Too Many Pictures

Are the worlcs of t:.e best modern litI erary artlsts imprved by lltustratlonl Can an artist wlth his brusn or pen add to the well developed eharacj terization oí our suceessful novellst? In other words, la i not the literary art of a master amply sutficient to portray all in liis book that is charming or thrilllng or pathetlc or humorous? I believe that h is. and also that it is a literary orlme tor the average illustration to lnject into the pages of a great work of fiction, of whose creative forces he can know no more than the reader. Some of this gort of illustratlon is amazingly clever. but most of it is just the oppoáite. To di=tinguish the pictorial opporlunity in a mook manuschlpt is p work requiring rare dlstinction, and too many of our illustrators, with the val oí the publishers, take their cue for a picture from such inadequate and i.uerile suggestion as that conveyed in the familiar climax of love storias"And Bhe feil dn his breast and wem