Stowe notes, letters and verses . , A little yellowish-gray Skye terrier six years old. Nobody allowed tofling him in de brier-patch! TO JOE EVANS Stowe, March 27, 1892. I have asked you before about Theophile Gautier,but I want to know a little more about him. What hashe written besides Captain Fracasse and (what I amnow reading) A Winter in Russia? He is certainlya very acute and delicate though not very subtle ob-server, and presents a picture in a vivid and interestingway, an out-of-door picture especially; when he dealswith personalities I am not so much amused. CaptainFracasse took me ba
Stowe notes, letters and verses . , A little yellowish-gray Skye terrier six years old. Nobody allowed tofling him in de brier-patch! TO JOE EVANS Stowe, March 27, 1892. I have asked you before about Theophile Gautier,but I want to know a little more about him. What hashe written besides Captain Fracasse and (what I amnow reading) A Winter in Russia? He is certainlya very acute and delicate though not very subtle ob-server, and presents a picture in a vivid and interestingway, an out-of-door picture especially; when he dealswith personalities I am not so much amused. CaptainFracasse took me back to pantomime days: I saw themost startling and vivid pictures, real in that sense butin no way connected with real life, and saw them withthe clearness and force with which the fresh eye of eightyears or so takes impressions. It is much the same withthis book. Have you seen Thayer lately? When you do, askhim if the color in a landscape varies in proportion to theamount of light. Is there more color on a sunshiny day y^i^t-Z-^-.
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