17 DECEMBER 1887, Page 28

We have received a handsome illustrated edition of the Tanglewood

Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Chatto and Windus.)—The illustra- tions, executed in photogravure, are by George Wharton Edwards. They are naturally unequal in merit. Indeed, the subjects are each as it is remarkably difficult to do justice to "Medea," for instance (p. 179), is not adequate to the character. " King Pluto and Proser- pina" is perilously near the border of the ridiculous. "Circe and the Swine," on the other baud, and "Cadmus throwing the Rock," give a favourable idea of the artist's powers.