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#Truth.#--"Is it not the duty of parents to make their children acquainted with La Fontaine? Well, then, no better opportunity of so doing could possibly be afforded them than is given by the new Bodley Head edition. It is a metrical version of the time-honoured favourites, and every fable has a picture filling the page opposite. The child would be hard to please who did not find hours of amus.e.m.e.nt in the artist"s work alone."
#Times.#--"It is pleasant to turn to a taking edition of La Fontaine"s Fables, with Mr. Billinghurst"s exceedingly clever drawings; he throws a world of expression into the faces of his beasts."
#Pall Mall.#--"There is some excellent drawing in the handsome volume of One Hundred Fables of La Fontaine, for which Mr. Percy Billinghurst has done the pictures. His bold pencil gives expression to original ideas, some of them wrought with skill, and all with a correct eye to effect. For the drawings alone this handsome book should be prized."
#Daily Chronicle.#--"Turned out in a style which will fascinate the young, the ill.u.s.trations by Mr. Billinghurst are executed in fine taste. His animals are real animals which will delight all who look upon them."
#British Weekly.#--"A most elegantly-bound collection of well-known fables re-told in rhyme, and ill.u.s.trated with many fine and masterly drawings."
#Bookman.#--"We have nothing but praise for Mr. Billinghurst"s work.... We know no pictures of fable-beasts that we like better.
The whole arrangement of the book is excellent."
JOHN LANE, PUBLISHER, LONDON AND NEW YORK