Studio: international art (27.1903)

Reviews

Knight, Thomas Lodge's Rosalynde, and Tennyson's
In Memoriam.

A pocket edition of The Poems of John Keats in
a neat leather binding has also been published by
Messrs. Newnes.

Poems by Percy ByssJie Shelley is the latest
addition to The Endymion Series of the works of
famous poets issued by Messrs. George Bell & Sons
(London). This volume, like some of its pre-
decessors, is decorated with full-page and other
line drawings by R. Anning Bell.

The avalanche of children's books which always
descends in the autumn shows no signs of diminu-
tion in volume this year. A considerable increase
of the use of colour in the illustrations is a feature
of the new output, and prominent in this respect are
the publications of Messrs. Frederick Warne & Co.
(London and New York), whose most successful
books include Objects of the Animal World (4s.),
the illustrations of which would prepare the way
delightfully for a visit to the "Zoo"; The Little
Folks Picture Natural History (4s.), with many
illustrations, and descriptive matter by Edward
Step, F.L.S. ; The Sunbeam (2s.) and The Little
Folks Wonder Book (is.), illustrated by A. J.
Johnson ; Our Favottrite Bible Stories (6d.), Our
Favourite Sunday Stories (6d.), Our Pets (is.), All on
a Merry Day (is.), The ABC of Nursery Rhymes
(is.), Sunny Hours (6d.), and a number of others,
many of them with their illustrations mounted
upon the precautionary untearable linen.

From the office of " Punch " comes Mr. Punch's
Book for Children, with nimble verses and a large
number of grotesquely amusing illustrations in
black-and-white and in colour, by Mr. Charles
Pears, which cannot fail to win the applause of the
" top-story " critics. Messrs. Thomas Nelson and
Sons (London, Edinburgh, and New York) make
their appeal with At the Point of the Sword, by
Herbert Hayens, an excellent story of adventure
in Peru, well written and full of incident; The
Lost Squire of Inglewood, by Thomas Jackson,
dealing with some experiences in a cave near
Nottingham; Stanhope, by E. L. Haverfield, an
interesting romance of the time of Cromwell ;
Ralph Wynward, by H. Elrington, a story of Eliza-
bethan times that should become a favourite with
youthful readers; The Friend of Little Children,
a book of Bible stories, with illustrations, many of
them carefully printed in colours, by John Lawson;
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Nursery Rhymes,
supplied throughout with coloured illustrations by
Rosa C. Petherick, and two brightly written and
interesting tales, A Foi-tune from the Skv, by

Skelton Ruppord, and The Lai t of the Cliffords, by
Eliza F. Pollard, both well illustrated by artists
whose names are not divulged. From Mr. William
Heinemann (London) comes A Dog Day, by
Walter Emanuel, pictured by Cecil Aldin. Mr.
Aldin's skilful and humorous draughtsmanship is
at its best in his delineation of the canine mis-
demeanant whose day's record of transgressions is
related by the author in a manner not consistently
refined. Mr. Heinemann has also published Young
George, His Life, told and drawn by Edith Farmiloe.
Readers of The Studio will doubtless remember
the amusing drawings of children by Mrs. Farmiloe
which appeared in its pages some time ago. Her
subtle appreciation of character and humour, and
her power of delineation are remarkable, and the
present little work must enhance the reputation
she already enjoys as an illustrator of child life.

Messrs. Dean & Son, Ltd. (London), are always
to the fore in supplying attractive books for children,
and this year they have well maintained their re-
putation with Old Nursery Rhymes dug up at the
Pyramids, by Stanley L. Adamson, quaintly bound
in strong coarse canvas, with the old favourite
nursery rhymes amusingly pictured after the manner
of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics ; and An A.B. C.
of Every-Day People, by G. E. Farrow, with coloured
illustrations by John Hassall, in that clever and
humorous artist's best vein. L. T. Meade's name
is always one to conjure with, especially about
Christmas time, and her many admirers will have
no reason for disappointment with the capital
story Girls of the Forest (London & Edinburgh :
W. & R. Chambers), nor with the illustrations by
Percy Tarrant. From the same publishers comes
Gait & Co., a collection of excellent stories by
G.A.Henty, GuyBoothby, D.Christie Murray,
and other favourite writers for boys ; and Denslow's
Mother Goose, illustrated by W.W. Denslow, a collec-
tion of nursery rhymes illustrated in a bold manner,
with broad flat washes of colour calculated to
attract the attention of young people. The pictures
are well drawn, and are humorous and decorative at
the same time. None the worse for reflecting Mr.
Anthony Hope, E. Phillips Oppenheim's bracing
story, The Traitors (London : Ward, Lock & Co.),
with its illustrations by Oscar Wilson, is bound to
command a large measure of popular approval.

Messrs. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. (London)
have done well to issue a new edition of The Fair-
child Family, by Mrs. Sherwood, for, although
written in the period of short waists and ringlets,
the book possesses qualities that will appeal to
children of to-day as strongly as to those of the early

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