FREDERICK SANDYS
'ONCE A WEEK'
VOL. VII. p. 266
DEATH OF KING
WARWOLF
[CHAPTER X: THE AFTERMATH, A FEW BELATED VOLUMES]
That Thornbury's Legendary Ballads (dated 1876) should be regarded as a most important volume in a collection of the 'sixties' is not odd, when you find that its eighty-one illustrations were reprinted from Once a Week. Many of the drawings were republished in this book, with the poem they originally illustrated; others, however, were joined to quite different text. If the memories of those living are to be trusted, not a few of the artists concerned were extremely annoyed to find their designs applied to new purposes. To take a single instance, the Sandys design to King Warwolf re-accompanied the poem itself, but the drawing by John Lawson, which is herein supposed to illustrate the lines,
'And then there came a great red glare
That seemed to crimson fitfully
The whole broad Heaven.'