Mr. W. Russell Flint, a very talented designer of rich pictorial imagination and fine colour-sense, has, within the last few years, come into the front rank of book-illustrators, and he has done this through the medium of a number of beautiful books issued from the Riccardi Press. Things of real beauty are many of the illustrations to the “Song of Solomon,” “Marcus Aurelius,” “Le Morte D’Arthur,” Kingsley’s “Heroes” (one of which is reproduced here), and the “Canterbury Tales.” Mr. Flint adapts his expressive style artistically to the varying styles of the books, and in his colour-schemes he gauges the powers of the reproductive process to a nicety. Poetry, fantasy, and romance are seen pictorially interpreted here by a group of artists who, though severally distinctive in conception and manner, are linked by the common aim of imaginative expression in orderly design for the purpose of page-decoration. Perhaps nothing more characteristic of Mr. Edmund Dulac’s graces of invention in design and colour could be shown than the charming frontispiece to his “Princess Badoura,” with its engaging orientalism. His versatility is well seen in the Poe drawings. If Beardsley ever lent Miss Jessie King the decorative influence of his line she has made it all her own, as evidenced in these three exquisite and original designs suggested by old romances. Tennyson and Browning have furnished happy inspirations for the delicate art of Miss Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale; while Mr. Dion Clayton Calthrop shows with graphic charm how thoroughly he is at home in Fairyland--being himself the most reliable of guides. Mr. Maxwell Armfield has given all lovers of Hans Andersen a new joy in his charming coloured illustrations to the immortal stories, while in his “Flower Book” and “Sylvia’s Travels” he shows a fascinating fancy; but here we see him only in two distinguished little woodcuts. Mr. W. Graham Robertson is as delicious as ever in his Blake-like simplicity of expression and design, whether illustrating his own books or those of that kindred spirit of fantasy, Mr. Algernon Blackwood. Mr. Byam Shaw’s fecundity of illustrative invention is well represented, if not the wide range of his fertility, which is from Shakespeare and Boccaccio to Flora Annie Steele in Akbar’s India. Mr. Vernon Hill is a designer of remarkable imagination, and he makes an ideal illustrator of “Ballads Weird and Wonderful.” Imaginatively expressive and decorative, also, with the best influences, perhaps, of the “sixties,” are Mr. Gerald Metcalfe’s illustrations to Coleridge. So, too, but in a manner of their own, are Mr. Harry Clarke’s to the “Ancient Mariner” and Mr. John P. Campbell’s designs for the “Celtic Romances.” In this same category we may include the illustrative drawings of Miss Dorothy Payne, Mr. Harold Nelson, Mr. Lee Hankey, Mr. A. Garth Jones, Mr. Monro S. Orr, Miss Beatrice Elvery, and Mr. J. D. Batten. Mr. R. T. Rose, however, must stand by himself. The three