Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. [**]$5. Doubleday.
Mr. Arthur Rackman has made fifty paintings to illustrate this new edition of Rip Van Winkle, and they are all reproduced in full color. “Each of them is a marvel of his Dureresque detail, his grotesque elaborateness, and of the strange bizarre life which beats on every inch of his paper.... Half of the charm of the book lies in the quaintness and originality of the pictures of Rip’s life among ordinary mortals before and after his long sleep in the mountains—in the humour of the old burghers, the beautiful delicately-figured landscapes, the village scenes with their happy mixture of grace and humour.... The winning and tender beauty of his women and children would alone make this book an artistic treasure.” (Lond. Times.)
| * | + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 250w. |
“Among the Christmas books which will pour from the press during the next three months it will be hard to rival this delightful volume.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 340w. |
“The humor and the poetry of Irving are all in the pictures, without a hint of the theatrical quality.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 640. S. 30, ‘05. 240w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “It is difficult to understand for whose pleasure this latest edition of ‘Rip Van Winkle’ is designed. It cannot be taken seriously as an ‘art book,’ the drawings are not sufficiently good, while at the same time it is too sumptuous a production to put into the hands of an ordinary child.”
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Irwin, Wallace Admah. At the sign of the dollar. $1. Fox.