"sley ano Mesonies." Recollections of witliany -Bothenstein 1873-1000, Faberé Faber, London erh SUE en, of, ala, pone for men crowned wilk vine leaves, Afuldoge Took ao. stale, "ead Osea! Wilde one evening, az' Kao with him and Conder and Bax at the cate Royal... humourous acceptance imsolt ved his situation in which we found This passage in Professor Rothenstein's lively. recollections. is. illustrated by a characteristic sketch by Mr. Max Beerbohm. It illuminates the role good-naturedly played by the author driving the twenty-eight yetrs with which the ook deals cond volume, naturally, will Eiliow ant it is up to 86 pro: mise of the first it should be greatly Sought. "Professor Rothenstein no Boswell, although his fidelity recalling the fights of genius is rkable because he unconsciousfenisa strength of character loyalty, to say nothing of his own eminence in art, which disposes fof the idea that in the circles with Which, this record "deals-che was ly a lay figure, 'Te is true that His respectable' friends looked. ask
bibbers, ant the winesbibbers com: fice at hig consorting with wine-plained that his only fault was thet abjured their source of inspira: tion." But this in no. way, produced jaundiced outlook, and, for symp thetic insight and well-balanced: tolerance, the comments threading, through the narrative are most There were little men who hung round the personalities of the great. Toere were great men who had the ttle minds of their hangers-on. Professor Rothenstein is not very fond of Watts-Dunton, Swinburne's shadow. For. an instance of the difference in methods of criticism this passage ig amusing:
"4. He seemed to think Beardsley] epfcuented all! chat "was, iving in ad Ie was" pleasant. (0 The fund of men of the century. wwe lett he told Oscar Wilde was more caustic. He declared that \Watts-Dunton was and less fear thority on the sonnet only be-therefore nothing from the of, misapprehension. The book use the sonnet was made up of six and cight—an allusion to' the fect that, Wilde plays no little part victim's profession as a solicitor. in the story. Names which have B. Fry, curiously enough, Seatio with names of the brilliant into the mists of the, past comes into the picture as one of thi Wadham stars who included F. E. resent. 'There is, for example, ilgon' Steer, who adorned the Honours List the other day and 'Academy, Sickert and Max yet to be acclaimed by the Royal Fey' had then the Beerbohin Iso in the fratern-3 wer {iple blue, & good: acho frank "eiasuming nat lide, Stephen Phillips and Aubrey from, which, Whistler, Oscar Wonder "he Beardsloy have disappeared. There After hig B. Simith play is much account hero of the life in fiddle." Sath had a brliant bat Paris which Clu Maurier so. well immortalized in "Trilby." The Vie-artists and were tort! Villains, but Professor. Rothenstein ts
Tuceeods "in soparsting the, dross from the true. metal, und. the wit good, natare of those men who wore working in the service of art Snd° intellect' stand clear revealed hey ave fo thal wife their twentieth century Slecetwors have. greatly. profited.
overting to Wilde, the book tains what is perhaps one of the ost brilliant and teuthal appre: tiations of his. place in literature, Ativan, of course, " brant career wantonly. wrecked by. sheer folly.
Bernara Show might never have "scintilated had" Wilde not Biased the trait, Of Shaw him set by the way, there fs a character Appreciation which i worth qvoting:
(oman has shown Mad conten? ae host Set ie head 'The stories interwoven with this' garland of pictures are jnnumer~ able. Walter Sickert in his youth fell under the fascination of Ellen 'Terry's playing, and_on the occa-ion' of some Special performance desize! to pay tribute to the actre Out of his slender resources he purchased a bouquet of roses, and wishing to make sure that at
reach jed the end of the propriate moment this should Bouquet. with "lead. The roses, thrown from ilory, fell with low stage wea ae always, felt that "through bushy through aver hill, down. dale, for tue the At any rate, this contretemps had the "advantage of bringing the young artist in contact with a master.
Models of course, played their part' in the life of the eager young, men who seized emotion and colour. in Paris to pi i vision, (9 the vision tg not often the Nand if hig talk fe more tke copy eras the Boer opt, Setaty: a Ears erh, which eroualy gratefal for. the gift
ud her Sgare, small bosomed, pode cam the creamy unity of " En Per they amonged from the clothes then worn, the high she fear and without reproach.
Te is a pleasure to come across tone who. as an artist himself can Qriticlze his fellow artists and yet fontarimine after Rodd stand, how disiivsioning to is tooking like fee them when they revue hei Poor, tram Tetchken te halt thole sizes tribute to Wilde:
Sten pele ith the last:
Wilde's spirits Mat he was Ame?
Whistler comes in for criticism which does not entirely overlook his-failings:
Whistler never forgot and His judgments.
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