Color Studies
Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure.It is also searchable and contains hyper-links to chapters.
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These 'Color Studies' are cleverly written, quaintly humorous, and unaffected in style. Notwithstanding their unpretentiousness they introduce us to real people of the sort whom it is a pleasure to know, and whose lives and surroundings are invested with a more than fleeting interest.
Piquant, novel and ingenious, these little stories, with all their simplicity, have excited a wide interest. One of the best, 'Jaune d'Antimoine' is a little wonder in its dramatic effect, its ingenious construction, its happy combination of exquisite comedy with the intensity which touches the deepest springs of sympathy. The touch is at once so delicate and so funny, so intellectual, and so much fun, that to read the story is to give one's self an hour of intense enjoyment."
While each story is complete in itself there is an ingenious dovetailing of interest and character which makes it almost a continuous work. 'Rose' and her fun loving old father, along with 'Vandyke Brown,' whom she marries, and several others, appear throughout the series. The book's title expresses the idea exactly. The stories are all illustrative of American artist life, and we risk nothing in saying that the theme has never been touched with a surer, neater hand. The trials of young painters in their hard period of obtaining recognition, the easygoing life of the studios, the air of the picture galleries and the Bohemian living rooms, are all lithfully yet pointedly constructed by Mr. Janvier, with that other insistence upon honest love, which makes the world go round. There is very pleasant humor; the dialog is so good that we wish there was more of it. In work of this kind everything should be sharp, quick, in on the spot."
It is refreshing to be able to say a word of hearty, thankful praise about a volume containing 4 short stories by Thomas Janvier. Novelists and critics are continually bewailing the dearth of materials for romance in America, most conspicuously in New York. Janvier convinces us that the needful matter is all about us, and that only the eye to see, the heart to focus, and the pen to express. His simple, kindly stories are fragments of the romance of Greenwich Village, of Fourth Street and crooked Tenth Street, and of all the region about Jefferson Market. His characters are chiefly toiling disciples of art, and in their delineation the ideal and real are very skillfully blended.
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These 'Color Studies' are cleverly written, quaintly humorous, and unaffected in style. Notwithstanding their unpretentiousness they introduce us to real people of the sort whom it is a pleasure to know, and whose lives and surroundings are invested with a more than fleeting interest.
Piquant, novel and ingenious, these little stories, with all their simplicity, have excited a wide interest. One of the best, 'Jaune d'Antimoine' is a little wonder in its dramatic effect, its ingenious construction, its happy combination of exquisite comedy with the intensity which touches the deepest springs of sympathy. The touch is at once so delicate and so funny, so intellectual, and so much fun, that to read the story is to give one's self an hour of intense enjoyment."
While each story is complete in itself there is an ingenious dovetailing of interest and character which makes it almost a continuous work. 'Rose' and her fun loving old father, along with 'Vandyke Brown,' whom she marries, and several others, appear throughout the series. The book's title expresses the idea exactly. The stories are all illustrative of American artist life, and we risk nothing in saying that the theme has never been touched with a surer, neater hand. The trials of young painters in their hard period of obtaining recognition, the easygoing life of the studios, the air of the picture galleries and the Bohemian living rooms, are all lithfully yet pointedly constructed by Mr. Janvier, with that other insistence upon honest love, which makes the world go round. There is very pleasant humor; the dialog is so good that we wish there was more of it. In work of this kind everything should be sharp, quick, in on the spot."
It is refreshing to be able to say a word of hearty, thankful praise about a volume containing 4 short stories by Thomas Janvier. Novelists and critics are continually bewailing the dearth of materials for romance in America, most conspicuously in New York. Janvier convinces us that the needful matter is all about us, and that only the eye to see, the heart to focus, and the pen to express. His simple, kindly stories are fragments of the romance of Greenwich Village, of Fourth Street and crooked Tenth Street, and of all the region about Jefferson Market. His characters are chiefly toiling disciples of art, and in their delineation the ideal and real are very skillfully blended.
Color Studies
Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure.It is also searchable and contains hyper-links to chapters.
***
These 'Color Studies' are cleverly written, quaintly humorous, and unaffected in style. Notwithstanding their unpretentiousness they introduce us to real people of the sort whom it is a pleasure to know, and whose lives and surroundings are invested with a more than fleeting interest.
Piquant, novel and ingenious, these little stories, with all their simplicity, have excited a wide interest. One of the best, 'Jaune d'Antimoine' is a little wonder in its dramatic effect, its ingenious construction, its happy combination of exquisite comedy with the intensity which touches the deepest springs of sympathy. The touch is at once so delicate and so funny, so intellectual, and so much fun, that to read the story is to give one's self an hour of intense enjoyment."
While each story is complete in itself there is an ingenious dovetailing of interest and character which makes it almost a continuous work. 'Rose' and her fun loving old father, along with 'Vandyke Brown,' whom she marries, and several others, appear throughout the series. The book's title expresses the idea exactly. The stories are all illustrative of American artist life, and we risk nothing in saying that the theme has never been touched with a surer, neater hand. The trials of young painters in their hard period of obtaining recognition, the easygoing life of the studios, the air of the picture galleries and the Bohemian living rooms, are all lithfully yet pointedly constructed by Mr. Janvier, with that other insistence upon honest love, which makes the world go round. There is very pleasant humor; the dialog is so good that we wish there was more of it. In work of this kind everything should be sharp, quick, in on the spot."
It is refreshing to be able to say a word of hearty, thankful praise about a volume containing 4 short stories by Thomas Janvier. Novelists and critics are continually bewailing the dearth of materials for romance in America, most conspicuously in New York. Janvier convinces us that the needful matter is all about us, and that only the eye to see, the heart to focus, and the pen to express. His simple, kindly stories are fragments of the romance of Greenwich Village, of Fourth Street and crooked Tenth Street, and of all the region about Jefferson Market. His characters are chiefly toiling disciples of art, and in their delineation the ideal and real are very skillfully blended.
***
These 'Color Studies' are cleverly written, quaintly humorous, and unaffected in style. Notwithstanding their unpretentiousness they introduce us to real people of the sort whom it is a pleasure to know, and whose lives and surroundings are invested with a more than fleeting interest.
Piquant, novel and ingenious, these little stories, with all their simplicity, have excited a wide interest. One of the best, 'Jaune d'Antimoine' is a little wonder in its dramatic effect, its ingenious construction, its happy combination of exquisite comedy with the intensity which touches the deepest springs of sympathy. The touch is at once so delicate and so funny, so intellectual, and so much fun, that to read the story is to give one's self an hour of intense enjoyment."
While each story is complete in itself there is an ingenious dovetailing of interest and character which makes it almost a continuous work. 'Rose' and her fun loving old father, along with 'Vandyke Brown,' whom she marries, and several others, appear throughout the series. The book's title expresses the idea exactly. The stories are all illustrative of American artist life, and we risk nothing in saying that the theme has never been touched with a surer, neater hand. The trials of young painters in their hard period of obtaining recognition, the easygoing life of the studios, the air of the picture galleries and the Bohemian living rooms, are all lithfully yet pointedly constructed by Mr. Janvier, with that other insistence upon honest love, which makes the world go round. There is very pleasant humor; the dialog is so good that we wish there was more of it. In work of this kind everything should be sharp, quick, in on the spot."
It is refreshing to be able to say a word of hearty, thankful praise about a volume containing 4 short stories by Thomas Janvier. Novelists and critics are continually bewailing the dearth of materials for romance in America, most conspicuously in New York. Janvier convinces us that the needful matter is all about us, and that only the eye to see, the heart to focus, and the pen to express. His simple, kindly stories are fragments of the romance of Greenwich Village, of Fourth Street and crooked Tenth Street, and of all the region about Jefferson Market. His characters are chiefly toiling disciples of art, and in their delineation the ideal and real are very skillfully blended.
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| BN ID: | 2940013260047 |
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| Publisher: | Leila's Books |
| Publication date: | 10/08/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 206 KB |
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