10 MAY 1902, Page 23

Rubaiyat of Omar Saifyam. With Decorative Illustrations by Blanche McManus.

(The De In More Press. 5s.)—This would be a pleasing reprint of FitzGerald's first edition if the illustrations were not so commonplace. Pictures of elderly gentlemen in gaudily flowered dressing-gowns, and rather plain-featured houris, do not help to unravel the Knot or to find the Key, and one is inclined to say to the illustrator of this poem, as the Clay did to the Potter, "Gently, Brother, gently, pray ! "