Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-16
George ou maurIe,.
Boston TranscrIpt.)

|
| that seems the premature death of n he
| loved friend. His fame as an artist was
established asn.1 long long before these half
has come to know hts books. Like Ten
| nyson. Du Maurier spent his manhood
years years IN depicting epic The life of luxurious
| er of pictures-refined hlgh-bred express
| sive Illustration of the life of London.
His name was synonym for the sort Of
eaf .ll.ih when y, In the finest sense,
ways a playful interpretative seizure OF
| the drolleries of life, Il gentle humorous
| and shams and therefore an honest,
long-followed crusade against snobbish-
ness. insincerity, falety. make-believes
of all sorts high and low.
| And In some of his more serious pres
| entations his work had also the quality
which he himself mentions as that of his
| predecessor. John Leech. whose pictures
collection. were favorites with Du Maui
| rter. They never pail upon whatever
i symp9thy they app, appeal to; or whatever
er's pictures teach more Of the aspect or
the English life he loved than most Of
the books about England that one might
/ read His "Postlcthwaite" Is n familiar
| figure to all older readers of Punch His
pictures at the time of the aesthetic craze
in London were infinitely more than jokes
about these sunfioWer days, when first
liberty gowns and blue china cried aloud
In London drawing rooms against the
outline cut-and-dricd stiffness of things
There was plenty o., Of fun in al these pic
Ways, too, knowledge and sympathy.
| sympathy and knowledge.
Like ANOTHER Frenchman. more French
than he. Tainc. the finer things in Eng
fish life appealed to his imagination
ranc describes in delightful fashion the
charm which Tennyson found in the
Il smile of IA richy-dresscd girl The
words Tame applied to the poet Of luxury
may wen be applied to the Illustrator
Of English luxury. to the artist Du Maui
| rer Like Tennysons PORTRAITS of WON
en- his too were keensake ,harartars
from the hand of lover and an artist
The keepsake Is gilt-edged embossed
with flowers and decorations richly got
cp soft full of delicate faces ALWAYS ell
Il eeant and always correct which We
might take to be skctched at random. vet
they are drawn carefully on white vel
lam slightly touched by their outline all
elected to rest and occIIpy the soft white
hands Of a girl lie returned wen pleased
to All things refined ana exquisite. He
caressed them so carefully that his art
J anpcarcd AT times far-fetched a ffected
lie seemed an epicurean in stvle M well
! ne in heantv lie arava iii. s1,cceeai,elv
| to the little real events al TrnsIfeh ne
| lie straved through nature with no fore
zone conclusions without fierce. passion.
lent on feeling. relishing. culling from
r. all paris in The nower-stand of the draw
| inlr room the rare or vIid t,o,vers whose
scent or beautv could charm or amnse
him"
| All these oualtios apnearrd and in
| snitrIv more also whom tbe artist mn his
| nnn "a manusrriul nane, inste,d of to
/ Craving nnner Then came peter tbhot-
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pu Maur,er.s readers Al must now fol-
i,v, Vim = nernii,r startiad tutcr@et Inc
f,rtu,ns a. M nexv haro ,yho has II
ynad,. shawn bv rcrtnir, stranre Gifts ana
tnowlea"rs hje never of 8 s,ranS,. love
~ her Who il 70 romr from snothrr
,srrla Ana the aS,thor vino lives ,ls an
,hfs has himself zone to solve the i'm
mortal problem.
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frtheh schooihoNS classic ground Inc
haunts OF Peer Ihpetson anu OF haftN
@pN5''liu ar" alFf9ibF Ne''f't 10 ne PiiSt I'M
az" q fancy thah many 3hother hetter-
ether Suhshiny Esroril or thc SHORES o.
Inc seine. me poorly ana PURIFY OF tH'
ildlNhlual Soui mas h'ru revealed ny 'u
ituilsr as ny no otutr "ulhot IN "ui
t4hgnSh tongue. ~ Is tnlS "hlch r. tie
ueir, or me secret q ~" chArih OF II
rorance ana lhhcrittd license the soul OF
the woman pinchod the i"Wci OF fhsoiute-
" pure. soi-sacfiHcllE rove, foEt 'tidt