Too Many Pictures

Are the works of fie bet modern Ilterary artitUs improved by ihustratloni Can an artist wlth his brus;: or pen add anything to the we!l developed characterlzation of our sucoessful novelist? In othor words, is it not the literary art of a master amply sjfficisnt to portray all in his book that is charming or thrillip;.; nr jiathetic or humorous? I believc at k is. and a!so that it Is a literary crime for the average illustration to Inject into the pages of a great work of fiction, of whose creative forces he can knoiY no more than the reader. Some of tlíls sort of iilustration Is ama:ut fiflOSt of t is just the O] -i-], the pictorial opixirtunity in a mook manuschtpt is ? work requirlBg rare distinction, and too inany of our illustrators, with the approval of the publishers, take their cue for a picture from such inadequate and puerlle.iuggestion as that conveyed in the familiar climax of love storias"And she feil on his breast and wepl tears of unutterable joy."- Sür.ey Fain field, in Lipplneott's.