... figure head for the official body that represents art in this land! what a wide knowledge he had of the art of the day He would speak with enthusiasm of Aubrey Beardsley's music of line, or Phil May's draughtsmanship and feeling for character, just as generously ...

... to Pemberton the mind of the well-informed reader but no changes in taste or fashion can shake me from the opinion that, speaking generally, the healthiest and cleanest writers of our time are the men. I shall venture the assertion that nine out of every ...

... said to indicate the nature of the book it is so full of good things that it is almost impossible to know where to stop when speaking of it. Laughter, tears, and pleasant re flections and imaginings are all to be found therein and if the author's memory has ...

... has settled down on shore within near hail of old ocean he occupies a farm at Stanford, near Hythe. Perhaps one ought to speak ol A Rising Star Mr. John Oxenham as a risen star, for there is little doubt that he is at present the most discussed author ...

... but Whistler was great enough to join the mastery of both these technical mediums with no less than half a dozen others. Speaking on the subject of, portraits, the painter said The imitator is a poor kind of creature. If the man who paints only the tree ...

... the World, supplied to Scribtier's Magazine a series of articles which were afterwards collected into a volume, learned to speak colloquial Japanese, and to write the Kata Kara character I was not so very idle, you will see, he remarked to the late Major ...

... of view on the writing of novels, of course. His artistic credo is this the truth, always the truth. Later in the book, he speaks of giving us a slab of God's good truth, and this phrase is at once an account and a condemnation of The Fruit of the Vine ...

... evening, simply on the ground of his nationality. In due fairness to the author and his hosts, it must be mentioned that he speaks warmly in praise of the hospitality shown him wherever he went. The hospitality often reaches extraordinary limits on one ...

... assumed on taking it up) of the writer of the Pilgrim's Progress. Tinker is a boy of twelve or thereabouts and when one speaks of this volume as his story, it should be added that each of the chapters deals, in the modern fashion, with a separate episode ...

... literary genius that his stories are popular with sailors. Here's a man that's followed the sea, said an old captain once in speaking of Mr. Jacobs's books. But I doubt if the author of Many Cargoes has ever been a week at sea. In a sense that Shakespeare ...

... proceeding, and on every face there was an expression of mixed reverence and alarm. Wearily the right leg scrambled, so to speak, over the croup of the saddle slowly and painfully it sank towards the ground, and then the whole body came down with a stagger ...

... however, he placed high, though, of course, not so high as himself. Of Whistler's own methods of work there is hardly space to speak, and it will be suffic.ent to say that Mr. Menpes' sketch of the Master is complete, and shows him under all conditions. ...