Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-07-14
BREAkFAST-TiBIg BRIEFS.

radlsh on the other.
The lovely rose he only-ate,
And gave the radsh to his mother
There is small class Of representative
American writer's who have become so skilled
in the putting together of words that their
style eau be fairly seen by the outward eye,
us though II were committed to the page with
a brush instead Of a pen. 1t makes picture
in itself. 1t is so delicutc, so exqulsitey mo-
duated, that we irrcslstibly think of form
and color and light and shade, us though we
were studying water-color sketch. The
most charming of these artists in words is
w. ID. liowclls One almost forgets that
he is following the course of a story, when
he falls upon such dcliciously pictorial bit
of writing as the following, from llowell's
Modern Instance" in the June century,:
In these days they took their fill of the de-
light Of young fatheihood and motherhood
After its morning bath BARLEY was called in
and allowed to revere the babys notified and
dimplcd back as it lay face downward on the
nurses lap, feebly wiggling its arms and
legs, and responding with Intellectual little
I'll, .' So w, ~ ptuo,o ,,,uo,u'us'
ed. and its long clothes nulled snuglv down
and its limp person stiifcned into something
tenable, he was suffered to take it into his
nil there is mo, much ,hat a nsn ron oc,naiiv
do with small baby, either for its
pleasure or his own, Hlfl Bartley's USE
fitness had its strict limitations. lie was
perhaps most beneficial when he put the
side the bed, aud quietly talked while Mar
cia occasionally put up slender hand and
smoothed its goldcnbrown hair, bending
her neck over to look at it where it lay, with
the action of mother bird. They exam
lned with minute interest the details OF the
curious little creature its tiny iinger-nuils,
fine and sharp, and its small queer fist
doubled so tight, and closing on ones finger
Ike canary's claw on Il perch the absurd
lty of its boot the absurdity of
It's toes; the ridiculous inadcquacy of
its legs and arms to the work ordinarily ex-
pected OF legs and arms, made them laugh.
They could not tell yet whether its
eyes would be black, like Marcia's, or blue,
ike bartiey tnose iohH iashes hau INC
made if look 81 add and old, WINS more ike
his in color.
We doubt not that most of our readers, in
their literary excursions, have met with pas
sages, even in the books of favorite authors,
which they could not understand at first
sight, and which only grew more and more
perplexing with study. In this connection
Bcrtall the carcaturist, who has Just died,
tells story about Balzac which is exactly to
the point.
Entrusted to illustrate Balzac's novels, lie
asked him 10 explain passage which seemed
hnt 10 oil said Reiznc ,,on c5 u' ~ rIo,
must occasionally stop his readers short by
some unintelligible passages, otherwise they
woIia MINK, IL .ney lounu ohly Wnat .ney
vol ,hsn,seives Tha nfornal raad;r1y u.s. r, Is
lie does not know the difficulty of being
simple. For this reason ! occasionally
sp'Ii ,, n1 worhS M.n oosIuii.ies , Wni leu
two hands-,i can't for the life of me nm.
derstand his meaning; what wonderful
writer Is balzac
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company died' Tue o'her daY' aged ior'y-hve
years. at SiarYsViiie' ohio' AFTER lingering
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