Studio: international art (9.1897)

Reviews of Recent Publications

Library," a series which Messrs. Service and Paton, ings of peacocks, fowls, turkeys, geese, and especially
with commendable enterprise, are issuing to the of the two liappy owls—surely the most owlish owls
public at the very moderate price of two shillings that ever were seen—will give unlimited pleasure
and sixpence a volume. Although it must be con- to those of the rising generation who like their
fessed that the illustrations add little to their value, stories told in pictures rather than in type,
the neat bindings designed by A. A. Turbayne, and Cherry and Violet. A tale of the great plague,
the excellent paper and type should cause these books Illustrated by John Jellicoe and Herbert Rail-
to be popular with those whose devotion to English ton. (London : John C. Nimmo).—The author

of Mary Powell and The Household of
Sir Thomas More deserves to win a
lasting fame for the delightful little
works she has left behind her. It is
strange that Miss Manning, for such
was her name, should have been so
little heard of as a writer during her
lifetime ; for, although her books should
not, perhaps, be classed among the

first for literary merit, still such an in-
describable quality of purity and sweet-
ness pervades them that they will be
welcomed and treasured in many a
refined English home. Cherry and
Violet is in no way inferior to The
Household of Sir Thomas More, which
has already been reviewed in The
Studio. The illustrations are appro-
priate to the book and characteristic
of the well-known style of the artists.

Green Arras. By Laurence Hous-
man. (London: John Lane.)—We
have frequently been able to refer in
The Studio to the work of Mr. Lau-
rence Housman, and it would seem
superfluous for us to again express our
admiration of the many excellent quali-
ties which distinguish it. The illus-
tration which we have been permitted
- v here to reproduce will afford the reader

-J^^z ic^XTi&jg an idea of its remarkable character-

istics. One of the charms of Green
Arras is that the author and illustrator
are one, and that every detail of the
drawing by john jellicoe and hekbekt railton from Cherry book—the literary matter, the illustra-
and Violet (john c. nimmo) tions, the designs for the binding,

initial letters and title-page—are by the
classics is not supported by the possession of a same band. The uniformity of the result is as
long purse. Published at the same low figure, in pleasant as it is uncommon. The more conven-
a trim green cover and with a photogravure frontis- tionally decorative portions of the book are varia-
piece after Mr. Whistler's well-known portrait of tions upon the same subject, the vine. The cover is
Carlyle, the new edition of Sartor Resartus will particularly successful, and deserves the attention
also be widely welcomed. of the bibliophile.

The Happy Owls. Told, Drawn and Litho-
graphed by Th. Van Hoytema. (London : H. The Berlin Photographic Company, New Bond
Henry & Co.)—Mr. Van Hoytema's coloured draw- Street, announce the publication of an important