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belonged to the city of Yarmouth, are to be 
“picked up” as we say. Similarly the pew¬ 
ter of the nobility usually bore the arms of 
the family on it. There were degrees of 
nobibty in it depending on the purposes it 
was intended to serve, and the social rank 
of its owners. Where money had not to 
be stinted, we find the most richly orna¬ 
mented pieces, of course, in presentation 
plate, loving cups and the like, in the 
property of churches, corporations and com¬ 
panies; while for the commonalty of old 
England the pewterers anticipated nearly 
every need of the present day. 
T HE New York Subway is no sooner 
opened to the public than its beautiful 
walls are threatened with advertisements. 
Certain clauses in the agreement between the 
city and the operating company are adduced 
to show that this should not be. But thus 
far the objections have been in vain. Indeed 
their argument hangs upon a thread. The 
demands of modern advertising were not 
foreseen by at least one party when that 
agreement was made ; nor do they appear to 
have been taken into account when the sta¬ 
tions were designed and thousands of dollars 
spent upon the wall decorations. If public 
opinion shall have power to remove the 
signs, well and good. If it has not, then 
there should be some control exercised over 
the advertisements themselves. If these be 
artistic in design, limited in size, and con¬ 
fined to certain definite spaces or panels 
apart from the names of the stations, no one 
can deny that sensitive eyes will be satisfied 
and waiting at the stations made entertaining. 
But this control should not rest in the judg¬ 
ment of an advertising agency or the oper¬ 
ating company. Why should it not be 
exercised by a body similar to or a part of 
the Art Commission ? The time has come 
when all sign advertising in public places 
should be held in check, and arrangements 
should be made to do this before the next 
subway is built and before the new East 
River bridges are hung with innumerable 
transparencies. 
“English and Scottish Wrought Iron¬ 
work” 1 is the title of a large folio volume 
1 “English and Scottish Wrought Ironwork,” by Bailey S. Mur¬ 
phy. 68 plates of drawings and 72 collotype reproductions of photo¬ 
graphs, together with descriptive text, in folio. Imported by Charles 
Scribner’s Sons, 1904. Price, $25 net. 
devoted to the illustration of smithwork ex¬ 
isting, for the most part, upon the old estates 
or in the churches of Great Britain. The 
examples chosen are chiefly gateways produced 
during the period between the years i 700 and 
i 740 ; but, curiously, a few much earlier sub¬ 
jects have been taken in ; as, for example, the 
screen at Winchester, a specimen isolated 
from its fellows by virtue of its Gothic design 
and early date (1093). Inn-signs, lamp 
brackets, tomb and hat rails and other minor 
objects also appear, and serve to give a rather 
fragmentary character to the contents of the 
volume. Nearly all the work shows the in¬ 
fluence of the Renaissance in a certain disdain 
of structural principles and the creation in 
iron of such forms, entirely unsuited to it, as 
mouldings, mortises and tenons, and cornices 
with attached leaves. But the designers of 
the time did not hesitate at these points when 
grace and richness of effect were to be gained 
by ignoring them ; and if a question arises 
as to theory of design the exquisite iron¬ 
work which the author presents from Belton 
H ouse, Oxford and Cambridge is likely to 
settle it. Of each specimen emphasis is 
properly laid upon the architectural environ¬ 
ment; and not only are photographs repro¬ 
duced to fully show the ironwork in question 
but measured drawings which include the 
surrounding stone or wood work, exhibit the 
means of connection between these materials 
and the iron. These drawings possess the ad¬ 
vantage of having been reproduced at a uni¬ 
form scale, enabling one to compare each sub¬ 
ject with another and to realize the value of 
every detail. Thus taken as a whole the 
book contains an excellent series of grilled 
entrances which cannot fail to be of practical 
use to any architect. 
