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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1896)
.v.jjtJ IT ? c- 'V- -', f r v, . '? 'Ar"""- v -k T- - . --r s. , s i & THS COURIER. l?r, TO BUSINESS WEN. We have for rent a centrally located BRICK BLOCK IN IJNCOLN. IMWM FYHUICf HIMUl HH LINCOLN, NEB. ww WB AND OUR NEIGHBORS. T M. RAYMOND, A. J. SAWYER President. Vicee President 8. H. BURXEAM. D. G. WING Rubier. AMitnt Caibirr CAPITAL, $250,000 SURPLUS $25 000 Us VlJ Complete modern conveniences: will lease entire building or part of it VERY DESIRABLE FOR EITHER "iTfTig Ltek jrfttv. jryw lr IS- !! fr . - i i f it. SS r rv I- 4 r (. r r & r- 6 ft. Jk -L7 C . I?" Gibson has a new girl. She is Eng lish, has a small mouth, and wears darker clothes than his American type. If she Is not so chic, she Is less self conscious and, therefore, more attrac tive. She Is conscious of neither pose, costume nor figure. His new type has repose, simplicity, honesty. The how beautiful I am and how stylish of his American girl has gone, let us hope, forever. In looking over Richard Harding Davis' "About Paris," Illustrated by Gibson, there is an opportunity to get acquainted with Gibson's style as an Individual. The single picture may exhibit departures from the rule. Twenty-nine drawings, such as "'About Parts" contains, afford data for con clusions, or rather opinions. The sweep and freedom of line and the economical use of It is at once appar ent. The figures appear to have al ways existed on the page, the faces are Indicated by so few lines. The outline is always pure and accurate, and the expression unmistakable. The anat omy of his men and women shows skeleton study. Dislocations are Tare and so far as my observation goes, do sot occur in any of his drawings. It is only necessary to compare Du Mau rier's figures with Gibson's to appreci ate the tatter's excellence in this par ticular. And after all I like Du Maurier best. The people he draws, some of them like nothing that ever was for length of limb and stralghtness . of nose, are interesting as acqualntancea. and friends. Gibson's men and women are the work of a great draughts-man to man with as little permanent attrac tion for m sas we have, for them were they as alive as they look. The shad ows are dark on clothes, and hair but between the figures of Gibson's compo sitions there are none. The have lost their shadows and this may be why the compositions lack vibration and a book full of them is tiresome. Com pare the very different method of W. A. C P&pe in the Illustrations to Rud yard Kipling's "In the Rukh." The shadow of the black panther falls on the snake Kaa and moves with It. All the jungle people are connected by shadows that move with them. Mowgli is covered with leaf shadows or the quivers of the water as he tohes. If there be light there must be shadow. Frequently, because of the relative position of the light to the plane on which the shadow Is thrown it is distorted. It is never the sasse. It is somewhat presumptuous to guess why so eminent an illustrator as Mr. Gibson leaves out floor or ground shadows. "With the confession that it is impudent perhaps it is safe ' te surmise that it may be because he wishes to make as few Impressions as possible on the retina, in order that those few may be clear. A shadow of a perpendicular object on a horizontal plane must be distorted and more or leas confusing. This view of Gibson's reasons fortiis conduct is confirmed by the presence of shadow, in many com positions, on a perpendicular plane and only a few faint scratches in the twenty-nine drawings on a horisontal plane. If this be so. he gives up for singleness of impression, vibration: the great for the little, the mysterious for the commonplace, truth for Wsarrerie. Vibration is not to be con fused with actios. Bis men walk and spring and rue -like athletes, his wom en have the quick, changing glance of accomplished coquettes, their draperies flew .about them with a life that is at eace feminine and from the nature of the folds, momentary. To enumerate Gibson's charms Is easy. His faults must be hunted for. The slow, seduc tive smile of his French women, the purity, independence, poise of his American women, and the elegance and fine figures of his American men everyone is familiar with. They de light all who study him. He Is as great a wonder, in his way, as Zorn is in his. Ke can catch the expression -of the loungers in a cafe and make of the various groups a picture; but as I said before, the Individuals are bet--ter than the whole. A picture by Gib son is like a poem by Tennyson which is made up of exquisite words, phrases, lines,, yet the poem as a whole does not satisfy. In the same way Gibson's phrasing is exquisite, his pictures lack tang, flavor that quality which en ables half-blind DuMaurler, bad draughtsman and ignorant anatomist as he is, to capture and keep the loy alty of all Imaginative minds. "About Paris," by Richard Harding Davis, appeared serially In last year's Harpers'. It is pleasant reading, and If, at times, the author's tone is a trifle elevated, inflated, or literary, it does not matter so much, because he as sumes that the social position and the culture of the reader are equal to his own. It is "other people" that Rich ard Harding Davis' breeding compels him to conceal his scorn and real aloof ness from. He reveals it to the reader, with a fine delicacy and assumption of equality and fraternity, because Richard Harding D. is In the book business and readers are customers and must be treated with the consider ation that the permanence of his Job demands, although he knows and "we might know, that the canaille he de scribes, aot, dress, talk very much as we do. It is only after finishing a sketch, fresh from his white fingers, in a moment of absolute rest from other thoughts that the impression settles down that the young author under consideration is scornful and takes liberties with "other people" that look like us. Literary hauteur is more inexcusable than the social kind and has less excuse for being. It also is followed by swifter punishment. The retribution of Ruskin should be a warning to all who think to speak as he spoke. To be sure, there are sui cides who desire oblivion, but as long ae "there is no comparative why should these write at all? McClure'sM agazine for June contains five good articles a larger number than any of the other monthlies at hand. "In the Rukh." by Rudyard Kipling, is a reprint except when it comes to the pictures. These are by W. A. C Pape. The vignettes that top the pages represent the Jungle peo ple; they are the hunters, the boa con strictor, the black panther and the bear, the silent onesj the elephant folk, the poison snakes," tEe 'Seonee pack, the bandar log; the monkeys and the striped ones; tigers. They are drawn with feeling and satisfy those who have lost count of the number of times they have read the "Jungle Book." The picture of the four wolves dancing before Mowgli and Abdul Gafur's daughter and of Mowgli coming through a jungle so thick that only a few rays of sunlight can penetrate it, are of fascinating quality, yet I like the jungle people vignettes better. The elephants, bears, snakes and wolves are Kipling's-and we have no use for any other since trying his. 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