Scribner's magazine . crispness, and thereis a mild exhilaration, not quite likeanything else, in driving before yourfeet the shifting heaps of fallen it is the color that is all imjjortant—a revel of hue and dye—a carousal oftint and tone ; and with the maple andsumach to lead, the results are gor-geous and bewildering. There is noth-ing hesitating or doubtful in the is a \W\.d frankness about it thatmakes all a continual surprise. Accus-tomed as our eyes are to the quieterand sadder tones of the landscapepainters of other lands, if it were notfor its royal magnificenc
Scribner's magazine . crispness, and thereis a mild exhilaration, not quite likeanything else, in driving before yourfeet the shifting heaps of fallen it is the color that is all imjjortant—a revel of hue and dye—a carousal oftint and tone ; and with the maple andsumach to lead, the results are gor-geous and bewildering. There is noth-ing hesitating or doubtful in the is a \W\.d frankness about it thatmakes all a continual surprise. Accus-tomed as our eyes are to the quieterand sadder tones of the landscapepainters of other lands, if it were notfor its royal magnificence, we mightthink it tawdry and even vulgar. Butthere is a certain imperial power in thedisplay that justifies itself—that im-presses and controls us, and makes thepageant the triumph of the year. It iswith such a setting that the hfe of Len-ox is mounted ; and with such a trans-formation scene in the Berkshire Hillsthat the shifting high-comedy dramaof American summer society existencecomes to its brilliant THREE WAIFS IN AN ALMSHOUSE* PAINTED BY ADEIEN HENEI TANOUX By Philip Gilbert Hamerton M. Tanoux belongs to the south ofFrance. He is a native of Marseilles,where he was born in October, tne American reader may be insome doubt about the pronunciation ofthe name, I may say on the paintersown authority that it is Tanooks. The story of his life is one of contin-uous labor, and offers very little travelling as he has done hasbeen almost entirely between Paris andMarseilles, the only exception being ashort journey to Holland, which afford-ed few opportunities for observation, asit was undertaken under melancholycircumstances. M. Tanoux was not only born atMarseilles, but he received his artis-tic training there in the iJcole desBeaux Arts, where he entered him-self as a pupil in 1878. He went tosettle in Paris in 1886, and became apupil of the Parisian jSjcole des BeauxArts, but as he soon discovered thatthe teaching there was essentially iden-tic
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