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Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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cause he stutter.-s. You dont go to talk, but to fight, said the Colonel. But theyll p-p-put me on g-g-guard, and a man may go ha-ha-half amile before I can say, Who-who-who goes there ? Oh, thats no objection, for tliere will be another sentry placed alongwith you, and he can challenge if you can fire. Well, stammered the private, b-b-but I may be t-taken and runthrough the g-g-gizzard before lean c-c-cry <\vi-q\x-(\\ia.Tttr.—The Enquirer,Cincinnati. Vol. XYI., No. 13) THE LITERARY DIGEST. 369 LETTERS AND ART. GROWING INFLUENCE OF AN AMERICAN PAINTER. TEN years ago, Mr. Claud Phillips, one of the ablest art-criticsof England, declared that, so far as it was possible to fore-tell the future, it would be from the influence of James Whistlerand the contemporary French painters that the next developmentsof English art would be derived. Recalling that prediction, awriter in The Quarterly Revieia (London, January), m review-ing English art in the Victorian age, says: That prophecy has
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JA.MES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISILER. been literally fulfilled. The writer then goes on to speak of theremarkable hold that French methods and ideas in art have gainedin England in the last ten years, and finds the chief reason for itin Mr. Whistlers influence : But the master who has brought French influence to bear themost powerfully upon contemporary English art, and whose ownstyle finds more imitators every year among the rising generationof painters, is Mr. Whistler. Altho neither English bj- birth noryet by education, since he was born at Baltimore in 1S34, andafter spending his boyhood in Russia and America came to studypainting under Gleyre in Paris, Mr. Whistler has spent manyyears of his life in London, and most of his finest works are inthe hands of English collectors. We may. therefore, justly claima share in this most cosmopolitan of artists, who is equally athome in Venice and Paris, in London and New York. His art,like his personality, is made up of many foreign elements.Vela

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