The revival in England of decorative art of all kinds during the last five and twenty years, culminating as it appears to be doing in book-design, has not escaped the eyes of observant and sympathetic artists and writers upon the Continent. The work of English artists of this kind has been exhibited in Germany, in Holland, in Belgium and France, and has met with remarkable appreciation and sympathy. [Illustration: PATTEN WILSON. FROM THE PEN DRAWING.] [Illustration: LAURENCE HOUSMAN. TITLE-PAGE OF "THE HOUSE OF JOY." (KEGAN PAUL, 1895.)] [Illustration: L. FAIRFAX MUCKLEY. FROM "FRANGILLA." (ELKIN MATHEWS.)] [Illustration: CHARLES ROBINSON. FROM "A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSE." (LANE, 1895.)] [Illustration: CHARLES ROBINSON. FROM "A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSE." (LANE, 1895.)] [Illustration: CHARLES ROBINSON. FROM A "CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSE." (LANE, 1895.)] [Sidenote: BELGIUM.] In Belgium, particularly, where there appears to be a somewhat similar movement in art, the work of the newer school of English designers has awakened the greatest interest. The fact that M. Oliver Georges Destrée has made sympathetic literary studies of the English pre-Raphaelites and their successors, is an indication of this. The exhibitions of the "XX^e Siècle," "La libre Æsthetique," at Brussels and Liège, are also evidence of the repute in which English designers are held. [Illustration: J. D. BATTEN. FROM "THE ARABIAN NIGHTS." (J. M. DENT AND CO.)] [Sidenote: THE CONTINENT.] In Holland, too, a special collection of the designs of English book illustrators has been exhibited at the Hague and other towns under the auspices of M. Loffelt. [Illustration: J. D. BATTEN. FROM "THE ARABIAN NIGHTS." (J. M. DENT AND CO.)] At Paris, also, the critics and writers on art have been busy in the various journals giving an account of the Arts and Crafts movement, the Kelmscott Press, and the school of English book-decorators in black and white, and the recent exhibitions of "L'Art Nouveau" and "Le Livre Moderne" at Paris are further evidence of the interest taken there in English art. [Illustration: R. ANNING BELL. FROM "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM." (J. M. DENT AND CO., 1895.)] [Illustration: R. ANNING BELL. FROM "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST." (J. M. DENT AND CO., 1894.)] [Illustration: R. SPENCE. FROM A PEN DRAWING.] [Illustration: ALFRED JONES. A TITLE-PAGE.] [Illustration: WILLIAM STRANG. FROM "BARON MUNCHAUSEN." (LAWRENCE AND BULLEN.)] [Illustration: WILLIAM STRANG. FROM "MUNCHAUSEN" (LAWRENCE AND BULLEN).]