DOI issue:
Nr. 106 (December, 1905)
DOI article:George Alfred Williams: a new illustrator of Dickens
DOI article:A glance at the holiday art books
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26961#0242
A Glance at the Holiday Art Books
Aglance at
THE HOLIDAY
ART BOOKS
The art bookrecommends
itself so readily when Christ-
mas gifts are in order that
our review table is always
crowded at this season. In
making a selection to bring
to notice it is sometimes
hard to draw the line mark-
ing off the inferrable inter-
Copyright, 1905, by Geo. IV. Jacobs &= Co.
CESARIO. FROM “SHAKESPEARE^ (GEORGE W. JACOBS & CO.)
SWEETHEART”
somewhat as the fire on his ofhce hearth, with all but a
diminutive bit of fuel hoarded in the coal box. Up-
set the coal box deftly and the glow follows. Mr.
Williams has made friends with Scrooge’s young
nephew: "I am sorryfor him,” says the nephew;
“ I couldn’t be angry with him if I triecl.”
As to Tiny Tim, Mr. Williams takes sides with
the lovable, cheerful boyishness in him, rather
than with his infirmities, to the great gain of the
pathos and charm; and, in “The Cricket on the
Hearth,” he has happily and appropriately caught
a Suggestion of Joseph Jeffer-
son’s Caleb Plummer. Mr.
Williams has previously, in
his “Ten Boys from Dick-
ens” and “Ten Girls from
Dickens,” entered the field
of illustration he most cov-
ets. This first essay in the
deliberate illustration of the
stories as they stand may,
we hope, leacl to his under-
taking the task of the com-
plete works. There are a
few subjects, perhaps, at
which we shoulcl be inclined
to put up the sign, “No
Thoroughfare,” such as Sey-
mour’s drawing of Mr. Pick-
wick addressing the club,
“that happy portrait,” as
Dickens said of it, “ by
which he is always recog-
nized and which may be
said to have made him a
reality.” But in general,
the way is open and must
remain so, and Mr. Will-
iams has made a welcome
entrv.
ests of our readers or even the legitimate province
of these columns. Among the host of books not
specifically concerned with art matters, for ex-
ample, there is a number which seems to call for
mention through features of make-up. Mr. Will-
iams’s work in illustrating the perennial “ Christ-
mas Carol” and “The Cricket on the Hearth,” we
discuss at length elsewhere. The publishers have
given the book a festiye cover stamped in gold
and brightened with a drawing in colours. (The
Baker & Taylor Company, New York, 8vo, $2.00)-.
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Aglance at
THE HOLIDAY
ART BOOKS
The art bookrecommends
itself so readily when Christ-
mas gifts are in order that
our review table is always
crowded at this season. In
making a selection to bring
to notice it is sometimes
hard to draw the line mark-
ing off the inferrable inter-
Copyright, 1905, by Geo. IV. Jacobs &= Co.
CESARIO. FROM “SHAKESPEARE^ (GEORGE W. JACOBS & CO.)
SWEETHEART”
somewhat as the fire on his ofhce hearth, with all but a
diminutive bit of fuel hoarded in the coal box. Up-
set the coal box deftly and the glow follows. Mr.
Williams has made friends with Scrooge’s young
nephew: "I am sorryfor him,” says the nephew;
“ I couldn’t be angry with him if I triecl.”
As to Tiny Tim, Mr. Williams takes sides with
the lovable, cheerful boyishness in him, rather
than with his infirmities, to the great gain of the
pathos and charm; and, in “The Cricket on the
Hearth,” he has happily and appropriately caught
a Suggestion of Joseph Jeffer-
son’s Caleb Plummer. Mr.
Williams has previously, in
his “Ten Boys from Dick-
ens” and “Ten Girls from
Dickens,” entered the field
of illustration he most cov-
ets. This first essay in the
deliberate illustration of the
stories as they stand may,
we hope, leacl to his under-
taking the task of the com-
plete works. There are a
few subjects, perhaps, at
which we shoulcl be inclined
to put up the sign, “No
Thoroughfare,” such as Sey-
mour’s drawing of Mr. Pick-
wick addressing the club,
“that happy portrait,” as
Dickens said of it, “ by
which he is always recog-
nized and which may be
said to have made him a
reality.” But in general,
the way is open and must
remain so, and Mr. Will-
iams has made a welcome
entrv.
ests of our readers or even the legitimate province
of these columns. Among the host of books not
specifically concerned with art matters, for ex-
ample, there is a number which seems to call for
mention through features of make-up. Mr. Will-
iams’s work in illustrating the perennial “ Christ-
mas Carol” and “The Cricket on the Hearth,” we
discuss at length elsewhere. The publishers have
given the book a festiye cover stamped in gold
and brightened with a drawing in colours. (The
Baker & Taylor Company, New York, 8vo, $2.00)-.
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