DOI Heft:
No. 60 (March, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Reviews of recent publications
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0149
Reviews of Recent Publications
not sacrificed subject to
technique, nor unduly
exalted anecdote over
artistry. Take the Gram
mariaris Funeral, Ru-
mour, Andrea del Sarte,
Fra Lippo Lippo^ or One
Word More, and you will
find that the pictures arc-
scarcely more like each
other than are the poems.
For each Mr. Shaw has
found its own method of
expression, and the result
is that at first glance it is
hardly evident that one
hand made them all.
The interpretation of the
poems into pictures is at
once felicitous and ac-
complished. In a day
when illustrated books
of abiding interest arc-
by no means scarce, here
is one that in its own
way is masterly ; and of
what book can greater
praise be given ?
The Work of Charles
Keene. With an Intro-
duction by Joseph
Pennell. (London :
T. Fisher Unwin.)
jQt> iSs- 6d. net.—Except
that the size of this portly
quarto seems unneces-
sarily increased by huge
margins and blank backs
to many of its pictures,
one has nothing but
praise for the excellence
— at times the super-
excellence — of its repro-
duction. Certain illus-
SKETCH BY CHARLES KEENE. FROM "THE WORK OF CHARLES KEENE " tratioilS 3) X 2 { UlcheS
(fisher unwin) on pages I3j x IO<(,
each occupying a leaf,
might, with more value
Browning's characters to life in designs wherein they for comparative study, have been grouped
figure as vividly as in the poet's marvellous word- on the same page. Mr. Joseph Pennell writes
painting. Despite the fact that several of the blocks with warm appreciation and admirably critical
are evidently too fine for the paper used, the book insight. The labour he has bestowed on it must
regarded as a whole is in a way the most important have been enormous. Yet it is but one item in
illustrated book of its kind for many years. It has the debt all lovers of illustration owe to his
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not sacrificed subject to
technique, nor unduly
exalted anecdote over
artistry. Take the Gram
mariaris Funeral, Ru-
mour, Andrea del Sarte,
Fra Lippo Lippo^ or One
Word More, and you will
find that the pictures arc-
scarcely more like each
other than are the poems.
For each Mr. Shaw has
found its own method of
expression, and the result
is that at first glance it is
hardly evident that one
hand made them all.
The interpretation of the
poems into pictures is at
once felicitous and ac-
complished. In a day
when illustrated books
of abiding interest arc-
by no means scarce, here
is one that in its own
way is masterly ; and of
what book can greater
praise be given ?
The Work of Charles
Keene. With an Intro-
duction by Joseph
Pennell. (London :
T. Fisher Unwin.)
jQt> iSs- 6d. net.—Except
that the size of this portly
quarto seems unneces-
sarily increased by huge
margins and blank backs
to many of its pictures,
one has nothing but
praise for the excellence
— at times the super-
excellence — of its repro-
duction. Certain illus-
SKETCH BY CHARLES KEENE. FROM "THE WORK OF CHARLES KEENE " tratioilS 3) X 2 { UlcheS
(fisher unwin) on pages I3j x IO<(,
each occupying a leaf,
might, with more value
Browning's characters to life in designs wherein they for comparative study, have been grouped
figure as vividly as in the poet's marvellous word- on the same page. Mr. Joseph Pennell writes
painting. Despite the fact that several of the blocks with warm appreciation and admirably critical
are evidently too fine for the paper used, the book insight. The labour he has bestowed on it must
regarded as a whole is in a way the most important have been enormous. Yet it is but one item in
illustrated book of its kind for many years. It has the debt all lovers of illustration owe to his
130