Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rather rambling article on the conditions which surround a Florentine artist, a careful paper with which Frederic Crowninshield concludes his "Impressions of a Decorator in Rome," another instalment of Mrs. Burnett's "The one I knew best of all," two pieces of fiction "To her" and "How the Battle was Lost," and finally a pair of sonnets, make up the rest of this not very brilliant number...
Among the graduates whose faces appear in the picture are Capt. Robert J. Cook, George Adee. Walter Camp, Chauncey Depew, Beecher. Stagg, and a score of others. The artist is Howland of New York, brother of Judge Howland, who is a member of the Yale corporation...
...Chaucer was a marked contrast. Langley was a novelist, Chaucer an artist. His nature was sunny and genial, he was satisfied to take things as they were, and try to describe not to better them. He was a man of facts; not only was he an eager student, and a prodigious reader, but an accomplished man of the world. He had the best education England afforded, he paid a visit to Italy, and shared in the active life of English politics...
...opening article is "A New Light on the Chinese" with fascinating illustrations from paintings and drawings by the artist, Theodore Wares. Miss Mary E. Wilkins contributes her first attempt at play-writing, entitled "Giles Corey, Yeoman." Theodore Child, the Art-Critic, whose death was recently reported, has a paper on "Some Types of the Virgin." illustrated from paintings by the great masters, including a picture by Sandro Botticelli, which alone is cause enough for the existence of the Pre-Raphaelite School...
...retain that simple interest in the world and its beauty, in things unconnected with ends, which may serve to rest and sooth us all through life and may keep for us that unconcern, that charming insouciance, which is the glory of the child and the artist...