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CHRISTMAS TALES OF
FLANDERS

With Plates in Colour and many Black and White Illustrations by JEAN DE BOSSCHÈRE

"This handsome and well-illustrated book is one of the most attractive we have seen this season. It gives us renderings of the popular fables and legends current in Flanders and Brabant which have a colour and quaintness of their own, yet combines adventures with an unobtrusive and so more effective moral."

"There are delightful stories; even more attractive than the letterpress are M. de Bosschère's illustrations. Conceived with inexhaustible fancy, full of quaint detail, and set down with a fascinating naïveté they embody the characters and scenes of the tales with a fullness of particularism that should provide endless entertainment to youthful readers. They are the best and most complete series of designs yet produced by the artist."—Connoisseur.

"The illustrations by Jean de Bosschere are of a droll fancy. The artist has a notable power of the grotesque, and both in colour and black and white he uses it."


LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN