. Modern book-bindings & their designers. —u «.n-wiii».it»iin«iMiiniiri«wr. DESIGXED BV MRS. IIV THE CUIEI) OF WOMEN BINDERS word of the ideal, he has attained more dignity andsobriety of power than any contemporary of equaldecorative skill. It is doubtful if any other availableillustrator would have surpassed frran\ille I-ell inhis designs for the Soii}^ of So/i>mo/i and the J^ook of/oh, both of which have been justly reckoned amongthe books of the }-ear. This, it will perhaps beurged, is not saying very much, considering thepoverty of the present decade in s
. Modern book-bindings & their designers. —u «.n-wiii».it»iin«iMiiniiri«wr. DESIGXED BV MRS. IIV THE CUIEI) OF WOMEN BINDERS word of the ideal, he has attained more dignity andsobriety of power than any contemporary of equaldecorative skill. It is doubtful if any other availableillustrator would have surpassed frran\ille I-ell inhis designs for the Soii}^ of So/i>mo/i and the J^ook of/oh, both of which have been justly reckoned amongthe books of the }-ear. This, it will perhaps beurged, is not saying very much, considering thepoverty of the present decade in subjective art,given over as it is to external impressionism, andlacking in any such constructive thinkers as Rossetti,the early Millais, and Frederick Sandys. But therefined and judicious quality of his talent findssingularly congenial scope in the most id3llic of Judtea, and the great dramatic masterpieceof Hebrew literature—the tragedy all the moreexacting to the interpreter because of the frag-mentary and bowdlerized condition in which itssuccessive editors have
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