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...Excerpt: We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, ...

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...en talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece—the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus... ...e was my subject marvellously realised. I felt like one of the old monkish artists who had had a vision. I rescued the poor creatures, cherished them,... ...ty that I was the friend of Mr. Theobald, he broke out into that fantastic French of which certain Ital- ians are so insistently lavish, and declared ... ...ic art some- times rather a bore? Caricature, burlesque, la charge, as the French say, has hitherto been confined to paper, to the pen and pencil. Now...

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...Plata, as they sup- posed, but was now one of the greatest geniuses of the French school of painting; a fact the family did not believe. The eldest so... ...all of which and much else he bemoaned in so witty a man- ner that the two artists took a mighty fancy to cousin Gazonal, and made him relate his laws... ...- ing before you, one after the other, of men of talent, little and great, artists in seed or flower, who are raising to the glory of France that ever... ...ine apartment in the rue Saint-Georges; in short, she is, in proportion to French fortunes of the present day compared with those of former times, a r... ... him that she believes in the genius and glory of her husband. Vital loves artists, not that he has any taste for art, but from fellowship; for he fee... ... system, which is, let us say it frankly, ignoble? Yes, ignoble; and yet a Frenchman is, of all nationalities, the one most persistent in this folly! ... ...r give the tone to women’s fashions, 19 Balzac and yet the hats which all Frenchmen wear to-day are made in every country on earth! There are ten mil... ... dreaming of reform,” said Leon. “Yes, monsieur. Ah! if a dozen or fifteen artists, capitalists, or dandies who set the tone would only have courage f... ... to meet the “end of the month”; she was robbed, she said,—robbed. The two artists looked at each other on hearing that ex- pression, which seemed exa...

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...since, and sure never pantomimes were more charming than these. Of all the artists that ever drew, from Michael Angelo upwards and downwards, Cruiksha... ...ything more than the expres- sion of the artist’s national British idea of Frenchmen. It must be confessed that for that great nation Mr. Cruikshank e... ...e reader examine the “Life in Paris,” or the five hundred designs in which French- men are introduced, and he will find them almost invariably thin, w... ...ing shoulders, and queer hair and mustachios. He has the British idea of a Frenchman; and if he does not believe that the inhabitants of France are fo... ...d Brit- ish gallery would understand that such and such a character W AS a Frenchman unless he appeared in the ancient tradi- tional costume. A curiou... ...s muster very well. A villanous race of shoulder-shrugging mortals are his Frenchmen indeed. And the heroes of the tale, a certain Mr. Dick Wildfire, ... ... the rest of their brethren we shall not endeavor to class. Why should the artists who executed the cuts of the admirable “Three Courses” yield the pa... ... done so, let us say it at once, clumsily, and like as a lion should. Many artists, we hear, hold his works rather cheap; they prate about bad drawing...

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...imated at several mil- lions. All the members of the family spoke Italian, French, *Macedoine, in the sense in which it is here used, is a game, or ra... ...e me believe! the jealousy of engravings, of pictures, of statues, wherein artists exaggerate human beauty, as a result of the doctrine which leads th... ...ng escape the no- tice of the performers, male and female. One evening the Frenchman noticed that they were laughing at him in the wings. It is hard t... ... him. As he left the theatre, a stranger grasped his arm. “‘Beware, Signor Frenchman,’ he said in his ear. ‘This is a matter of life and death. Cardin... ...man. She was waiting. “‘You are very late,’ she said. ‘Come.’ “She led the Frenchman through several narrow streets and stopped in front of a palace o... ...eatre, male and female, mingled with charming women, all ready to begin an artists’ spree and waiting only for him. Sarrasine restrained a feeling of ... ...lves side by side without ceremony. During the first half of the feast the artists exercised some restraint, and the sculptor was able to converse wit... ...t as indicating extreme delicacy of feel- ing. This weakness delighted the Frenchman. There is so much of the element of protection in a man’s love! “... ... to inquire of somebody where his mistress lived, he met one of his fellow-artists at the door. “‘My dear fellow,’ he said, I am sent by our ambassado...

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...ilence which generally prevails at that time makes it particularly dear to artists, who grow contemplative, stand a few paces back from the pictures o... ...Champs-Elysees. The fame his talent had won him having made him one of the artists most dear to his country, he was beginning to feel free from want, ... ..., unanimous in hailing an unknown genius, still rang with sincere praises. Artists them- selves acknowledged Schinner as a master, and dealers cov- er... ...ns, fairly white, carefully screened this lumber-room—a capharnaum, as the French call such a domestic laboratory,—which was lighted by windows look- ... ... chosen. And till the dinner hour he worked at the painting with the ardor artists throw into their whims. He went again that evening to the Baronne d... ...comments, laughter, innocent mock- ery, full of the liveliness familiar to artists, but which pained Hippolyte frightfully. A certain native reticence...

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...n the left bank of the Rhine a few leagues from Coblentz. At that time the French army, commanded by Augereau, was manoeuvring before the Austrians, w... ...ng to Augereau’s corps was stationed at Andernach. The two travellers were Frenchmen. At sight of their uni- forms, blue mixed with white and faced wi... ...urg and Bonn they had visited the Electorate and the banks of the Rhine as artists, philosophers, and observers. When a man’s destiny is scientific he... ...ut the smallest regard for romanticism and local color, baptized the young French surgeon with a Teutonic name.] By the time the two young men reached... ...Germans, and the weather-beaten faces of mariners. The epaulets of several French officers were glittering through the mist, and the clank of spurs an... ...ions echo along the passages. At this moment of silence and tumult the two Frenchmen and their landlord, who was boasting of Andernach, his inn, his c...

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...the fault upon the art, but upon those gross impostors, who set up to be the artists. I know several learned men have contended that the whole is a ch... ...leave to the reader the business of interpreting. On the 1st of this month a French general will be killed by a random shot of a cannon-ball. On the 6... ...noise of guns for a victory. On the 14th there will be a false report of the French king s death. On the 20th Cardinal Portocarero will die of a dysen... ...the hands of his enemies. On the 14th a shameful discovery will be made of a French The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers – Swift 9 Jesuit, giving poison ... ...which will make this month memorable to all pos- terity, is the death of the French King, Lewis the fourteenth, after a week s sickness at Marli, whic... ...dge Papers – Swift 10 of Tuscany, who is now about sixty-one years old. The French army acts now wholly on the defensive, strongly fortify d in their...

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...ew every face behind the scenes; and was in the habit of using a number of French phrases in his conversation, having picked up a smattering of that l... ...ny’s the time I shall ‘ope to see you under that ma’ogany.” “What will the French milliner say? She’ll hang herself for despair, Eglantine.” “Hush! no... ...of which operation Morgiana sat in perfect contentment looking at the last French fashions in the Courrier des Dames, and thinking how her pink satin ... ...with the velvet stripe down the side, and get my spurs lacquered up, and a French polish to my boot; and if I don’t do for the Captain, and the tailor... ...d, and flung it into the road. Morgiana saw that Woolsey had red hair.* *A French proverbe furnished the author with the notion of the rivalry between... ...that killing civility which our English aristocracy knows how to bestow on artists. Clever and wise 56 Men’s Wives aristocracy! It is sweet to mark y... ...mption of superi- ority which distinguishes their lordships’ commerce with artists of all sorts: that politeness which, if it condescends to receive a... ...say, just going to commence a tirade against the aristocracy for excluding artists from their company, and to be extremely satirical upon them, for in... ...ood grace. Au fond, as I was given to under- stand, the methods of the two artists were pretty similar; but as there was rivalry between them, and con...

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...are English springs for those called “swan-necks,” and other old-fashioned French contrivances. But these hard and distrustful manufacturers would onl... ...She was dressed in a black-silk gown that was dyed, a brown bonnet, an old French cashmere shawl, raw-silk stockings, and low shoes; and in her hand s... ...efer- ences, Pierrotin, it isn’t right.” “Coucous and the Charter make all Frenchmen equals,” said Georges. “Oh! be easy,” said Pere Leger; “we are su... ... ening the journey and forgetting its tedium. That is how things happen in French stage-coaches. In other countries customs are very different. Englis... ... meant to do, got crushed himself. His son took refuge in the house of the French consul at Smyrna, and he afterwards died in Paris, leaving my mother... ...nner and Mistigris had walked on. Scarcely had Pierrotin overtaken the two artists and was mounting the hill from which Ecouen, the steeple of Mesnil,... ... Paris till mid-day. She was, therefore, in her own apartment when the two artists walked up to the chateau, and were sent by Moreau himself to their ... ...her and mother reigned as aristocrats. “Mamma,” he said, “here are the two artists sent down by Monsieur Schinner.” Madame Moreau, agreeably surprised... ...h him,” said his mother. The remark “you need not hurry” proved to the two artists the unimportance of their late travelling companion in the eyes of ...

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...circumstances. CHAPTER II THE STUDIO SERVIN, one of our most distinguished artists, was the first to conceive of the idea of opening a studio for youn... ...osition of his classes. He even refused to take girls who wished to become artists; for to them he would have been obliged to give certain in- structi... ...nes of glass furnished with those green linen shades by means of which all artists arrange the light. A quantity of caricatures, heads drawn at a stro... ... upon her lips, with chestnut hair and delicate white hands, was a typical French virgin, thoughtless, and without hidden thoughts, living her natural... ...t only to insult her, but to cause her a species of artistic pain; for all artists have a spot of predilection where they work. Nevertheless, politica... ...take service in foreign countries if you are not forgotten here; or in the French army, if you are.” In the comfort that women give there is always a ... ...d portrait-painting. But here she was forced to compete against a crowd of artists in greater need of money than herself. However, as Luigi and Ginevr...

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...ooms were as clean as scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finish... ...fan and mantle; to them came three or four dandies, dressed smartly in the French fashion, with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn l... ...y choose his trade,” our little informant said, who addressed us in better French than any of our party spoke, whose manners were perfectly gentlemanl... ...we saw were still rich, tawdry, and splendid to outward show, although the French, as usual, had robbed their shrines of their gold and silver, and th... ...Soult and Junot thought, when they despoiled these places of worship, like French philoso- phers as they were. A friend, with a classical turn of mind... ...in the open spaces:sentries marching everywhere, and (this is a caution to artists) I am told have orders to run any man through who is discovered mak... ...llowing authentic drawing could be made, many were the stratagems the wily artists were obliged to employ, to subdue the shyness of the little Mariam....

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...pinesses which a rigid mother denied to the Eugenie of these pages. Though Frenchmen are taxed with incon- stancy, you will find me Italian in faithfu... ... with blue velvet of that tender shade, with shimmering reflections, which French industry has lately learned to fabricate. Over the doors and windows... ...hangings, the work of one of those upholsterers who have just missed being artists. A silver lamp studded with tur- quoise, and suspended by chains of... ..., the daughter of the Comte de Granville, one of the greatest names in the French magistracy,—a man who be- came peer of France after the revolution o... ... maid taught them drawing. A worthy priest instructed them in grammar, the French language, history, geography, and the very little arithmetic it was ... ...rrounded by dangerous relations and intimate enemies. Every one knows that French literature at that particular period was endeavoring to defend itsel... ... Comtesse de Montcornet, a charming little woman, who received illustrious artists, leading financial personages, dis- tinguished writers; but only af... ... consummate corruption, Florine added a lively wit, which intercourse with artists had developed and practice sharpened day by day. Wit is thought to ... ...ts, and apparently will rest forever, on a criticism made against dramatic artists,—namely, that their personal sentiments are destroyed by the plasti...

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...ach us the true Parisian pronunciation, and a retired Mejor-General of the French service to put us through the exercise.” Of this incongruous family ... ...scended to examine her upon leeterature, and tried her with his three best French quo- tations. Y oung Stubble went about from man to man whisper- ing... ...e had been at the battle. “Pas si bete”—such an answer and sentiment as no Frenchman would own to—was his reply. But, on the other hand, the postilion... ... was as intense as that more frantic enthusiasm with which at one time the French regarded Napoleon), the country seemed in so perfect a state of orde... ...’Dowd said that her “Glorvina was not afraid of any man alive, let alone a Frenchman,” and tossed off a glass of beer with a wink which expressed her ... ...s studio. Lords come up to my door with stars and garters, instead of poor artists with screws of to- bacco in their pockets. I have a gentleman for m...

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... studied mathematics.” “Stuff! I dare say you have.” “I can read and write French and German.” “Hum!” He reflected a moment, then opening a drawer in ... ...mething that may enable you to earn your board and lodging: since you know French and German, I will take you as second clerk to manage the for- eign ... ...ide of the fireplace; having glanced at my translations—he could read both French and German—he went out again in silence. CHAPTER III I SERVED EDWARD... ...d periodicals, I ran my eye along the shelves of the book-case nearest me. French and German works predominated, the old French dramatists, sundry mod... ...t! without money?” “You must travel in search of money, man. You can speak French—with a vile English accent, no doubt—still, you can speak it. Go on ... ...egle, une belle brune.” “Exactly.” “Lovely creatures all of them—heads for artists; what a group they would make, taken together! Eulalie (I know thei...

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.................................................................. 27 Charlie French ....................................................................... ...l for me: “Taken from the evil to come.” 28 Spoon River Anthology Charlie French DID you ever find out Which one of the O’Brien boys it was Who snapp... ...lysees Became a center for all sorts of people, Musicians, poets, dandies, artists, nobles, Where we spoke French and German, Italian, English. I wed ... ...orts of people, Musicians, poets, dandies, artists, nobles, Where we spoke French and German, Italian, English. I wed Count Navigato, native of Genoa.... ...ade a nest in my skull Russian Sonia I, BORN in Weimar Of a mother who was French And German father, a most learned professor, Orphaned at fourteen ye... ...s of Paris, Mistress betimes of sundry dukes and counts, And later of poor artists and of poets. At forty years, passe, I sought New Y ork And met old... ...a nightingale, Lute of the rising moon, and Procne a swallow Oh livers and artists of Hellas centuries gone, Sealing in little thuribles dreams and wi... .... I despised you As the place of my nativity. And there in Rome, among the artists, Speaking Italian, speaking French, I seemed to myself at times to ... ...nativity. And there in Rome, among the artists, Speaking Italian, speaking French, I seemed to myself at times to be free Of every trace of my origin....

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...e next chapter, will show the reader that duels between boys, for fun, and duels between men in earnest, are very different affairs.] CHAPTER VIII The... ... tions of our day. Since it is always fought in the open air, the combatants are nearly sure to catch cold. M. Paul de Cassagnac, the most inveterate ... ...nd draughts cannot intrude—he will eventually endanger his life. This ought to moderate the talk of those people who are so stubborn in maintaining th... ... the French duel is the most health-giving of recreations because of the open-air exercise it affords. And it ought also to moderate that foolish talk... ...e im- moral. 31 A Tramp Abroad But it is time to get at my subject. As soon as I heard of the late fiery outbreak between M. Gambetta and M. Fourtou ... ...But I did not care, for I had come out for a pedestrian tour anyway. CHAPTER XIV Rafting Down the Neckar WHEN THE LANDLORD LEARNED that I and my agent... ...k out of Heilbronn, but called up Go”tz von Berlichingen’s horse and cab and made us ride. I made a sketch of the turnout. It is not a Work, it is onl... ...longer. I judge so from the fact that hundreds of old gravestones have been removed from the graves and placed against the inner walls of the cemetery... ... as one of my finished works, in fact I do not rank it among my Works at all; it is only a study; it is hardly more than what one might call a sketch....

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...ined until 1915. During this period he became acquainted with the eminent French poet, Laurent T ailhade, to whom he showed his early verses, and fro... ...derable encouragement. In 1915, in spite of delicate health, he joined the Artists’ Rifles O.T.C., was gazetted to the Manchester Regiment, and served...

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...suspected of a certain unemotional, grim accep- tance of facts—of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” V ery true. Y es. There is th... ... of the matter is, the captain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ...ciently a man who could make a second officer for a steamer chartered by a French company. I showed no sign of being haunted by the fate of Nina and b... ...in his ambition—to satisfy at a few hours’ notice the unusual demand for a French-speaking of- ficer. He explained to me that the ship was chartered b... ... It was not the outcome of a need—the famous need of self-expression which artists find in their search for motives. The necessity which impelled me w...

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...uspected of a certain un- emotional, grim acceptance of facts; of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” Very true. Yes. There is the ... ...f the matter is, the cap- tain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ...ciently a man who could make a second officer for a steamer chartered by a French company. I showed no sign of being haunted by the fate of Nina and b... ... his ambition—to satisfy at a few hours’ notice the un- usual demand for a French-speaking officer. He ex- plained to me that the ship was chartered b... ... It was not the outcome of a need—the famous need of self-expression which artists find in their search for motives. The necessity which impelled me w...

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...elt’s on the piano, and singing a ballad; or when he found her writing the French language correctly, or reading Racine, father and son, and explainin... ... at full gallop up the stairway of the orangery at Versailles. Writers and artists died in the hospi- tal, as a natural consequence of their eccentric... ... Astronomers lived on spiders. These striking points of information on the French lan- guage, on dramatic art, politics, literature, and science, will... ...e eau-de-cologne. The names of these places were shams, invented to please French- men who could not endure the things of their own country. A French ... ...at Macassar is really in the Indies. Now, isn’t it much better to supply a French prod- uct to the Indians than to send them back what they are suppos... ... it is also the wealth of merchants. Time, time is gold, especially to you artists. I permit myself to say to you that architecture 64 Rise and Fall ... ...e bourgeois class, the con- stant butt of the witty shafts and ridicule of artists, and the object of their everlasting contempt, nodding his head as ... ... beauty of this young girl was not the beauty of an English lady, nor of a French duchess, but the round and glowing beauty of a Flemish Rubens. Cesar... ...stre tints harmoniously blended, offered a striking likeness to that which artists bestow on Time, though it vulgarized it; for the habits of commerci...