New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-12

like for dinners and society i'll general. Nha.oNoi
people might think of his pictures thev llkeu 'ii0
man. lie was liked Paris also, where MS ho"So
In the Rue st. Dominique and later MS ehorino"'
studio in the Rue Bayard, was arendeIVouo io'
artists and men of letters and men OF NO io''0''
English he could speak after fashion, puV ione 90
he lived here he never came TO CONVERSE WIN
ease still less with accuracy IN INC ins
tongue have heard him described as S'-su'"'
animated and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES i'll snoi v ~
manner He had more than one manner, rs d. 'iS''
have py right l never knew MN III HIS earn
ana happier days, nor SAW much Oh MIN III am
ubere ,ay his closest friendships and intlmacles.
Tbrre are stores of Sunday evening parties OF
which Dor6 was the life; where he was as exuber-
ant in spirits as he was with his pencil Most
people. fancy, whose acquaintance with Dore was
formed in London drawing rooms would describe
him as conventional. possibly timid; which he GER
taiuly was not He talked volubly on bis own sub
iect and all Others but preferably on his own; anu
more about his own ait than art in general nave
met him in houses where he knew he was asked De-
cause he was liked and not because he was ceieD-
ritz In such circumstances he talked extremely wei
with animation, case and manifest endowment OIL
his own conversation. If you saw him at his rooms
in hotel on Piccadilly, it was chance whether ne
opened his mouth at all, no matter how numerous
might be his visitors. The litter OF the place was
lndescrlbable. Dore liked being surrounded by
scendor but order was not his first nor his second
law. ~
Two summers ago / net him in Switzerland. w
were staying at the same hotel In Zerniatt Inc
and of the season was near and the house almost
empty but Dore filed 1t with his voice and pres
ence. He had more love OF adventure and fatigue
than is common to the French. There was ques-
tion one morning about ascending the Rifel and
Goruergrat The guides pronounced against IT.
sure to ran if not snow you will see nothing, per-
hans Won will lose your way.-and so on, az the
manner of those gentry Is when they not In the
mood for earning money. DUre listened. summoned
his friends and set out, as he said for stroll
When he appeared at dinner IN the evening ne was
radiant He had been to the top of the Gornergret
and the view had been perfect. lie further an
nounced that he was quite certain Zermatt had
nothing else TO offer equally fine, and he should DC
off next day: and so he was. He cared good ueal
about scenery not much, L thought, ABOUT tAe
glory and danger of mere climbing For thls' 10
be sure. his physique was hardly adapted. Dore
was short and rather rat, and perhaps, like Ham
let scant of breath. He was active enough In his
movements but never lgave you the notion OF being
in condition. or as the English have 1t briefly ht'
Yet he was an early rIseI, and aOstemlous; got
through much work with the brush before other
people were down to break last, and much after
waId Tie physicians say he died from angina
pecto,is That is as good name as another Tor the
chsgTin and the destroying melancholy which
settled upon man conscious of great powers and
conscious of defeat in the great object of his life.
G.. W. S.