The Monthly Illustrator Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...faithfulness of rendering. He only smiles to himself a very quiet smile. The artist's love of beauty should step in a second time to guard him against the temptation of ex-tremes. The most IN THE WRONG PLACF. striking example of a type is the one which catches the attention first, and, if it were also the most beautiful, it would be universally painted and our pictures would be warped reflections of the average life. Fortunately, accentuation of form seldom walks the same road as loveliness, and if the artist does not tarry too long in following "Where fleeting beauty leads," he will be guided past the exceptional and ultra, just as the scientist is carried safely beyond them in his quest for truth. If it were not so, what beautiful monstrosities would line our walls, and how the gods would stand aloof and sigh THB MEXICAN GUITARIST. IN GERMAN HARVEST FIELDS By J. J. Raulston. With original illustrations by Hugo Muhlig. The dreamy fall days, with their stillness, waning sunshine, fading leaves, and lush abundance of vegetation, have always appealed very strongly to the imagination of both painters and writers. When to this is added the sentiment of the autumn, when is yielded the fruitage of the year's preparation and pain, there is no cause for surprise that an artist rejoices in this season. The harvest scenes of Hugo Mlihlig laid the foundation of the pleasant fame which he has already acquired in Europe as a painter of rural life in the quiet province where he has made his studies. He is still a young man--perhaps thirty-five years of age--and a thorough German. He studied at Diisseldorf, where now he has established his home; and he first attracted notice by a series of small oil paintings exhibited in the Kunst Halle in that ancient abiding...