Some of the pictures are good, but none of them are very very good. The faces are generally ugly, & wrenched into inhuman distortions, over-expression amounting sometimes to distortion. As a rule (though not always) the people in these pictures are forbidding & repulsive. Reduction will modify them, no doubt, but it can hardly make them pleasant folk to look at.Ⓐemendation An artist shouldn’t follow a book too literally, perhaps—if this is the necessary result. And mind you, much of the drawing in these pictures is careless & bad.

The pictures will do—they will just barely do—& that is the best I can say for them. Suppose you submit them to t

The frontispiece has the usual blemish—an ugly, ill-drawn face. Huck Finn is an exceedingly good-hearted boy, & should carry a good & good-looking face.

Don’t dishearten the artist—show him where he has improved, rather than where he has failed, & punch him up to improve more.

Suppose you have one of the pictures reduced & printed—then we can get a satisfyingⒶemendation idea of the thing.

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