. International studio. LENFANT PRODIGUEBY J. L. FORAIN Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture. at the law courts. The plate of the Temoinsau Freioire (p. 190) is replete with the finest obser-vation. The old woman has the harassed lookof one who has given evidence against kith andkin. There is a marvellous twinge of inborncoquetry in the furtive glance that the little girlshoots at us, and the boy in his look of surprisemingled with self-consciousness has plainly forthe first time in his life been hoisted to aposition cf importance, which, however small itmay have been, was still in no wise
. International studio. LENFANT PRODIGUEBY J. L. FORAIN Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture. at the law courts. The plate of the Temoinsau Freioire (p. 190) is replete with the finest obser-vation. The old woman has the harassed lookof one who has given evidence against kith andkin. There is a marvellous twinge of inborncoquetry in the furtive glance that the little girlshoots at us, and the boy in his look of surprisemingled with self-consciousness has plainly forthe first time in his life been hoisted to aposition cf importance, which, however small itmay have been, was still in no wise the resultof his own deserts. Le Prisonnier et son Enfantis perhaps the finest of all the plates. Thebesotted expression of the prisoner, debased andcorrupted from birth, a true specimen of adegenerated race, surpasses anything of the kindI have seen. The presentation of his little childby its young mother is a most powerful momentin the comedie hufnaine, at a moment where thatcomedie becomes singularly tragic. H. W. S. NUE (etching) BY J. L. FORAIN R ECENT DESIGNS IN DOMES-TIC ARCHI
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