Eleanor F. Brickdale
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headpiece by eleanor f. brickdale
Crane has so often worked
it, one can accept; but
here, as in a recent edition
of The Faerie Queene and
not a few modern designs,
we are confronted with a
puzzle rather than a pat-
tern, a problem in place
of a picture. The puzzle
may be ingenious, the
problem admirably re-
solved ; but one prefers
a picture to be a picture.
In Counsel is Mine and
Sound Prudence, a design
probably intended for a
book-plate, Miss Brickdale
has steered clear of any
confusion. The little bit
of pure pattern at the back
makes one regret that a
series of designs in colour
intended for the pages of
a calendar could not be
reproduced effectively in
monochrome to accom-
pany this article. For in
those she shows a singu-
larly felicitous convention
for decorative foliage, and
despite the hundreds of
previous attempts, has
struck out a manner of
her own at once novel and
COUN SEL IS MINE AND SOUND
PRUDENCE
c Hj<
from a drawing by eleanor f. brickdale beautiful. The headpiece,
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headpiece by eleanor f. brickdale
Crane has so often worked
it, one can accept; but
here, as in a recent edition
of The Faerie Queene and
not a few modern designs,
we are confronted with a
puzzle rather than a pat-
tern, a problem in place
of a picture. The puzzle
may be ingenious, the
problem admirably re-
solved ; but one prefers
a picture to be a picture.
In Counsel is Mine and
Sound Prudence, a design
probably intended for a
book-plate, Miss Brickdale
has steered clear of any
confusion. The little bit
of pure pattern at the back
makes one regret that a
series of designs in colour
intended for the pages of
a calendar could not be
reproduced effectively in
monochrome to accom-
pany this article. For in
those she shows a singu-
larly felicitous convention
for decorative foliage, and
despite the hundreds of
previous attempts, has
struck out a manner of
her own at once novel and
COUN SEL IS MINE AND SOUND
PRUDENCE
c Hj<
from a drawing by eleanor f. brickdale beautiful. The headpiece,
106