OUR NATIONAL POSSESSION
The Thames is a great national possession, affording means of
recreation and delight to thousands yearly. It is difficult to compare
it with anything else in Great Britain. It stands by itself, and is
unique. Other rivers there are, which for a small part of their course
are excellent for boating; but there is nothing in England to equal the
Thames, where the water is now kept at a high level, and where, for
the 112 miles between London Bridge and Oxford, there is practically
continuous beauty and convenience for boating. The reproach has been
brought against us that we do not make full use of our river at London
as the Parisians do of the Seine at Paris. But the two things are not
on the same footing at all. There are many problems in connection with
the Thames as a tidal river that have not to be solved by the Parisians
in regard to the Seine. Perhaps if the great barrage at Gravesend,
which has been discussed, ever comes into existence, we shall be able
to remove the reproach, to run our steamboats to time, and to use the
river as a river of pleasure, even so far down as London Bridge. There
are, however, grave objections to the barrage scheme, which for the
present has been set aside. Though the tides interfere with pleasure
boats, they are a source of motive power for innumerable barges;
the river traffic would be seriously hindered by the elimination of
the element of tide, and many owners of wharves and quays would be
injured by the change. There are also other difficulties. At present
the sewage, after being dealt with by filtration in sewage-beds, is
returned to the river, and, having been rendered innocuous, floats
out to sea, and mingles with the pure water satisfactorily. It would,
however, be another thing to return thousands of gallons of water,
which, however innocuous, can hardly be called clean, to the great lake
of fresh water the river would become if dammed up by a barrage.
[Illustration: FROM BATTERSEA BRIDGE]
Yet the continual increase in the size of ships, and the consequent
demand for a river ever deeper, is a source of perplexity to the
Thames Conservancy. This involves constant dredging, which would
not be necessary were a perpetual high tide to be maintained. It is
true that this dredging in some parts is a source of profit, not of
expense. Thames gravel is exceedingly valuable, and it is found to
be worth while for men not only to buy and maintain large dredgers
down near the river mouth, but to pay a rent of something like £1500
to the Conservancy for the privilege of doing so! The dredging,
however, is not all so profitable. Where the river-bed is slime and
mud, the channel has to be kept clear by dredgers at the expense of
the Conservancy, and no delightful rents accrue from the process. This
dredging is altogether rather an interesting matter. In some places it
is found remunerative enough for men to do it by hand for the sake of
what they bring up, and they obtain leave to go dredging.
It is a fact not realised by everyone that the whole river, and all
the craft upon it are under the strictest surveillance. Everything
that floats must be licensed and carry its number for purposes of
ready identification. The barges seen lying about in shoals near
Westminster or Waterloo Bridges are not lying haphazard, but in certain
specified places marked by buoys and allotted by the Conservancy,
much as cabstands are allotted by the police. It is true that quays,
wharves, landing stages, etc., being on land, are not subject to
the Conservancy, which is in the somewhat anomalous position of
dealing with the water, but not with the banks that hem it in. Yet
the Conservancy manages to have a finger in this too, for suppose
a man buys a bit of the river's bank, and erects a boat-building
establishment thereon, he is obviously at a loss without steps down
to the water or a landing place, and for this he has to pay rent to
the Conservancy. The amusing part of it is that a man's property is
sometimes in the air. In the case of a tree growing out of the water,
it would truly tax the judgment of a Solomon to say what the rights of
the Conservancy are toward that tree; but it is held that if the tree
constitutes any danger or obstruction to the river-way the Conservators
may insist on its being lopped. In connection with this a curious case
sometimes arises. Man is always cunning where his own interests are
concerned. It is not only to one man that the idea has occurred of
propping up his overhanging tree by a stake. And, if the stake remains
for any length of time, silt and rubbish collect between it and the
shore, and eventually the island or the land of the cunning man is
enlarged by a foot or two! More; sometimes stakes have been planted in
the river bed with the same object without even excuse of the tree. It
is the duty of the Conservancy officials to deal with all such stakes.
Whatever may be alleged as to our neglect of the river at London,
no such charge can be brought against us in our appreciation of it
higher up. Day by day, in the summer, hundreds enjoy the air and the
brilliance and the interest of the river reaches. House-boats are
moored, permission and licences having been obtained, and men and women
practically live in the open air for weeks together. The house-boats
are not allowed to anchor everywhere, but are allotted certain
stations, due regard being had to the width of the river. If they plant
themselves near private ground they must gain the permission of the
owner, as well as of the Conservancy, which is quite reasonable.
To preserve an unimpeded channel may be taken as one of the great
duties of the Conservancy. For this reason they have power to remove
snags; to prevent the egotistical punt-fisher from placing his punt
broadside in the midmost current; and to regulate the rules for the
passing of craft. It is rather amusing to see sometimes how the punt
man edges his craft as far from the bank as he dare before he sits
down on his cane-bottomed chair and sorts out his tackle; but if a
Conservancy official come along, and, eyeing him, decides, in spite of
his extreme innocency and unconsciousness, that he has encroached too
far, back he has to go. It is a perpetual game.
In regard to the fishing, most of the Thames is free; and the coarse
fishing--bream, dace, chub, and so on--is good of its kind. Here and
there, as at Hedsor, there is a bit preserved. For the commonsense
view is taken that, if both banks belong to the same owner, the river
bed belongs also to him, and likewise the fishing. He cannot, however,
prevent boats from passing up and down the stream flowing through his
property, or the highway would be a highway no more. The fishery in the
Thames has of late years greatly improved, owing to the disinterested
action of many clubs and associations in putting in stock which
they cannot hope subsequently to reclaim, but which, once gone into
the water, belongs to everyone alike. An instance of this occurred
recently, when 300 trout (_Salmo fario_), about fourteen inches long,
were put into the Thames at Shepperton Weir in March by the Weybridge,
Shepperton, and Halliford Thames Trout Stocking Association. These
trout cost 2s. 6d. each! There is good coarse fishing in nearly all
parts of the Thames; bream, dace, chub, perch, and pike can generally
be caught.
There are many curious and interesting points in regard to the
river, and none more interesting than those relating to the tow-path.
This venerable and ancient right-of-way still remains, crossing and
recrossing from side to side as occasion demands, but traversable from
end to end. As, however, it passes through private grounds by far the
greater part of the way, it _is_ private, and yet public. Bicycles
are frequently forbidden by stern notices put up by owners, who yet
cannot prevent the pedestrian. The Conservancy has no power over the
tow-path. What, then, happens when a part of the tow-path gives way and
requires making up again? In theory it is the owner's duty to do it;
but it would be expecting rather more than is warranted of human nature
to expect an owner, who must regard the right-of-way with dislike and
suspicion, to incur expense by mending it. As a matter of fact, if he
does not do it, the Conservancy does. It may be remarked here that a
very simple and effective way of embanking, known as "camp-shedding,"
is often employed about the river banks and the projecting points of
lock islands which are liable to be carried away by the current. This
consists in dropping large bags of dry cement into the water. The water
itself consolidates and hardens the stuff, which becomes a splendid
barrier.
There is another point in connection with the breaking away of the
tow-path which is still more perplexing. Supposing it breaks away
from a private owner's land in such a way that it cannot be built up
again, but must be carried inland, what right has the public to say,
"My right-of-way has fallen into the water, so I am going to take some
of your land to replace it"? Apparently none at all. Yet the tow-path
must be carried on. One wonders how, in the beginning, it was allotted
to one side or the other. How was it that one owner said, "My lawns
must slope right down to the water's edge; therefore I will not have
the tow-path on my side; let it go upon the other?" And why has it
never happened that two owners, equally strong and equally determined,
have both flatly refused it? Be that as it may, the tow-path runs its
tortuous but continuous course, and will continue to run as long as the
river flows.
Such things as locks and weirs are, of course, entirely in the power
of the Conservancy, who pay the keepers and regulate the fees. The
half-tide lock at Richmond has answered admirably so far (_see_ p.
196); but the question is, Where is this sort of thing going to stop?
There is an idea now of a similar lock at Wandsworth, and then we come
to the matter of the barrage. We are so greedy of our river, we want it
to be pent up, and not allowed to flow away to the sea. Weirs of some
sort, which were at first called locks, are very ancient. In the end of
the twelfth century we find orders respecting them.
Stow tells us that about the year 1578 or 1579 there were twenty-three
"locks," sixteen mills, sixteen floodgates and seven weirs on the
river between Maidenhead and Oxford. In the next six years thirty more
locks and weirs had been made in spite of complaints that many persons
had been drowned "by these stoppages of the water." He adds that "the
going up the locks was so steep that every year cables had been broken
that cost £400." Especial complaint was made about Marlow lock, where
one man had had his brains dashed out, and Stow remarks that all the
compensation the widow received was £5! The barges were not charged
for going up but only for coming down, and a barge passing from Oxford
to London in Stow's time paid £12 18_s._ This was in the summer, when
the water was low. In 1585 a petition was made to Queen Elizabeth
"in the name of the widows and fatherless children whose parents and
husbands were by these means slain, against the great mischief done
to her loving subjects by the great number of dangerous locks, weirs,
mills and floodgates unlawfully erected in many places on the river."
Queen Elizabeth must have known something of the subject from her early
acquaintance with Bisham. (_See_ Chap. XI.)
In an old book of 1770 we find this passage: "The locks were machines
of wood placed across the river, and so contrived to hold the water as
long as convenient, that is, till the water rises to such a height as
to allow of depth enough for the barge to pass over the shallows, which
being effected, the water is set at liberty, and the loaded vessel
proceeds on its voyage till another shoal requires the same convenience
to carry it forward. This arrangement was in the summer when the water
was low; in other seasons the locks were removed."
When the present locks were made they were called "pound" locks; a
great many of them were opened between 1770 and 1780.
The members of the Conservancy Board go up in their launch several
times a year to see that all is in order, and that their officials are
doing their duty. Once a year they penetrate beyond Oxford, where the
launch cannot go, and they have to take to rowing boats. They are not
supposed to preserve the amenities of the river, but only its highway
properties. They have no power to remove unsightlinesses, such as
hideous advertisement boards; but only obstructions. Yet, in keeping
the river free from sewage contamination; by forbidding the casting of
refuse into the current from house-boats or elsewhere; by exercising
a general jurisdiction, which makes people realise they are not free
to amuse themselves to the annoyance of their neighbours--no doubt the
amenities are very much more preserved than they would otherwise be.
Stow ends up his account of the river: "And thus, as this fine river is
of great use and profit to the city, so the many neat towns and seats
on the banks of it make it extraordinary pleasant and delightful. So
that the citizens and gentlemen, nay kings, have in the summer time
usually taken the air by water; being carried in boats and barges along
the Thames, both upward and downward according to their pleasures."
INDEX
Abbey Hotel, Medmenham, 126
Abbey River, 165, 168
à Becket, Thomas, 67
Aberlash, 74
Abingdon, 37
Abingdon Abbey, 41
Adam, 199
Addison, 228
Albert Bridge, 223
Ankerwyke Park, 157
Archbishop Laud, 71
Arnold, Dr., of Rugby, 167
Arnold, Matthew, 5, 167
Arragon, Katherine of, 196
Arundel House, 215
Athens, 149
Bankside, 211
Barbour, Geoffrey, 39
Barges, 234
Barn Elms Park, 228
Barrage, 232
Barrington Shute, 56
Barry, 218
Battersea Bridge, 226
Baynard's Castle, 213
Bell Weir Lock, 159
Benson Lock, 59
Billingsgate, 210
Birds, 17
Birinus, 50
Bisham Abbey, 112
Bisham Church, 111
Bishop of Winchester's Palace, 212
Bishop's Park, 227
Blackfriars Bridge, 213, 214
Bloomfield, 224
Blount, Sir Arthur, 66
Boat Race, 2, 201
Boleyn, Anne, 158
Bolney Court, 84
Borlase, Sir John, 127
Boulter's Lock, 128
Bourne End, 139
Boveney Lock, 150
Boyle Farm, 185
Bradshaw, 175
Braganza, Catherine of, 230
Brandenburg House, 229
Bray, 152
Bray Lock, 151
Brent River, 200
Brentford, 200
Bridges:
Battersea, 226
Blackfriars, 213, 214
Charing Cross, 216
Chelsea, 223
Folly, 25
Hammersmith, 229
Lambeth, 221
London,210
Old London, 208
Putney, 227
Tower, 210
Walton, 173
Waterloo, 216
Brightwell Barrow, 49
Buckingham, Duke of, 137
Burford Bridge, 38
Burney, Miss, 143, 199
Burton, Sir Richard, 204
Bushey Park, 181
Cæsar, Julius, 172
"Camp-shedding," 238
Canning, George, 204
Carfax Monument, 36
Carlyle, 224
Caversham, 71
Charing Cross Bridge, 216
Charles I., 65, 98, 180
Charles II., 127
Chaucer, 213
Chelsea Bridge, 223
Chelsea Embankment, 224, 225
Chertsey, 168
Chertsey Abbey, 168
Cherwell, 26
Chestnut Sunday, 181
Chiswick, 201
Chiswick House, 204
Christ's Hospital, Abingdon, 40
Cleeve Lock, 59
Cleopatra's Needle, 216
Clieveden, 136
Clifton Hampden, 45
Climenson, Mrs., 96
Coln River, 159
Compleat Angler Hotel, Marlow, 107
Congreve, 228
Conway, Field-Marshal, 102
Cookham, 138
Cooper's Hill, 146, 157
Cornish, J. C., 85
Countess of Nottingham, 195
Countess of Suffolk, 193
Cowley, 5, 6, 169, 174
Cowley Stakes, 172
Cranmer, 221
Cromwell, 55, 180
Crowmarsh, 54
Cuckoo Weir, 149
Culham, 42
Custom House, 210
Damer, Mrs., 99
Danesfield, 124
Datchet, 146
Day, Thomas, 82
Day's Lock, 47
Denham, 5, 24
Denham, Sir John, 146
Despencer, Lord Le, 126
Ditton House, 185
Donne, Dr., 190
Dorchester, 49
Dorchester Abbey, 51
Dowgate, 213
D'Oyley, Robert, 53
D'Oyley, Sir Cope, 103
Drayton, 4, 5, 22
Dredging, 233
Druce, Claridge G., 32, 62
Duc d'Aumale, 192
Duchess of York, 171
Dudley, Robert, 196
Duke of Buckingham, 137
Duke of Gloucester, 192
Duke of Marlborough, 150
Duke of York, 172
Duke's Meadows, 201
Durham House, 216
Dyers' Company, 122
Earl of Essex, 196
Earl of Leicester, 215
Edward IV., 213
Edward VI., 180
Edward Plantagenet, 113
Edward the Confessor, 140
Eel-pie Island, 191
Eights, The, 28
Eliot, George, 227
Embankment, The, 214
Empress Maud, 67
Essex, Earl of, 196
Essex House, 215
Eton, 7, 148
Evelyn, 229
Exe River, 175
Fair Maid of Kent, 54
Faringford, Hugh, 69
Fawley Court, 101, 102
Ferry Hotel, Cookham, 138
Fielding, Henry, 8, 190
Fingest, 103
Fishing, 236
Fleet River, 213
Floods, 217
Flora of Oxfordshire, 62
Folly Bridge, 25
Forbury Public Garden, Reading, 70
Fox, Charles James, 169, 204
Frogmill, 125
Fulham Palace, 228
Fuller, 67, 152, 198
Garrick's Villa, 183
Gaunt, John of, 67, 216
Gaveston, Piers, 54
Gay, 190, 193
General description, 9 ff
George III., 98
George IV., 98, 172
George Hotel, Bray, 154
George Hotel, Wargrave, 82
Gloucester, Duke of, 192
Goring, 57
Goring Church, 61
Gray, 5
Great Hall, Westminster, 219
Great Marlow, 106
Great Western Railway, 8
Greenhill, 60
Greenlands, 103
Greenwich Palace, 6
Grey, Lady Jane, 198
Gwynne, Nell, 127
Halliford, 175
Ham House, 191, 193
Hambleden, 103
Hammersmith Bridge, 229
Hampton, 177
Hampton Court, 6, 178
Hampton Green, 182
Hardwicke House, 65
Harp Hill, 48
Hartslock Woods, 62
Hedsor Church, 138
Henley, 97
Henley Regatta, 3, 100
Henry I., 42, 141, 195
Henry V., 195
Henry VI., 169
Henry VII., 195
Henry VIII., 68, 158, 178
Hoby, Sir Thomas, 111
Hogarth, 6, 183, 204
Holme Park, 75
Home Park, 145
Hook, Theodore, 184
Horton, 158
Hotels, 18
House-boats, 235
Houses of Parliament, 218
Howard, Katherine, 198
Hurley, 116
Hurlingham Club, 227
Hurst Park Racecourse, 182
Icknield Street, 59
Iffley, 29
Isleworth, 197
James II., 221
James Stuart, 143
Joan, 54
John, 78, 156, 213
Johnson, Dr., 183
Jones, Inigo, 199
Juxon, 221
Kelmscott Press, 230
Kempenfelt, Admiral, 120
Kew Gardens, 199
Kew Observatory, 197
Kew Palace, 6
_Kingis Quair_, 144
King's Stone, 187
Kingston, 186
Kingston Rowing Club, 186
Kit-Kat Club, 228
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 190, 191, 228
Lady Place, 116
Laleham, 161, 167
Lambeth Bridge, 221
Lambeth Palace, 221
Laud, Archbishop, 71, 221, 228
Leicester, Earl of, 215
Leicester House, 215
Leland, 78
Llyn-din, 212
Locks, 239
Bell Weir, 159
Benson, 59
Boulter's, 128
Boveney, 150
Bray, 157
Cleeve, 59
Marsh, 102
Teddington, 187
Temple, 115
Loddon River, 92
London and South Western Railway, 9
London Bridge, 210
London Stone, 159
Long Ditton, 185
Long Mead, 157
Louis Philippe, 192
Lower Hope, 149
Lower Mall, 230
Macaulay, 120
Magna Charta Island, 155
Maidenhead, 132
Mapledurham House, 65, 66
Marble Hill, 193
Marlborough, Duke of, 98, 150
Marryat, 230
Marsh Lock, 102
Medmenham Abbey, 125
Merchant Taylors' School, 213
Milton, 5, 7, 158
Mole River, 184
Molesey Lock, 182
Molesey Regatta, 184
Mongewell, 56
Monkey Island, 150
Monmouth House, 225
Montfichet, 213
Moore, Thomas, 185, 188
More, Sir Thomas, 225
Morris, William, 230
Mortlake, 202
Mount Lebanon, 192
Naval Volunteer Training Ship, 214
New Cut, 27
Northumberland Avenue, 218
Northumberland House, 218
Nottingham, Countess of, 195
Nuneham Courtney, 35
Oatlands Park, 171, 174
Obstructions, 234
Old Deer Forest, 197
Old London Bridge, 208
Old Windsor, 146
Orleans House, 191
Oxford, 7
Oxford Meadows, 32
Pang River, 64
Pangbourne, 63
Park Place, 102
Parr, Catherine, 225
Penton Hook, 161
Pepys, 229
Phyllis Court, 101, 102
Pope, 5, 6, 145, 190, 193, 204
Pope's Villa, 189
Prince de Joinville, 192
Prince Henry, 193
Princess Elizabeth, 225
Puddle Dock, 213
Punting competition, 170
Putney Bridge, 227
Quarry Woods, 109
Queen Anne, 192
Queen Caroline, 229
Queen Eleanor, 213
Queen Elizabeth, 70, 113, 240
Queen Mary, 180
Queen Maud, 54
Queenhithe, 213
Radley College Boat-house, 34
Ranelagh, 223, 228
Raven's Ait, 186
Ray Mead Hotel, Maidenhead, 135
Reading Abbey, 67
Reading Castle, 70
Red Lion Hotel, Henley, 98
Richard II., 195
Richard III., 213
Richmond, 194
Richmond Palace, 6, 195
Rivers: Abbey, 165, 168
Brent, 200
Coln, 159
Exe, 175
Fleet, 213
Loddon, 92
Mole, 184
Pang, 64
Thame, 52
Wandle, 227
Wey, 173
Robsart, Amy, 196
Rodney, Admiral, 175
Romney Island, 148
Rose Garden, Sonning, 72
Rossetti, 227
Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 223
Runney Mead, 156
Rupert, Prince, 201
St. Anne's Hill, 170
St. Helen's Nunnery, Abingdon, 40
St. Mary Overies, 210
St. Patrick's Stream, 92
St. Saviour's, 210
St. Thomas's Hospital, 221
Salisbury House, 216
Sandford, 33
Savoy, The, 216
Scotland Yard, 218
Seagulls, 218
Seymour, Thomas, 225
Shelley, 106
Shenstone, 99
Shepperton, 170, 175
Shiplake, 95
Shrewsbury House, 225
Sinodun Hill, 48
Skindle's Hotel, Maidenhead, 133
Smith, Rt. Hon. W. H., 103
Smith, Sydney, 78
Smollett, 225
Somerset, Lord-Protector, 198, 215
Somerset House, 214
Sonning, 72
Spenser, 5, 213, 215
Staines, 159
Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond, 194
Steele, 228
Stephen, 54
Stokenchurch, 103
Stow, 239
Strawberry Hill, 188
Streatley, 57
Sunbury, 175
Surbiton, 186
Surley Hill, 150
Sutton Courtney, 43
Sutton Pool, 43
Swan Hotel, Thames Ditton, 184
Swans, 121
Swift, 190, 193
Syon House, 197
Tagg's Island, 182
Taplow, 132
Tate Gallery, 223
Teddington Lock, 187
Temple, 214
Temple Island, 101
Temple Lock, 115
Temple Mill, 115
Tennyson, 95, 191
Terry, Ellen, 166
Thame, The, 52
Thames Conservancy, 233
Thames, derivation of, 4
Thames Ditton, 184
Thames Gardens, 19
Thomson, 6, 137, 230
Thorney Island, 222
Torpids, The, 29
Tow-path, 237
Tower, 210
Tower Bridge, 210, 211
Tower Royal, 213
Turner, 173, 191, 226, 230
Twickenham, 191
Twickenham Reach, 188
Upper Hope, 149
Upper Mall, 230
Upper Thames Sailing Club, 139
Vanbrugh, 228
Vauxhall Bridge, 223
Vintners' Company, 122
Walbrook, 208
Walbrook Wharf, 212
Walker, Frederick, 153
Wallingford, 53
Walpole, Horace, 6, 183, 189, 228
Walton Bridge, 173
Walton Church, 174
Walton, Izaak, 147
Wandle River, 227
Wandsworth, 227
Warbeck, Perkin, 196
Wargrave, 80
Warwick, "King Maker," 113
Waterloo Bridge, 216
Watermen, 206
Weirs, 239
Westminster Abbey, 222
Westminster Bridge, 220
Westminster Palace, 6
Wey River, 171
Weybridge, 170, 171
Whitchurch, 63
Whitehall, 218
Whitehall Palace, 6
White Hart Hotel, Sonning, 74
Whitehill, 60
Wigod, 53
William the Conqueror, 53, 141
William III., 141, 180
Winchester House, 225
Windsor Castle, 140
Wittenham, Little, 47
Wittenham Woods, 47
Wolsey, 178
Worcester House, 216
Wordsworth, 220
Wotton, Sir Henry, 147
Wren, Sir Christopher, 181, 182
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 210
York, Duchess of, 171
York, Duke of, 172
York House, 191, 217
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the East and of the West, and his charming book is a kind of album into
which he has gathered the cream of an artist's memories and impressions
of the many countries he has visited and sketched in."
THE WORLD'S
CHILDREN
WITH 100 FULL-PAGE
ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
PRICE 20s. NET
=The Times.=--"Of the cleverness, both of the pictures and letterpress,
there can be no doubt. Miss Menpes's short papers on the children
of different lands are full of insight, human and fresh experience;
and Mr. Menpes's 100 pictures ... are above all remarkable for their
extraordinary variety of treatment, both in colour scheme and in the
pose and surroundings of the subject."
WAR
IMPRESSIONS
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=Daily Telegraph.=--"One hardly knows which to admire the more--the
skill of the artist or the skill with which his studies have been
reproduced, for the colours of the originals are shown with marvellous
fidelity, and the delicate art of the impressionist loses nothing
in the process. The book, therefore, is a double triumph, and will
therefore be prized by collectors."
WHISTLER AS
I KNEW HIM
WITH 125 FULL-PAGE
ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
AND TINT
PRICE 40s. NET
Haldane Macfall in =The Academy=.--"No one who loves the Art of
Whistler should be without this handsome book; it contains works of Art
of exquisite beauty; it contains a delightful picture of the outward
Whistler that the man himself wished to be mistaken for the real
thing--half butterfly, half wasp, wholly laughing enigma."
=The Observer.=--"A singularly illuminating and intimate monograph."
REMBRANDT
WITH 16 FULL-PAGE
ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
PRICE 12s. 6d. NET
=Aberdeen Free Press.=--"The illustrations are magnificent examples
of the perfection to which reproduction in colour is carried by Mr.
Menpes, and the book as a whole is of very special interest."
=British Weekly.=--"An invaluable collection of superb reproductions of
Rembrandt's work. The book is a most desirable possession."
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