26 DECEMBER 1908, Page 27

Pippa Passes ; and Men and Women. By Robert Browning.

Illustrated by Eleanor Brickdale. (Chatto and Windus. 6s. net.)— The original drawings no doubt contain beauties of colour which are entirely lost in their reproduction by the three-colour process. Without this charm the illustrations remain rather un- interesting and wanting in artistic distinction. One figure of Love letting down his net from the height of a rock has beauty, and the intentness of the face is well characterised. The baby with the flowering horse-chestnut background is charming.