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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ies.An older pupil, of eighteen months standing, wassetting up a railway time-table, which not one com-positor in five hundred would dare to undertake atfirst sight. The street arab as a printer is evidentlya success. No printing-office in the world can showsuch a galaxy of choice and capable apprentices ascan the DAlembert School. LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 471 From the products of the printing-office and turn-ing-shop, the school actually came out 40,000 francsahead in 1889, only its seventh year ; but certain ma-terials of former years were utilized. ** The productof 1890 included 30,000 francs for printing alone, andthree times as much in the cabinet-making line. stands a solitary, ancient-looking old round tower.Its bright, helmet-like roof, covered with yellow tiles,rises above the tops of the limes in the avenue leadingto it. The style of this building is such as is oftenenough met with in the Middle Ages, the upper partprojecting and resting on consoles, while smaller tow-
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PROFESSOR HERKOMER. BOYHOOD OF PROFESSOR HERKOMER. WITH the September number Velhagen andKlasings Monatshefte begins a new volume.An important feature of this volume is to be a seriesof special articles on famous artists and their work.A sketch of Professor Herkomer, by Herr LudwigPietsch, inaugurates the series. THE HERKOMER MOTHER TOWER. On the left bank of the broad mountain streamcalled the Lech, and opposite Landsberg with its pict-uresquely grouped towers, churches and gables, there ers, roofed vTith green tiles, grow as it were out of thesides and comers, and even the top. The entrancedoor stands in an arched niche, decorated with Her-komer sculpture. A few steps from this tower, andstanding in its own garden, there is a very plain peas-ants house, the later home of the professors parents,from the door of which a well-beaten path runs intothe road leading to the tower. If you ask the passer-by what that tower is on the banks of the stream, youwill be told that is the * Mother T

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