The Nature Poems of George Meredith. (Constable and Co. 52s.
6d. net.)—The feature of this volume is the work of Mr. William Hyde, who has illustrated the poems. Mr. Hyde has undoubtedly a fine feeling for romantic landscape, and is especially interesting when he puts the whole drama of the picture into the sky. The two last of the three photogravures suggested by the poem "The South-Wester" are quite admirable. Not only is there complete sympathy with the sky, but the artist shows both power of repre- sentation and mastery over pictorial composition. The picture facing p. 26 vividly realises a great pageant of stormy sunset. The like effect (p. 23) is not so good; the composition is hardly intelligible; colour seems wanted for its explanation. Totally different, though fine, results are attained in the picture of twilight (p. 40) and in the nocturne (p. 59). In this last the starry sky is most beautiful.
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