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Excerpt from Annotated Bibliography of Fine Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Arts of Decoration and Illustration In this bibliography Mr. Russell Sturgis and Mr. Henry E. Krehbiel place before readers, students, and librarians a thousand carefully chosen works on Fine Art, with descriptive, critical, and comparative notes. They thus enlarge five-fold their contributions to "The List of Books for Girls and Women and Their Clubs," published by the American Library Association in 1895. The notes here given incidentally offer many important canons of art criticism, and may well tempt readers to consecutive perusal. To librarians who wish to select books beyond the thousand here presented, the pages which follow contain valuable indication - as in setting forth he Avery catalogue, on p. 38. The competent and helpful appraisal of literature, how fairly begun by the American Library Association, it hopes to see extended in the near future. During 1897 it is expected that an appendix may be issued to "The Reader's Guide to Economic, Social, and Political Science," published by the Society for Political Education in 1891. Within a year or two there is promise that an annotated bibliography of American history may be taken in hand, and also a similar guide to the literature of certain important fields of applied science. In the fulness of time it may be possible thus to appraise every worthy book shortly after its publication; and, in addition to the issue of the notes in book-form, to distribute them on cards to follow title cards in the catalogue cases of public libraries and to be pasted in the books appraised. This plan would proffer guidance at the most effective points. The numbers which follow the notes are those of the Dewey Classification. The index is by Mrs. Mary E. Haines, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Russell Sturgis pursued the study of architecture in an architect's office in New York, and for a year and a half in Europe. He practised his art from 1865 to 1878, during which time he designed many important buildings, including Battell Chapel, Farnam Hall, Durfee Hall, and Lawrance Hall of Yale College; the Homoeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital, New York; the Mechanics' and Farmers' Bank at Albany; and churches, business buildings, and residences in New York, Albany, Aurora, Tarrytown, and Watertown, N. Y.; New Haven, Farmington, and Litchfield, Conn; Minneapolis and Louisville. In 1878 Mr. Sturgis spent some months in France. In 1880 he retired from business on account of weak health and went to Europe. He resided abroad about five years, during which period he renewed his early studies, and spent much time in the important architectural centres and cities rich in collections of fine art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.