. Review of reviews and world's work. Mrs. Rose Cecil ONeill Wilson; Maud andGenevieve Cowles, who work in partnership, asdo the Misses E. Mars and M. H. Squires ;Emilie Benson-Knipe, Mrs. Florence EnglandNosworthv, Ethel Reed. Charlotte Harding,Reginald Birch, Orson Lowell, Charles LouisHinton, W. D. Stevens, and \Y. Glackens. These artists are not placed in the categorywith the Misses Smith, Green, and Stilwell be-cause the shibboleth on which they stutter isthe poster style. In other respects, many ofthem may have superior qualities to those youngladies. For example. Mrs. Alice Barber Ste-p
. Review of reviews and world's work. Mrs. Rose Cecil ONeill Wilson; Maud andGenevieve Cowles, who work in partnership, asdo the Misses E. Mars and M. H. Squires ;Emilie Benson-Knipe, Mrs. Florence EnglandNosworthv, Ethel Reed. Charlotte Harding,Reginald Birch, Orson Lowell, Charles LouisHinton, W. D. Stevens, and \Y. Glackens. These artists are not placed in the categorywith the Misses Smith, Green, and Stilwell be-cause the shibboleth on which they stutter isthe poster style. In other respects, many ofthem may have superior qualities to those youngladies. For example. Mrs. Alice Barber Ste-phens, who may be called the dean of womenillustrators in this country, can. because of her MODERN PICTURE-BOOK CHILDREN. 715 years of experience, hold more closely to the textof a story than any of the younger school. Shedoes not specialize. She can draw the wholefamily, from grandpa down to the infant inarms, with perfect sureness of touch. Herearly style was painstaking, her work full ofrealism, but without great freedom. Of recent. Copyright, 1904, by Harper & Brothers. Illustration (reduced) from The Surrender of ProfessorSeymour. Drawing by Charlotte Harding. years, however, her style has taken on some ofthe broader methods of the younger school, andher somewhat halting pen technique has givenway to a swinging outline, board washes andmodeling, and fiat tints of color. Another all-round illustrator is Mrs. RoseCecil ONeill Wilson, the wife of the novelist,Harry Leon Wilson. She has written a novelentitled The Loves of Edwy, which she hasillustrated. Much of her work has been donefor the humorous papers, and her enfant terribleis an original creation, very spirited in drawing,and wont to take outre poses, and capable of agrimace that is expansive and bold. Her bold effects of light and shade are often as strikingas Victor Hugos or Rembrandts. Mrs. Florence Scovel Shinn is fundamentallya caricaturist. Her sketches have the charmingeffect of spontaneity,—one fancies she nev
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