What pictures to see in America (1915) (14783741542)

Identifier: whatpicturestoseea00brya (find matches)

Title: What pictures to see in America

Year: 1915 (1910s)

Authors: Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855-1933

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Publisher: New York, J. Lane Co.

Contributing Library: New York Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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en stand for no earthlyreason than a half-grown calf—particularlya pet one—and that no brute, for its size, canbe more firmly rooted to the ground. Its fourlegs are so many posts set to brace each other.Why the animal stops no one can tell. It issheer stupidity, I suspect. The boy may pulland twist at the rope with all his strength; butwhat cares that big-eyed quadruped for a ropearound his neck? The scene is delicious in itsentire truth to nature. The atmosphere ofthe country is perfect; the disgust of the boyand the contrariness of the calf are simplybits of real life that make us forget everythingbut the outcome of the struggle between thetwo. Homer knew that especial episode well;perhaps he is the very boy who was sent tobring the calf home. The whiff of the countrythat such a picture brings is a veritable tonicto tired bodies and fagged brains. John La Farge stands alone in the modernart world—a painter, a mural decorator, a dis-coverer of the adaptability of opaline glass,

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1915

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