The Pilgrim's Progress. By John Bunyan. Illustrated by Frank C.
Pape. (J. M. Dent and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—We do not dispute the cleverness of Mr. Pape's pictures, but they somehow fail to satisfy. One thought obtrudes itself,—what would John Bunyan have felt about them ? This, of course, might occur when we see any modern attempt to illustrate the book ; but these pictures are very remote.—The Scholar Gypsy, and Thyrsis. By Matthew Arnold. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint. (Philip Lee Warner. 12s. 6d. net.) —Mr. Flint has had in part an easier task. He has not had to draw upon his imagination; he has pictured things as they are, with, of course, the needful touch of the spiritual. " Childsworth Farm," the spires and towers of Oxford, and Bablock-Hythe are real things. We must own that the "dark Iberians "and "the Dorian water's gush divine" do not please us so much.
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