Notes and Reviews 
of modern dwelling, which is entirely suited 
to its land and whose dignity and genteel 
mien will survive anv waves of architectural 
vogue. 
“ Intarsia and Marquetry ,” 1 by F. 
H amilton Jackson, one of a series of 
“ Handbooks for the Designer and Crafts¬ 
man,” is a volume in which the author has 
arranged a quantity of valuable historic in¬ 
formation which throws considerable light 
not only upon these processes but upon me¬ 
diaeval craftsmanship generally. Detailed 
information upon the personal career of 
workers during the “golden age” of the art 
reminds the reader that these characters 
were themselves but human, that they—as 
do their descendants—occasionally worked 
for gold instead of love and enlivened 
otherwise monotonous days by squabbling 
over commissions or haggling over payments 
for the panels or choir seats of this or that 
cathedral. The author assumes an ele¬ 
mental knowledge of the subject upon the 
part of the reader, and his words are there¬ 
fore of greater value to an experienced crafts¬ 
man than to a beginner. Following upon 
a hundred pages of “historic notes” are 
chapters devoted to the processes of mar¬ 
quetry and to a collection of workshop re¬ 
ceipts. The author’s own remarks upon the 
limitations and capabilities of the art are 
likely to be of interest to the inlayer of to¬ 
day who can lodge no complaint against a 
treatment so largely historical of an art 
whose best achievement lies altogether in the 
past. Accompanying the text are numerous 
illustrations which do full justice to the 
beautiful and simple arabesques of the early 
Renaissance, in which an enrichment was 
aimed at by means of surfaces alone. On 
the other hand, an attempt is made to show 
the later elaboration by means of staining and 
tooling the separate inset pieces. But this 
is not to be adequately reproduced by any 
process of illustration, a circumstance to be 
deplored from a historical point of view, 
1 “ Intarsia and Marquetry,” by F. Hamilton Jackson. pipages; 
izmoj with illustrations from photographs and from drawings and 
tracings by the author. Imported by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New 
York, 1903. Price, $2.00 net. 
but it inflicts little loss to an art which 
gains its best effects by the varied and deco¬ 
rative arrangement of simple materials rather 
than the enrichment of those materials 
themselves. 
“The Care of a House,” 2 by T. M. 
Clark, instructs the reader in the manner 
in which dwelling houses are built, the ills 
that they are heir to and how to guard 
against and correct those ills. It is directed 
chiefly at those persons who are specially 
responsible for the care and maintenance of 
buildings ; and since almost everyone holds 
this responsibility over at least his own 
home, the usefulness of the book is extended 
to all those who, when annoyed by occur¬ 
rences exciting both temper and humor, 
have the inclination to enquire into the 
causes of household inconveniences rather 
than to call helplessly for plumber, roofer 
or carpenter and to lay the whole case 
blindly in his hands. Not only does the 
author give the benefit of his authoritative 
experience to the subject of structural pecul¬ 
iarities of the house, but he explains in a 
non-technical way the nature of modern 
materials and the care and attention they 
require. Here the housekeeper herself will 
find many things explained, while the hints 
contained in the chapter on “ keeping a 
house in repair ” would, if regarded, mean 
a saving of actual dollars to owners and also 
to occupants of houses. 
Books Received. 
“ An Historical Guide to French Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, 
Woodwork and Allied Arts During the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and 
Nineteenth Centuries,” by Thomas A. Strange. 400 pp., quarto, with 
text and numerous illustrations. Imported by Charles Scribner’s Sons, 
New York. Price, $5.00 net. 
“Sweet Violets and Pansies, and Violets from Mountain and 
Plain,” written by several authorities and edited by E. T. Cook. 
100 pp., octavo, with illustrations in line and half-tone. London, 
The Country Life Library, 1903. Imported by Charles Scribner’s 
Sons, New York. Price, $1.25 net. 
“Masters of English Landscape Painting,” Cotman, Cox and 
DeWint. Edited by Charles Holme. Letter-press by Lawrence 
Binyon, A. L. Baldry and Walter Shaw Sparrow. Quarto with 
many illustrations in half-tone and color. Special number of “The 
International Studio,” 1903. Price, $2.00 net. 
“The Art Album,” a quarto containing 100 lithographic illustra¬ 
tions in various effects of color, selected from “The International 
Studio,” 1903. Price, $ 5.00 net. 
2 “ The Care of a House,” by T. M. Clark. 283 pp., 12 mo., 
illustrated with diagrams. New York and London, Macmillans, 1903. 
Price, $1.50 net. 
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