. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . mers pupils that his blackboard-draw-ings could not be preserved. It is also to be regretted that his lectures in Boston,or at the Cooper Institute, could not have been reported verbatim. They would 78 THE ART LIFE OF WILLIAM RIMMER. have made a book of priceless value, and of its kind unique. A lady artist, whoattended the Providence and Cooper Institute lectures, says, that the latter con-tained more detail; the former were reported for two reasons, — first, to give theentertaining side of the doctors art lor
. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . mers pupils that his blackboard-draw-ings could not be preserved. It is also to be regretted that his lectures in Boston,or at the Cooper Institute, could not have been reported verbatim. They would 78 THE ART LIFE OF WILLIAM RIMMER. have made a book of priceless value, and of its kind unique. A lady artist, whoattended the Providence and Cooper Institute lectures, says, that the latter con-tained more detail; the former were reported for two reasons, — first, to give theentertaining side of the doctors art lore; and, second, in the hope of inspiring apublic interest that should result in something permanent. He always assigned ahigh place to women in the scale of creation, quite in contrast to the assertionof Miss Hardaker, in the July number of The North American Review for1880, that women are hopelessly inferior, as a rule, in physical strength and brain-power, to men; but the doctor was always gallant and loyal to our sex, believingand expecting the highest achievements from
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