Word: narcissus
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...Narcissus, Ethelbert Fevin...
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...third article of the four is the literature which two artists have written around two of their best pictures. It is doubtful if Kenyon Cox ever did anything in the way of illustration better than this "Lilith" and Mr. Low's "Narcissus" is equal to his best work...
...desire to see one's face on paper is almost as pardonable a bit of vanity as the desire to see one's writings in print, and it is much more easily gratified. To be sure, it is not every one that, Narcissus-like, can fall so deeply in love with his own likeness as to be wasted away by the passion; but we all find a certain pleasure in gazing upon ourselves in miniature, and we all, sooner or later, seek to gratify our wish. To the ordinary mortal there is very little choice between the photographer's chair...