Professor Raymond's Seven Volumes Containing a System of COMPARATIVE ESTHETICS I.-Art in Theory. 8, cloth extra "Scores an advance upon the many art-criticisms extant. $1.75 Twenty brilliant chap ters, pregnant with suggestion. . . An author not bound by mental servitude."-Popular Science Monthly. "A well grounded, thoroughly supported, and entirely artistic conception of art as a whole, that will lead observers to apply its principles and to distrust the charlatanism that imposes an idle and superficial mannerism upon the public in place of true beauty and honest workmanship." -The New York Times. "His style is good, and his logic sound, and of the greatest possible service to the student of artistic theories."-Art Journal (London). "Every careful reader must be delighted at the handling of the subject, at once so harmonious and symmetrical as well as natural it appears in a form which one may almost call artistic in itself."-The Dial, signed by E. E. Hale, Jr. II. The Representative Significance of Form. III.-Poetry as a Representative Art. 8°, cloth extra $1.75 "I have read it with pleasure, and a sense of instruction on many points."-Francis Turner Palgrave, Professor of Poetry, Oxford University. "Dieses ganz vortreffliche Werk."-Englische Studien, Universität Breslau. "There are absolute and attainable standards of poetic excellence. Perhaps they have never been so well set forth as by Prof. Raymond."-Boston Traveller. "Treats a broad and fertile subject with scholarly proficiency and earnestness, and an amplitude and exactness of illustration that make his work definitely and clearly explicit." -New Orleans Times-Democrat. 8° IV. Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture as Representative Arts. With 225 illustrations. $2.50 "The artist will find in it a wealth of profound and varied learning; of original, suggestive, helpful thought. of absolutely inestimable value. He will perceive more perfectly than ever before the representative character of art, and how it can be used as a medium of human thought and emotion."-The Looker-on. Expression by means of extension or size, shape, . regularity in outlines . the human body posture, gesture, and movement are all considered.. A specially interesting chapter is the one on color."-Current Literature. "The whole book is the work of a man of exceptional thoughtfulness, who says what he has to say in a remarkably lucid and direct manner "-Philadelphia Press. V.-The Genesis of Art-Form. Fully illustrated. 8° $2.25 "In a spirit at once scientific and that of the true artist, he pierces through the manifestations of art to their sources, and shows the relations, intimate and essential, between painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture. A book that possesses not only singular value, but singular charm."-N. Y. Times A help and a delight. Every aspirant for culture in any of the liberal arts, including music and poetry, will find something in this book to aid him."-Boston Times. "It is impossible to withhold one's admiration from a treatise which exhibits in such a rare degree the qualities of philosophic criticism."-Philadelphia Press. VI.-Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and Music. Together with Music as a Representative Art. 8, cloth extra $1.75 "Prof. Raymond has chosen a delightful subject, and he treats it with all the charm of narrative and high thought and profound study."-New Orleans States. "In other ways, Prof. Raymond's book calls for high praise, and in nothing more than for the gallant way in which he stands for higher ideals in art than those which are popular in these days."-Springfield Republican, "The reader must be, indeed, a person either of supernatural stupidity or of marvellous erudition, who does not discover much information in Prof. Raymond's exhaustive and instructive treatise. From page to page it is full of suggestion."-The Academy (London). VII.-Proportion and Harmony of Line and Color in Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. With 131 illustrations. 8°. $2.50 "One need not be a scholar to follow this scholar as he teaches while seeming to entertain; for he does both."-Burlington Hawkeye. "Future criticisms of art will be incomplete if they do not take into account this solid contribution to knowledge of the subject."-Chicago Post. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON SIGNIFICANCE OF FORM AN ESSAY IN COMPARATIVE ESTHETICS AUTHOR OF BY GEORGE LANSING RAYMOND, L.H.D. PROFESSOR OF ÆSTHETICS IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 99.66 THE ORATOR'S MANUAL," ART IN THEORY," POETRY AS A 99 66 99 66 99 64 AND HARMONY IN POETRY AND MUSIC," PROPORTION AND HARMONY OF LINE AND COLOR IN PAINTING, LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS The Knickerbocker Press |