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Show CHILDREN'S IIAITY DAYS HOW KATE GRECNAWAV HAS GIVEN THEM A PACE '(N ART. 4. Notable KitiibltlMi of Drairlns t the Homii nf (hii Mini Art Society in Loudon Lou-don I. ml an4 I.asie ill (juulut Con-tutunii. Con-tutunii. TI10 repute- of most rirl i.t.s impends Upon tho judgment of the few. We nil Yujw that iia'ihaol, Reynolds, Millet "--r - 1 , i&f 1 I after that she studied at Ileatherley's i an 1 the Slade school. Tlio black mid ! v. bite exhibition t t" Dudley gallery i in 1S7J-:) l.r.uiLfht her to pulilic notice, j and right, at 1 ins point begins some con-' con-' fu.-ioii of claim. Seven cities squabbled over Homer, and' nearly Hint number of publishers now seem anxious to bo known as the first to recoifiiisw Miss Givenaway's ability. abil-ity. Her Dudley gallery sketches, it is said, wero secured on a private view day I by tlio editor of 'f ho People's Magazine, ami made a hit when engraved and 'printed. Opposed to this ure the conflicting con-flicting statements that her first commissions com-missions wore from Mr, Marcus Ward ; for illustrated Christums curUn, and that her "lirst introduction lo the public was through the medium of Tim Illustrated London News." The first book for which sho made deigns is tut it led '.Mildred's Mistake" and al "Uudci the Window'' that is, if one is to reconcile recon-cile otherwise antagonistic reports. But it matters littlo who Khali luivo the honor of discovery iw long as tho whole world may enjoy tlio results. It is said thnt Miss Greenaway "in hei studies uses almost pure color.:, or, as the artists put it, sho rarely mixes iluko or Chinese white with her paints. The outline out-line is drawn iirinly either with the pen or pencil, the shadows aro then struck in, mostly in gray, and over all wash after af-ter wat,h of color is put. Of course tii.-rt are numerous retouchings and heightening heighten-ing till the ri,;ht tone rciiuircd is obtained, ob-tained, but r.Iiss (Jrcena way's method if tliut simple one 'wuhh' as bandied by all the greater of tho greatest painters in water colors." Sho gets her inspiration! by studies from life. At a charily festival festi-val she may find a hint for an expression, a pose, a bonnet or a cloak. In some out of the beautiful English lanes she may meet a wnock clad lad, who, if luck proves kind, mny alto wear a car, worthy of reproduction. Nurse girh and tiieir charges aro not to lie overlooked, over-looked, and in fact it is doubtful if unj phase of child life under any conditions escajies the watchful eye and ready peu-cil peu-cil of Miss Kate Oroenaway, Fiuca 0, Dayton, i MISS KATE flliP.KNAWAV. and Muia-ionier aro tho names of prcal men, but a lanre number of us know it only at second iiand that is, we havo the word of the critics and connoisseurs, and wo accept that word as true. Those who are not listed among the rich of this world cannot purchase the productions of such masters, and those who live at a diatanca from larro cities are beyond tho reach and influence of tho art galleries. Under conditions of that nature the ver-Oict ver-Oict of tho mero fortunate as to wealth or opjsirtnnity must be taken as the bonet-t finding of those before whom tho Vidotice has been displayed. These lai.fr days, however, havo given us on or; ist whoso jurors are the peoplo, and whoM admirers comprise all who read books, like pictures and love children. chil-dren. 3hs is aa English woman, ami her name is Kate Ureenaway. At an ago which is still youth she has gained a place in the front rank, as is evidenced by tho enthusiasm and eajrer-Eoss eajrer-Eoss with which Londoners flocked recently re-cently to an exhibition of her drawings f- ia . . m jus Blil'B SHOK8. at the' Fine Art Society. These are the original sketches from which her book illrtfitratioiiK have been made "dainty designs of quaintly attired last century children.". Two are reproduced herewith, here-with, and will afford some idea of tho wide realm in which Misa Greenaway rei;cM quean, An EnttlUh writer who lias vifited the show declares that that realm ia all her own; that there has been nothing of their kind to equal her works, and that there is not likely to be. MI:- Ureenaway has brought out in licr sketches so many of the charming and delightful phases of child life that cue might think the subject nearly exhausted, ex-hausted, liut apparently she has hardly Bkimuied the surface, and will remain resourceful and original for many long seasons to come. Yet sho ban given ua boys and girls of all ages engaged in almost al-most every imaginable task or pastime toiling at their desks with infant assumption as-sumption of wisdom; comparing clothes or dolls as curiously as if their years, possessions and envies were ampler; playing play-ing in all tho abandon of careless glee; ihyly making approaches for acquaintanceship; acquaint-anceship; swinging in the garden trees, or undergoing, tearfully, tho 6uurise sorrow sor-row of the bath and toilet. pit "WHEN WE WENT OCT WITH QRASDMA." ! It is of Miss Greenaway that 3Ir. 1 Euskin thus Kpeaks in one of his Oxford lectures: '"Observe that what this impressionable im-pressionable person does draw she draws as like as she can. It is true that the combination or composition of things is not what you can see every day. You cannot every day, for instance, see a baby thrown into a basket of roses, bn when Bh-3 1i:is once pleasantly invented that arrangement for you baby is as like baby and rose as like rose as she can possibly draw them. And the beauty of them is in being like; they are blissful juet in the degreo that they are natnral; the fairy land that she creates for you is not beyond ihe sl:y nor beneath the sea, but near yon, even at your doors. She does but show you how to see it and how to cherish.' Now that Miss Greenaway has won her place in art thu gaual controversy is afoot, and the critics are disputing as to whether she is a conventionalist or an impressionist; whether she has founded a school or only started a fashion, and so on. Meanwhile those bent of all critics, tlio children and the parents of children, remain her loyal friend-s. It was when a littie girl that the now famous artist first took up the brush and pencil. She is tho daughter of a gentleman gentle-man long recognized for his skill as a wood engraver, and she had tha advantage advan-tage of such instruction' as only a father can bestow, "Kitty's drawings" soon became objects of admiration for friends and relatives, and about 1 b'70 the talented maiden of fourteen began her career s a- pupil iu a training school for artiala. Rnnth Kjiwrntrtaa claimed hr 3at ami |