From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 28 22:13:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D847106566C for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:13:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hawfinch@imagin-air.com) Received: from xknsp.fastwebnet.it (93-42-48-244.ip85.fastwebnet.it [93.42.48.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A7108FC0C for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:13:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4A9854AF.7060901@vvelease.nl> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:13:41 +0200 From: Jens User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-threads@hub.freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090304010501070809030503" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: With sumptuous effects in conventional decoration. [Illustration: THE SINGING LESSON- X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:13:39 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090304010501070809030503 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ily, and betrays a strong personality throughout all the designs. The "Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" and "Otto of the Silver Hand" are two others of about the same period, and the delightful volume collected from _Harper's Young People_ for the most part, entitled "Pepper and Salt," may be placed with them. All the illustrations to these are in pure line, and have the appearance of being drawn not greatly in excess of the reproduced size. Of all these books Mr. Howard Pyle is author as well as illustrator. Of late he has changed his manner in line, showing at times, especially in "Twilight Land" (Osgood, McIlvaine, 1896), the influence of Vierge, but even in that book the frontispiece and many other designs keep to his earlier manner. In "The Garden behind the Moon" (issued in London by Messrs. Lawrence and Bullen) the chief drawings are entirely in wash, and yet are singularly decorative in their effect. The "Story of Jack Bannister's Fortunes" shows the artist's "colonial" style, "Men of Iron," "A Modern Aladdin," Oliver Wendell Holmes' "One-Horse Shay," are other fairly recent volumes. His illustrations have not been confined to his own --------------090304010501070809030503--