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...pictures, orthodox in technique and lacking the extravagant coloring which Negroes are supposed to like, were good. Technically, the best were Artist Motley's studies of mulattoes, octaroons, quadroons, his Portrait of My Grandmother, and a gay and decorative panel, Parade. Ralph Pulitzer bought Octaroon. But the spectacular and atmospheric illuminations of East African voodooism were more original and hence more noticed. Painter Motley has seen the crowd of anxious dark faces at a fortune teller's door, waiting to be told what numbers to bet on in a gambling game. He paints the same crowd, their black...
...jury system which won the praise of some of out most eminent ancestors is good, providing that it is not emasculated by the practice and rules of our state courts. The jury panel must come from conscientious citizens, and the first step in any community is to see that the right kind of names go into the jury wheel...
...Paolo Strozzi" is rich in allusions, wealthy in Renaissance background. It is painted in only the deepest and most beautiful Italian reds and Simone Martin blues and golds. (The poem would have been a better success as a prose explanation of a panel painting...
...twins in her effort to hold her man. But he is enamored of Mary Conyngham, widowed sweetheart of his childhood. She installs him in the barn of Shane Castle (the Shane family, bygone royalty of "the Town," being lugged in to connect this book with its predecessors as another "panel" in the Bromfield series). Mary Conyngham is out to rescue Philip from his mother, whose pious meddling caused everyone...
...clove-fretted sugar ham-and bottles marked "Frontenac Export Ale." Mr. Healy and friends disposed themselves on antique gilt chairs in the Lihme dining-room and gnawed the ham without benefit of cutlery. When ale had washed down ham, one of them flung the ham bone through the glass panel of the pantry door. The bone lodged amid the china on a pantry shelf and Mr. Healy, feeling exceedingly "good," started jumping up and down in the dining-room, swinging his arms, shouting drunkenly...