Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 353
ory, if only there could have breathed from them alittle wind of imagination! Much was told, and told with grace and spirit, but nothing wassuggested. Then came the Salons; indoor effects of rich rooms filled with fashionablepeople seated chatting, leaning upon the chimney-piece surveying the… … ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 177 as with lis, lighted witli glaring gas—that (hstroycr of all aitislic ffTpct, playing the traitorto art and nature alike, to the beauty of woman and to the elegance of her siiri-oiindings. It must be confessed that the picture we copy,—Ala Salle Graifard, as it was…
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