New-York tribune., 1904-05-30
"6be HUos0an of Fashion.
By ALBERT KINROSs

1T was never published; in fact IT has disap-
peared. said LutterwOrth-
had just asked him which among the nuzner-
Gus and varied performances that had gained him
ters he considered the very best the topnost bios
SON OF his remarkable and many sided gift
Genius IS a strong word and forebear 70 use it,
4et here. II anywhere. among my living acquaint-
Disappeared" he repeated at Izast so far as
know But that is story Shall I tell it 70
Naturally said l
Well. first We win get the original documents
he left me for few moments. heard the stairs
cre9k- They creaked again. and Lutterworth came
Nag 5f.s 9l b as SAD % i ot s tbe1 e1@s
He united the parcel: neat -nethOdicaI II was,
with Endorsements ard the date on every piece To
the average man. writer is above these things.
put bgtIerEoEth Eth might have coaduSted AtanLc
has these qualities TO a desrec-a terrible swift
M Chance aes Yon s HGse br aT B Sfs ReS
ers H; How % neat and yet how powerful s that hats is
Act I" he said. Now listen!
Dear Mr.. Lutterworth:
some son n9el art art topic Ten pages would os about
would SO make the price stand at s2l I hope this
Nil Nil meet with your spProval and that nay have
Excellent, Interrupted. Vow 90 On
''IcIa Gamble was the Editor OF "The woman Of
Fashion. " continued Lutterworth- Il had net
had faIked 70 r1e 81 nv tvvo hooks and declared
her herself an adInirsr ! know nothing more Of her
he Journal She Conducted with so much brt1IiancY
and acumen. The subject she had proposed at
tracted me the terms were generous Twenty-Five
said LutterwOrth with smile
He resumed his narrative: Some novel art
topic-there Is, OF course. no such thing was,
that time. he was hardly the creation OF every
rhaGsodist.- the butt of every hack the peg OF
every sermonizer, the-in short. the Naaetti that,
nowadays. even the very Acadernicians acknOvyl-
wrote about Nanetti-!The woman Of Fashion was
up TO It, indeed, IL was Lola Candles boast that
She was running female magazine tnat couIe
hold It's own with any masculine competitor /
wrote about Nanetti about the painter, about the
later madness. and his sons torgertes-about that
whole wonderful bag OF tricks And II was new
ten pages at least: into that silent sea can you
imagine il? A Nanetu untouched by hack or
rhapsodlst--and 70 me was gwen the reVe!atlon.
Things had leaked out. of course. The son 8
forseries had made something OF q scandal he
SWOre ne had FOUND the pictures IN ms IaIhsI ;
studio; and Nanetti was dead 10 one could dis
prove II. But you remember that Then Mary
Piccinino-a model. beastly Italian model, The
brute said ne Loved ner anf she YOU'D 2oJ listen ss
all Nanetti took me 70 see the girl before he mar
at And then his later days at Winchelsea. ana
how IL was he who had written the sonnets thar
everybody ascrtoSd % fNeuHia5 Le. nose C4us!ls
money and swearing 10 reforn-Ou his honor as an
Dyce. She made him after all Those faces that
he put canvas were always hers. or what he saw
@ @h he Tfsfhsf & out sS fr b F IN 6s 6s 9 8be Ps91 tS
trouble lay I was with him when he died-myself
@ stock S' ana barrel for twenty guneas some novel
art topic called II. II that; but when IL
over. I had written my tragedy, something
sophocean-the pity and terror of II all! Can you
nodded eagerly and he proceeded
hu; let that pass I have done nothing Ike it. No,
I have done nothing IKE it, in fact or in 1ction.
in prose in verse in England or America It was
broadly enough 70 satisfy and surprise myself I
gasped al the thing when II was over. This VIII