DOI Heft:
No. 381 (December 1924)
DOI Artikel:Reviews
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0379
REVIEWS
ILLUSTRATION TO MATTHEW ARNOLD'S
"PHILOMELA" BY ARTHUR WATTS
FROM "A PAINTER'S ANTHOLOGY"
(J. W. Arrowsmith, Ltd.)
masterpiece first appeared ten years ago. tions a worthy complement to a piece of
There is likely to be a larger public than ever great literature. a 0 a a
for Anatole France just at present, and to A Painter's Anthology. Made by Arthur
all those readers who prefer or require an Watts. With twelve plates in colours,
English version, Mrs. Jackson's rendering eight plates in black-and-white and fifty
can be very confidently recommended. It decorations in the text. (Arrowsmith.)
preserves most of the flavour of erudite 25s. net. Some of the poems here collected
archness which distinguished M. France's are among the most famous things in our
style, and though certain phrases are a literature (for example, Keats's " Ode to a
little softened to conform to English Nightingale," Shakespeare's Songs, Burns's
tastes, very little is thereby lost. Mr. " O, my Luve's like a red, red rose ") ;
Frank C. Pape's illustrations are now for others might have been spared or replaced
the first time superadded. It will be by more justly-famed pieces (Charles
remembered that he illustrated " At the Cotton, for instance, does indifferently in
Sign of the Reine Pedauque " two years five long stanzas what Suckling had done
ago, and then, as now, gave evidence of much better in three short ones). Yet, on
real genius. The present volume gives the whole, Mr. Watts's " likes " have not
him full scope for the exercise of his led him astray. His plates in colour and
amazinglywell-developed imagination; and black-and-white (one of which latter we
his resources of humorous irony, assisted reproduce) are striking, tasteful and appro-
by great skill in composition and a delicate priate, and greatly add to the value of the
yet virile line, make his plates and decora- book, a a e> a a &
359
ILLUSTRATION TO MATTHEW ARNOLD'S
"PHILOMELA" BY ARTHUR WATTS
FROM "A PAINTER'S ANTHOLOGY"
(J. W. Arrowsmith, Ltd.)
masterpiece first appeared ten years ago. tions a worthy complement to a piece of
There is likely to be a larger public than ever great literature. a 0 a a
for Anatole France just at present, and to A Painter's Anthology. Made by Arthur
all those readers who prefer or require an Watts. With twelve plates in colours,
English version, Mrs. Jackson's rendering eight plates in black-and-white and fifty
can be very confidently recommended. It decorations in the text. (Arrowsmith.)
preserves most of the flavour of erudite 25s. net. Some of the poems here collected
archness which distinguished M. France's are among the most famous things in our
style, and though certain phrases are a literature (for example, Keats's " Ode to a
little softened to conform to English Nightingale," Shakespeare's Songs, Burns's
tastes, very little is thereby lost. Mr. " O, my Luve's like a red, red rose ") ;
Frank C. Pape's illustrations are now for others might have been spared or replaced
the first time superadded. It will be by more justly-famed pieces (Charles
remembered that he illustrated " At the Cotton, for instance, does indifferently in
Sign of the Reine Pedauque " two years five long stanzas what Suckling had done
ago, and then, as now, gave evidence of much better in three short ones). Yet, on
real genius. The present volume gives the whole, Mr. Watts's " likes " have not
him full scope for the exercise of his led him astray. His plates in colour and
amazinglywell-developed imagination; and black-and-white (one of which latter we
his resources of humorous irony, assisted reproduce) are striking, tasteful and appro-
by great skill in composition and a delicate priate, and greatly add to the value of the
yet virile line, make his plates and decora- book, a a e> a a &
359