The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-02-09
MARK TWAIN IS IN ARTIST.
His Picture Of ling William, lis History
a.il It's Recommendation.

The January Galaxy contains Mark Twin :
portrait of King William CT Prussia. l. i in
F. descrihab.e eEtrlortin4ry ami also extr tor3i-
n8ri'y iaiescri5a0ie, AMI IL is accompanied by
the following:
Ine7er can look at those periodical portraits
In the Galaxy magazine without feeling .
wild tenn e-taous ambition to be artist. |
have seen thousands and thousands f pictures
in ny tiue-acres IF them here and leagues Of
them in the galleries Of Europc-but never
any that moved me IS the G slaxv portraits 10.
There IS the ror raft CT Monsiguore CapeI
in the November Galaxy now could anything
be sweeter than that !? And t..ere was Bis
m trcks in the October number who can
LOOK at that without being pnrer, an stronger
and nobler for i'll And Thurlow Weed :
picture in the September number | would
not h We died without seeing that, no, not for
anything the world can give. But look back
still further and recall my own likeness as
printed IN the August Galaxy if | had been
in nv grave ii thousand years when that APP
peared, would have got up and visited the
artist.
! sleep with all these portraits Under my
pillow every night. so that can 90 on study
ing them ~ soon as the day dawns in the
morning know them all as thoroughly as If |
had m de them myself; know every line and
mark about them. Sometimes when company
are present | shuttle the portraits all up to-
gether, and then pick them out one by one
and call their names, without referring
to the printing at the bottom. ! seldom make
a mistake--ncver, when | am calm.
| have had the portraits framed for a long
time. waiting till my aunt gets everything
I ready fer hanging them up in tie Parlor But
E st one thing aud then another interferes.
and so tie thing is delayed Once she said
they would have more Of the peculiar kind Of
light they needed in the attic The oil sim
p'eton il is as dark rs tomb up there. But
she does not know anything about art, and so
she has no reverence for it. When showed
her my d" Map Of the Fortifcations of Paris -
/ she said II was rubbish.
Wei from nursing those Galaxy portraits so
long. Came at last to have perfect infatu3-
ton or art | have a teacher now, and my
enthusiasm continually and tumultuousy
grows. as | learn TO use with more and more
facility the pencil. brush. and graver | am
studying under DE Melville, the house and
portrait painter. His name was Smith when
he lived west He does any kind of artist
universal ike Michael Aueelo Resembles
that great artist, in fact. The back Of his
head i like his. and he wears his hIt-brim
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