The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-08
NeW Hampshire Home
OF Poets and Artists
SojournerS in State in Summer Have No Rea-
son to Be Dissatisfied With Adage MAN Is
Known by Company He Keeps"


written for The Washington Times by Nahum
J. Bachelor. Governor Of New Hampshire
CONCORD, N. H, Feb. S.-Given two
people interested in literature and art,
taking a five-mile drive in a certain
section of New Hampshire. last sum-
mer. and discussing their favorite top
les, the following conversation would
have been possible:
who is our greatest American
SCULPTOR"
st. Gaudens. I think why?"
Because that is his studio over there.
The splendid Sherman statue was I'm
ished- there not long ago. And II your
answer had been Kenyon COX or Her
bert Adams could have illustrated my
reason in the same way within a few
minutes"
Then. with Daniel c. French as a
native, New Hampshire is near the head
in modern American sculpture; as. in
deed, the Granite State should be-.
Highlands Delight.
This highland country delights the
artists. Before our drive Is finished
l will show you the house. for the
greater part of the year. of Maxfield
Parrish, whose superb color work is the
art feature of the magazine year; his
father, Stephen Parrish. the etcher:
Mrs. Lucia Fairchild Fuller, the minia-
turist: c. A. Plat, the architect; T. w.
Dewing, Frederic Remington. far re-
nowned from his Western prairies; Flor
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like"
That is enough for one afternoon,
thank you. The country is of the same
character, is it no. over at Dublin,
where Abbott Thayer and George De
Forest Brush have their studios?"
Yes, and at Peterborough. with
Charles +. Pierce. and to- less de-
gree, at Ross Turner's Wilton, where
he and Admiral Walker, of isthmian
fame. are twin stars in the summer
armament. The White Hills have their
artists. greater in number. though not
in distinction, headed by the venerable
Champney, at North Conway, where.
alas, he will no longer tend his vines
and flowers. The States brief strip
of sea coast is a favorite haunt for
marine painters; and it was from New
castle that Frank w. Benson sent to
Pittsburg the canvas that won first prize
in this seasons Carnegie exhibition.
Rewards Of Merit.
Speaking of rewards of merit. let
me show you the house that the book
built Turn off here toward the Con-
necticut River and in a couple OF min
utes we Will see Hariakeden House,
in which estate are embodied to a con-
siderable extent the royalties of Rich
ard Carvei.'
But II Is not the historical novelist
alone who can afford country houses.
Another of our show places here I'm Cor
nish is High Court. away up there in the
clouds. where Norman Hapgood. the
critic. lives Here Is the summer doui-
Gle of that most humorous OF moral
SITS, Mr.. Dooley.' A little farther on we
shall see the pretty place where l. f.
shipman writes plays for James X.
Hackett.''.
ITO sum 1t all UP then. you have here
more varied and remarkable talent OF an
Imported brand than can be found in any
other township in America
New "Homecomers"
If the travellers whose conversation
we have overheard could continue their
carriage trip throughout the State-it
must needs be by carriage. for the rarest
birds hide in the deepest woods-they
would find many other evidences, al
most as remarkable as those noted. of
the presence Of distinguished new home