"Old Lamps for New" is a book of short essays, dialogues and thumb-nail sketches b Mr. E. V. Lucas. One of the essays begins With this sentence: "We were talking about Lamb." After reading the essay we are not sure but that Mr. Lucas must have been talking with Lamb, so carefully has he preserved the whimsical humor of Old China and the inimitable Roast Pig. As the best of Lamb is not a single essay, but the fragrance of them all, so the best of Mr. Lucas's essays is the gist of them all. "On the Track of Jan Vermeer" is ...
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"Old Lamps for New" is a book of short essays, dialogues and thumb-nail sketches b Mr. E. V. Lucas. One of the essays begins With this sentence: "We were talking about Lamb." After reading the essay we are not sure but that Mr. Lucas must have been talking with Lamb, so carefully has he preserved the whimsical humor of Old China and the inimitable Roast Pig. As the best of Lamb is not a single essay, but the fragrance of them all, so the best of Mr. Lucas's essays is the gist of them all. "On the Track of Jan Vermeer" is wholly delightful: "Where are the lost Vermeers?" he asks. There are but thirty-nine in public galleries and private collections, and the accomplished painter of Delft painted at least twenty-four years. Under what grime and in what obscurity lie hidden the vivacity and charm, the rich coloring, the incomparable "white planes" of the lost Vermeers? -- The American Review of Reviews , Vol. 45
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Very Good. Hardcover. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Brown end pages, related clipping glued to fep, former owner's inked name/date on ffep. Textblock is clean and tight. Top edge gilt. Beautiful leather with embossed decoration on front cover and spine, minor shelf wear and moderate rubbing to back cover. 258pp.
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1927. Methuen. Tenth. Hard Cover. Book-VG, t.e.g., leather bound, gilt titles on spine, gilt & colour impressed decoration on front board, brown boards. 6.5x4.5. 258pp.
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