The literary digest . Mr. Cunningham: I onceheard an artist say that the fame of a fine painter found its wayto England as early as the year 1760. No name was this, he said, was the more imprest upon his mind becauseof a painting of a boy and a tame squirrc^l, which came with-out any letter or artists name to one of the exhibitions of theRoyal Academy; and when its natural action and deep vividcoloring made the academicians anxious to give it a good place,they were at a loss what to say about it in the catalog, but fromthe frame on which it was stretched, being American pine, the
The literary digest . Mr. Cunningham: I onceheard an artist say that the fame of a fine painter found its wayto England as early as the year 1760. No name was this, he said, was the more imprest upon his mind becauseof a painting of a boy and a tame squirrc^l, which came with-out any letter or artists name to one of the exhibitions of theRoyal Academy; and when its natural action and deep vividcoloring made the academicians anxious to give it a good place,they were at a loss what to say about it in the catalog, but fromthe frame on which it was stretched, being American pine, theycalled the work American. The surmise was just; it was aportrait by Copley of his hair-brother, Harry Pelham, and ofsuch excellence as naturally raised high expectations. The Royal Academy was not established until 1769, and so woare left to accept the mere mistake in date or doubt the wholepassage. Dimlap was insecure in many of his statements of fact,and the new edition does the great service of setting him THS AUTHOR OP HOME, SWEET HOME, Painted by Ceplius G. Thompson when .lolin Howard Payne was aboutforty. He had left his actor and playwright days behind him by then. DECIDING ON BARNARDS LINCOLNWITHOUT SEEING IT BARNARDS LINCOLN has had many defenders aswell as enemies. Few of them have the gaiety of Hem*yMcBride, who writes on art for the New York the situation has only just offered excuse for mirth;at any rate, Mr. McBride is hilarious over the committees,academicians, politicians, and diplomats of the United Stateswho have finally persuaded the committees and diplomats ofGreat Britain and Ireland that the Augustus Saint Gaudensstatue of Lincoln !s a better work of art than the George GreyBarnard statue of Lincoln. The comedy of the situation is so obviously Shavian to that he makes a freegift of it to G. B. S. with a fewgiggles of his own in makingthe presentation. Shaws tal-ents being such, he needntwait for the actual arrival ofthe two
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