New-York tribune., 1903-08-23
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ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT-
SUNDAY, AUGUST %, 1908.

To tbp artists who trained thehiSeiFV' W
work in black and white, in order that 'helr
sketches might be properly reproduced Ill h'"s"-
zines and books artists working in col0rs Tor
the same purpose promise soon to succeed III
ENGLAND the three-color printing process is en-
ioving q Dositiye BOOM anL American pub
Iicbors spcm well on the way to making really
odeouote transformation of the illustrative art
that masses through their hands. Oddly the
hest English color work has been uohe III
books only one or two periodicals hdNllS az
complished anything in this field, Whlle III thiS
country it is to the magazines that we nave
had TO look for the most satisfactory results.
LatterIy. however, several new volumes win
Illustrations in color have appeared here anu
these have been very good. Where we are not
unlikely to receive Il sclDack is in our way OF
irving to do too much at once. Some Oh inc
recent Christmas numbers have offered melan-
choIv testimony to the disposition of editors to
trv for 4 more elaborate effect than at present
our Drinters can achieve 1t would be fine
thing if they would content themselves with
the modest but beautiful effects that are well
within their reach and not attempt complicated
schemes until the process of printing them In
large editions has been brought to perfection
In 7 long letter to "The Chicago Dial" cor
respondent signing himself m. F. protests
against Course ;}4' offered to students or Eng
lish literature in zone of most progressive
Eastern Universities" The course is devoted
entirely TO English letter writer's. Thackeray
is included among them, and this especially is
what causes m. T." to vince 'It is hard
to think" he says, that TO the most sensitive
of men-whO did mis- best to escape biography,
and who wrote to Charlotte BrOnt6, If
thought you showed my letters to anyone,
would never write you another, should come
the fate OF having the most intimate of the
letters he wrote to the friend who helped him
through his broken life studied perhaps yaWned
over perhaps worse, by successive groups of
undergraduates" 1t is hard, and one must
deprecate the callOus professionalism which
sees no harm in fnging a man like ThacKeray
to the youngsters of the classroom. But we
must look further for the real culprit in every
case of this sort, to the person who originally
gives the letters to the world. 1t was Thack
eray's own daughter Who knowing, one would
suppose. Il little better than any one else how
the great man deteSted the idea of being made
the hero OF a biography, nevertheless edited the
Biographical Edition of his works, and pro-
vidod for it introductions which only need to be
detached from the volumes i'll which they ap-
pear. and put together in one with a little
editing, to make very practicable biography.
Who has caused all the recent tittle-tattle about
the Carlyles but the kinsman who fit to
revive an Ole controversy by publishing docu-
ments in his possession? If you happen to be
person of genius the only way in which to
avoid these posthumous humiliations is to make
no friends write no Ietters-and secretly do
away with all your relatives.
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