives at something like this idea 
One may readily conceive that Titian and . 
Giorgione were more seductive artistic per- 
.sonalities : that Da Vinci was more subtle. 
Raphael a greater draughtsman. But when 
it comes to sheer downright painting it 
would seem that Vermeer was in most re- 
spects the leader of all. Of course there 
were giants like Velasquez, Rubens and 
Rembrandt, who did very wonderful 
things. But none of these conceived of ar- 
riving at tone by an exquisitely just relation 
of color values, and it is this idea that lies 
at the root of all really modern painting." 
The United States, which now possesses 
nearly one-third of Vermeer’s known 
works, owns as follows: Younrj Woiuaii 
Opcmiig a Casement, Metropolitan lUuseuni 
of -\rt. New York, which also has on 
loan the late J. Pierpont Morgan’s Lady 
Writing: The Soldier and the Laughing 
Girl ami The Music Lesson, both in the 
collection of Henry C. Frick. New York : 
Lady With a Lute, collection of Mrs. Henry 
K. TTiintington. New York; A Girl Asleep. 
collection of the late Benjamin Altman, 
New York; The Concert, collection of Mrs. 
John T.. Gardner. Boston ; A Lady Playing 
a Guitar, collection of John G. Johnson. 
Philadelphia ; Woman Weighing Pearls nr 
Gold, coilection of P. A. B. Widener, Phila- 
delphia. 
Mr. Hale’s volume is the first hook on 
this great master in the English language, 
though many other art writers in recent 
years have devoted chapters to singing Ver- 
meer’s praises. Mr. Hale, who is a son of 
tliE' late Dr. Edward Everett Hale, has him- 
self a high place among American painters 
and he brings to his task a lifelong study 
of Vermeer’s work. His hook is at once 
a criticism and an appreciation, and in his 
dual capacity as artist and author he is 
able to interpret saliently and intelligibly 
not only Vermeer’s own art but also the 
art of painting in general, in a way that 
makes his volume of unusual value to the 
general student no less than to the spe- 
cialist. 
Japanese Flower Arrangement. By 
Mary .Averell. New York: John T.ane 
Company. 1013. Half buckram. Rvo. 
Tllustrated. 218 pages. Price. net. 
As students of Japanese subjects well 
know, there are famous “schools” of 
flower arrangements in vogue among the 
Japanese. These various “schools” or sys- 
tems. as one might better call them, are 
founded upon what are often quite different 
principle'?. Just as Mr. Josiah Gouder. who 
wrote “The Flowers of Japan and the Art 
of Japanese Floral Arrangement,” was an 
enthusiastic exponent of the Enshiu-Ryu 
school, with Its intensely decorative ten- 
