Some eminent Victorians: personal recollections in the world of art and letters; . s of O^tce a Week. Charles Keene, whohad first been made known to me by his illustrationsof Merediths novel of Evan Harrington, was a con-stant figure there during the time when he wasalready a valued member of the staff of Punch. Hewas a quaint and amiable character, with a head thatsuggested Don Quixote, and I recall him now as heused to sit for many an hour of the afternoon andevening with his cup of coffee kept hot upon the barsof the old fire-place in the front room of the Club,filling and refilling one of
Some eminent Victorians: personal recollections in the world of art and letters; . s of O^tce a Week. Charles Keene, whohad first been made known to me by his illustrationsof Merediths novel of Evan Harrington, was a con-stant figure there during the time when he wasalready a valued member of the staff of Punch. Hewas a quaint and amiable character, with a head thatsuggested Don Quixote, and I recall him now as heused to sit for many an hour of the afternoon andevening with his cup of coffee kept hot upon the barsof the old fire-place in the front room of the Club,filling and refilling one of those tiny clay pipes datingfrom the period of Charles II., which had beenunearthed during some building excavations in theCity. Taciturn by habit, and perhaps by preference,he yet always willingly entered into conversationwhen the occasion arose. Sometimes I would godown and see him in his little house in Chelsea, andturn over his elaborately careful etchings of boats,made by the sea. It cannot be said, I think, that he was everdeeply stirred in his own work by the movement to. ? seek ihu «.ii,<lfrcr, forth comeAnd take him in his arms, and bear hini in this life, this grove of Ignorance,As to my homeward I myself advance,Sometimes aright, and sometimes wrong I my pace is speedy, sometimes slow. Lifes Journey.—George Wither. From English Sacred Poetry. By Frederick Sandys. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.(Reproduced from their Z^?/?! Yean Work.) By JicTinission ofMessrs. Geort^c Roiitleiige and Sons, Ltd. Tofacffagc 115 DESIGN AND ENGRAVING 115 which I have specially referred, though he was fullof generous appreciation of what was being donein that direction. The effects for which he wasspecially seeking in black and white demanded astyle of execution peculiarly his own, and, when hismastery in the use of the material was complete, theresult, more especially in the rendering of light andshade, was a thing distinct and incomparable.
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