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...blow was comparatively a light one to a New Yorker, but Anthony Hope winced. His eyebrows lifted just a little and on his lips rested the enigmatical smile that Leonardo da Vinci immortalized on Giaconda...
...feverish, he went home to bed, whence a power drove him to a city to buy complete painter's equipment, none of the names for which had Augustin ever before known. Back in his cottage, he painted-or rather a spirit within him did, who signed the canvases "Leonardo da Vinci"-exotic decorative designs, Oriental arabesques of rich color and a draughtsmanship at once high- ly technical and naive. An impartial critic described the work as looking "like the work of the great master executed during an attack of de-lirium...
...spirit fetches him back through time to such scenes as the burning of Pythagoras and his Golden Brotherhood, Leonardo picking up fossils on the Florentine hills, Darwin bareheaded before an ant in Kent, Huxley impaling bland Bishop Wilberforce before the British Association. The latter episode, vividly reconstructed, is the high point of the narrative and is brought into sharp relief by a humorous glimpses of Miss Eliza Pym of Woodstock, blushing furiously but consumed with curiosity to hear that the wild flowers she draws in delicate, virginal water-colors have...
...hated it. It made me feel sick. . . . I rushed out. . . . I went back. . . . I was still horrified at thinking her so horrible. The slimy paint, like that of the Yiddish School of the present day! I listened to what people were saying. . . . 'That expression!' . . . 'Leonardo has here expressed womanhood in all her moods!' . . . 'The eternal circle!' . . . 'The masterpiece of the world!' And there was I, unable to see anything except a slimily painted, bloated woman, with a slightly dirty-looking face and a rather nasty sensual expression. . . . I suppose I must...
Died. Mrs. Mary A. Saunders, 73, first woman to earn her living by typewriting; in Leonardo, N. J. In 1875, she answered an advertisement, was shown an odd machine, taught how to run it, earned $12 a week...