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Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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oseBeing a Boy is a complete guide to the American boy. That is proven by these quotationsalone: There is a great comfort to a boy in the amount of work he can get rid of doing. Every boy who is good for anything is a natural savage. You want to catch your boy young,and study him before he has either virtues or vices in order to understand the primitive man.Merrills boy looks a hearty fellow, who can eat without undue urging. To parody Wordsworth,who knew something about boys himself, he is — A creature not too bright or goodTo eat considable daily food. AMERICAN ART 137 Merrill has drawn in a spirited and faithful manner many scenes in our great war, and ofthese we select Tirrels battery at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, which is from CharlesCarleton Coffins book My Days and Nights on the Battlefield. From The Sailor Boys of 61 we present an illustration of an incident of Admiral Portersexpedition to Steeles Bayou on the Mississippi in the March of 1863. It is thus described: —
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Tirrels Battery at Pittsburg Landing. Drawn by Merrill. . The fleet had by this time advanced to a point within seven miles of Rolling Fork,when word was brought to the Admiral, by the negroes swarming on the banks, that a partyof guerillas had gone up the river bank with the intention of felling trees across the channel.One of the tugs, the Thistle, under Lieutenant Murphy, was immediately hurried ahead, witha boat-howitzer, to overtake the guerillas and stop the work before it would be too late. 138 AMERICAN ART The Thistle had a close -race for it, but she reached the first tree before the party onshore had quite succeeded in cutting it down, and a few shots from the howitzer drove themoff. Going back some fifty years from this, we come to the time of the memorable siegeof Tripoli by our navy, a stirring episode of which is here depicted, from The Boys of 1812.It shows the hand-to-hand fight of the gallant Commodore Decatur with a Turkish commander,who had, after surrendering, trea

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