27 JUNE 1908, Page 8

As a rule we are unable to notice reprints, but

Mr. William Hyde's illustrations to The Nature Poems of George Meredith (A. Constable and Co., 12a. 6d. net) are of so fine a quality that we make an exception. Is there any one else, we wonder, who could do work of this kind equal to this, so poetic in feeling and yet so

strong ? The frontispiece of the winter night sky set with stars is a thing of rare beauty.