Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures. (W. Heinemann. 15s. net.)—Charming as
many books are when illustrated by Mr. Rackham, it is still more delightful to have a volume of his works net. With such a feast before them not many of its possessors are likely to do justice to " Q's " introductory eulogy (which is all the letterpress) by reading it: and even this would not keep them long from the forty-four full-page pictures. Nearly all are new, and they are divided into six categories. Though we are now accustomed to Mr. Rackham's "Little People," there is nothing stale in these new ideas of pretty fairies or grotesque goblins. Then there is a batch of
illustrations of well-known fairy stories; some delightful pictures of natural, human children; a group of "grotesque and fantastic" plates, and some " various," which show the versatility as well as the power of the artist's extraordinarily fertile imagination.
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