Studio: international art (9.1897)

Reviews of Recent Publications

sponding strength of effect. He has realised the is that, side by side with a great deal that is excel-
fact so evident in the work of Hokusai, but too lent and appropriate, there should have been
often ignored by other workers in black and white, included a tale so Zolaesque in its repulsive details
that the greater the economy of line, the greater as the second of Mr. Norreys Connell's Two Stories
the respective value which each stroke possesses, of War. Anything more unpleasant or less suited
This book of Gutter Snipes would form a fine for boys and girls to read it would be difficult to
object lesson to workers of the cross-hatch-and- imagine. Here, however, adverse criticism begins
stipple school. It is only necessary carefully to and ends. In addition to many others not so
study these excellent drawings to convince oneself widely known to fame there are to be found in the
that every additional line that might be added to list of contributors to this sumptuous volume quite
them would tend to destroy rather than to aid a number of celebrated names, including those of
their salient beauty. Mr. Phil May's simple line John Oliver Hobbes, Richard Le Gallienne, Barry
work is a keener and more brilliant expression of Pain, Max Beerbohm, and Mrs. Molesworth, while
nature than would be the finest snapshot photo- for the illustrations the talents of such well-known
graph that could ever be taken. In Gutter Snipes artists as Aubrey Beardsley (title page), Charles
the artist is at his best. Robinson, Leon V. Solon, Starr Wood, Paul

The Parade. An illustrated Gift Book for Boys Woodroffe, Laurence Housman, and Max Beer-
and Girls. (London : H. Henry & Co.)—The bohm have been drawn upon. Both as regards
only serious fault we have to find with T/ie Parade the literary and pictorial departments Messrs.

Henry's new venture may be pro-
nounced a success, and even if
several of the stories are a trifle too
dull for the purpose of the book
there is plenty, nevertheless, amongst
the very liberal fare provided to
satisfy the hearts of youngsters of all
ages. The best story is undoubtedly
John Oliver Hobbes' Prince Toto,
which teems with passages in this
brilliant lady's best style, and is
composed exactly as a fairy tale
should be—that is to say, in a manner
at once interesting to children and
amusing to "grown-ups." A special
word of 'praise is due to Mr. Paul
Woodroffe for his admirable designs
for the cover and end-papers of this
comely book.

To Tell the King the Sky is Palling.
By Sheila E. Braine. Illustrated
by Alice B. Woodward. (London:
Blackie & Son, Ltd.) Price 5*.—
We have on several occasions referred
in these pages to the quite excellent
and clever black and white work of
Miss Alice B. Woodward. In her
illustrations to this story for children,
she has even surpassed her former
efforts. Full of originality and quaint
conceit, her drawings also exhibit a
purity of line together with a power
of design which is unusually strong,

drawing by alice b. woodward from To Tell the King the Sky is even in these days when so man>'

Falling (blackie and son, ltd.) artists of ability have turned their

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