m fw \w 8ATUKDAY EVENING. JANUAKY 25, 1902. THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. and Blerstad and Church, Moran, Column, gieat battle or a dog fight The sketch of ten South sea islands to the British empire, Jervla MtEntee, Inness, Wlnslow Homer, Marion Crawford is good It seems Craw­ an illustrated account of the art of jumping Chase, Dow, Inman, have shown that theie ford attributes his' skill in writing English on skates, and a thrilling description of a is inspiration and artists to be inspired by It laigely to the letteis his mother u«ed to write ride on a handcar from the summit of the to portray the splendors and beauties of to him when he was a boy at school Of Ham­ Oroya railway in Peru, 15,666 feet above sea Ameiican atmosphere There are Intel es*hig lin Gat land, Ine author l elates thai- he plowed level, <to the waters of the Pacific ocean notes on Eastman Johnson J G Brown, and seventy acres of land when he was ten yea's A-ithur Waugh contributes to the Critic a other genre painteis. and out artists in old, heided cattle and experienced all ..he verv interesting sketch of the history of the marines are duly recoidec» A.bout «i quarter storm and stress of faim life Garland wa*> English reviews and their principles, with of a century ago, the results of European of the west fiom the time he wa* a babe at portraits in black and white of John Wilson study on American art students found ex- the breast He never writes until he is in Cioker, co-foundci of the Quarterly Review, piessloa in their canvasses at the Centennial the writing lood Of Winston Churchill,who Rev Sydney Smith, John Wilson, of Black­ exhibition and othei art exhibitions aftei- has suddenly come to the front as a success­ wood s, J G Lotkhart of the Quarterly, | AUTHORS AND CHARACTERS . wards, the trend to technical perfection being ful wiiter of fiction the author says no other Sir William Moleswoith of the London and «it»»i«mii(tiiim«t't>iHmiitntmMiiMii)m(iu»»wiiniintiiinii>ilV very pionounced in the new school wherein American author of iecently acquired fame Westminster, John Morley and W L Oourt- are many artists who do little besides reflect­ has been followed about bv so many hen- nev of the Fortnightlv The great English _HE brilliant Mrs Craigie at a recent meeting of the New Vagabond's club ing foreign art The authoi Intelestlngly worshipers He iegaids Rlcherd Caivel ' reviews had sharp struggles before they got 3 in London, where -were assembled many eminent litterateurs, discoursed criticizes the aitists of the Wer school, nota­ as an extraoiCinanly powerful story, and a footing The quality of the reading fur­ I interestingly upon what she called "an unaccountable association in the bly Rider, whom he credits with the cieative sajs veiy li'Mi about "The Crisis " Tlnre nished has nevei been suipassed, and they re­ I popular mind between a writer and her heroines " faculty are portraits of all the authors mentioned tain all the dignity which In the earlier day I She illustrated her subject by citing cases of authors, the most correct The second volume is devoted to Ameri­ in the book distinguished the older ones Mr Matz illus­ trated paper on Dickens and His Illustra­ and high principled women, who, having Introduced -nomen and men deficient in can sculpture, the art of illustration the condition of American- art in Eurooe, an! tors ' is a strong feature of the number In­ n *••*••••*• moral ideas in their novels, as women deserting their husbands and children and there is a chapter on latest phages in Ameri­ cluded are several portraits of Dickens pub­ elopiug with infatuated rakes, have been credited with the possession of vicious can art In sculpture we can boast of such Minor Mention lished foi the first time from old photo­ inclinations themselves "It is unreasonable for readers to suppose that an author names as Crawford, Powers, St Gaudens, i graphs Mr Matz' paper is crowded with in­ approves and holds up for example every type of character which he or she may Joel T Halt Stoiy, Harriet Hosmer, H K L C Page <fe Co, Boston, hav e done I eal teresting things about Dickens and the artists, desciibe ' sa>s Mrs Craigie And, continuing, she remarks "Plain facts, with­ Browne, Rogers, French, Ward, MacMon- seivice for childieu la the publication ot and yet he savs in closing that he has a thousand and one things more to write about out comment, from a woman, are considered very alarming indeed This is why nies In illustration Thomas Nast was an ' The Rosamond Tales, ' a volume contain­ early development of the civil wai and he him George Gisslng supplements this article she is too often driven, in mere self-defense, to frame her narrative in solid moraliz­ ing six-teen shoit stories intended for children, was our first great cartoonist La Targe and hy Cuyler (Reynolds, authox ot Janet, a •'K th one on DicKens m Memory, m which ing She may. perhaps, tell anything she pleases, but she must make it quite clear Howard Pyle are at the front as illustrators Character Study The author has long been he inteiestingly tells of his impressions upon on every page that she is pained and shocked by the moial instability of mankind Frost and Vedder, Abbey, Kejiyon Cox, Cline- a student of the child mind and its opera­ reading The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Pick­ and the disastrous fascination of her own deplorable sex " hnst, Smedley, C D Gibson, Remington, tions He writes in simple words of two wick for the fast time * Included are pic­ Parrish, Howard Christy are noted among syllables and his effort Is to cause the child tures of Dickens reading The Chimes ' to his friends m 1844, of Devonshire Terrace, where And yet Mrs Craigie knows that it is peifectly natural that "plain facts with­ those artists The author gives much space to reason and inquire and to acquire natui- to Whistler, who stands high as an etcher, Dickens wrote many of his masterpieces, and out comment, from a woman," the kind of "facts" to which she has special refer­ ally a good style of diction Bishop Doane but lives in London Veiy properly the of Albany writes a highly commendatory in­ one of Bleak House where Diet ens often ence, are somehow always repulsive to allr readers except those with tolerably de­ author condemns the tone of many American troduction The illustrations add very great- stayed and worked The ' Real Conversation" praved minds ' Plain facts, without comment" from a man, do not have the same artists residing in Europe, who disparage lepellant effect But, when a woman produces a novel of the quality of George their own country and pride themselves upon Moore's "Esther Waters," the reader is, to say the lea&t, greatly perplexed en­ being the product of foreign schools. He be­ lieves that we should have more thinking deavoring to dissociate the author from the apparently libidinous or vicious cre­ <$> DICKENS AT $130,000 PER SET ations between the covers of the book painters like Hunt and Fuller and Inuess and others who were ' insensible to mercenary <$> temptations and faithfully accomplished the <$> The sum of $130,000 seems a comfortably high price for a set of Dickens, Mrs Harrison, whose pen name is "Lucas Malet," was present at the meeting ideals of their youth and whose gen>us was but that is the price placed by the publisher on the St Dunstan's Illuminated of the club and, as she is the author of "The History of Sir Richard Calmady," a powerful enough to stiuggle against the in­ Dickens, work on which has been In progress for over a year Besides being book in which vice is described and painted with fidelity tp detail found in Meis- difference of a whole nation ' These volumes a most complete edition, it will be notable as the most costly publication ever are profusely illustrated souler a canvasses. Mis Craigie no doubt, had her in view when she spoke of the <?> put before the public Altogether fifteen sets will be printed, eight to be sold popular tendency to associate authors with characters in their books In "Sir Little Pilgrimages Among the Wom­ in this country, and seven m Europe Each set will contain 130 volumes, and Richard Calmady" there is no sign given that the author is "pained and shocked" en AVho Have Written Famous <*> the cost is, therefore, at the rate of $1,000 a volume Three years will be over the pictures of her own painting, which may be described as ' plain facts with­ Books. By E F Harkins and C H L required to complete the work Six volumes are now in type, and four com­ Johnston Illustrated Boston L • Page 1 <*> out comnien* " It is comprehensible bow George Sand took easily to this Kind ol plete sets have been sold. The publisher is George D. Sproul o£ New York. & Co Minneapolis Nathaniel McCarthy •work Hei mannish tendencies In dress and habits shut her out of French society Price, $1§0 of the culthated and polished kind and brought her into the company of men more This is a remarkably attractive book It in­ <^<8x$x$><Sxexm*^ \icious than herself In her books she makes a revelation of what uhe calls her cludes sketches of twenty-one women who have own ' imbecile personnalite humaine," of her younger days written themselves into literary conspicuity ly to the interest of the book.