ast costumes and foreign habits ; still less can he con¬ Tl /T R. JOHN S. SARGENT betrays very slightly in his ceive the view taken of pictures, statues, and ornamentation painting his American descent, unless by a pro¬ nounced respect for technique and a certain absence of the by those to whom… … life, and if they have many modern paint¬ Mrs. W. Playfair. ever seen good ones ers, writers, and mu¬ sicians of every country, though they feel a profound respect it has been on a sight-seeing trip to some public gallery. No candid person so reared can pretend to understand any for the evident…
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