THE LOST PRINCE BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT WITH ILLUSTRATION BY MAURICE L. BOWER

Maurice Lincoln Bower (1889-1980) was born in Ohio and like most youngsters who become artists, began to draw at a very young age. His family moved to Philadelphia, and Bower went through high school there and for a year at Pennsylvania State University. Learning about the classes being taught by Pyle alumnus Walter Everett, he switched to the school of Industrial Art in Philadelphia. While still a student, he bean to be published in St. Nicholas magazine. Contracts totaling four years' work for the Hearst Syndicate followed.

 

 

Under the nodding plumes each saw the face, a sketch of which was hidden in the slit of Marco's sleeve.

 

THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORÉ, BOOK THE THIRD

 

 

Mont-Rognon the Monstrous.

Mont-Rognon in a hurry for his dinner.

 

Maragougnia the Melancholy.

 

 

The four adventurous knights.

 

Mine host of the Crocodile.

 

The best bedroom.

 

The spare-bed at the Crocodile.

 

An after-dinner nap.

Ali posed.

The landlord'd capital.

The "Crocodile" at night.

The friendly dwarf.

The Emperor at chess.

The giant.

The death of Allegrignac.

Mitaine sets forth.

Vespers.

The haunted grove.

The gnarled monster.

Mitaine crosses the torrent.

The Fortress of Fear.

The great spider.

The outpost of owles.

The entrance to Fear-Fortress.

The corpse candles.

The family of  Fear.

The shriek of Timidity.

Stung to death by vipers.

Charlemagne's meditations.

Ganelon and Marsilius.

Ganelon tells all to Pinabel.

Roland the Peerless.

 

The ambuscade.

The grief of Roland.

The death of Mitaine.

The death of Aude.

The last struggle of chivalry.