Figure 1.--We notice a set of fine illustrations by G. Phittingof for a Soviet edition published in 1958. The illustrations are nicely done. I don't think a reader could tell that they were done by a foreign illustrator, let alone a Soviet illustrator. The clothing illustrated seems quite accurate. This is the whitewash scene, perhaps the best known scene from the book. Here the illustrator has made a mistake. The boy with Tom looks to be a black boy who would have been a slave. There were no black boys in this scene, in fact no blacl boys at all in the book. In addition the black boy is dressed too much like slaves. Black boys would have been likely to have been dressed even worse than Huck.

We notice a set of fine illustrations by G. Phittingof for a Soviet edition published in 1958. We know nothing about the illustrator at this time. Perhaps our Russian readers will know something about him. The illustrations are nicely done. I don't think a reader could tell that they were done by a foreign illustrator, let alone a Soviet illustrator. The clothing illustrated seems quite accurate. One of the few inaccuracies we note are wide-brimmed Western hats that boys woyld have mot worn in 1840s Missouri. The clothing illustrated seems quite accurate. We notice a few errors. This is the whitewash scene, perhaps the best known scene from the book (figure 1). Here the illustrator has made a mistake. The boy with Tom looks to be a black boy who would have been a slave. There were no black boys in this scene, in fact no blacl boys at all in the book. In addition the black boy is dressed too much like slaves. Black boys would have been likely to have been dressed even worse than Huck.

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