The New -York Historical Society ■mw INDIA INK DRAWING BY D. E. CRONIN, I903, TO ILLUSTRATE DRAKE'S THE CULPRIT FAY "They swim around with smile and song, They press the bark with pearly hand." Illustrations for Joseph Rodman Drake's The Culprit Fay. Thirty-six delightful, imaginative drawings by Cronin, 1902- 1903, which were intended for binding with Mr. Parish's manuscript copy of The Culprit Fay, but which were not so bound. There are full-page pen and ink portraits of Drake and of Fitz- Greene Halleck. The charming sketches of the "Fay" (one of which is reproduced herewith) have engrossed captions of the lines from the poem which they illustrate. Poems of Joseph Rodman Drake (the 1835 edition). The marginal illustrations are from landscape sketches drawn by Cronin along the Hudson and Bronx Rivers, and there is a portrait of Fitz-Greene Halleck, to whom this edition was dedicated by Drake's daughter. Cronin did this work in 1903, the year of his retirement from the field of illustration. 24