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...famed painter, etcher, published* a gasconade, prefaced with a diatribe?Etchers and Etching. Writing it, gall scored his pen; gloom puckered his mouth. In his foreword, he denounces, derides all others who have written about etching. The curator of prints in the British Museum, he is demolished; "poor old Hamerton" (Hamerton whose works have long been the only authority on etching), he is spurned. He employs many great names, many swaggering pronouns. "Whistler," says Etcher Pennell, "Whistler and I. . . ." "Whistler and me. . . ." Down the list of the world's immortal etchers he runs his pen, here scratching out a name...
...with friends and loved ones--had turned from all these to the rigors of camp and training stations--had subordinated himself to enders that must be obeyed without demur--had set himself to face terrifle perils overseas and lay down his life if he must--all for that flag! Hamerton was right when he wrote: "The two most powerful mental stimulants--since they overcome the fear of death--are unquestionably religion and patriotism." --Boston Herald...
...encouraging evidence of the "Monthly's" literary rank that its columns have become the means of publishing an exchange of ideas by two such men as Col. T. W. Higginson and Mr. Hamerton. Mr. Hamerton's reply to Col. Higginson's rather pointed criticism of a statement of his, is interesting and well written. However, the reader is made to feel through this reply now insignificant the whole question at issue is. It seems, to use Col. Higginson's own words, that "a mere obiter dictum is taken up" and made too much of. On the whole the fair-minded...
...Atlantic Monthly for January is a highly interesting number. A fourth paper on the "French and English" is presented by Mr. Hamerton. Marion Crawford begins a new story, "Paul Platoff." A strong paper on "Alexander Hamilton," a new story, "The Second Son," by M. O. W. Oliphant and T. B. Aldrich, "Marginal Notes from the Library of a Mathematician" by A. S. Hardy, are noticeable among the other papers of the number. A review of Stockton's stories and book notices complete the issue...
Under the title of "Mr. Hamerton on Literature in a Republic," Mr. Higginson expresses the opinion that an author is far superior to an English duke or an American millionaire. It is with interest that we read this essay, and it is with deep-felt grief that we turn from it to the poem entitled "From Platen." In the last Monthly Mr. Berenson gave us a specimen of poetry which was hardly creditable to his literary ability. This time he offers us a short piece which does credit neither to his power of versification, nor to his judgment in selecting...