the Occident. Oscar Wilde also reported and commented upon the progress of the style, referring to "the influence which Eastern art is having on us in Europe, and the fascination of all Japanese work" in a lecture he gave in the United States in 1882 (The English Renaissance of Art). By 1893 however the 'Japan Craze, despite its intensity, never amounted to more than dilettantish fascination in the quest for the artful [aesthetical] interior and the identity it imbued.' Anglo-Japanese Works in the US Further reading Contemporary Reading: The Keramic Art of Japan, George Ashdown Audsley and James Lord Bowes (1875) Marks and monograms on pottery & porcelain of the renaissance and modern periods, with historical notices of each manufactory, preceded by an introductory essay on the vasa fictilia of the Greek, Romano-British, and mediæval eras; and an appendix containing a brief history of the country of Japan and its keramic manufactures, William Chaffers (1876) Art and Art Industries in Japan, Rutherford Alcock (1878) Japanese Pottery, Augustus Wollaston Franks, (1880) Sixth Reading for Lantern Exhibitions of Travels in the Eastern Island World, China, Loo-Choo, and Japan : Japan, Seventh Reading for Lantern Exhibitions of Travels in the Eastern Island World, China, Loo-Choo, and Japan : Old and New Japan, Frederick William Sutton (1882) in the British Library Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures, Christopher Dresser, (1882) The ornamental arts of Japan, George Ashdown Audsley (1882) Descriptive and historical account of a collection of Japanese and Chinese paintings in the British Museum, William Anderson, (1886) Pictorial arts of Japan, William Anderson, (1886) Things Japanese, Basil Hall Chamberlain, (1890) The Industrial Arts and Manufactures of Japan, Arthur Lasenby Liberty, (1890) Japan and Its Art, Marcus Bourne Huish, (1892) The book of delightful and strange designs; being one hundred facsimile illustrations of the art of the Japanese stencil-cutter, Andrew White Tuer, (1892) A List of Japanese Books and Albums of Prints of Colour in the National Library of South Kensington, Edward Fairbrother Strange (1893) Notes on shippo : a sequel to Japanese enamels, James Lord Bowes, (1895) Japanese illustration; a history of the arts of wood-cutting and colour printing in Japan, Edward Fairbrother Strange (1897) The wooblock prints of Utagawa Hiroshige, Charles Holmes (1897) Japan, A Record in Colour, Mortimer Menpes, (1901) The Japanese Fairy Book, Yei Theodora Ozaki, (1903) Japan: Its History and Literature Series, particularly Vol. VII (Pictorial and