The home library . Fig. 21. tered in Latin. Eyen when the French choose to treat anheraldic subject, they are wont to lighten it and make itmore graceful. Here (Fig. 22) is one drawn by Boucherfor a French collector of the last century. The owners ON THE LENDING AND MARKING OF BOOKS, HI. Fi&. 22. name is there, and so are his arms, but so airy and grace-ful is the touch of the artist that even the heraldic designloses its stiffness and heaviness. The sketch made by Gayarni for the Goncourt broth- 112 THE HOME LIBRARY. ers, Edmond and Jules, who were inseparable, living to-gether, eating togeth
The home library . Fig. 21. tered in Latin. Eyen when the French choose to treat anheraldic subject, they are wont to lighten it and make itmore graceful. Here (Fig. 22) is one drawn by Boucherfor a French collector of the last century. The owners ON THE LENDING AND MARKING OF BOOKS, HI. Fi&. 22. name is there, and so are his arms, but so airy and grace-ful is the touch of the artist that even the heraldic designloses its stiffness and heaviness. The sketch made by Gayarni for the Goncourt broth- 112 THE HOME LIBRARY. ers, Edmond and Jules, who were inseparable, living to-gether, eating together, working together, writing togeth-er, shows how completely the French have cast off anytrace of the heraldic origin of the book-plate. There isa French locution, ^^Les deux doigts de la main—^^thetwo fingers on the hand—implying close and fraternalunion ; and it is this which Gavarni sets before us in his
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