25 MARCH 1899, Page 21

One Hundred Fables of Aisop. With Pictures by Percy J.

Bil- linghurst, and an Introduction by Kenneth Grahame. (John Lane. 6a.)—" This classic is here given forth in the brave old seventeenth-century version of Sir Roger L'Estrange," to quote Mr. Grahame's introduction, in which he also gives us an amusing account of his idea of the origin of the fable. Mr. Billinghurst's full-page illustrations are well drawn, and full of a quaint humour very appropriate to the subject. His beasts and birds are in truth animals, but he has succeeded in giving them strongly marked characteristic expressions. The picture of the fox and the crocodile discussing their pedigrees is delightful.