Word: colourant
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...Mann's chief characteristic stands in his own path. He has carried local colour to its reductio ad absurdam. The significance of the theme is lost in pages and pages of interesting but unnecessary detail. Herr Mann is probably assured of literary immortality. But it is sad that he should survive, not as a great mind, not as a great artist, but as a source-book for future historians...
There are a number of interesting pictures on exhibition as well as these books. Among these is a photograph of John the Orangeman sitting in his cart, and another is a reproduction in colour of an old engraving, called "A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England," showing Harvard and Massachusetts Halls...
...Print Room at present is an exhibition of recently acquired facsimiles and photographs published by The Dial in 1923. There are paintings in oil, water colour, and tempera, drawings in crayon and pencil reproduced so miraculously that under glass it is impossible to detect them from originals. Picasso is there, Bonnard and Matisse, Vlaminck and Signac, and the Americans, John Marin and Charles Demuth, three of whose watercolors the Fogg acquired several years...
...Murphy, whose work is entirely in oil, has several landscapes, and two large and very brilliant studies in still life on exhibition. Mr. Warren's work, again in water colour, consists chiefly of Maine and New Hampshire landscapes, with a few views of Continental scenery...
...parts of the country special coaches were reserved for them. An incidental result of the conflict was the secession of England from the Union; she declared neutrality between the factions and solved her traffic problems by constructing miniature railways which could be managed by persons of average ability and colour...