NOTES AND REVIEWS 
MR. FRANK MILES DAY 
VX 7 "E have much pleasure in recording the an- 
* * nouncement, received as we go to press, of 
the election of Mr. Frank Miles Day of Phila¬ 
delphia as President of the American Institute 
of Architects. \ his honor is accorded only to 
architects of distinguished position in their pro¬ 
fession and is a fitting acknowledgment of Mr. 
Day’s ability both as a practitioner and an 
advocate of civic improvement. 
IN DEPRECATION OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 
A NY new hook by Professor Moore,f the author 
of “The Development and Character of 
Gothic Architecture" would command attention, 
but when he selects as his subject the “Char¬ 
acter of Renaissance Architecture," interest is im¬ 
mediately reinforced by a curiosity to discover what 
so pronounced and accomplished a mediaevalist can 
have to say of the mode which antagonized and dis¬ 
placed the art of Amiens and the Isle de France. 
His thorough appreciation of that logical unity of 
Gothic art which, in its perfected form, welds plan, 
section, and facade into one organic and indissoluble 
whole, leads Professor Moore to discuss his subject 
from a somewhat novel point of view. Defining 
beauty in architecture “ as the artistic coordination 
of structural parts,” the art of the Renaissance 
builders is at once attacked from this position, and 
the point is made clear that the individualistic spirit 
of the age was wholly unfavorable to the production 
of a great natural style either in Italy, France or 
England; and that the dillettante efforts of the Re¬ 
naissance architects to displace architecture from 
its true position as the highest development of hand¬ 
icraft, hy forcing it to pose as one of the fine arts in 
the sense in which painting, sculpture and poetry 
are such, resulted only in producing an art with¬ 
out consistent principles, whose sole motive power 
lay in the futile attempt to recover the style of Im¬ 
perial Rome. 
Professor Moore’s conclusions will be profoundly 
distasteful to the present day advocates of Renais¬ 
sance art, as the solvent for modern problems, but his 
protest will apply a much needed corrective to the 
arguments of the neo-classicists, whose zeal is usually 
apt to outrun their knowledge. 
•(-Character of Renaissance Architecture, by Charles Herbert Moore, 
with twelve plates in photogravure and one hundred and thirty-nine 
illustrations in the text. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. 
FURNISHING THE HOUSE 
jV/ITSS ALICE M. KELLOGG, a valued contrib- 
utor to the columns of House and Garden, 
has written a book* on the art of furnishing the house, 
which we can commend to our readers. It will 
especially appeal to house owners of refined taste but 
moderate incomes, who are impatient at ill-consid¬ 
ered surroundings, but lack the knowledge of how 
to better them without a prohibitive expense. 
l'he illustrations in Miss Kellogg’s book are es¬ 
pecially helpful in that they are from photographs 
of the objects and arrangements described in the 
text, and are, by themselves, most helpful and sug¬ 
gestive. l'he interior of the house is considered 
room by room, including the veranda, the kitchen, 
and the housemaid’s room; and there are additional 
chapters devoted to discussions of furniture, drapery, 
beds and bedding, lamps, and candlesticks, and the 
various other elements of interior decoration. It is 
written from a sane, sound, and thoroughly domestic 
point of view, and its suggestions are correspondingly 
wholesome and refined. 
TABLE SERVICE AND EQUIPMENT 
A VERY suitable companion to Miss Kellogg’s 
^ book is Miss Marchant’s “Serving and Wait¬ 
ing”^, written from the same point of view and 
with the same adequacy of mental equipment. 
Within the compass of 139 pages it gives explicit 
directions for all of the more usual occasions and 
some less usual and it is copiously illustrated hy pho¬ 
tographs. Among the latter may be named “ Fable 
Arranged for an Impromptu Evening Supper;" “For 
a Dutch Supper;” “Entree Ready to Be Passed;” 
“Compotier, Relish and Bonbon dishes for a Form¬ 
al Dinner;” “An Individual Cover for a Dinner 
Served Without a Maid;” “Picnic Box, With First 
Course of a Picnic Luncheon;” “Table Set for Fin 
Wedding Anniversary;” and many others equally 
novel and interesting. It is a very agreeable relief 
to meet with two such wholly sensible and refined 
books as Miss Kellogg’s and Miss Marchant’s after 
the avalanche of trash which has overwhelmed the 
book market in this particular field. People of 
cultivated tastes will thoroughly enjoy them, and 
those who aspire to cultivation could not have safer 
nor more interesting guides. 
♦Home Furnishing, Practical and Artistic, by Alice M. Kellogg, with 
fifty-five illustrations from photographs. New York: Frederick A 
Stokes Company. Publishers. 363 pages, 5 in. x 7K in 
JServing and Waiting. Modem methods of table preparation, by Eleanor 
Marchant, with forty-six illustrations from photographs taken under the per¬ 
sonal supervision of the author. New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company. 
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