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...with any sense at all ever fails to look first at the pictures in any book whose cover says that it was "illustrated by Arthur Rackham." In fact, that one phrase makes a great many people want certain books which they might otherwise never think to buy. This applies particularly to grown people, who have read Peter Pan and The Water Babies and Aesop's Fables and Hansel and Gretel years ago. A great many parents now buy Rackhamized editions of these books and pretend that they are doing it to please their children. It comes to that...
Saying why this should be so is like trying to say why some leaves have crickets living under them while others have not. When Artist Arthur Rackham adjusts his cuffs and sets out to put part of a story into a picture, his fancy slips cricket-wise into the subject, in small surprising lines that never reveal what they are about until they have done it. Some are firm lines with tiny hairs on them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like...
...introduces his art to America via Cashmere Bouquet Soap," reads the headline in an advertising pamphlet issued by Colgate & Co. Arthur Rackham, distinguished British artist, has painted an advertising series in the interest of national cleanliness and fragrance...
According to Colgate & Co., Mr. Rackham was induced to become a commercial artist by a persuasive young woman who was able to point out to him the splendid facilities offered by the soap interests for the introduction of his work...