Notes and Reviews 
izens, let a glass end be erected at Ann Street 
to act as a windbreak. The suggestion of an 
arcade has a ring of timeliness during the 
winter. In the summer it will be forgotten. 
N ASSAU Street, it is well to point out, 
is one of the few curving streets in this 
country,—a type highly valued abroad. This 
peculiarity renders it possible, in looking 
along the street, to obtain excellent perspec¬ 
tive views of the buildings. 
The second volume of “The Artistic Crafts 
Series of Technical Handbooks,” edited by 
Mr. Lethaby, is “Silverwork and Jew¬ 
elry.” 1 Mr. Henry Wilson infuses this 
with the enthusiasm of an artist, the learn¬ 
ing of a scholar and the practical experience 
of a worker who executes his own ideas in 
metals with his own hands. The field cov¬ 
ered is comprehensive, and several minor 
crafts are called to the service of the gold¬ 
smith’s art. Repousse work, chasing, stone 
cutting and setting, enameling, inlaying, oxi¬ 
dizing and gilding are all described with 
an exactness which goes far beyond these 
pages and leads the reader to the workroom 
where, before the artist’s bench, he is familiar¬ 
ized with all the materials the author has dis¬ 
covered to be of use in the craft, with the tools 
he has acquired by purchase and the better 
ones he has invented himself. All these, 
however, are only a means to an end. The 
spirit and beauty of the completed work is 
always kept uppermost in the mind of the 
student, as he reads the precise directions for 
making this or that typical piece of jewelry. 
Suggestions for design are given, and things 
which are to be avoided as harmful to the 
best results are pointed out. Vagueness, 
remarks the author, would be the worst fault 
of a textbook intended for students. He 
has undoubtedly avoided it. At the same 
time an intelligent enthusiasm is kindled in 
the worker by the help which Mr. Wilson 
has himself gained through a study of the ex¬ 
quisite jewelry of Egypt, Etruria and Greece, 
found in the London museums, of the writ¬ 
ings of Theophilus, the monk who worked 
and wrote in the Middle Ages when crafts- 
1 “Silverwork and Jewelry,” by H. Wilson. No. 11 . of “The 
Artistic Crafts Series,” edited by W. R. Lethaby. 346 pp., 12 mo. 
New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1903. Price, $1.25 net. 
manship was crowned. “ It is a spiritual 
refreshment even to look at such things,” 
says the author of the former, “ and the 
student can not spend too much time in the 
study of them. He will always find sug¬ 
gestion, not of new forms, but of untried 
methods; not new design but hints of new 
expressions ; he will learn what is indeed the 
sum of the whole matter, that the right use 
of material leads to right ideas.” Every 
important detail of manipulation or con¬ 
trivance, which the author describes, he also 
explains by lucid drawings, and he comments 
instructively upon the types of antique work 
represented in the collotype plates at the 
end of the volume. A collection of prac¬ 
tical workshop receipts and a glossary com¬ 
plete this invaluable book. 
“ W ood-Carvinc : Design and Work¬ 
manship”' is the third of the series and the 
latest which has appeared. The author, Mr. 
George Jack, has here arranged, in a series 
of lectures, his lore upon wood-carving cor¬ 
responding to that given upon the preced¬ 
ing subjects of the series. In this craft, 
which is purelv a means of decoration, the 
element of design has a pre-eminent place. 
There is indeed comparatively little to be 
said upon the process beyond the style 
and selection of tools and the characteristics 
of the several woods. Further directions 
to the student can only be to urge him to 
set to work and acquire the essential skill. 
Design, however, the author considers at 
length, and he advises the particular kinds of 
ornament adapted to various purposes. All 
of this counsel is well to the point and of 
much greater moment than his digressions, 
usually wanting in originality, upon art in 
general. This volume, as well as its com¬ 
panions of the series, is excellently illustrated 
by vigorous and attractive sketches in line. 
In a series of collotype plates, concluding 
each volume, examples from the English 
museums are given, accompanied with the 
author’s notes of comment. The practical, 
rather than historic or literary character of the 
books, make them, upon the whole, the best 
series upon the manual arts we have yet seen. 
-“Wood-Carving: Design and Workmanship,” by George Jack. 
No. Ill of “The Artistic Crafts Series.” 311 pp., 121110. New 
York, D. Appleton & Co., 1903. Price, $1.25 net. 
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