New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-30
PICTURE BOOKS.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS. ARTISTIC AND
FUNNY.

THE THREE BEARS BY Frank Veroeck' 0"ar'0
.NIMAI JoKEs. Drawings by NJ Baker Baker.
A Jokes by A. Crawford. oblons ouarto. r. H.
Russell. ,-.
ou 6bIoDg Folio. The Frederick A. Stokes Com
LIFE AND p5sSnss BY w tex. It
by a. 4. s. Anthony. Folio. pp. l9o. Harper
& Bros. ... D
ENGLAND BY c J. Taylor oOiOns Folio R.
PETER NEwELL's PICTURES AND RHYMES
Oblong octave Harper & Bros
KEMBLEs SKETCH BOOK. oSlons octave H.
THE GOLDEN VANITY AND THE GREEN BED.
W Woros , sr nv Pamela Coleman Smith. Folio.
The Doubleday & Mcclure Company 80
MODERN DAUGHTERS C on. Msr Py A Tlsn
snder Black With designs and photosrapnniSe
Illustrations BY the author. octave. PIP |''
Charles Scrlhner's Sons
COLORADO IN COLOR AND SONG. Color repro np.
auctions from photographs Quar'o' De'
Frank s. Thayer.
He would he an unduly grave and much mis-
taken man who protested that he could not hhu
time to waste picture books signiiylhg 'la'
such publications should hN left 10 children Tor
whom they are so often intended AS mat
ter OF fact the picture book nowadays Is very
freouentiv addressed 10 mature minds and ex-
perienced eyes, and even confessed 1uvenina Is
ant to have qualities which the most serious
person need not think himself too serious 10
consider Witness Mr.. Nichoson's square
Rock OF Animals" This artist Is not so much
an illustrator as designer for whose proouc-
tions text may or may not be prepared acooiu
ing as the publisher sees fit. Mr. waugh
rhymes are not unwelcome in this volume. Take
as a specimen OF his foolng the lines on Ihe
Servile Cow:
When the cows in the farmyard her sense
or servlty's simply immense;
Rut you meet her again
In the highway or lane
And she losses YOU over the fence.
This fits pleasantly Mr. Nicholson's drawing OF
the animal But the drawing is the main thing
The artists style is original and extremely Ell
fective Against a solid background Of black
or tawny yellow. broken rarely with lines
he paints his swan. goat, pig or sheep with the
fewest possible touches. He draws In masses
rather than in lines. and by the deft placing
OF q shadow or OF touch OF color he gets bold
relief and vivid reality This is an amusing and
artistic book.
Mr. verbeck goes In for more detail. and his
black and white drawings are far less simple
than Mr. Nicholson's But his humor is OF
very simple sort 1t makes it's effect. We do
not know whether there is more fun In the ups
and downs Of the bears pictured in these draw
our Of their heads and bodies. Little Rooties
adventures are comic but he himself is almost
more laughable.
Mrs Bakers drawings add a new delight 10
life. She is full of exaggeration. yet to call
her portraits Of ostrches or hippopotam carl
catures would hardly be fair. She puts her
models In preposterous situations. she shows
them in incredible moods and sometimes dec
Grated In the most fantastic manner with art-
cles of attire borrowed from mankinds latest
fashions; but she contrives always TO preserve
the characteristics OF the animals, and they are
as true as they absurd. This artist Is. we
believe a recent arrival on the scene. we trust
that she will long remain and that Mr.. Crawford
will continue to supply the legends for her de-
signs. The text in this book almost always fits
the Illustrations.
Mr. Thulstrup's sparkling sketches reproduced
variousIy in coors and in delicate monotone,
form a vivacious and artistic panorama OF con-
temporary American life in fields Of amusement.
He portrays the golfer and the tennis player,
the huntsman and the seaside bather. the foot
ball player the skater. the tobogganist. the
bicvclist the yachtsman and the canoeist. None
of these figures is painted alone, but always In
an appropriate scene with his opponents In
game or with his companions on the top OF a
coach or on board OF yacht. The artist catches
well the costumes Of our day. He can paint you
a lady's dainty bonnet or the young man OF
fashions pot hat with equal skill. Best OF ALL
his models are very much alive, and each one or
his drawings seems page taken spontaneously
from the life about US The color work in this
volume is here and there little crude. but on
the whole 1t leaves a good impression
drav made largely,
not altogether. for the illustration of various
short stories and novels, but in the volume In
which they now appear they presented more
for their own sake, for their artistic qualities,
than for their illustrative significance. Mr.. Ar
thur Hoeber in pleasant preface. gives a prlel
account Of Mr.. Smedley and his art, and MT
Anthony provides little text OF his own with
a few quotations, to go with the reproouctlohs'
The drawings are all reproduced In black ana
white but they have what an artist means by
color when he is speaking of such productions
The word must be discreetly used. OF course.
for after all black and whites are black and
whites. but the fact remains that MT Smedley
manages 20 give within the narrow limits OF
these wash drawings a great deal OF the variety
tor which we look in works OF actual color. He
puts light and air into his work Whie MS
subjects are drawn from modern life. and ac-
cordIngly display the formal costume OF our
time. he treats his men and women win GER
tain fexibnty that makes them even IN irock
coats and tailor made gowns. somehow artistic
Mr.. smedley IS voluminous contributor 10 the
periodicals. and his work is always before US
hut we believe that this special COLLECTION OF
some OF his best things will be welcome TO MS
admirers for preservation on their book Shelves
Mr.. Taylor. on his travels IN England mas
No, we fear. learned 10 differentiate very cieai
" his urban and rustic types from those "hicn
during many years he has been ske'chiie ~
American periodicals But ne Is iao"e
drsughtsman. with a clever eye for picking out
oroo,,vo and amusing groups or single figures,
"a ,hore 10 q good deal Of animation In his