The age-herald., 1902-04-30

Messrs. Loveman, Joseph & Loeb are having their third exhibition of original drawings. The collection includes F. c.
 Yahn's original wash drawings for Audrey" by Mary Johnst on. and the clever sketches which are reproduced in John Trotward Moore's latest book be- sides other drawings by popular artists
 The sketches from "Crankisms" are particularly attractive. In the Yahn col- lection is an oil canvass of Audrey posed wild-eyed against a tree, with a tangle of foliage as a background.
 The ballroom scene and the other scenes in which Audrey and Evelyn Byrd are pictured in the colonial dressing room at Westover are particularly fine, and the 1 work of the illustrator is seen at its best in the tragic scene in the theatre, the death of Audrey.
 i The entire collection is pronounced to be very fine and Is attracting all art lovers.
 The fourth exhibition will be held in May, when the original drawings for Dorothy Vernon will displace the Yahn collection Christy has illustrated Doro- IHy sNeTnOn, ana lHe ol luc Christy girl are so numerous that the original drawings from which the beauti- full illustrations in Dorothy Vernon are made will attract wide attention.
 Thomas Mitchell Pierces drawings will be exhibited in June
 These collections are valued at hun dreds of dollars. and these exhibits have proved to be extremely popular and suc- | cessful in every way.
 They have long been in vogue in the eastern cities, but this past winter | marked the first exhibit of original draw | ings by any of the book dealers in Bir- mingham. It is an enterprise, however, l that is most commendable, and is of | great educative value.
 l It Is worthy of more than passing com authority on books and illustrators ment that the drawings so far exhibited were made for books by Southern au- thors. It Is interesting, too, to note the importance attached to the work of illus trators in contrast to the days when publishers regarded 1t too lightly In this connection MT. H. Baruch, an called attention recently to an article by Howard Chandler Christy on this subject.
 Today" writes Mir Christy, "the illus trator who knows his subject. who has studied his people and has characters as has the author, Is as material a factor in the sale of the book the man who wrote it.
 He tells his millions of people at glance how the hero and heroine, to say nothing of the minor characters, look in real life. He fixes indel.siy upon the minds of the people some tangible under standing of the things that are.
 And in illustration America Is fore most. From England and France and Germany and Continental Europe gen. orally illustrators have come to this ccun- try and succeeded.
 Americans have come tc TOW these makers of pictures as well as their favor ite authors. and they are just as insist | ent in demanding that they keep before
 the public.
 Any number of good books, books that
 had come to be regarded as having liv-
 ed and died a natural death, are being
 resurrected daily by the wise publish CTS and put out again with the added feat
 ure of being illustrated by some popular
 illustrator. Surely this Is strong evidence
 of the potency of pictures. l These conditions have come to stay, l and 1t is nowhere more evident than 1 In the office of the publisher. The ques- | tion used to be: Who shall write the book?' But today one is quite likely to meet with the query: Who shall illus trate it?
 "The pencil has done it's duty to litera- ture, and performs the work of educa- tion along with the pen. Together they have done their share for the peoples of the world"