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Subscription One Dollar a year, current single numbers Ten Cents. Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, February 10, 1897, under Act of July 16, 1894. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorised. Printed at The New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue. October, 1919, Volume 23, Number 10. BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS THE HE exhibition of illustrated books in the Library's print gallery from May until December 31 of this year has perhaps attracted more interested visitors than any other exhibition in that gallery during the past five years. The comments and illustrated articles in the press have shown that newspapers appreciate the popular and intimate appeal of the illustrated book. Notes on the exhibition, in the form of an article called "The Illustrated Book,' written by Mr. Weitenkampf, were printed in the Bulletin for May, 1919. In the present number begins an annotated catalogue of the exhibition, also prepared with his usual carefulness by Mr. Weitenkampf, designating the picture which is shown in each book. [ 615 ] The following notes represent a reader's views on certain book illustrators. They lack the expert knowledge which characterizes the article mentioned above, and the critical notes which follow the entries in the catalogue in later pages of the present number of the Bulletin. But they may approximate what the average reader thinks about his old favorites in book illustra 32 THACKERAY'S POEMS. "I'll leave my wealth," said Brentford, And portion both their fortunes "Your Grace knows best," the lawyer said; "A plague upon your prate! ILLUSTRATION BY H. M. BROCK (From Ballads and Songs," by Thackeray) tion. The artists, whose pictures are used here for illustration, are all represented in the exhibition, although by other examples. Volumes of belles lettres seem to be published in increasing numbers without illustrations. This may be war-time economy, or it may be the intelligence of the publisher who understands that readers prefer a book without pictures rather than one spoiled by inferior illustrations. A famous heroine of romance once said, "What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" For many years all readers were supposed to agree with her, and no novel, at least, was complete without its frontispiece showing two lovers in an affectionate attitude. It mattered not whether the action took place in London or near the South Pole, there were the hero and heroine in the full dress of polite society. It was as much a matter of convention as the photograph of the hunter with his dead tiger in the Indian jungle which opened every book of Eastern sport and travel. In short, book illustration. was at the lowest ebb of intelligence and execution, and even mediocre books were damaged by their silly pictures. If one undertook to blame the artists |