The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-27

everyone Is 1amflfar Win. 1ney ue-
light all who study him. He Is as
great q wonder. in his way. as Zorn Is
In his. He can catch the expression
of the loungers In q cafe and make Of
the various groups a picture; but as I
said before, the individuals are bet
ter than the whole. A picture by Glib
son Ii like q poem by Tennyson which
Is made up Of exquisite words. phrases.
lines. yet the poem as a whole does
not satisfy. In the same way Gibson's
phrasing is exquisite. his pictures lack
tang, navor-that quality which en-
ables half blind DuMaurier. bad
draughtsman and ignorant anatomist
as he is. to capture and keep the 10y
atty Of all imaginative minds.
About Paris" by Richard Harding
Harpers'. It IL pleasant reading. and
II. at times. the authors tone is trifie
elevated. inflated. or literary. 1t does
not matter so much. because he as
sumes that the social position and the
culture Of the reader are equal to his
own. 1t is "other people that Rich
ard Harding Davis breeding compels
him to conceal his scorn and real aloof-
ness from. He reveals 1t to the reader.
with q fine delicacy and assumption
Of equality and fraternity. because
Richard Harding d. is in the book
business and readers are customers
and must be treated with the consider
alton that the permanence of his job
demands. although he knows and we
might know, that the canaille he de-
scribes, act. dress. talk very much as
we do. 1t Is only after finishing a
sketch, fresh from his white fingers,
in q moment of absolute cest from
other thoughts that the impression
settles down that the young author
under consideration is scornful and
takes liberties with ''other people that
look like us. Literary hauteur is more
inexcusable than the social kind and
has less excuse for being. 1t also is
followed by swifter punishment. The
retribution Of Ruskin should be q
warning to all who think to speak as
he spoke. To be sure. there are sui
cides who desire oblivion, but as long
as there is no comparative why should
these write at all?
Mcclure's Magaxine for June contains
I'VE good articles larger number
than any Of the other monthlies at
hand. In tie Rukh." by Rudyard
Kipling. is a reprint except when it
comes to the pictures. These are by
w. A. c. Pape. The vignettes that
top the pages represent the jungle peo-
pie: they are the hunters. the boa con-
strictor. the black panther and the
bear. the silent ones: the elephant folk.
the poison snakes. the Seonee pack.
the bandar log; the monkeys and the
striped ones; tigers They are drawn
with feeling and satisfy those who
have lost count Of the number of times
they have read the Jungle Book"
The picture Of the four wolves dancing
before Mowgli and Abdul Gafur's
daughter and of Moweli coming
through a jungle so thick that only q
few rays Of sunlight can penetrate it,
are Of fascinating quality. yet like
the jungle people vignettes better. The
elephants. bears. snakes and wolves
are Kipling's and we have no use for
any other since trying his. The curl
Gus tone OF the vignettes Is explained
BY the moon which lights them all.
Kiphng's moon-talk has at last found
an Illustrator who must have had the
same foster mother as himself
Anthony Hopes illustrator for
"Phroso" has had. apparently. some
practice in Illustrating an edition Of
The Arabian Nights" The pictures
are drawn in ine-always 50 much