A reprint of a standard source for facts and personal interpretation of Blake’s life. To the illustrations appearing in the original edition, Mr. Robertson has added a number of colour prints, drawings, etc. from his own notable Blake collection, thus emphasizing particularly the fame of Blake the painter.
Reviewed by A. Clutton-Brock.
| + + | Acad. 71: 524. N. 24, ’06. 900w. | |
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 240w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 169. F. ’07. 1100w. | ||
| + + | Int. Studio. 30: 282. Ja. ’07. 690w. | |
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 84. Jl. ’07. 210w. | |
| Lond. Times. 6: 12. Ja. 11, ’07. 1370w. |
“This reprint is admirable from the point of view of the general reader, and, by reason of its illustrations, necessary also to the special student.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 160w. | |
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 708. D. 8, ’06. 340w. | |
| + + | Spec. 97: 826. N. 24, ’06. 230w. |
Gilchrist, Edward. Tiles from a porcelain tower. *$1.25. Riverside press, Cambridge, Mass.
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A volume of verse chief among whose poems are “those more expressly from the Porcelain tower, ‘the pride and symbol of Cathay,’ wherein the decaying splendors of the East are expressed with both imagination and humor.” (Nation.) There are also included some translations from the Greek, Danish, Russian and the Chinese.