The times., 1899-12-10

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.ra Hr Picture: aua ttry said lAst while they
. l-Ef, proud q. Hr uE EsfH- 90. -aca q bulldlh-'
the, were rauae- still tu 50, his worh going on.
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IN MS lig a. . did ua-u ta,a a-s ,d me if ghay
.taI'd ,u.rr a-aiu. ftet didn't cnrae around 10
efrthis r 'Toee. bur 10 hr.p ln. a.on2; ana thSt
l.. Eina down forty fs.J r.m tbe scafolding
t1 the Ha0r below. upau 81. hundreds OF work
4 mgn. it rNc aimed Wi. D. feeling:
: - never h,'ore to.t What big thing a great
+ hujlGug IS: tiGas of Tie crowd - varied inter
gs-s that are rlII.S.Ht,d IH lHrs room. THINK
ot al these men, and ih.i. families. tbnNlng
and 1ynrI.iu-. frar in ard ont. aH Z. one und-the
maxi ing of this capitol. People grumbe and
urtr. aIa.nt tnr r-ue.N Ni.5u. J. Thrown away
en- IT,; but tell you that it is an immense wer'l.
and W.rHE Dt ANY state ar uaf ION u Is the
greatest Thing which this STATE has ever done and
N,Ir srusih.c way in wlich 90 eNpend money,
Do yuU fI'lHa that il j, throwing away money
TO keep fifteen hundred ski led v1r.-men in one
place. and doing one thingl No, >lr; 1t Is a
) good investment, and the more il is done the
richer shall bc. u ought 20 20 on forever
never ftt before what power the united chorl
uI hundreds las upon the mind just thlnh oi
being part of it, Here ] ann In my own world,
and want % SAY here
The tragic element Of all this comes
in when one learns that political jobbers
gave the building Of the ,apitoi into thC
hands of contractors who sCamped the
work. so that leaky roofs caused the dis
I 1tagTdtiOn of the stone panels, and most
of Hunts paintings faxed off. As Miss
Kn0wlton justly observed, nowhere save
ia America could immense sums have beer
expended for the decoration OF building
so badly constructed as to let the vino
and rain in on the two great mural paint
inEs which cost their artist his life.
The work Of this b.ographer is particu
larly g0Od. in that she reveals so much o
the personality of the subject. The por
trait Of him which she paints ia these twC
hundred odd pages Of narrative quotation
comment, and character-anaiysis is no
unlike one Of his own portraits in it,
quality of revelation. Some biOgrapher
have faculty OF giving their own view
of man rather than the man hims If. Tht
view may be correct one, but it is af
ter all only a raph-most misiead
ing Of all forms of art when cleverly man
aged, and never so true as a true paint
ing In this book there is almost nothing
Of Helen Knowlton. and great deal o
William Morris Hunt. II is almost iik
an autobiography, but is touched witt
friendly interest Interpretation and judg
ment here and there. as a mans aceOun
OF himself can never be. Altogether. ii j
q charming piece of work and no one cai
read ii without having a clear and rivi'
mental picture of one OF the powerful Ter
sUnalities in American art-a man who 81
has already been said, made his ,mpres
sion because he vas man and not alto
gether because he was q painter. IN Ger
tain impatient aud sham-scCTniEg quail
tiles and in independence Of judg
ment he was not unlike Robert Loui
Stevenson, and there are passages in hi
book which remind cue somehow or othe
Of the Stevenson letters. though in rea
personality the two men could not kav
been alike. They were both genuine, botl
terribly in earnest, both struggling TO tn
end of their days against false conVen
tious and Philistine Standards; that i
where the resemblance lies tBoston: Lit
tie, Brown &, Coz