International studio . of allages between six and seventy, it must bethese same colour illustrations that attractthem most to Christmas Tales and Beasts and Men. Here the artist givesus a picture recaUing the Flanders plainand Breughels scenes of snow and hunting, 108 such as The Rich Woman and the PoorWoman on Christmas Eve, or The ThreeFarmers with its superb fox in the fore-ground. Again he is pure Persian, as inThe Quarrel (frontispiece to Beasts andMen ) or in Birds going to the he transmutes Beardsley into an ex-quisite colour miniature, as in The SatyrsVillage or The Processio
International studio . of allages between six and seventy, it must bethese same colour illustrations that attractthem most to Christmas Tales and Beasts and Men. Here the artist givesus a picture recaUing the Flanders plainand Breughels scenes of snow and hunting, 108 such as The Rich Woman and the PoorWoman on Christmas Eve, or The ThreeFarmers with its superb fox in the fore-ground. Again he is pure Persian, as inThe Quarrel (frontispiece to Beasts andMen ) or in Birds going to the he transmutes Beardsley into an ex-quisite colour miniature, as in The SatyrsVillage or The Procession, and now he com-bines Persia, Flanders, and mediaevalillumination into a magnificent whole, asin the case of Jan and Jannette on theWonderful Bridge. But always he has inhim the spirit that is Jean de The Closed Door it is a spirit cold,austere, aristocratic, and aloof. In theillustrations to these folk-tales it is at oncemore human and more openly droll. It is aspirit that is as fine as Tyl Eulenspiegel. THE RATTLES ON A WHEELBAR-ROW. BY JEAN DE BOSSCHERE (From The City Curious) THE DRAWINGS OF JEAN DE B0SSCH£RE
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