Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in England, reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British government . XLVMUNITIONS CITY XLV MUNITIONS CITY HOW wonderful is all this energy, this smoke, thiscolour. How the city set upon its hills revealsand conceals itself—yet its frown is terrible. * LatelyI read an art book which contained a few lines of descrip-tion of these cities and the country where they are, forin order to show the terror of the land, the authorwrote of the black-smirched valleys, the gloom
Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in England, reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British government . XLVMUNITIONS CITY XLV MUNITIONS CITY HOW wonderful is all this energy, this smoke, thiscolour. How the city set upon its hills revealsand conceals itself—yet its frown is terrible. * LatelyI read an art book which contained a few lines of descrip-tion of these cities and the country where they are, forin order to show the terror of the land, the authorwrote of the black-smirched valleys, the gloomysky under which the train darted through forestsof smoking chimney-stacks and over grimy, trough-like streets. That these might be wonderful, pictorial,magnificent, the record of our age, never occurred tohim; it has never occurred to any writer but XLVIBY-PRODUCTS XLVI BY-PRODUCTS THE new sort of coke ovens are the most pictorialsubjects I saw—when they are at work—becausethey are all effect, all bathed and wrapped in fume andsteam and smoke, and these make for me, and give tome, my motives, though there is great work behindthem. .; ?r-*»*i. *
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