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I do not know any more truly realistic pictures of certain aspects of New England life than are to be found in Judd's "Margaret," wherein are depicted exceedingly pinched and ignoble social conditions. Yet the characters and the life are drawn with the artistic purity of Flaxman's illustrations of Homer. Another example is Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd."
He had gone off early in the afternoon to the East End with Hugh Flaxman to take part in a committee of workmen organised for the establishment of a choral union in R , the scheme of which had been Flaxman's chief contribution so far to the Elgood Street undertaking.
Norham with a secretary and a valet, much preoccupied, and chewing the fag-end of certain Cabinet deliberations in the morning; Flaxman's charming sister, Lady Helen Varley, and her husband; his elder brother, Lord Wanless, unmarried, an expert on armour, slightly eccentric, but still, in the eyes of all intriguing mothers, and to his own annoyance, more than desirable as a husband owing to the Wanless collieries and a few other trifles of the same kind; the Bishop of Markborough; Canon France and his sister; a young poet whose very delicate muse had lodged itself oddly in the frame of an athlete; a high official in the Local Government Board, Mr.
"No; Homer's," said she, smiling; "Pope's Homer's, I mean." To cover his blunder as fast as possible, Sir James went on to something else, and asked what her ladyship thought of Flaxman's sketches from the Iliad and Odyssey?
The shelves where they rest in vellum and in dust are only an arm's-length from the window; so that I can relieve the stiff classicism of Flaxman's rendering of the "Works and Days," or the tedious iteration of Columella and Crescenzio, by a glance outside into the rain-cloud, under which lies always the checkered illustration of the farming of to-day, and beyond which the spires stand in sentinel.
I found the reply unanswerable, and hastened after Mrs. Flaxman, who was already out of sight. When we reached the door the cars were in motion. "What shall we do?" I cried, anxiously. "I could never get off while the cars were moving." I caught a glimpse of Mrs. Flaxman's scared face as we went past. "Leave me and go to Mrs. Flaxman.
The civilisation there unearthed raises questions of great interest; the problems it suggests are certain to modify current ideas of Homeric study. The best interpretation of Greek poetry is Symonds' Greek Poets, 2 vols. Jebb's Homer is the best introduction to the many difficulties presented by the poems. Flaxman's engravings for the Iliad and Odyssey are of the highest order.
He had gone off early in the afternoon to the East End with Hugh Flaxman to take part in a committee of workmen organized for the establishment of a choral union in R , the scheme of which had been Flaxman's chief contribution so far to the Elgood Street undertaking.
The initiated mind, as I have ventured to call it, has a vision of a little unadorned parlour, with the snow-drifts of a Massachusetts winter piled up about its windows, and a group of sensitive and serious people, modest votaries of opportunity, fixing their eyes upon a bookful of Flaxman's attenuated outlines.
'Society, amusement, flirtation, are one thing, she replied with judicial imperativeness, 'marriage is another. In these democratic days we must know everybody; we should only marry our equals. The instant, however, the words were out of her mouth, she regretted them. Mr. Flaxman's expression changed. 'I do not agree with you, he said calmly, 'and you know I do not.
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