The Century illustrated monthly magazine . RATAPOIL AND THE PEASANT. DAUMIER, CARICATURIST. 409. CASMAJON RATAPOIL. They show us that at certain moments certainpeople were eminent, only to make us unsuccess-fully try to remember what they were eminentfor. And the comparative obscurity (compar-ative, I mean, to the talent of the caricaturist)overtakes even the most justly honored Berryer was a public servant of real dis-tinction and the highest utility; yet the factthat no one to-day devotes many thoughts tohim seems to be positively emphasized by thisother fact that we pore over Daumi
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . RATAPOIL AND THE PEASANT. DAUMIER, CARICATURIST. 409. CASMAJON RATAPOIL. They show us that at certain moments certainpeople were eminent, only to make us unsuccess-fully try to remember what they were eminentfor. And the comparative obscurity (compar-ative, I mean, to the talent of the caricaturist)overtakes even the most justly honored Berryer was a public servant of real dis-tinction and the highest utility; yet the factthat no one to-day devotes many thoughts tohim seems to be positively emphasized by thisother fact that we pore over Daumier, in whoseplates we happen to come across him. It re-minds one afresh how Art is an embalmer, amagician, whom one cannot speak too duly impressed with this truth aresometimes laughed at for their superstitioustone, which is pronounced, according to thefancy of the critic, maAvkish, maudlin, or hys-terical. But it is really difficult to see how anyinsistence on the importance of art can over-state the plain facts. It prolongs, it preserves,it consecrates, it raises from the dead
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