Art Books

The Galleries of the Exposition

Eugen Neuhaus

The artistic appeals of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through architecture and the allied decorative arts are so engrossing that one yields to the call of the independent Fine Arts only ..

On Conducting (Ueber das Dirigiren) - A Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music

Richard Wagner

Wagner's Ueber das Dirigiren was published simultaneously in the "Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik" and the "New-Yorker Musik-zeitung," 1869. It was immediately issued in book form, Leipzig, 1869, and is no..

A History Of Greek Art

F. B. Tarbell

The art of any artistically gifted people may be studied with various purposes and in various ways. One man, being himself an artist, may seek inspiration or guidance for his own practice; another, be..

Forgers and Forgeries

W. G. Constable

The usual idea of a forgery is of something deliberately fabricated to appear to be what it is not; something conceived in sin, and carrying the taint of illegitimacy throughout its existence. With ot..

Spanish Painting

Aureliano de Beruete y Moret

Spain is familiarly spoken of as a country of distinctive character, and is so not only because of its geographical situation, which has kept it somewhat apart from frequented routes, but because it a..

The Alhambra

Albert Frederick Calvert

The Alhambra may be likened to an exquisite opera which can only be appreciated to the full when one is under the spell of its magic influence. But as the witchery of an inspired score can be recalled..

Musical Travels Through England

George Veal

I entered the world, singing, instead of crying; at least, my squall was truly melodious, and ravished the ears of the midwife; tho’, I must confess, the envious old hag of a nurse did pretend that my..

Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila & Zaragoza

Albert F. Calvert

The six cities of Spain which form the subject of the following pages are little known to English travellers. Yet no one who would understand the country can afford to pass them by. Not only are they ..