The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-07
Books and be Book world Of The Sun September 4 1918
murray Marks
and His Friends"

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Marks and His Friends, in which Dr. q
G.. Williamson, his schoolmate and life.
long friend, tells in a rambling and in.
formal manner some incidents in tbo
great English collectors career. at !.
not tibet have done anything of special
importance" Marks is quoted as SAVING
a few days before his death when H.,
present volume was under discussion.
"but 1 have known some very interestipv
people Say as little about me as Won
can ard as much about the men who bavo
honored me with their friendship as ia
possible"
And so it is chiefly Of Whistler, Ros.
setti, Burne-J Jones, Ruskin, Millais and
Dickens, to mention only a few of the
most distinguished in the group, that DR..
wilkinson writes, sometimes in their ra.
lation to Marks, but more often pertains
in the broader relation to the art of their
day. The book is thus made doubly vain.
able in being a tribute to Marks and q
history Of his remarkable accomplish.
ments and an intimate and human record
of the lives of the artists among whom
he lived and for whose success he wa,
often partly responsible. DR.. Williamson
has drawn his information from sources
which are practically inaccessible and
much of it is entirely fresh.
The book is exquisitely presented. with
reproductions Of paintings by all of tie
artists in the Marks group, caricaturpq
and humorous verses, and a reproduction
in color from the six original wood blocks
of the trade card designed for Marks bv
Rossetti, Whistler and William Morris
probably the most beautiful thing of the
sort ever executed. There are, of course.
the inevitable Whistler anecdotes, served
in great abundance and devoured with
the usual gusto, but there are also sne,-
dotes u Rossetti, which are far rarer.
MURRAY MARKS AND HIS FRIENDS
BY DIR. G.. c. WILLIAMSON. John Lane
Company.
p0OTH HARRINGTON is one Of tbs
- slowest writers. He works Mt ar
artists drawing table, adjustable to apy
light or any attitude Of personal comfor+.
Never uses typewriter. Keeps little
stack Of paper before him and shelf
loaded with pile of pointed pencils. He
writes, crosses out, rewrites and crosses
out to such an extent that to use q n,n
would reduce the manuscript to one hue
blot When pencil dulls he picks up an.
other, and when all the points are worn
down he gets up slowly and resharpens
the lot on little machine, thinking the
while. By the time he has them all freshly
sharpened he is ready to cross out some
more words and substitute different ones
a BOOK of poems, Shining Fields and
L = Dark To,oers, by John Bunker, will
be published by John Lane Company next
month MIR. Bunker has written for the
New York Times Sunday Magazine and
the Times Repie,o of Books and is at pres
enf lecturer on magazine and newspaper
verse IN the School of Journalism at New
York University.
THE fourth new publisher this fall is
l. Irving Kaye Davis & Co., who will
publish Literature of Revolt, starting
with Revolt by Harold Lord Varney,
which is about American labor. Then
there's Harrah for Sin! by Charles W.
Wood, SO here's three cheers-for Sin,
anyway.
DEARL WHITE, who wrote Just Ne,
L breezy autobiography, gets $500
a week making movies She will use her
royalties to buy ice cream soda.