A girl's room; with plans and designs for work upstairs and down. 236p.D. Bost.1886. Lothrop $1. e A chatty book about furnishing and decorating a girl's room in good taste at little cost. The directions for making odds and ends . . . are capital.Leypoldt, p.128 Goodholme, Todd S. Domestic cyclopaedia of practical information. New ed. 652p.illus.Q. N.Y.1887. Montgomery $5. Now published by Scribner. R640 q05 e A book of reference on all household subjects. Includes... "Decoration as applied to walls, floors and furniture" by George Fletcher Babb.-Leypoldt, p.130 Grant, Robert. Art of living. 353p.illus.D. N.Y.1895. Scribner The volume is. . .written in an easy, vivacious style... The conversation about furniture. . .we wish might be... read by every householder in the land.-Harper, Aug. 1871, 43: 460 Harrison, Mrs Constance (Cary). homes. 242p.O. N.Y.1881. Woman's handiwork in modern e Its usefulness consists. . . chiefly in awakening in its general subject the interest of people who have hitherto paid little attention to it.—Nation, June 1881, 32:413 ... Treats of embroidery . . . and wood-carving, and gives practical hints for the decoration of modern homes.-Leypoldt, p.129 Haweis, Mrs Mary Eliza (Joy). Art of decoration. New ed. 407p. illus. D. Lond. 1889. Chatto 6s. Heaton, Aldam. Beauty and art. Appleton $1.75. 209p. illus. D. 740 H31 e N. Y. 1897. 704 H35 e See "Decoration of the house" p. 89-126. Contents: Taste; Beauty in form and colour; High art for shallow purses; Decoration of the house; Fabrics; Furniture and decoration of the 18th century. Contains many excellent, time-honored precepts, together with much false reasoning and pernicious dogma.- International studio, Oct. 1897, 2: 273 The essay on 18th century furniture. . .attacks the rage for "Sheraton " and "Chippendale."-Critic, Oct. 1897, 31: 232 Johnson, William Martin. Inside of 100 homes. N. Y. 1898. Doubleday 50c. (Ladies' home 140p. illus. S. journal house 740 J63 e hold lib. no. 2) Full of suggestions for interiors as well as for furnishing. The author has reproduced by photographs 100 interiors of houses in different parts of the country.-Outlook, Oct. 1898, 60:542 Mitchell, Donald Grant. Bound together. Scribner $1.25. 291p. D. N.Y. 1893. 818.32 We See "House interiors" p. 252-72. A delightful essay containing sugges tions rather than details. Morse, Edward Sylvester. Japanese homes and their surroundings. 372p. illus. Q. N. Y. 1895. Harper $3. 722.1 qM83 e Valuable because showing how primitive are the plans of houses and how simple is the life of the Japanese, who are the most artistic people of our time. It is well to observe how easily good taste and delicate designing can be separated from large outlay.-Leypoldt, p. 82 Morton, William Scott. Art in the home. (see Art journal, Mar.Dec. 1897, 59: 65-68, 118-21, 198-201, 257-60, 303-6, 368-72) 705 qAr7 e On decoration in general, the dining-room, the library, the drawing-room, the billiard-room. Ormsbee, Mrs Agnes Bailey. The house comfortable. 232p. S. Cap. 645 P2 e House furnishing, necessary and decorative. Gives practical advice and prices.-N. Y. state traveling lib.; household economics, p. 13 Panton, Mrs Jane Ellen (Frith). From kitchen to garret; hints for young householders. Ward 6s. Ed. 5. 243p.illus. D. Lond. 1888. 640 08a e Contains useful and practical hints... but recommends . . . too much. . . overcrowding and decorating of rooms and is not nearly simple enough.— Earle, Mrs M. T.. (Villiers), Pot-pourri from a Surrey garden, 1897, p. 276 Homes of taste; economical hints on furniture and decoration. Lond. 1890. Low 2s 6d. 8°. Contents: Hall and passages, dining-room, drawing-rooms, bedrooms, nurseries, bathrooms, kitchen, basement and servants' room. Parloa, Maria. Home economics. Century $1.50. 378p.illus.D. N. Y. 1898. 640 P8 e Uncommonly useful book on. . . furnishing . . . polished floors, etc.-N. Y. (state)—Public libraries division, Best books of 1898, 1899, p. 586 Pearce, Walter J. Painting and decorating. Phil. 1898. Lippincott $3.75 312p.illus. D. Chapters on . . . materials, on paper-hanging... painting . . . graining. . . as well as some general ideas on ornament and color.-Nation, Ap. 1898, 66: 307 Pollen, John Hungerford. Ceilings and walls. art, Ap. 1886, 9: 228–32) (see Magazine of 705 qM27 e Deplores the small attention usually paid by architects to the ceilings of Good for the "amateur with a purse." These essays appeared in the Pall Mall gazette under the heading "Wares of Autolycus." This work is to be highly recommended.-House beautiful, 3:98 Wharton, Edith & Codman, Ogden. 204p.pl.O. N.Y.1897. Decoration of houses. Scribner, boards $4. 747 W55 e There is in it so much that is admirable in every way and, on the other hand, so much that is abominable.-House beautiful, 3:137 A readable, instructive and authoritative plea for the elegance of simplicity and fitness as opposed to the vulgarity of display and overelaboration.— Outlook, Dec. 1897, 57:1016 Wheeler, Mrs Candace, ed. Household art. 204p.S. N. Y. Cap. 740 W56 e Contents: The philosophy of beauty applied to house interiors, Mrs Caudace Wheeler; Development of American homes, Mrs M. G. Van Rensselaer; Some work of the associated artists, Mrs Burton Harrison; Wall-papers, ceilings and dados, Susan N. Carter; Progress of American decorative art, Mary Gay Humphreys; Limits of decoration, Lucia Gilbert Runkle; About furnishings, Florence Morse; Decorative and applied art, Mrs Candace Wheeler. Brief and sketchy papers of interest.-Leypoldt, p. 129 Woman's book; dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunities and every-day problems. 2v. illus. O. N. Y. 1894. Scribner $7.50. e See v. 2, ch. 15, "House decoration and furnishing" Mary Gay Humphreys. Discusses the subject as it appeals to women of purse and good taste. Women who earn their bread by decorative art will find some valuable hints here.-Leypoldt, p. 129 See also 2: 336, "Practical house furnishing" Lida Rose McCabe. ORNAMENTAL DESIGN. WOVEN FABRICS. CARPETS Benjamin, Samuel Green Wheeler. Oriental rugs. (see Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1893, 14: 407-17) 051 qC82 e R031 qJ623 e Berri, William. Carpets. (see Johnson's universal cyclopaedia. 1894-95. 2: 89-90) Bevan, George Phillips, ed. British manufacturing industries. 12v.illus.S. Lond. 1876. Stanford 35 6d each. 600 N6 e See 6:90-130, "Carpets" Christopher Dresser. Historical sketch; maintains that small patterns founded on a geometric basis are preferable for carpets to large and naturalistic treatments of flowers and landscapes. Church, A. H. Cardinal & Harford's carpets. (see Portfolio, Ap. 1892, One of the most clear and practical treatises on decorative art that we have read... Its prime quality is common sense; its prime value, that it is practical as well as artistic. . . It is addressed to the ignorant as well as the learned, to the poor as well as the rich.-Academy, Ap. 1883, 23:245 Dresser, Christopher. 167p. illus. sq.-? Q. Principles of decorative design. Ed.2. Ed. 1, 1873, 7s 6d; ed. 4, 1882, 5s. American price $3.50. 740 qD81 e The text is a popular one and its instructions may be useful as an introduction to the simpler principles of art as applied, within very moderate limits, to the decoration of houses, furniture and utensils.--Athenaeum, Nov. 1873, 62: 702 Elwell, Newton W. Architecture, furniture and interiors of Maryland and Virginia during the 18th century, 6p. 63pl. F5. €1897. Polley $30. Plates in portfolio. Particularly rich and unusual.--House beautiful, 5: 189 Bost. 720.9752 fE18 e Colonial furniture and interiors. 6p.66pl. F. Polley $30. Plates in portfolio. Bost. 1896. 749 f E18 e Karabacek, Joseph. Die persische nadelmalerei susandschird; ein beitrag zur entwicklungs-geschichte der tapisserie de haute lisse; mit zugrundelegung eines aufgefundenen wandteppichs nach morgenländ ischen quellen dargestellt. Seemann mio. 208p. illus. Lpz. 1881. Q745 qK14 e A very learned and complete account of Persian high-warp manufacture.. a model of stolid thoroughness.--Saturday review, June 1882, 53:808 Middletown, J. Henry. Textiles. (see Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1875-88. 23: 206-13) R032 qEni e Gives much attention to artistic design in stuffs.-Sturgis, p. 51 Robinson, Vincent Joseph. Eastern carpets; 12 early examples with descriptive notices. Lond. 1882. Sotheran 63s. fo. The author deserves the thanks of all lovers of art for having preserved in his sumptuous and beautiful book... a few specimens of fine old work.— Saturday review, Aug. 1882, 54: 289 Sturgis, Russell. Textile fabrics. (see Johnson's universal cyclopaedia. 1894-95. 8: 90-92) R031 qJ623 e TAPESTRY Guiffrey, Jules Marie Joseph. Histoire de la tapisserie depuis le moyen âge jusqu'à nos jours. 533p. illus. Q. Mame 20 fr. Tours 1886. 745 qG94 e A larger book than the little handbook mentioned under Müntz... The subject of tapestry recommends itself to every student of decorative art. This volume is very trustworthy and even approaches the completeness of a history.--Sturgis, p. 50 Havard, Henry. La tapisserie; 90 illustrations par S. Hugard. 198p. illus. O. Par. 1893. Henry. Les arts de l'ameublement) Delagrave 2.50 fr. (Havard, 745 H29 e Compare what is said of the art of tapestry under Guiffrey. This is another work of about the same scope and perhaps equally serviceable as a book of general reference.-Sturgis, p. 50 Short history of tapestry to the end of the 18th century; tr. by L. J. Davis. 399p. illus. D. A translation of La tapisserie. This small book is as good a handbook as one is likely to find on the subject and is well illustrated. It is interesting reading as well as valuable for the information it contains.-Sturgis, p. 52 Sturgis, Russell. Tapestry. (see Johnson's universal cyclopaedia. 1894-95. 8:6) R031 qJ623 e HOUSE PLANTS Hillhouse, Mrs Lizzie Page. House plants and how to succeed with them; a practical handbook. DeLaMare printing and publishing co. $1. 220p.illus.D. N.Y.1897. 716 H55 e The amateur will be surprised at the great range of plants which this book tells us it is possible to raise successfully in the house.-Annual American catalogue for 1897, 1898, p. 88 |