The W.W. Norton Bicentennial Edition of the Brothers Grimm fairytales is a considered and charming collection, as beautifully bound with nostalgia and fanciful imagery, as it is with spellbinding tales. Caroline Slade picks out some of the best pictures.

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In the Musée de Cluny in Paris hang six stunning and enigmatic medieval tapestries. Known collectively as The Lady and the Unicorn, the tapestries feature a lion, a unicorn, and a beautiful young woman. Five of the tapestries seem to tell a story of the five senses: Touch, Taste, Smell, Hearing and Sight. But what is the story? And the sixth tapestry, Mon Seul Désir, My One Desire, with the young woman, a tent, and a box of jewels: what to make of that? Philip Coulter investigates a 600-year-old mystery.

Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae was a prominent English painter of the late Victorian era,[1][2] who specialised in classical, allegorical and literary subjects. Her best-known painting is The Lady with the Lamp ; depicting Florence Nightingale at Scutari.

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Illustration by Ann & Janet Grahame Johnstone from Books Illustrated. The Boy and I are doing the programme from Classical Writing. We started last week in Aesop A. The program offers a model each week for a child to re-tell. They can change whatever they like, really, as long as the bones of the story is still recognizable. Essentially, it is learning to write by imitation and I think the method is marvelous. His model this week was "Androcles and the Lion." His "assignment" when re-telling the fable was twofold. A. To change the sentence types in the model and include all four (his grammar program, Rod and Staff 3, names the types a little more intuitively): declarative (telling) imperative (commanding) interrogatory (asking) exclamatory (exclaiming)B. To punctuate with respect to the proper use of capitals end punctuation marks for each sentence and quotation marks.Here is what he wrote--and typed. It is his final, polished draft. Androcles and the Lion By The Boy I fled from my master to the forest. I was frightened! What’s that? A monster!? Nay, it was merely a young lion, moaning and groaning. I wondered why. I commanded him, “Put out your paw!” He did. I saw a huge thorn. I carefully took it out and bandaged it up quickly. He took me to his den and fed me every day. One day while we were separated, the soldiers found us and captured us. I was condemned to be eaten by the lions. The lion came bounding and roaring into the arena. It was my friend! He saw it was me. He fawned over me and licked me. The King summoned us to him. “Tell me how this could happen, young man,” said the King. I told him the story and he set us free. THE END

Joanna Lannister (Briton Rivière, Una and Lion)

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