The century illustrated monthly magazine . th other kinds of people,and the world outside forces itself upon was never taught this poor littleprincess, or the knowledge that there can bea higher joy than to get a Salon medal, be anadmired singer, marry a duke with a mistress, orthe nephew of a cardinal who may be pope, orset a fashion in a circle of the beaic , contemporary history, does not existfor her or her circle, and it is when she goesinto the atelier with other girls that she firstdiscovers with rage and jealous misery thatothers have a right to life, place
The century illustrated monthly magazine . th other kinds of people,and the world outside forces itself upon was never taught this poor littleprincess, or the knowledge that there can bea higher joy than to get a Salon medal, be anadmired singer, marry a duke with a mistress, orthe nephew of a cardinal who may be pope, orset a fashion in a circle of the beaic , contemporary history, does not existfor her or her circle, and it is when she goesinto the atelier with other girls that she firstdiscovers with rage and jealous misery thatothers have a right to life, place, fame, andjoys. To any art student, especially to any girlstudying art, the atelier part of the book isinteresting; and in spite of the writers crude-ness, and her lack of nobility in her relationswith her fellow-pupils and her masters, it ismuch the most sympathetic. We feel as we do before the life-drawing ofsome of the French students, as if the ugly had,too large a space — was insisted on with viru- TWO VIEWS OF MARIE lence; that the lesson of nature could be taughtbetter by choosing beauty and nobility to re-cord, than by a minute attention to the hideous,the disgusting, and the ignoble. We feel surethat Marie did not show so selfish, so jealous,and so unwomanly a side to her young com-panions as she would have us believe, butthat, when alone with her journal, she made anunconscious confession of the bad and forgotthe good of her nature. It could hardly be expected that her pic-tures should be great,—the mechanical diffi-culties of painting and sculpture are enormous,—but they are very fair student work. She isgreatly under the influence of Lepage, andhas little relish or understanding of the subtle- ties of form and color in the great art of thepast. The most interesting part to the world isher affection for and kindness to Bastien-Le-page, who died a few weeks after her he was too ill to walk he was often car-ried to her house, where he a
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