Undine

THIS "Rackham book" has come to be an annual event of exceptional interest. This year Mr. Arthur Rackham has several illustrated volumes to his credit, but all except one are new adaptations of old work. The completely new work is to be found in a reprint of De la Motte Fouque's "Undine," the text adapted from the German by Mr. W. L. Courtney, with fifteen full-page pictures in color and many decorative bits in black-and-white by Mr. Rackham. The " fearsome forest " by the fisherman's cottage, and the " crystal vault" of waters to which Undine ever returned, the weird beauty of Undine herself, and her strange adventures with the knight Huldbrand, afford Mr. Rackham exactly the right motives. He strikes no new note, and he offers less material, in bulk, than usual; which means that the "Undine" is slighter but no less charming than the other Rackham books.
--The Dial, Volume 47