STEEDMAN, AMY.
Knights of Art.
Jacobs. 2.00
Best book on art for children (1907). Contains sketches of
eighteen Italian painters from Giotto to Paul Veronese, based on
Vasari, and attractively written. Sixteen color and eight black
and white reproductions.
NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY.
This volume seems to the compiler of this List one of the few books on
art which children will read with real enjoyment. It is not (p. 148)
included with a view to having it take the place of a history of art,
but to give a part of the information which old Vasari has handed down
to us with such charm. The language is delightful, and we carry away
some of the atmosphere of that sunny Italian period. It is a pity that
we are not given illustrations photographed from the originals,
instead of more or less modified drawings.
GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION
Up! up! let us a voyage take;
Why sit we here at ease?
Find us a vessel tight and snug,
Bound for the Northern Seas.
WILLIAM HOWITT.
BROOKS, NOAH.
The Story of Marco Polo.
Century. 1.50
The manner of the return of the Polos long after they had been
given up for dead, the subsequent adventures of Marco Polo, the
incredulity with which his book of travels was received, the
gradual and slow confirmation of the truth of his reports as
later explorations penetrated the mysterious Orient, and the fact
that he may be justly regarded as the founder of the geography of
Asia, have all combined to give to his narrative a certain
fascination, with which no other story of travel has been
invested.
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