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...untrained can at once choose the best. The second rule is never to express in a painting more than the eye can take in at one glance. To put in more confuses and crowds the picture. It is very important before the sketch is begun to pick out the darkest and the lightest points. Even in the dullest subject it is invariably true that one point is a little darker than all others and that one special point is the lightest...
...this winter's events on the ice, with short descriptions of many of the first-class ice yachts and a discussion of some technical points. To the average reader, it is uninteresting. The best articles in the number are "Ski Running," "Roping Elk in the Rockies." and "Through Darkest America." The first of these is an interesting article on "ski running" and racing in Norway; "Roping, Elk in the Rockies" is a description of the lassoeing of a big elk and makes very interesting reading. "Through Darkest America" is an account of a canoe trip through the wilds of Canada...
...purpose and the honest belief that there was interference that he gave his decision; but so evident was the fact that there was no interference and so universal has that been the opinion held by most of the spectators ever since, that Mr. Coffin has opened himself to the darkest suspicions. Mr. Coffin's umpiring indicates that he was not perfectly just and honest in all parts of the game. Whether he was so intentionally or not he only knows...
...General Booth's scheme for "Darkest England" practicable...
...twenty-two in Germany. They are situated remote from the towns and hence are free from all temptations. No man is forced to enter one, but by so doing he can find work there and later a situation. General Booth advocates very much the same plan in his "Darkest England." By planting these colonies in dreary regions, the soil has been greatly improved by the ploughing of the tramps. The number of colonists received at the twenty-two colonies up to October, 1891, is about 45,000. For the first fortnight the colonist serves for his food and lodging...