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482 PASSING EVENTS.
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the customary Latin dissertation , as well as by bravely defending in permanent public disputation abode at a Darmstadt number of medical indefati theses gable in . the After exercise that , and she took universally up her
honored as one of the first living , authorities , of her special branch , of science . *' There is now on exhibition in an upper room in Mr . Grambart ' s G-allery , 120 Pall Mallan interesting collection of sketches in Africa and the United
States , bMadame , Barbara Leih Smith Bodiehonwell worth the attention of all , lovers y of art . Madame Bodiehon g is an earnest , student of nature ; she draws what she seesand shrinks from no effects of light and shadehowever
startling . Wind , wave , , and weather furnish alike subjects for , her bold what and practised we mean . hand , and we have in this collection striking examples of
and For Wind instance , " is at , _JSTo first . 7 si , g desi ht unp gnated leasant in the to the catalogue eye , which , " Olives at once , Corn rejects , Palm , as " a picture , " yet a closer examination and an acceptation of it for what it
is results in the spectator ' s appreciation of the boldness , truth , and fidelity of the artist . Madame Bodiehon has some large pictures in this exhibition , to which we would call especial attention ; of these the " View of the Little
Atlas and the Plain of the Metidja from the Telegraph Hill near Algiers " is transcri perhaps pt of the the most country carefull ; y but elaborated the 11 View , and from is , one Mustap feels ha , a Superieur faithful
before Sunrise , " with the stormy sky over the bay , the red-cloaked Arab ing driving and cattle attractive , and ; the while rain- " soaked The Arab road Funeral he is going at Sunset along , " is is singularl a most poetical y
strikand " Acanthus impressive Leaves picture , " evidence . The " great Cactus versatility Grove , " of the talent . _" Asp , hodels which , " is and yet Louisiana more strikingl " etc y . exemplified in the " Mist on the Plain , " " A Pine Swamp in
If there , be a fault to find , it is that Madame Bodiehon paints too much and too fast ; one cannot help wishing in some instances for less haste and hiher finish—thusin the large icture of " Sidi Ferruchthe lace where
g , p , p the of an French unfinished landed icture in 1830 . , " the first and last impression it conveys is that p
482 Passing Events.
482 PASSING EVENTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 432, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/72/
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