New-York tribune., 1909-11-10
Some Illustrated Holiday
Books.

Drawn 81 Ecicn Allinrham and de-
scrioed ~ Stewart Dick VITA sixty
four fuii rage rolcred plates from pict-
Vrss never before reproduced. SIC, ID.
orb -. Locgmans, Green a co.
Everything about the book for which
Ers. Alinghan and ne. Dick lave made
picture and text IS well calculated 20
win it a warm welcome and 10 Keep for
Il an honorable place on the shelves Of
those who are interested a. fthe rural
architecturc of Great Britain. The sub
sect hers treated Is fun OF charm and Il
has been approached by artist and as-
thor not only With syrspathy but with
sust the right technical resources. Mrs.
allingham is a delightful water oolorist,
using the wei known English method
with an uncommonly slzilful touch. She
portrays her houses very accurately and
she gives perfect account of their sur-
roun6ings, making US feel in her pictures,
as we feel when rambling through one
az TIE English counties. that its cottages
sre fairly compacted not alone 81 walls
and roofs bat OF flowers. vines and
hedges. Nowhere In the Ncrid is the
small rustic dwelling so positively en-
chsnting as IL is in England. There Il
makes not an episode ia the pastoral
scene, bat So integral part OF tho lat
Ter that il seems almost a natural growth
rather than the work Of mans hands.
This intimate character OF the subject is
beautifully interpreted ~ Mrs. Alling-
ham. and she has ha5 great good fortune
~ the reproduction OF her sketches.
These color plates are altogether ad-
rairabio
Mr. Dick. in has text Is worthy Of his
ooilab0uator E5e has looked carefully
into Ihe fairly volumin0us literature -
cottage architecture. and IS a result there
IS q good deal OF useful information in
his own pages, bat he puts this before
US IN Very pleasant unobtrusive fashion.
IN short, he. like Airs. AninSham, aims
- nninZ this volume with THE sentiment
81 the old cottages. Hc tells us some
thing, too. Of the social Developments
which. ia their way. they commemorate.
such rustic architecture as he describes
IS scsrcsly illustrative Of artistic sehol-
srship. and. indeed. Mr. Dick can men
tion bv name onlv one designer in thss
fcid. John Abel. of Hereford. Who fioUr-
ished in the last decades Of the sixteenth
century and well on into the seventeenth.
Anouymous uasons and carpenters.
working with no artistic pretensions.
constructed The homes Of the peasantry.
But they. too no less tlan the builders
cf stately mansions for the nobility
erected monuments in which We may
read something q the history of British
lie an6 customs Relinouishing this
volume we feel that We have been IN the
company Of our fellow beings. reviVing
ancient wsys and emotions. Il is 4
capital p.cs OF work. and The holidays
can bring fecsVard nothing better.
The rev Christmas books include. of
course . generous number Of the elss-
sics. and the hrst 10 which We have 70
refer make an alluring group. From the
Scrfbners Vve have received The Ara abian
Nights" edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin
and Nora A. smith. and illustrated by
Naxheld Parrish Ten of the immortal
tales are here beguilingly set forth, and
Mr PaEsish's decorative fancies have
beer sarerbly reproduced IN colers.
The tine raEe, the end papers ana the
cover Itself are all gay with color N
fact the Oriental tints OF the narratives
arc very happily repeated in the book IS
a book. Children win repoioe in il, and
We dare say that many of their elders
\ picking ap the volume 10 "look il over
vii insensibly yield 10 its spell and not
put il doan until IL is time f9r bed. The
HOughton N.fhin Company reprints
Robinson Crusoe." enriching the edition
with full page Illustrations in color ana
chapter headings in line by T. Boyd
Smith. This IS not so luxurious an edi-
tion ce Defoo's enhancing book as The
one ia Two volumes, With Stothard's Il
iustratieps, which the same Arm pro-
euced n0t long ago, hut that. of course,
was meant fOr the library. The present
volume IS intended Tor younger readers.
Nevertheless, IL has been very hand
gomsly MADE. We 90 not recall re-
print of the book. maGe for children.
with preSsWork 50 gooc. Mr. Smiths
illustrations, TOO. are not oaly pictu-
resqueiv but very deiicatcly drawn. z. p.
Duttou 4 90. reissue IN two volumes the
editions OF Charles and Mary Lamb 8
Tales from Shakeypesre" and SNift's
"GuiliVer." for which, ten years ag5, Mr.
Arthur Rackham made a quantity Of pen
drawings This original and Catertain-
sng illustrator has ROW worked over MS
designs ana colored them and he has
made some new ones. He has inagina 70