C. Lewis Hind, ART AND I. New York: John Lane Company, 1921, p. 323—
Charles Dickens (c1860s)
“…Paul and John Nash are originals, They were a cult before 1914. Now they are emerging, but they keep their quaint vision. Spencer Pryse is a classicist, who dips classicism into a bath of graceful and forceful modernity. Muirhead Bone was a past master in architectural drawings before the war. The sights he has seen have had little effect upon his art. He remains a searching and exquisite draftsman. John Everett has seen the rich beauty of color in the camouflaged ships. He is the most gallant of the war artists; he gives to these ships a beauty—“
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| John Everett, Lepanto (1918) |
I paused, because Mr. X was not listening. He was smiling at his own thoughts, and as he smiled he began to turn the pages of [Charles Dickens’] American Notes.
“You used the word ‘gallant,’ sir. It is a favorite word with Mrs. X, and on more than one occasion she has applied it to Charles Dickens. And upon my word, sir, I think Madame is right. In the early portion of American Notes he refers to the beauty of the ladies of Boston, and on page 108 he uses almost precisely the same term in reference to the ladies of New York.
“There was no camouflage about Charles Dickens—no, sir!”…
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