Art Books

Turquois mosaic art in ancient Mexico

Marshall H. Saville

The writer has undertaken the present study of Mexican Turquois Mosaics in honor of the approaching opening to the public of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, the only institution de..

Practical House, Wagon and Automobile Painter

W. F. White

There are a variety of purposes to which ornamental glass gilding may be applied besides sign work, shop fronts or glass doors. It is now much used for show cases, window tablets, druggists’ bottles, ..

Old Songs

Various Authors

A collection of poems written by many authors includingA Love SongWhy canst Thou not, as Others doWith Jockey to the FairSweet Nelly, my Heart’s DelightWhat hap had I to Marry a ShrowThe Leather Bottè..

Constantino Brumidi, Michelangelo of the United States Capitol

Myrtle Cheney Murdock

ENSHRINED in the domed Rotunda of the United States Capitol, as in the Roman Pantheon from which it is descended, are the noblest hopes of a mighty Nation. The monumental mural is usually better ..

The Story of the House

Orman Wesley Ketcham

The Story of the House: Being Some Suggestions in Brickwork from the Catalogue of O. W. Ketcham. The brick forms shown in Part Two are only suggestive of the various shapes in use, as the require..

Pueblo pottery making

Carl E. Guthe

The choice of Pecos for investigation by Phillips Academy was due to the above considerations. The ruin was a large one, was occupied at the time of the Discovery and was not abandoned until 1838. A s..

The Thousand Buddhas

Sir Aurel Stein

In Mr. Binyon’s Introductory Essay there will be found a lucid exposition, by the hand of a competent expert, of the reasons which invest those paintings with special interest for the study of Buddhis..

The English Home from Charles I. to George IV.

J. Alfred Gotch

There are two views as to English architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the one hand, it is held that in the days of Elizabeth architectural design shows a freshness, vivacity, ..