The sun., 1918-11-24
By HARRY ESTY BOUNCE.

IF ever good fairy offers me three
L wishes, my first one will be to have
the gifts of competent illustrator, and
take an illustrators bus drivers holidays
drawing pictures for my favOrite novels.
But when they are drawn / shall, hope,
have sense enough to hide them away from
publishers. Should any Pol Pry rum
maging in my studio unearth them I
could explain that they were scenes from
Shakespeare.
Mr.. George Varian has been giving him
self exactly the holiday / envy, and with
Treasure Island He is the son Of sea
iaring man, and has been one himself, and
this story of the sea and buried treas
nre' 50 enticed his salt rimed brush that
without an order he started set of pie
TIRES Thus far ] admire Mr.. Varian.
But-bis pictures are the excuse for
new edition Of book of which copies can
not be too many, but of which editions for
every purse were always available. The
question is whether Mr.. Variants labor of
love is worth another. Suppose we waive
considerations like the pressure upon
restricted supply of white paper.
Paget's Pictures.
Some nOyels are the incoutestably fled
claims of illustrator pioneers, whose
drawings are associated once for all with
the text Treasure Island may not be one
of them. But for readers who began on
the Paget pictures It Is hard TO believe
they will ever see others more sympathetic
and satisfying. l never reread about Mr..
Dance riding down Pew or Silver examin-
ing the duplicate chart on deck by Ian
tern light or Jim in the erosstrees shoot
ing Israel Hands and the latter tumbling
backward from the shrouds without see
ing, line for line, as Paget saw-whicb, l
believe, in bigotry perhaps, is very much
Us Stevenson himself saw.
Mr.. Varian has a moro recent anticipa-
tor in the able N. C. Wyeth of the Pyle
school. Mr.. Wyeth rather iettisoned fidel-
ity to go for the shuddersome feeling
which the pirates, as mOnstrous hObgob-
Inns of the dark, might inspire in a sensi-
tive child. If the whole ships company
were Pews and oil the action took place by
highland if Treasure Island were
Juvenile; familiar point shall get to in
minute-there would be much TO be said
for the idea Mr.. Varian, more like Paget,
undertakes to illustrate in the ordinary,
conscientious way. perhaps l mean the
extraordinary conscientious way, as illus
trating done while you wait goes now.)
Being late in the field, he finds the best
subjects preempted. Bill Bones's slash
at Black Dog he cannot resist, but in
stead of Hands's demise he gives US Jim
lodging Hands around the mainmast-
Jim as a rather buttery little boy, Hands
(who with all his low, pighke cunning
and his gunner's eye is only sodden,
honest looking dolt) as a fierce, aquiline
cutthroat out of bad dream.
Pew Finds Bill Bones.
His painting of the entrance of Pew to
Bones is a fair enough example of his
achievement Here is q scene whose quail
ity being grasped from the text by the
actor who originally played Pew in the
Hopkins dramatization enabled him to
freeze the blood of every person in the
theatre. Instead of the valuable gloom
inside "a dark pub parlor toward Dightfall
of foggy winters day, Mr.. Varian leaves
the paper white and guileless around his