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For details, see the full license deed at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0. SEP 2 5 >ir— W ^-&! JULY 1925 Volume 2 Numbci 10 "nee 2 Fr,ancs. :OOOOo: O The Orleans Civil War Collection Some American Sketches of French Scenes Frank Wkitenkampf French Studies Among American Doctoral Dissertations Book Reviews - New Books Current Magazines W. -?- AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS lO RUE DE LELYSEE / BREAKFAST HOT BREADS LUNCHEON GRIDDLE CAKES AFTERNOON TEA AND MANY OTHER LIGHT SUPPER AMERICAN DELICACIES RIVOLI TEA ROOMS 2, Rue de l'Echelle, 2 (NEAR LOUVRE AND PALAIS ROYAL) R. C. Seine 240.431 "A COSY CORNER IN A CROWDED CITY" ENGLISH AND AMERICAN HOME COOKING 9 A. M. to 8.30 P. M. t \Sandays inelndedt % FRUIT. PUMPKIN. ICE CREAM LEMON MERINGUE PIES ICE CREAM SODAS HOME MADE MARMALADES BIRTHDAY & LAYER CAKES JELLIES AND PRESERVES BAKED ON THE PREMISES j LESQUALrrfSDELAVOITURETrE I BCONOMIQUE ET LEGERE I CELLES DE LA GROSSE VOITURE LUXUEUSE ET j RAPIDE SONT TOUTES REUNIES DANS ! la 12 cv. HOTCHKISS. c'est LE JUSTE MILIEU CHAMPS ELYSEES iy> 154 HOTCHKISS Dcicripiive leaflet* of EX LIBRIS advertisers may be obtained at Its Information Bureau, rez-de-chauute, 10 rue de VE'ytie. Volume 2 J U LY Number 10 EX LIBRIS 1 9 a s The Orleans Civil War Collection most notable of all the gifts of books It was during these years that he undertook THEreceived by the American Library in the great historical work which his participation Paris during the past year —indeed, the in the Civil War had inspired. The collections most notable received in the history of the made in the course of his work, now deposited Library, was the collection of transcripts, books, in the American Library, include 14 volumes maps, and pictures made by Louis Philippe of transcripts of letters and telegrams and d'Orleans, Comte de Paris, in the preparation 41 packages of transcripts of military orders and of his monumental "Histoire de la Guerre Civile reports, all probably from War Department en Amerique", presented by the present Due records ; also reports of court martial proceedings, d'Orleans. and 172 volumes of regimentl histories. The Comte de Paris, who died in England The results of «his studies were embodied in in 1894, was the grandson of Louis Philippe. the "Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique", After the Revolution of 1848 he left France to published between 1876 and 1890 in seven live in Germany and England, later travelling volumes. A translation of the work by M. in Europe and the East, and taking part in L. F. Tasistro, edited by Henry Coppee and the Civil War in the United States on the staff J. P. Nicholson, was published by John C. of MacClellan. He served in the siege of Winston between 1875 and 1888 in four volumes. New York, and was present at the action of Volume Four of this translation contains Volume Williamsburg, later accompanying his chief in Seven of the French edition, and so much of the battle of Fair Oaks, and being personally the eighth volume as was contained in the MS engaged in the battle of Gaines Mill. When which the author carried with him when he difficulties arose between France and the United was banished from France. States on account of the affairs of Mexico, the Comte withdrew from the American army, His son Philippe, the present Due d'Orleans, and returned to Europe. donor of the collection, forced also by the Exile In 1864 he married his cousin, Isabelle, Law of 1886 to live abroad, studied at Sandhurst, daughter of the Due of Montpensier, and and afterwards served in India under the British returning to France in 1871 threw in his lot Commander-in-Chief, afterwards Lord Roberts. with the Royalist Party. He was refused per In 1890 he presented himself in Paris to fulfill mission to serve in the Franco-Prussian war, his military duties. There he was arrested and and in 1886 he was forced once more to leaVe condemned to two years imprisonment at France under the decree forbidding the country Clarivaux, but was liberated by President Carnot to the direct heirs of families descended from the after a few months of nominal imprisonment. royal line. This decree was inspired by the In 1894, on the death of his father he became marriage of the Comte's eldest daughter with the representative of the traditional monarchy the son of the King of Portugal, a marriage in France, and like his father took a leading which greatly alarmed the French Republican part in the activities of his party. He himself Party. He lived henceforth in England, waging has travelled widely and has published two an open war against the Republic of France, accounts of his travels, "Une croisiere au and writing upon economic and political subjects. Spitzberg" and "A travers la Banquise". 29 i Philippe, Due d'Orleans 292 Some American Sketches of French Scenes Frank Weitenkampf The editors are indebted to the author for permission to reprint the following from the revised edition f his "American Graphic Art", published by the Macmillan Company in 1924. American etchers of city views and lithographic crayon. George C. Aid attracted OFlandscape, Osgood and Winslow have by the problem of sunlight simmering on hot been interested in Paris, while others stones and on vibrating water, offered five have lived mostly or altogether abroad, working different .impressions of the cool arches of the under foreign influence, and choosing foreign Pont Neuf in Paris and the houses beyond, subjects. in the quivering light of a summer day. His Among them E. L. Warner, with a delicate Location de Voitures a Bras contrasts in its sense of quaint oldworld beauties. The grocery, and old mill, at Montreuil-sur-Mer, disclosed to him their hidden charm. Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, a Canadian, interprets locality in a personal manner which, as Wedmore has pointed out, is neither eccentric nor commonplace. He changed fromthe precision and elaboration of his earlier plates to the freer manner of these Thames and Venetian subjects, and Lauterb- runnen, "one of the few pictures that realize the vastness of the mountains... Space, sweep, grand eur, rudeness and power are found in this remarkable plate, which also is beautifully obedient to the canons of the art." Herman A. Webster, delighting in out-of-the-way quarters of NOTRE DAME by Louis Orr. old French towns wit h sun-baked Courtety of Marcel Guiot, 4, 1{u* Volnty. walls and mysterious shadows in dark corners, has felt the stern charm of vigorous handling with the airy grace of the Meryon, yet goes on his own way. In some Hotel de Cltmy, with its vine-crowned wall of his plates, definite sureness is linked with a and the slate-covered sloping roofs beyond. certain severity, in others there is a richness which Louis Orr, brilliant, with a sweeping, even in some original drawings becomes a lusciousness redundant gesture, "loves the picturesque", as that makes one regret that he has not tried the Clement Janin says, "and at .need creates it". 293 massing his lines with what W. H. Downes "with a flexible formality that accords with the calls "a fine sense of monumental effect.'' spirit of France". {Catherine Kimball draws Roi Partridge sees a Seine bridge from the without frills, with a dry soberness that has its standpoint of Dancing Water, dancing in broad subtleties of honest observation. Where shall bands of line that weave a pattern without one stop in recounting etched proof of the attraction of Paris? Thomas R. Congdon saw and placed St. Etienne du Mont with solidity of mass and richness of shadow. Frank M. and Caroline H. Armington and Adelaide Vose Congdon see the picturesque somewhat objectively and so present it in clear language. Where these artists have shown the structural aspect of Paris, the life of the city has attracted Lester G. Hornby, seen as a picture in which houses and streets and people form a characteristic ensemble, recorded with gayety and a light yet precise indication. That gives us such a delightful bit of alley life as Passage de la petite Boucherie, full of rich shadows and bright sunlight. Mr. Ernest C. Peixotto's work as artist and author has been devoted largely to a description of Spanish America, beginning with "Romantic California", published in 1910, sup plemented by "Our Hispanic South west" and "Pacific Shores from Panama", both published in 1916, the spire of notre dame and by "Through Spain and Portugal", by Alonzo e. Webb. published three years ago. Courtesy of Marcel Guiot, 4. fiat Volney. His earliest publication, however, losing limpidity.