DOI Heft:
Nr. 45 (December 1896)
DOI Artikel:Reviews of recent publications
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17298#0232
Reviews of Recent Publications
attention to book illustration. We sincerely con-
gratulate her upon the part she has so successfully
played in the adornment of this little book.
drawing by alice b. woodward
from To Tell the King the Sky is
Falling (blackie and son, ltd.)
Ford Madox Brown, A Record of his Life and
Work. By Ford M. Hueffer. (Longmans,
1896.)—A portly octavo, with an emblazoned case
with a design bearing a monogram which appears
to be that of Mr. Walter Crane, with about twenty
singularly good autotypes and a quantity of
other illustrations devoted to one of the most
interesting personalities in art that ever this century
has seen—that is the book in question. Mr.
Hueffer, grandson of the subject of the record, tells
his tale well, neither gushing nor shy, his narrative
is judicial and dispassioned, erring if anything on
the side of aloofness. But the result is just that
which a clever advocate secures. Whereas special
pleading or defence had weakened his case, here
you feel more than ever that the Pre-Raphaelite
before Pre-Raphaelites existed, was a man of
genius and one who exercised a very great indirect
influence on his time. Space forbids quotation—
and therefore the abstention must be accepted,
but if ever a book pleaded for a long and analyti-
cal review enlivened by ample quotation it is
this. Singularly readable in its style, full of most
interesting matter, selected with fine taste, it is a
worthy record of a great painter : more than that it
is a model for the average biographerto take warning
by; neither fulsome nor prolix, it is certain to
achieve a wide measure of the success it so well
merits, and to enhance the reputation of its hero.
Cranford. By Mrs. Gaskell. Illustrated by
T. H. Robinson. (London : Bliss, Sands & Co.)
—The forcible delineation of character, tender
human sympathy, quiet humour and fine descrip-
tive power which characterise all Mrs. Gaskell's
novels are especially apparent in Cranford, and
Messrs. Bliss, Sands & Co. have done well to pub-
lish yet another edition of this work. They have,
moreover, given us a very attractive edition, well
printed on good paper, with sixteen illustrations
and a title page executed in a very promising manner
by Mr. T. IL Robinson.
The Child World. By Gabriel Setoun. Il-
lustrated by Charles Robinson. (London : John
Lane.) Price 5^.—By favour of the publisher we
were permitted to illustrate in the October num-
ber of The Studio one of the designs by Mr.
Charles Robinson intended for this work. We
are inclined to believe that in the smaller size in
which the publisher has elected to reproduce it,
together with the other illustrations to this work,
the full beauty of the artist's drawing has not been
drawing by charles robinson from The Child
World (john lane)
217
attention to book illustration. We sincerely con-
gratulate her upon the part she has so successfully
played in the adornment of this little book.
drawing by alice b. woodward
from To Tell the King the Sky is
Falling (blackie and son, ltd.)
Ford Madox Brown, A Record of his Life and
Work. By Ford M. Hueffer. (Longmans,
1896.)—A portly octavo, with an emblazoned case
with a design bearing a monogram which appears
to be that of Mr. Walter Crane, with about twenty
singularly good autotypes and a quantity of
other illustrations devoted to one of the most
interesting personalities in art that ever this century
has seen—that is the book in question. Mr.
Hueffer, grandson of the subject of the record, tells
his tale well, neither gushing nor shy, his narrative
is judicial and dispassioned, erring if anything on
the side of aloofness. But the result is just that
which a clever advocate secures. Whereas special
pleading or defence had weakened his case, here
you feel more than ever that the Pre-Raphaelite
before Pre-Raphaelites existed, was a man of
genius and one who exercised a very great indirect
influence on his time. Space forbids quotation—
and therefore the abstention must be accepted,
but if ever a book pleaded for a long and analyti-
cal review enlivened by ample quotation it is
this. Singularly readable in its style, full of most
interesting matter, selected with fine taste, it is a
worthy record of a great painter : more than that it
is a model for the average biographerto take warning
by; neither fulsome nor prolix, it is certain to
achieve a wide measure of the success it so well
merits, and to enhance the reputation of its hero.
Cranford. By Mrs. Gaskell. Illustrated by
T. H. Robinson. (London : Bliss, Sands & Co.)
—The forcible delineation of character, tender
human sympathy, quiet humour and fine descrip-
tive power which characterise all Mrs. Gaskell's
novels are especially apparent in Cranford, and
Messrs. Bliss, Sands & Co. have done well to pub-
lish yet another edition of this work. They have,
moreover, given us a very attractive edition, well
printed on good paper, with sixteen illustrations
and a title page executed in a very promising manner
by Mr. T. IL Robinson.
The Child World. By Gabriel Setoun. Il-
lustrated by Charles Robinson. (London : John
Lane.) Price 5^.—By favour of the publisher we
were permitted to illustrate in the October num-
ber of The Studio one of the designs by Mr.
Charles Robinson intended for this work. We
are inclined to believe that in the smaller size in
which the publisher has elected to reproduce it,
together with the other illustrations to this work,
the full beauty of the artist's drawing has not been
drawing by charles robinson from The Child
World (john lane)
217