. Artists and Arabs; or, Sketching in sunshine. V&W^ HO^^.S\ iS AUTHORS EDITION. University Press : Welch, Bigelow, & CONTENTS. Chapter Page I. On the Wing 13 II. Algiers 27 III. The Moorish Quarter. — Our Studio . 51 IV. Models 73 V. Our Life School . .. .95 VI. The Bouzareah. —A Storm . . 115 VII. Blidah. — Medeah.— The Atlas Mountains 143 VIII. Kabtlia. — The Fort Napoleon . 171 IX. Winter Swallows 199 X. Conclusion 211 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. A Bride La Fille du Corsaire . The Moorish Quarter Models . A Portrait Our Life School A Life Study .Aloes and Palms .Old Moorish Screen
. Artists and Arabs; or, Sketching in sunshine. V&W^ HO^^.S\ iS AUTHORS EDITION. University Press : Welch, Bigelow, & CONTENTS. Chapter Page I. On the Wing 13 II. Algiers 27 III. The Moorish Quarter. — Our Studio . 51 IV. Models 73 V. Our Life School . .. .95 VI. The Bouzareah. —A Storm . . 115 VII. Blidah. — Medeah.— The Atlas Mountains 143 VIII. Kabtlia. — The Fort Napoleon . 171 IX. Winter Swallows 199 X. Conclusion 211 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. A Bride La Fille du Corsaire . The Moorish Quarter Models . A Portrait Our Life School A Life Study .Aloes and Palms .Old Moorish ScreenOver the Sea . Palms Arabs .... Kabyles The Mountains of Kabylia Winter Swallows Conclusion FrontispiecePage 2650. 7291. 9498. 114121. 124130. 142170. 183198. 210 ARGUMENT. The advantage of winter studios in the South,and the value of sketching in the open air, espe-cially in Algeria. The best thing the author of a book can do, is to tell the reader, ona piece of paper an inch square, what he means by it. — ARTISTS AND ARABS. CHAPTER I ON THE WING. BY the middle of the month of July theArt season in London was on the wane,and by the end of August the great body ofEnglish artists had dispersed, some, the soundestworkers perhaps, to the neighborhood of Welshmountains and English homesteads, to thesilence of thatched cottages and the voices ofblossoming fields. From the Tweed to the Shetland Isles theywere thick upon the hills ; in every nook andcorner of England, amongst the cornfields and 14 ARTISTS AND ARABS. upon the lakes ; in the valleys and torrent bedsof Wales, the cry was still they come. On the continent of Europe both artists andamateurs were everywhere. Smith, toiling acrossthe Campagna with the thermometer at 90, hisreward a quiet pipe at the cafe Grecco whenthe sun goes down, is but a counterpart of a hun-dred other Smiths scattered abroad. In the gal-leries of Florence and Rome no more easels couldbe admitted, and in Switzerland and Savoy the
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