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peculiar air of relig io u s philisophy in
ASSEMBLY so strongly, that attention was occa­
AT
Delivers an Excellent Illustrated Lec­
ture on the Famous French
Painter, ’’Milet.’’
sion! illv attracted to his exceptional M illet’s th e o ry of m a n ’s stru g g le with
ability even in the face of all his u n ­ the soil, m en tio n ed in G enesis and in­
stilled into his n a tu re
by devoted
favorable surroundings.
“ Finally, in the latter p art of his stu d y of th e B ible. Lie saw man liv­
teens, he became a pupil of M anchel ing w ith th e curse of th e soil upon
in C herbourg, later of Langlass, and him (as ex h ib ited in “ T h e M an With
G le a n e rs,” “The
afterw ard went to Baris where he stu d ­ the H o e ,” “ T h e
ied and worked diligently under Del- W e e d e rs” ) b u t as God has ordained
aroche, and exhibited his productions it. l i e lived sim p ly and devotedly,
in quiet su b m issio n to th e g reatest of
at Salon.
“ M illet’s instinct for the quiet coun­ trials, p o rtra y in g on can v as out of pure
try life, however, was too strong, his sy m p ath y his fellow s as sh a rin g the
bent of genius, for the production of sam e lot w ith him (as p o rtray ed in
rural scenes and portrayal of the lines the S ow er,) his g ra n d e st p ictu res. He
of the common people, too im pelling, was tru ly a p ea san t, S ocialist, imbued
for him to resist. Instead of rem aining with the sp irit of th e ru ra l.
“U nlike th e o th e r a rtis ts of his time
in the m etropolis, and striving with his
contem poraries for wealth and fame he w as p u re ly u n co n v en tio n al and
by the production of works calculated tru sted w holly to o rig in a lity and gen­
to win the popular applause of the ius for success, l i e does not portray
fashionable world, he retired to a se­ rom ance b u t tru e com panionship as
cluded tow n, and devoted him self with in “ 'Phe H ay T ru s s e s .” “ T h e A nthem ’’
the earnestness of an apostle to the and “ 'Phe B otato P la n te r.’
'Phe lecture ended w ith the exhibi­
task of representing the common a s­
pects of nature and of celebrating the tion of “ 'Phe W ood C u tte r" and will
common lines of the peasant people be resum ed from th a t p o in t at W ed­
about him. lie was an artist by him-! n esd ay ’s A ssem bly.
self, with strong originality a deep I
Y. W. C. A. Meeting.
revenence for tru th , poetic sensibility!
Last W ednesday, at Assembly, Prof.)
Howe delivered to a large audience,
the first half of his illustrated lecture
on the famous French painter “ M illet,”
the remaining halt to be delivered at
next Assembly.
Prof. 11 owe, in his pleasing and im­
pressive manner, opened his discourse
in these words of tribute to M illet:
“ We now consider the life of one,
whom some critics of art are pleased
to call the greatest painter of modern
tim es." Accom panying his rem arks,
was a study of art upon the screen,
followed by a portrait of Millet him ­
self. Continuing, he said in p art: “Jean
Francois Millet was a man of the sim ­
ple life, a peasant as was his contem ­
porary. Purus, lie was born in Gruchy
France, in 1815, and lived sixty years.
I lis early career, because of the limited
means of his peasant parents, afford­
ed few opportunities for his culture
and development, lie passed his boy­
hood «lays, as the ordinary peasant
and warm hum an sym pathy. H e left
Last F rid ay the m e e tin g of the Y.
youth, w orking liis father's fields, lie
Baris in 1840 to take up his quiet \ \ . C. A. w as co n d u cted by the mem­
ha«l no formal education or schooling,
country abode at Grenvill. T here he bership com m ittee w ith M iss Jessie
lie learned to read from the study of
w rought som etim es under the m ost Chase as leader. R e p o rts of the con­
an old illustrated family Bible and
trying circum stances, unable a great vention were given by Jessie Hurley,
from this he got his first impetus to
m any tim es to provide the s im p le s t’ Elsie Davis and E d n a C anfield.
I lie
paint, tor he spent his leisure time in I
necessities of life, in his crude peasant program m e for n ex t T u e sd a y will he
reproducing the engravings and in
draw ing fam iliar scenes about his cottage of three room s, with the bare " Phe \ alue of a S m ile,” by Zelle Hair.
home. From the village priest, he earth for a floor. 'Phis, indeed, he en ­ Phe m eeting of th e Y. W . C. A. has
learned to read the Bible and Virgil joyed rath er than fair Baris in all of again been changed from F rid a y after­
in Latin. O thers of the classics were her fashion and gaudy grandure.
noon back to the re g u la r day, Tuesday
"'Pile
chief
characteristic
of
his
n
a
­
m astered by him later, but* taken al­
afternoon at four o ’clock in M iss Slat­
ture,
which
lend
most
to
the
quality
together, his education was very one-1
e r’s class room .
of
his
paintings,
are
three.
M
illet
was
sided, lie had little or no knowledge
M rs. A. Q . M cN air of Tillam ook,
<»i m athem atics, his studv and reading intensely peasant, intensely artist, and
were principally directed along the intensely religious. T he first inclined was v isitin g her d a u g h te r. H azel at the
lines of Art. However, the spark of him to the love of rural scenes and Beta E psilon house th is w eek.
genius, which was ever afterw ard to peasant life; in the second is lodged his
A large crow d of ro o te rs will ac­
make him famous, was deeply im plant­ originality and superior gen iu s; th e
com pany the football team to Portland
ed in his nature. It evidenced itself third surrounds his pictures with that
on S atu rd ay m orning.
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