On bookmarks and reading music

August

Bookmarks are great inventions, both clever and useful. They are small treasures that hold your place in a book, and if carefully chosen, also remind you of something else in a very pleasant way. I never like to use a scrap of paper to hold my place and find these often fall out.

You never know where you will come across some neat book-related items. The other day when I had a day off, I was walking through the Frick Collection in Manhattan and found a nice bookmark as well as a CD of music perfect for readers. And of course I felt I wanted to share these new-found treasures.

This museum off 70th Street is one of my favorites and I stopped in specifically to take a look at three Vermeer paintings â€” “Girl Interrupted at her Music,” “Officer and Laughing Girl,” and “Mistress and the Maid ” â€” that are wonderful and exciting to see side by side.

The bookmark is “The Progress of Love: Love Letters” by French artist Jean-Honore Fragonard. The panel was acquired by Henry Clay Frick in 1915 from the estate of J. Pierpont Morgan. The bookmark for $2.95Â is 7- XÂ 2-inches, fully colored and made in aÂ sturdy coated plastic.

The CD is call “Music for Book Lovers: Gentle Classics for Reading” (2008, Classical Communications Ltd; $16.95). Twelve pieces are included from the “Peer Gynt Suite” by Edvard Grieg, “Pastorale” by Ronald Hammer and the introduction to “Eugene Onegin” by Tchaikovsky.

And if you love neat bookmarks, there is a blog site that is devoted exclusively to bookmarks at www. bookmark-collector.com

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 3:51 pm by Barbara Nackman.
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