LADY WHITTLESEA'S CHAPEL-LADY KEW'S CARRIAGE STOPS THE WAY 58 THE COLONEL TELLS SIR BARNES A BIT OF HIS MIND SENTENCE IN THE CASE OF THE MARQUIS OF FARIN OSI 215 MR. FREDERICK BAYHAM 242 THE NEWCOMES. CHAPTER I. the student's life there, the greatness and friendly splendour of the scenes surrounding him, the delightful nature of the occupation in which he is engaged, the pleasant company of comrades, inspired by a like pleasure over a similar calling, the labour, the meditation, the holiday and the kindly feast afterwards, should make the Art-students the happiest of youth, did they but know their good fortune. Their work is for the most part delightfully easy. It does not exercise the brain too much, but gently occupies it, and with a subject most agreeable to the scholar. The mere poetic flame, or jet of invention, needs to be lighted up but very seldom, namely, when the young painter is devising his subject, or settling the composition thereof. The posing of figures and drapery; the dexterous copying of the line; the artful processes of cross-hatching, of stumping, of laying on lights, and what not; the arrangement of colour, and the pleasing operations of glazing and the like, are labours for the most part merely manual. These, VOL. IL B |