The Rubciiyat Of Omar Khayyam. With Notes By R. A.
Nicholson and Illustrations by Gilbert James. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. not.)—Why any one should wish to have Omar illustrated, or why any artist should wish to make such......
Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare. Illustrated By Arthur...
Dent and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—The small hold the artist has on reality is very apparent in these drawings. The real characters we know—Cordelia, Lear, or Viola—demand for their......
The Deserted Village. Illustrated By W. Lee Ilankey. (a....
stable and Co. 15s. net.)—Here we have another style of work. It might be described as founded on the coloured supplements to illustrated papers. The costume model is treated in......
Dramatis Person, And Dramatic Romances And Lyrics. By...
Illustrated by Eleanor Brickdsle. (Chatto and Windus. 6s. net.)—Browning is not an author who lends himself to illustration, and the connexion between the text and the drawings......
Omar Khayyam. Presented By Willy Poginy. (george (i....
Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—These illustrations are more vague and less Oriental in style than the last. Instead of print that can be read, the poem is "presented" to us in a weird......
The Confessions Of St. Augustine. Illustrated By Maxwell...
and Windus. 7s. 6d. net.)—There is much that is graceful and charming in these delicately wrought drawings. The artist has wisely refrained from making his people too much like......
Selected Tales Of Mystery. By Edgar Allan Poe....
Byam Shaw. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 12s. 6d. net.)—These pictures seem rather half-hearted. The artist has not penetrated far below the surface. Take, for instance, the scene......
Omar Khayycim. Illustrated By Edmund Dulac. (hodder And...
net.)—Mr. Dula° has gone to Persian painting for many details and tricks of style, but he is able to use these for his own purposes. The most successful application of the......
The Symposium Of Plato.
The Symposium of Plato. Edited, with Introduction, Critical Notes, and Commentary, by R. G. Bury, M.A. (Heifer and Sons. 7s. net.)—It is certainly strange that the Symposium has......
A Song Of The English. By Rudyard Kipling. With Illustra-
tions by W. Heath Robinson. (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. net.)— This poet perhaps is as difficult to illustrate as Browning. Mr. Robinson has tried hard to keep close to his......
Reminiscencks Of A K.c.
Reminiscences of a K.C. By Thomas Edward Crispe. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Crispe's earlier chapters are devoted to dramatic and social recollections, experiences of......
The Merchant Of Venice. With Illustrations By Sir James D.
Linton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d. net.)—After the pumped-up originality and pseudo-stylistic qualities of the illustrations in the books we have been reviewing, it is a......
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