Holiday Garden Books Review Promotes Classic Styles
A long newspaper notice surveys several garden books and related works. Rose Standish Nichols's English Pleasure Gardens is praised for readable text and abundant illustrations while H Inigo Triggs's Formal Gardens in England and Scotland receives high marks for plates and plans. European and Japanese Gardens and Sundials and Roses of Yesterday are highlighted for practical guidance and charming detail with lavish photography and diagrams. A concluding appraisal notesFurniture of the Olden Time offers valuable guidance for collectors and emphasizes period accuracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Scotland
H. Inigo Trigges
Charles Latham
Charles Scribner's Sons
American Institute of Architects
A. D. F. Hamlin
R. Clipston Sturgis
John Galen Howard
K. Honda
Glenn Brown
Philadelphia
Henry T. Coates & Co
Alice Morse Earle
The
Macmillan Company
Francis Clary Morse
United States
Miss Nichols
Hadrian
Tivoli
Bowood
Hatfield
Rockingham
Broughton Castles
Belton House
Levens Hall
Lewis Evans
Watford
Earle
Washington
Lished
Miss Morse
A Bluggy Book Boldly Explores Frontier Fights
Cyrus Townsend Brady presents border fights and fighters from the Alleghanies to the Texas Republic in a 2mo volume with maps and illustrations. The critic lauds its lively narrative, historical value, and dramatic depictions, including Alamo and Fort Mims scenes, with strong heroes and foes rendered with sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alleghanies
Mississippi
Texas Republic
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Louis Betts
Howard Giles
J. N. Marchand
Roy L. Williams
Harry Fenn
A. de F. Pitney
McClure, Phillips & Co
Brady
Harrison
Tecumseh
Jackson
Tohopeka
Fort Mims
King’s Mountain
Alamo
Croghan
Fort Stevenson
Santa Anna
Boone
Brady and Crockett
Bryan's Station
Rare bindings exhibition at Bonaventure's book shop
A week long display in Bonaventure's shop at West Thirty third Street showcases luxurious book bindings and first editions. The collection highlights modern design shifts away from tradition toward layered leathers and inlays, with works by Zaehnsdorf, Thierry, Canape, Just fils, Lortie and others, including Far-reaching examples from Shelley, Stevenson, Hawthorne, and Uncle Tom's Cabin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonaventure
West Thirtythird St
Europe
Levants
Zaehnsdorf
Levant
Shelley
London
Stevenson
Walt Whitman
Roycroft
Hawthorne
Boston
Thierry
Canape
Just Fils
Brown Levant
Yale Press
Lortie
David
Stikeman
de Sauty
Adams
Pomey
Citizen Train Life of George Francis Train Revealed
The noted adventurer George Francis Train recounts a rapid life from a four year old farm hand to partner in a shipping firm, organizing shippers in Liverpool, and building large clippers. Dictated in his seventy fourth year, the memoir spans his travels, ventures, and states lived abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Francis Train
D. Appleton & Co
Mills Hotel
Bleeckerst
Liverpool
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Holiday Books
Rose Standish Nichols
Alien H. Cox
Hamlin
Sturgis
Howard
Honda
California
C. H. Townsend
America
Pacific
District of Columbia
Washington Monument
Ferguson
Wren
Crockett
Betsy
Shakespeare
Travis
Lord
Australia
Union Pacific Railway
Ligue du Midi
Marseilles
Newport
Madison-ave
Grant and Greeley
Marshalseas
Ireland
Bastile
Lyons
Tours
Gambetta
France
New York
Train
Webster
Taylor
Henry Clay
Mr. Clay
Lord John Russell
Balmoral
Highlands of
John Russell
Constantine
Strelna
Russia
Hudson
Niagara
St. Petersburg
Citizen Train
E. B. Treat & Co., Publishers
David Gregg
D. D
Palestine
East
American Republic
Theo. L. Cuyler
Morocco
R.S. MacArthur
Dr. MacArthur
U. S
J. H. Barrows
Thomas Hunter
the Normal College
City of New York
Great Quarterly Magazine
Quarterly
Adam Adams
Town Topics
Fifth Avenue
Corelliyjerome
Paul Kelvar
Wakie Corelli
Christian
Paul Kelver
Jerome Kerogue
Pall Mall Gazette
Boston Transcript
Fowler
Ellen T. Fowler
Asthur
Iatel Carnaby
Los Angeles Herald
Dodd. Meads Company
Marie
Charles L. Hinton
Paul Leicester Ford
Christy
Margaret Armstrong
E.P. Dutton & Co
Robin Hood and His Adventures
Paul Creswick
T. H. Robinson
Robin Hood
Charles Dickens
Patten Wilson
Fairy Tales
Gammer Grethel
Marion Edwards
R. Anning Bell
Tales
Charles and
Mary Lamb
Walter Paget
Robinson Crusoe
Swiss Family Robinson
Jane Porter
Don Quixote
la Mancha
Miguel DE Cervantes
W. Heath Robinson
Mrs. Jameson
L. L. Weedon
Ambrose Dudley
Ripon
W. Boyd Carpenter
Bob Knight
Bob
Charlotte Cuatis Smith
Eric
Frederic W. Farrar
George A. Traver
Westminster Abbey
Violet Brooke-Hunt
Elizabeth Westyn Timlow
Dorothy Dot
Chicago Journal
Clara D. Pierson
F. C. Gordon
William Wallace Whitelock
Harper Pennington
Careless Jane
Katharine Pyle
Lassie
Laddie
Mary D. Brine
Saints of
Italy
Ella Noyes
Jesus Christ
Ida W. Hutchinson
Jesus
Congregationalist
Panjandrum
G. E. Farrow
Alan Wright
Baker Minor and the Dragon
Dutton
E. P. Dutton & Co., Publishers
West 23d St
Daniel Webster
C. H. van Tyne
Charles A. Eastman
E. L. Blumenschein
Hogarth
Austin Dobson
Sir Walter Armstrong
Simon Newcomb
Frances Weston Carruth
Dante
Karl Federn
Egypt
Lady Duff Gordon
George Meredith Nat
Prince Kropotkin
Quaritch
Enon
Sozi
Piccadilly London
Pickering & Chatto
Haymarket
Henry Stevens
Great Russell St
Shaftesby Avenue
C. Brown
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