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...Saratsi Minister Johnson visited millet fields that had been swept clear of grain by rats. The Saratsi farmers, crafty little people, did not complain. They told Mr. Johnson that they hunted out the rats' holes, stole the grain the industrious rats had harvested...
Harvard Club of Berkshire. President: Robert K. Thompson '23, 173 Church St., North Adams. Vice-President: John A. P. Millet '10, M. D. '14, Stockbridge. Secretary-Treasurer: Frank E. Crawford '11, Berkshire School, Sheffield...
Could they observe the careers of their grandsons, most great men would be moved either to laughter or tears. Grandfather Millet was simple, pious, one generation removed from the soil. His first artistic efforts occurred after he had studied some Biblical engravings. He righteously abandoned the painting of nudes after he had learned to do them splendidly. It is not difficult to imagine how he would have regarded the story, pieced together from rumors, which was being circulated last week while his grandson awaited trial. The story...
...Grandson Millet procured the services of Paul Cazeau, artist, onetime house painter, whom he urged to a prolific aping of the manner of Grandfather Millet. To Artist Cazeau's canvases Grandson Millet then affixed his grandfather's initials. In Paris he discovered one Rudolfo Perez y Montalbo playing a guitar on the streets. Impressed by the man's name and aspect, Grandson Millet pressed him into_ service as a connoisseur. The guitarist's job was to attest solemnly, wordily that the works of Cazeau were, in truth, the works of "that luminous master of the Barbizon school?Jean Francois Millet...
...successful were the trio that they soon added bogus Corots, Degas, Daumiers, Sisleys and Pissarros to their stock. Some of these sold as high as $10,000. On the untidy profits, Grandson Millet's wife and children thrived. When he was apprehended, the police reported that he had sold more than 4,000 fakes. Cheery, un- daunted, he admitted that the collection he had sold to the Millet Museum at Barbizon was entirely sham. Said he: "I had a good time, but this is the unconventional unhappy ending. The Americans from Missouri, the Continentals and the English fell the hardest...