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Just how the life of this young artist ended is not known with any exactness. Rumor at the time had it that he was poisoned by jealous rivals in art but whether this is a fact or not still remains a mystery which will probably never be surely solved...
...watch an old tree or the weathered slabs of a thatched shed take form from Artist Rackham's pen, and the first thing you know the tree or shed is leering at you like a weird warlock, or smiling like an oldtime grandmother, put of eyes and mouths that vanish when you look closely. Only some knots, bark or grain-wrinkles remain. A gnarled shrub will be writhing and snickering like a soul lost and sarcastic in a twilit place, until you examine. Then you see it was only some Rackham lines, perpetually innocent in their deceit...
WINNIE-THE-POOH-A. A. Milne -Dutton ($2). Another man A lately made grown-ups furtive Author Alan Alexander Milne of Cotchford Farm, Hartfield, Sussex (not far from Artist Rackham's beech tree). He used to be (1906-14) an editor of Punch. He fought all through the War and got back safely to tell stories to his son, Christopher Robin, who encouragred his father (by asking for more) to write a book of jingles called When We Were Very Young (1924). Writing things was nothing new for Author Milne. He had had plays of his played both sides...
...Natural beauty and an artist's creative instinct are gifts of God," declared Professor R. C. Cabot '89, Chairman of the Department of Social Ethics, in his talk on "The Need of Religion" at Phillips Brooks House yesterday...
...presence of so much natural beauty in the world, in the sky, in the fields, in the flaming radiance of a sunset makes an aesthetic man thoughtful. Beethoven called a sunset "Nature's praise to God.' The spectacle of an artist's life is almost as remarkable as a sunset and just as divinely inspired...