Scribner's magazine . eis a strong business element in thelife of a professional portrait-painter,who has frequently to make the mostof a poor subject which affords neitherintellectual nor artistic interest. Somemen are superficial at times and pro-found at others ; Matthew Arnold wasone of these. In a rich nature likethat of Carolus Duran, full of energyand animation, and occupied with avery worldly profession, there may be agood deal, both in life and work, that ismerely on the surface ; but there mayalso be depths of sentiment and powersof imagination of which the j^ublictakes little accoun
Scribner's magazine . eis a strong business element in thelife of a professional portrait-painter,who has frequently to make the mostof a poor subject which affords neitherintellectual nor artistic interest. Somemen are superficial at times and pro-found at others ; Matthew Arnold wasone of these. In a rich nature likethat of Carolus Duran, full of energyand animation, and occupied with avery worldly profession, there may be agood deal, both in life and work, that ismerely on the surface ; but there mayalso be depths of sentiment and powersof imagination of which the j^ublictakes little account. In the case of thisfamous painter eveiything he does is aproof of consummate manual skill andartistic accomplishment, but if I wantedto produce evidence of profounder qual-ities, I should point to a few lonelyand solemn landscapes, and to three orfour faces not easily forgotten, such asthat of the girl who looks like theSphinx waiting for QEdipus, or LePoete a la Mandoline. JOHN MARCH, SOUTHERNERBj George IV. Cable. XLvm ST. valentines : morning ^^C^^^ NE morning, more^ \^ than six weeks afterNew Years eve, Gar-nets carriaoe wheelsdripped water andmud as his goodhorses drao-ofed themslowly into the bor-ders of Suez. The soft, moist windsof February were ruffling the turbidwaters of Turkey Creek and the swol-len flood of the Swanee. A hint ofnew green brightened every road-side,willows were full of yellow light, and apink and purple flush answered fromwoods to fence-row, from fence-row towoods, across and across the three coun-ties. This pikes hardly a pike at all sincethe railroads started, said the Major,more to himself than to Barbara andJohanna ; for these were the two rearoccupants of the carriage. Barb, I got a letter from Fair lastnight. You did too, didnt vou ? Yes, sir. Hell be here next week. He sayshe cant stop with us this time. Barbara was silent, and felt, withoutseeing, the shy, care-taking glance ofher maid. Garnet spoke again, in theguarded tone she knew so w
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