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Nr. 117 (December 1902)
DOI Artikel:Reviews
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19877#0242
Reviews
The biographer urges his readers to turn from the of the originals, and the result is one which
weakness, the failures and the mistakes of the man should be appreciated by the young readers for
to the strength, the success, the achievement of the whom the sixteen stories in the book are more
artist, and having thus cleared the ground of pre- particularly intended. The illustrations by Mr.
judice he proceeds to review the work of Frans Gordon Browne are in every respect excellent.
Hals, from the first signed and dated picture to the World Pictures. By Mortimer Menpes. Text
last, illustrating his text with numerous admirable by Dorothy Menpes. (London : Adam and
reproductions of typical examples. Charles Black.) Price 20s. net.—This work fully
In his account of the series of what are known as sustains the reputation Mr. Mortimer Menpes
Regenten pictures, the accomplished author of this has made in book illustration, as exemplified in his
most fascinating volume explains that they were previous works upon ' War Impressions" and
paid for, not out of the funds of the guilds whose "Japan," reviewed some time ago in these pages,
walls they adorn, but by a private subscription " World Pictures " in many respects is one of the
amongst the officers, arranged on a sliding scale, so most remarkable illustrated books issued in modern
that those who paid most occupied prominent posi- times—remarkable not only for the large number
tions in the picture, whilst those who paid least, of clever drawings which it contains but also for
were introduced in the background only, an arrange- the high degree of merit which they exhibit. Mr.
ment that must have greatly hampered the artist Menpes is never stronger than in his pen-and-ink
and makes his skill in composition all the more work, his remarkable facility of line and knowledge
remarkable. of composition, his mastership of the art of "leav-
The Shakespeare Story Book. By Mary McLeod. ing out " being of infinite use to him when working
(London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.).—Mr. in this medium. We consider that the large
Sidney Lee, in his entertaining introduction to this number of line drawings in this book help to place
book, refers to the fact that in Lamb's Tales from him, as a book illustrator, upon a higher pinnacle
Shakespeare the omission of numerous details of of fame than the coloured ones with which his
the plots causes the reader to obtain but a frag- name has hitherto been more particularly associated,
mentary knowledge of the scope of the author's These coloured drawings are necessarily slight,
plays. In the present collection of stories an being made expressly for reproduction by the
effort is made to render a more accurate account " three-colour process "—a process which is ill-
D RAW ING BY GORDON BROWNE FROM "THE SHAKESPEARE STORY BOOK " (LONDON: GARDNER, DARTON & CO.)
230
The biographer urges his readers to turn from the of the originals, and the result is one which
weakness, the failures and the mistakes of the man should be appreciated by the young readers for
to the strength, the success, the achievement of the whom the sixteen stories in the book are more
artist, and having thus cleared the ground of pre- particularly intended. The illustrations by Mr.
judice he proceeds to review the work of Frans Gordon Browne are in every respect excellent.
Hals, from the first signed and dated picture to the World Pictures. By Mortimer Menpes. Text
last, illustrating his text with numerous admirable by Dorothy Menpes. (London : Adam and
reproductions of typical examples. Charles Black.) Price 20s. net.—This work fully
In his account of the series of what are known as sustains the reputation Mr. Mortimer Menpes
Regenten pictures, the accomplished author of this has made in book illustration, as exemplified in his
most fascinating volume explains that they were previous works upon ' War Impressions" and
paid for, not out of the funds of the guilds whose "Japan," reviewed some time ago in these pages,
walls they adorn, but by a private subscription " World Pictures " in many respects is one of the
amongst the officers, arranged on a sliding scale, so most remarkable illustrated books issued in modern
that those who paid most occupied prominent posi- times—remarkable not only for the large number
tions in the picture, whilst those who paid least, of clever drawings which it contains but also for
were introduced in the background only, an arrange- the high degree of merit which they exhibit. Mr.
ment that must have greatly hampered the artist Menpes is never stronger than in his pen-and-ink
and makes his skill in composition all the more work, his remarkable facility of line and knowledge
remarkable. of composition, his mastership of the art of "leav-
The Shakespeare Story Book. By Mary McLeod. ing out " being of infinite use to him when working
(London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.).—Mr. in this medium. We consider that the large
Sidney Lee, in his entertaining introduction to this number of line drawings in this book help to place
book, refers to the fact that in Lamb's Tales from him, as a book illustrator, upon a higher pinnacle
Shakespeare the omission of numerous details of of fame than the coloured ones with which his
the plots causes the reader to obtain but a frag- name has hitherto been more particularly associated,
mentary knowledge of the scope of the author's These coloured drawings are necessarily slight,
plays. In the present collection of stories an being made expressly for reproduction by the
effort is made to render a more accurate account " three-colour process "—a process which is ill-
D RAW ING BY GORDON BROWNE FROM "THE SHAKESPEARE STORY BOOK " (LONDON: GARDNER, DARTON & CO.)
230