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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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