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Show NEW BOOKS. From the publishing house of Paul Elder & Co., I San Francisco, comes "Impressions of Ukiyo-Ye," Ukiyo-Ye," by Dora --sden. It is of the school of the Japanese color-print artists. The book is really a history of art and art schools of Japan, embel-ished embel-ished with exquisite illustrations, as they have come down through the centuries and produced in a form of enchantment by the gifted author. Reading, one forgets that Japan was a sealed book to the modern world until about fifty years ago, but rather finds himself tracing art as it has been developing among an artistic people since the time when the great Charlemagne awakeend it in medaeval France and Germany. The illustrations show a delicacy of design and execution which could only come after long years of application and training, for perfect art is a child of heredity; the artist must not only be born, but born of artistic parentage going back for many generations. This is altogether a most wonderful little volume, vol-ume, as filled with instruction as it is charming in its presentation. |