Ancient lights and certain new reflections, being the memories of a young man; . yed, was one of the scourges ofthe dismal period which to-day we call the Victorianera. And if Mr. Hunt destroyed the image ofSimon Peter as the sort of artists model that yousee on the steps of Calabrian churches, furtivelycombing out, with the aid of a small round mirror,long white hairs depending from his head and face—these hairs being the only portion of him that hasever been washed since his birth—if Mr. Huntdestroyed this figure, with its attitudes learnt onthe operatic stage, its blanket revealing opulentl
Ancient lights and certain new reflections, being the memories of a young man; . yed, was one of the scourges ofthe dismal period which to-day we call the Victorianera. And if Mr. Hunt destroyed the image ofSimon Peter as the sort of artists model that yousee on the steps of Calabrian churches, furtivelycombing out, with the aid of a small round mirror,long white hairs depending from his head and face—these hairs being the only portion of him that hasever been washed since his birth—if Mr. Huntdestroyed this figure, with its attitudes learnt onthe operatic stage, its blanket revealing opulentlymoulded forms, and its huge property keys extendedtowards a neo-Gothic Heaven—if Mr. Hunt gave usinstead (I dont know that he ever did, but he mayhave done) a Jewish fisherman pulling up dirty-looking fish on the shores of a salt-encrusted anddesolate lake—Mr. Hunt in the realms of modernthought, enormously aided the discovery of wire-less telegraphy and in no way damaged the pres-tige of the occupant of St. Peters Chair. This truism may appear a paradox. And yet 218. , A VEltY flllKAT IA I NIICI:, 1)1 KD IN IllE ClIAir. ONCKOCCUlIEI) 1!Y UKANT, 1. [To/aci p. -JIS Deaths and Departures nothing is more true than that clearness of thoughtin one department of life stimulates clearness ofthought in another. The great material develop-ments of the end of last century did not only succeedthe great realistic developments that had precededthem in the arts. The one was the logical corollaryof the other. Just as you cannot have a healthybody in which one of the members is unsound, soyou cannot have a healthy national life in therealms of thought unless in all the departments oflife you have sincere thinkers, and this is whatMr. Hunt undoubtedly was—a sincere thinker. Tosay that he was the greatest painter of his day mightbe superfluous; he was certainly the most earnestbeyond all comparison. That we should dislikethe vividness of his colour is perhaps the defect o
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