. Art and artists of our time. e shelfthat holds the works of Hawthorne. In truth his literary and artistic inclinations foughtwith one another for the control of his life, and neither had, it would seem, sufficient forceto obtain the complete mastery. Add to this a native indolence, a complete absence of skiUin practical life, and we have the secret of the failure of his career, as failure is estimated by ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 245 the world. But if success be measured by a mans influence upon the spirit, the aims, andthe ideals of those who come in contact with him, we may well envy AU
. Art and artists of our time. e shelfthat holds the works of Hawthorne. In truth his literary and artistic inclinations foughtwith one another for the control of his life, and neither had, it would seem, sufficient forceto obtain the complete mastery. Add to this a native indolence, a complete absence of skiUin practical life, and we have the secret of the failure of his career, as failure is estimated by ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 245 the world. But if success be measured by a mans influence upon the spirit, the aims, andthe ideals of those who come in contact with him, we may well envy AUston, for no artistever lived in America, and few have lived anywhere, who have enjoyed nobler friendships, orhave deserved them better. He strove for excellence, says Mr. Sweetser, in his excellentbrief biography, and loved it for its own sake, without thought of temporal considerationsand emoluments, save as beautifully expressed in his own words, Fame is the eternal shadowof excellence, from which it can never be CRANBERRY-PICKING. FROM THE PICTURE BY EASTMAN JOHNSON. BY PERMISSION OF MESSRS CASSELL & CO. Long after his return to America Allston married, in 1830, Miss Dana, a cousin of hisfirst wife and a sister of Richard H. Dana, the poet. Allston died at Cambridgeport in wife survived him until 1862. Thomas Sully, an artist whose name is bound up with those of the ablest of his profes-sional contemporaries in America, Avas born in England, in Lincolnshire, in 1783. His parentswere actors, who came to America in 1792, and settled in Charleston, South Carolina, where aMr. West, the brother-in-laAv of the elder Sully, was manager of the theatre. One of ThomasSullys sisters married a French miniature-painter by the name of Belzons, and it was from him that Thomas had his first lessons in painting. The same artist also taught Dunlap his III 246 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. rudiments. He was an ill-tempered man, and Ms treatment of his young pupil soon drov
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