Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-25
Literary Notes.


COSMOPOLITAN and run through
three numbers: The story Of il
man, who three times In his life
undertakes to paint Jesus. AS Il
young painter full of health and
life, full of joy, he puts on his
canvas, Il Greek ideal of strength
and beauty; just rs the picture Is
on the point Of completion, he
learns to love Il beautiful woman
who returns his passion. After
weeks ut her feet he returns to
his studio one day, and Is filled
with disappointment when he ga
yes upon the face Of the Christ.
1t is the face OLA beautiful hca-
then god bearing no impress Of
that divine love which the painter
now knows must belong there
His canvas Is turned to the wall,
and inspired by love he sets to
work on the image of Il new Christ
who would be Il God Of Love.
! Again his picture is completed
when the second great chang comes
over his life. She whom he adorcs
turns from him to give her love to
! the Prussian officer whose Greek
beauty had been the model for his
first picture. Going back to work
l., eliza ..hrIn,, ~f thI. fr,nrf
sorrow, he looks upon the face of
the Christ upon his easel, and sees
that once more he has failed.
There is the beautiful face lrradi-
ating love, but there is not upon
it the refining touch of sorrow
that must have been in the face
Of Him vino was ga man of sor-
rows and acquainted with grief. .
There was this wanting. Uc.must
set to work !gain and paint not
only the beauty of the Divine
Perfection, and the lone that en-
braccd al mankind. hut the Sor-
row of the Man God who suffered
for our sins. The author, HAL
mcr Hjorth Boyescn, thinks he
has given the best work of his life
in this singular story. Two other
pieces Of fiction will attract
tract attention in the May number
of the Cosmopolitan; two real
- H., x..(,D hnx-n hno,,
in the thick of the fight. One is
by Archibald Forbes, the famous
war correspondent, and the other
by Albion W. Tourgce, author of
1.-The Fools Errand.' The illus
trations of all three are
something unusual. Boycscn's
story, illustrated by WenzelI, so
we'll known through the pages of
Life Forbes, story, by Fred
eric Elllicrs. another famous war
correspondent and artist, and
Tourgec's story by Zogbaum. In
addition to its strong fiction. this
number contains q beautifully il
Illustrated article on the Cleopatras
of the Stage; another on New
Philadelphia, for which the draw
lngs were made by Harry Fem.
Some wonderful nash-light pho
tographs illustrate the under
ground workings of Il Lcadvillc
Silver Mine. Kennels and Ken
mel Clubs, and DR.. Koch and his
Lymp, by one who went to Berlin
to study the subject, are two ar
ticles with numerous illustrations.
(PrIce 25 cts. Cosmopolitan Pub.
Co., Madison Square, y. -
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