. Studio international . he Greeks in time ofwar and in periods of peace—how in time of warthe hair was ruffled and tossed; in peace, smoothand straight. If the analogy would hold good, SirGeorge Reids men are out for war, all their vigourand potential force are summoned to the are men in a world of action, not in a worldof dreams. When he painted John Stuart Btacklefor the Scottish National Collections, he presentedhim not as the thoughtful scholar of the study, butas the man of fire of the public platform hurlingepigrammatic thunderbolts at his southern neigh-bours. He did not pau
. Studio international . he Greeks in time ofwar and in periods of peace—how in time of warthe hair was ruffled and tossed; in peace, smoothand straight. If the analogy would hold good, SirGeorge Reids men are out for war, all their vigourand potential force are summoned to the are men in a world of action, not in a worldof dreams. When he painted John Stuart Btacklefor the Scottish National Collections, he presentedhim not as the thoughtful scholar of the study, butas the man of fire of the public platform hurlingepigrammatic thunderbolts at his southern neigh-bours. He did not pause to inquire which elementsin Professor Blackie were the most essential in thatcomplex character ; he seized the one that was mostevident to him, and which, in Blackies case at least,was most in accord with the popular conception ofthe man. The delicate undercurrents of tender-ness and poetry are intentionally neglected so asnot to interfere with the presentation of the manas Happy Warrior, a designation which Blackie. THE RT. REV. JAMES MOORHOUSE, (BISHOP OF MANCHESTER, iSBY SIR GEORGE REID 5-1903)
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