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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
August
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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It ina.y not be. known to everyone that Mra. Benjamin Harrison is one of the best of American flower-painters. Since she lias occupled her position of lady of the White House, lio wever, her public dut les have largeiy prevented tbe exercise of her artiBtic genkus; but in tlwit pertod she has found leisure to paint one of the loveItesi repree -ntation.- of ilower-1 í . that ever camie from an arttete brush,- a ma.mniic-ent group of orchids on a lionclain panel. Wtth that broad and kindly spirit which has marked her eaxeer, she hae presented this si;nglfi prod'uction of her scant leisure to the public, and Demorcsfs ziue lvn.es the honor of beáng the mediniu throuli whk-h tlm palnting is offereil ibo the mothers, wives, and dnu.srhters ol America, to whom it is DOTingly (.k'dkated. Tliere is uo talmt of politica in it; it i.s simply the tribute of a good woman's Iove for the women of her nat ton, superbly expressed in color and fonn,- the foremo.st woman of t'lws 1-epublic cemeuthi.sï, by means of her art, her Bteterhoód with all others of her sex in the land. Mre. HarriBon'e painting lias been reproducid ta the highest style of art, of the sa.me ize as the original (11 1-2x13 inehes), and is an absolutely perfect counterpart, in ever.y particular, to the faiutest tint of color, and even to the peculiar texture of the porcelaln. With eaoh copy of Demorests Magazine for October one of these wonderful reprodut-tioms oí "A White House Orchid," pahited by the president's wiie, in the "White House, fi-om an orchid g-rown in the Wliite House, is to be presentad íree. The Magazine of Art for September lins for lts frontispieoe an etching by Charles Oourtry of Zamaeois's "The King's Oonfessor"- variously known as --The Good Pastor" and "Rival Confessors"- one of the best-known paintings of one of the eminent Spanih painters of the latter half of the century. The ope-nin.!? artitle of the number is devoted to Onslow Ford, the English Sculptor, and i by Harrion Hepworth Dixon. "Charles Keen: His Life and Work," has for its foundation Mr. (ieorge Somer's Life or Iveene published liere by Macmillan & Oo. Apropos of the Shelly centenary Mr. Theodore Watts contrilmtes a poem whioh te illustrated with a page draViing by C. Ricketts. ThO jiew Grafton Gal'lery, which is to siK-ceed the Grosvenor in purpose, and P'Opularity pcrliaps, is caret'ully described by M. PJiipps Jackson. There is an article on the subject of "Artiistlc Hoimes," and there are copious notes tliat bring the number to a close. Gassell PublÏBhing Company; $3.50 a year in advance. Tlie Quiver for September lies before UB and reminds us that the melanehoily days are coming though not quite bere. The opening article tells us of "Those Other Mothers" who devote their lives to the care of children not tiieir own. "Jonah" is the subject of the fifth of the sketches of "Spiritual Failunee." Theu -n-e come to an interestimg 'account of "Bath and its Memories," by Herbert Rueeell, illustrated -svith characteristic sketches of that quaitat old town. One would scarcely think that there was variety cixmgh m Alms-Boxes to mate an interesting article on the saibject, but there 'is, and the illustratians that accompany the article are prooi of the htatcment. Prof. J. .T. McCook, of "Wesleyan University, has made a thorougli study of the causes and the extent among people of the several nationalities, of the venal voters in Connecticut; and the proportion of purchasable citizens is alanning. He wül pub ilsh hLs investigation of the subject in the September Forum. The proper organization and management of campaign committees are disoussed in the September Forum, by the Hon. M. D. Harter, of Ohio, and Mr. Herbert 'Welsh, of Philadelphia, who both advocate the utmost publicity- eren the publication of expenditures. A jolly party- OM King Oole.

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Ann Arbor Courier