By CHARLES DICKENS. 13 illustrations in color and many in black and
white by Arthur Rackham. Octavo. Decorated cloth. $1.50 net.
All the praise that can be showered upon Joseph Pennell as a master
lithographer, is also the due mead of Arthur Rackham as the most
entrancing and mysterious color illustrator in Europe. His work is
followed by an army of picture lovers of all types and of all ages, from
the children in the nurseries whose imagination he stirs with the
fiery-eyed dragons of some fairy illustration, to the ambitious artists
in every country who look to him as an inspiring master.
If the decision had been left to the book-reading and picture-loving
public as to the most eligible story for treatment, we believe that the
Christmas Carol would have been chosen. The children must see old Scrooge
and Tiny Tim as Rackham draws them.