Show hoai over worked samuel lovers daughter mrs fanny writes her recollections of the author of kory omoro for the century mrs says his industry was such that in the busiest years of his lifo he did not even grant himself time to look at the daily papers or to read any new book that was much talked of his wife always read the papers and the now hooks for him giving him in conversation a resume of the news of the day and thao contents of the books so that he was always well informed of everything ahat was going on if anything exceedingly important was on hand in tho political world or if any part of a book was interesting or well written these she would read to him while ho was painting many artists are as fishes at their eadels easels but he could converse charmingly while he was painting which was a particularly pleasant quality for his sitters in painting or in writing he worked indefatigably and seemed to bo independent of the moods to which many artists appear to be victims As songs he used to say himself that ho never wrote a song in his life except when he help it the songs used to come to him generally words and melody simultaneously neou sly so that he had only to write them down frequently the idea of a song would come ahn ho was occupied with something quite different as for instance while painting he would then leave his easel write down the idea and return to his work afterward he would return to the idea and work it out je |