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Of Turner's wonderful versatility, Ruskin says: "There is architecture, including a large number of formal 'gentlemen's seats; then lowland pastoral scenery of every kind, including nearly all farming operations, plowing, harrowing, hedging and ditching, felling trees, sheep-washing, and I know not what else; there are all kinds of town life, court-yards of inns, starting of mail coaches, interiors of shops, house-buildings, fairs, and elections; then all kinds of inner domestic life, interiors of rooms, studies of costumes, of still-life and heraldry, including multitudes of symbolical vignettes; then marine scenery of every kind, full of local incident every kind of boat, and the methods of fishing for particular fish being specifically drawn round the whole coast of England; pilchard-fishing at St.
I commence: At Poissy the nuns were accustomed to, when Mademoiselle, the king's daughter, their abbess, had gone to bed..... It was she who first called it faire la petite oie, to stick to the preliminaries of love, the prologues, prefaces, protocols, warnings, notices, introductions, summaries, prospectuses, arguments, notices, epigraphs, titles, false-titles, current titles, scholia, marginal remarks, frontispieces, observations, gilt edges, bookmarks, reglets, vignettes, tail pieces, and engravings, without once opening the merry book to read, re-read, and study to apprehend and comprehend the contents.
But to Colette the homely little stories were vignettes of another side of life. "Have you been to the rectory yet, Amarilly?" she asked presently, when Amarilly's memories of stage life lagged. "No; Flammy has went fer Mr. St. Mark's things." "Mr. St. Mark's!" Colette laughed delightedly. "I thought you told me that the preacher's name was Mr. St. Marks.
I have done a great deal of walking, I have read a lot of novels and old poetry, I have sate about a good deal in the open air; but I do not really like Switzerland; there are of course an abundance of noble wide-hung views, but there are few vignettes, little on which the mind and heart dwell with an intimate and familiar satisfaction.
In Bible vignettes of the eighteenth century, Paradise which is the archetype of the virgin splendor of nature is depicted as a flat tiresome garden entirely without elevations of any kind, in which the dear God has already begun to correct his own handiwork, and with the shears of a French gardener has carved out from the clumps of trees, straight avenues, pyramids, and the like.
The environment of the Square is a pleasanter environment. When Delmonico's was at the Twenty-sixth Street corner, the hero of one of Brander Matthews's "Vignettes of Manhattan" pointed out of one of its windows and confessed that, failure in life as he was, he would die out of sight of the tower of the Madison Square Garden.
In the latter case he is often what we see him above, and in the former he is always modest, discreet, and entertaining. Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing. From the German of JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND. With Vignettes by E. B. Bensell. New York: Leypoldt and Holt.
In this book he found the complement of Turner's vignettes, something like a key to the "reason why" of all the wonderful forms and marvellous mountain-architecture of the Alps.
Vignettes emerged only to fade! of the old-world houses whose quaint beauty had fascinated and moved her. And she found herself wondering what had become of the strange man she had mistaken for a carpenter. All that seemed to have taken place in a past life. She asked Ditmar where he was going. "Boston," he told her. "There's no other place to go."
Addison. Texts: Works, in Bohn's British Classics; Selections, in Athenaeum Press, etc. Criticism: Essays, by Macaulay; by Thackeray. Steele. Criticism: Essays by Thackeray; by Dobson, in Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Johnson. Texts: Works, edited by Walesby, 11 vols. Criticism: G.B. Hill's Dr.
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