17 DECEMBER 1904, Page 22

Christabel. By S. T. Coleridge. (Aldine House. 3s. 6d.)— This

is one of the series of "Illustrated English Poems," edited by Ernest Rhys. Mr. Rhys's introduction is just what it should be, illuminating as far as the essential obscurity of the poem admits of illumination. The illustrations by Mr. C. M. Watts are scarcely satisfactory. He does not succeed, we think, in giving the Lamle character to Geraldine's face. The two women, as they are pictured, might be interchanged.