The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-15
ENGII>H LITERtRI NEWS.


rhars - q promise of some particularly
fine illustrated books this fall The pub
hshrrg firm - Hodaer h Stougnton Of
London has Recently unified it, interests
with the George n Doran Company ~
this country look az some 10 The
vel uncomplated books Of the English
firm In-eud-d for fail publication shows
some interesting examples of deliberately
illustrated editions II old favorite-.
There - -PickWick for instance
Only selections have been made from
the original. although the volume - a
quarto. The forty plates IN color by
Frank Reynolds. Il l. carry special
interest because now has come 10 pass
IN. event long hoped for by Dickens
lovers illlstra tons by an artist poe
sessing the traits Of the novelist him
self The famous contributor 20 Puneh
has succeeded in painting living men
instead OF caricatures. The de luxe
editions will cost SEQ and the cloth IS.
Another quarto volume will he The
Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales
From the Old French rsto by A. T.
CUTLER Couch and illustrated in color
by Edmund Dulsc This artist won
distinction a. an illustrator 81 works
NJ the INA gination 10y his paintings for
The Arabian Nights The Tempest
aud The RuhAiyat Of Omar Khayyam.-
This 10 a picture book primarily. pictures
of enchantment and fairyland blending
all the soft delicate tones imaginable.
Al the other extreme from the decora-
tive effect Of the illustration OF the Prince
discovering the sleeping Beauty " that
Of the paintings by Sidney H Meteyard
for the new quArio edition OF Longfellow's
The Golden Legend Here medieval
pomp and pageantry. the ldeahty OF
clustered age and the z vstsrv ~ the poem
a. Who'll. give a ymbAther~ PAINTER
the opportunity he would wish for. And
Mr. Meteyard belongs 70 that poet-pai nte.'
school Of pre-Raphaslites. 30 he gives
vision OF n lady kneeling before a window
IN streams OF blush kreenish light.
a cloud Of lavender and gold appearing
angels lifti ng up Cloudlike over delft
blue and white mountain peaks. With
n nauve and canary and rose sky in the
background
On a very different order. though no
less elaborate are the forty plates IN color
Illustrating a auarto volume OF Shake
speare's tragedy OF Hamlet by Prank
Sir-monds The artist. free with color
and dramatic play has portrayed Danish
I,.s-skin or rush covered foors, wooden
castle built high on piles all with much
regard for accuracy Of detail.
Among the pieces OF English fiction
scheduled by this house. though not yet
formally announced. isa novel nv Baroness
Orczy. author 81 The Scarlet Pimpernel
This second romance OF France. Petit
coat Rule will. as the name implies.
deal With the influence of women upon
the history ~ France
Al the furt hertnOst pale OF the fiction
horder. is Horace Annesley Nachell's
The other SIDE a mystical novel Of
life and afterward which creates an
Art Master on somewhat parallel lines
TO the Music Master
There will be VARIETY enough gwen.
for Tn" Fronti"IsmAn. by n Cody.
~ a tale ~ the Yukon. and Out OF the
Night by Mrs Baillie- Reynolds in a
novel OF mystery Mare Coreli too
will have her new hook out. though she 10
having her troubles as the following
letter written at Brant wood. Coriston
Lake. on Jun. indicates
u - most kind ~ you to write me such .
nioe ls'tsr No one can regret more than
I do he wretched illness that 80 suddenly
pro.tra'ed me and left me inert and weak
I fret mv-elf over this inevitable delay Of
my book ~ The doctor almost threatens me
With another illness Ru' | do hope the
work will 30 all the better and perhaps all
the more eagerly sought after foi post one.
meu' I am stAVing home With Nj and
Mrs ~e,s-n ~ tho historic home 81 Ruskin
Bran'V God. and the change IL doing me .
world Of good ALREADY Ia the space Of one
Week I shall return to work. hope.
-Iik. q giant refreshed ! tfy not TO worry
about nv hook. but ~ Cour~" do worry
To a ,er'ain eAfcni. though know ~ ~
harmful and I get terribly depressed loo
Bot hope every one wiil he patient with
Mr. severn tr'st- 'hs pictures will turn
ou' HI -tgt' aud sends YOU his b ind regards
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