30 JUNE 1894, Page 14

Hero and Leander. With Woodcuts by Charles Ricketts and Charles

Shannon. (Elkin Mathews and John Lane.)—This volume follows up the edition of "Daphnis and Chloe," illustrated by the same artists, and recently reviewed in the. Spectator. The text is that of Marlowe and Chapman's poem after Musesus. • The decorations and illustrations are of the same type as those in the . preceding volume. None of them is quite so fine as the best of the cuts in the former book, and the mannerism is perhaps intensified. But we speak of artists who aim high and have achieved much. The binding is daintily designed.