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...Characters. "Early mornings, pushing his fish cart up and down the long main street of North Plymouth, Mass., ringing his bell, chatting with housewives in Piedmontese, Tuscan, pidgin English, Bartolomeo Vanzetti worried about the raids, the imprisonment of comrades, the lethargy of the working people. He was an anarchist . . . Between the houses he could see the gleaming stretch of Plymouth Bay, the sandy islands beyond, the white dories at anchor. He was planning to go into fishing himself in partnership with a man who owned some dories. About three hundred years before, men from the west of England had first...
...railroad office, studying when he had time in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He sold his first drawings?some illustrations for a story in the Century Magazine?when he was 21. Two years later he went abroad to draw the illustrations for William Dean Howell's Tuscan Cities, and remained for some time on the Continent, living in Paris, in Italy. He knew Henry James in the days when that sensitive young man was trying to recover from the shock of calling on De Maupassant and finding him, not unaccompanied, in bed. He was a friend of Whistler, whose...
Quite splintered was the Tuscan's oaken shaft...
...through the Tuscan's pot-like belly bored...
Nicola Fechin has painted various things, among them two fried eggs. Yellow as Tuscan florins, complacent, succulent, they swim in the glory that is grease; worshippers, gazing upon them in the Grand Central Galleries, thought of the famed eggs of history−of Humpty-Dumpty, of the egg of Columbus, even of the fabulous, the cosmic, Egg. For this is the magic of Artist Fechin. He is a superb technician. His command of brushing, of absolute color, is masterly. He deceives the eye, some- times for a minute at a time, into mistaking for a great painting a work which...