. Art and artists of our time . THE TOW-PATH (HOLLAND!. FROM THE PICTURE BY JAMES MARIS ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 333 He lias not the poetry of Corot; the spark of the divine flame that made him of Ville dAvraya light and a joy to his generation is not in James Maris, but then it is to be rememberedhow rare it is to find that spark in more than one artist, or poet, or actor, in a generation. Itwas in Turner, it was in Shelley, it was in Rachel, and it was in Corot; to expect to find it sosoon again in another artist, would be rash. But if the gods have not made James Marispoetical, they hav
. Art and artists of our time . THE TOW-PATH (HOLLAND!. FROM THE PICTURE BY JAMES MARIS ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 333 He lias not the poetry of Corot; the spark of the divine flame that made him of Ville dAvraya light and a joy to his generation is not in James Maris, but then it is to be rememberedhow rare it is to find that spark in more than one artist, or poet, or actor, in a generation. Itwas in Turner, it was in Shelley, it was in Rachel, and it was in Corot; to expect to find it sosoon again in another artist, would be rash. But if the gods have not made James Marispoetical, they have made him honest, and he is loyal to the nature that he loves, the vision ofnature as she reveals herself in his native Holland. In the picture we copy, and which T. Williams, to whom we are already indebted for the examples of Michel and Ribot, pub-lished in our first volume, has most obligingly loaned us, all the best qualities of the artistare shown, some of them obscured, as must always be the case in the attempt to
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