Show george du Matir maurices Mauric lers rs career was on its own plane extraordinary seldom has a man mail ot of advanced years who has made a great success in one field of art scored nn an even greater success in all another field du mauller had been known for a score of years as a skillful sUll tul if not highly inia imaginative draughtsman ft a genial and often witty dc do picter pleter of fashionable follies ile he did not rank among the really great men who have made punch an institution in En england glaDd but he was a swift sure and always tasteful illustrator of a high class ills literary ability N was as unknown until lie wrote teter peter ibbetson which attracted instant attention this was followed by trilby if merit were estimated by popularity alone that book would outrank anything since well since tupper it was mas reed read and read over recited dramatized and satirized satirizes zed until it became a household word of no small degree of terror wo we suppose very few people read it nom nowadays yet it Is a work of considerable brilliancy and nd attractiveness lightly and tastefully done and better than many yards of the dull stuff which pretends to permanency ma inari nency ency at any rate it can be said of du maurier as it was said of garrick he has added to the gaiety gayety of 0 nations and this Is no small encomium when one considers how the world is stupefied with novels of purpose and theological theses lit in the form of fiction |