Studio: international art (21.1901)

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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Illustrated by
Hans Tegner. 2 vols. (London: W. Heine-
mann.) Price £1 net. It was an admirable idea
to commemorate the approaching centennial of
Andersen's birth by an important edition of his
immortal work, illustrated by so distinguished a
fellow-countryman as Hans Tegner. The two
hundred and forty wood engravings which have
been prepared for these volumes are examples of
an art which, though fast disappearing, will always
be affectionately regarded by the book lover. We
understand that other editions of this work are
being simultaneously published in America, France,
Germany, Russia, Holland, Sweden, and Bohemia,
as well as in Denmark, and we can safely surmise
that many a fireside will be rendered the brighter
and happier this winter season by the presence of
these volumes of entrancing stories.

Don Quixote. Retold by Judge Parry. Illus-
trated by Walter Crane (London : Blackie
and Son ; Manchester : Sherratt & Hughes.) Price
6s.—The author's text is considerably abridged
from the original of Cervantes, but his task has
been so executed as to bring the story within the
comprehension of young readers, with whom the
edition deserves to become popular. Mr. Crane's
numerous illustrations are characteristic produc-
tions, and those which have been reproduced in
colours are very successful examples of modern
process illustration.

The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by
W. Heath Robinson (London : George Bell and
Sons.) Price 6s.—This latest addition to the
Endymion Series is a desirable companion to the
preceding ones. Mr. W. H. Robinson's numerous
decorations and illustrations display much charm
and delicacy of execution, and they proclaim him
a most worthy disciple of the modern school of
penmen.

Pompei: The City, its Life, and Art. By
Pierre Gusman. Translated by Florence Sim-
monds and M. Jourdain. (London : W. Heine-
mann.) Price, 365-. net.—The books which treat
upon Pompei are numerous, but such is the fascina-
tion of this erstwhile buried city of Campania that
a new one is always welcome, especially so when
it is written as entertainingly and with such a store
of knowledge as the present volume. Some idea
of the amount of labour bestowed upon the book
may be gathered from the fact that the text con-
tains no fewer than five hundred illustrations from
the author's own drawings, besides others repro-
duced in colours as separate plates.

Among the Berbers of Algeria. By Anthony

Wilkin. (London: T. Fisher Unwin.) Price 165.
—The value of a camera to an intelligent and
observing traveller is unquestionable, especially
when the operator has sufficient knowledge and
taste to enable him to take the best advantage
of the subjects before him. An expedition through
the hinterland of Algeria, and not necessarily by
the more frequented routes, is one that may be
made to combine instruction and pleasure to an
unwonted degree. Mr. Wilkin, in his volume,
illustrates the truth of both of these state-
ments. His journeyings among the Berbers are
graphically described, and the photographs with
which his work is illustrated enable the reader to
realise vividly the characteristics of the country
and the people he writes about. While this book
is no mere globe-trotter's diary, the globe-trotter
would do well to buy it and read it.

The Later Work of Aubrey Beards ley. (London
and New York : John Lane.) Price £2 2s. net.
A companion volume to The Early Work of
Aubrey Beardsley, issued some time ago by the
same publisher. In the present collection of
drawings are a number of selected reproductions
from the artist's work in Le Morte d'Arthur, The
Pierrot of the Minute, Lysistrata of Aristophanes,
The Rape of the Lock, The Savoy, Mademoiselle de
Maupin, and Volpone, besides several reproductions
of drawings in the possession of Mr. Hampden
Gurney, Mr. W. B. Ross, and others. The title
upon the cover of the work does not exactly
describe its contents, as many of the illustrations
are examples of Mr. Beardsley's earliest period,
when he was under the influence of the style of
Burne-Jones and others. Nevertheless, we think
the publisher has wisely included these examples,
as they enable us more correctly to appreciate this
remarkable artist. However much the present and
future generations may like or dislike the produc-
tions of Aubrey Beardsley, the artist and the
connoisseur will always acknowledge the technical
beauty of his line and the strange expressive power
of his compositions.

La Campagne Genevoise, and Geneve a travers les
Siecles.—Messrs. Fatio & Boissonnas, of Geneva,
have lately given to the public two intensely interest-
ing volumes on Geneva and the Neighbourhood,
and they promise a third, the title of which will be
Around the Lake of Geneva. In their first two
volumes they show, as has often been shown, how
history may be evoked by a painstaking study of
the monuments of the past; also they prove what
an admirable illustrative aid to this study photo-
graphy may become when brought to such perfection

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