ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS.
MR. EDMUND DULAC is quite at his best in the illustrations he has provided for Sindbad the Sailor, and other Stories front the Arabian Nights (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. net). His style borrows something from many different Oriental sources, • (1) The Dauntless Three. By Theodora Wilson Wilson. London: T. Nelson and Sons. [3s. 6d.]—(2) The White Caravan. By W. E. Cule. Illustrated by B. Hatton. London : J. Nisbet and Co. 3s. 6d.]—(3) In the Lilac Garden. Written and Illustrated by Frances M. Whitehead. London : Skeffington and Son. [is. 6d.]—(4) The Gap in the Fence. By Frederica J. 'A:0e. Illustrated by Watson Charlton. London: The Sunday School Union. (1s.1—(5) The Man in the Bed Shirt. By Florence Bone. London : Headley Bros. [2s. 6d. net.] —(6) The Cocktail); Bird. Written and Illustrated by Mabel Demmer. London: Hodder and Stoughton. [7s. Sd. net.]
but it always retains a touch of originality that prevents it from being a mere pastiche. And not only are his designs pleasing in themselves, but they are delightful as illustrations. His viziers, his princesses, and his efrites are all that they should Le.—It is a striking contrast to turn from these Oriental imaginations of Mr. Dulac to Mr. Kay Nielsen's illustrations to Norse legends, published under the title of East of the Sun and West of the Moon (same publishers and price). Quite apart from the excellence of the pictures, the stories (most of which appeared originally in Sir G. W. Dasent's Popular Tales from the ATorse) deserve great popularity, and Mr. Nielsen has interpreted their spirit with true sympathy —A set of six well-produced children's gift-books have been issued by Messrs. Duckworth and Co. at a cost of 5s. net each. They are all old favourites, as may be seen from their titles : Haw- thorne's A Wonder Book and Tanglcwood Tales, Grimm's .Fairy Tales, The Aralian Nights Entertainments, Robinson Crusoe, and Gullirer's Travels. All of these are entertainingly illustrated by Mr. Milo Winter, with the exception of the Grimm, for which designs have been no less successfully provided by Mr. Hoge Dunlop.—Another popular reprint is sure to be the anonymously illustrated edition of Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb (Hodder and Stoughton, 6s. net).—Finally we may mention an elaborate new edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's exciting story, The lost World (Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, 7s. 6d. net), which, it will be remembered, deals avith the discovery by a band of explorers of a community of prehistoric animals.
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