Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift
of speech.
SIMONIDES.
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.