New-York tribune., 1900-12-15

berders, though the full page plates have moth
ing in them Of the spirit of Morris. The book
is most luxuriously printed.
The Coxhce Edition of Mrs Browning's works
is made up of six small volumes in box The
set is edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A.
Clarke, who have labOred with enthusiasm over
their task, providing a good biographical intro
ducton, other PREDATORY matter of a critical
nature, a chronological bibliography and fuu
anLotations. picture of Cexhoe Hail. in the
County of Durham. the birthplace of Mrs.
Browning. forms the frontspiece to the first
volume. Portraits Of the poet occupy the same
position in the others. The edition is tastefulv
got up and should make very agreeable holi-
day gift for a lover of the English poet.
Mrs Browning's complete works have also been
added to the Cambridge Edition of the noats
This volume in the series appears under the
auspices of Miss Harriet Waters Preston whose
geographical sketch is a model of what sucb a
sketch should be. The text appears, of course.
IN the familiar double columns of this series
ana mas the trontispiece portrait. the notes and
the tull indexes, which we expect. The editor
notes that the task of annotating Mrs. Brown
ing rs greatly simplfed by the fact of bar
constitutional unwiIIingness IN cbaroo -
thousht that she had once expressed fairI,, =.
her satisfaction" Miss Preston continues. "cbo
salu great deal about Art-particularlv in h.
latsr days. when she lived nearer TO the srsn5o
Hlohue OF letters than she had done in b.
carrier ana more productive period But in tr,,tt
she was much more of rnoraIis+ +ba -.
artist and had very little of the cons,,-.,e.H an
passion for mere beauty and the unrastira,
suit OF external perfection, which cbarootor,e--
the poets OF supremely artistic temperar
Tennyson and Keats" i4Ae
Browning's "Pippa Passes :" in +ta.
published, is illustrated by Nargara. - just
Ihls artist is not successful when sbo =
Win the human hgure-her frontisrioo. :, 1--.e ~
undressing But her borders esnacia,,,. 80
III Whlch Moral motives are more or Lee. 80
FehtiohaIIy employed. are thoroupbl,, .ao-yt
- ne text Is handsomely printed on ,yhi+o
80 mat part Of the page on which r.
I,sLs~- u-'S 10 uehcately tinted. The same nnb-
IL - .o Drlhs out this volume issue AS w.,
tiAe IL IN a holiday volume. with - ou
h. - 10y printed In red, and with a nuno-
u interesting illustrations by Mr. Uin -
Low. The compositions are s,-,,r,.,a.. - n
conceived and gracefully drawn. :, aiu -
-'1iiiOeIeu that the originals were exhth;taa -.
'o"H year ago. They have been nerfact1,. - -
piOGUeed We may praise especially rho ~,
9"e with TWO figures opposite page 4e
Ihe Illustrations made some wears
Ar. Edwin A Abbey for "She Stoons - g.
quer' suffer somewhat from the radno,,o.. In
mas neen necessary in order to bring them WITH
IN the scale or the new holiday edttio, - :,
work now brought out But tbe,, o. -, tue
auisite' and in one respect this present forr, 80
them is much to be approved. This book ,s -
size 10 invite reading Of the text 7, -
s,iiali ana hsht' and Mr.. Abbey's drawings 90
charming IN themselves are still more cha. :"
ing "heh encountered as one turns over tba
page IN perusing the play. We rerret ,ho
erusts abandonment of pen drawing for ,vorI.
ing IN Oils as we study once more these r,a,.e
rlais OF MS earlier phase. There are other 49,,
VINO can paint pictures as good as Mr. Ahha,..l
.' Du' no one mas ever equalled him in the produc-
uon OF such drawings as those which he roas.
iOr "oiusmith's inimitable comedy We supnosa
we ought to be grateful for the big decora,,o',s
IN the boston Public Library. but we would r,vs
them all for new set of pen drawings bv NJ
Abbey illustrating some masterpiece OF FnsI,sh
literature eish
Even those readers who have been unabla -