Artists and Arabs; Or, Sketching in Sunshine

We cannot help thinking that this might have been an exceptional case, especially in the matter of gilding, but we have seen both patches and paint on Moorish features – as indeed we have seen them in England.

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We have before spoken of the influence of beautiful forms and harmony in colour, in our homes and surroundings; and we feel acutely, that the picture of this Moorish woman, intellectually, does not prove our case; but Mahomet decreed that women should endeavour to be beautiful rather than understand, or enjoy it.

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This market-place is a sort of commercial neutral ground, where both Arabs and Kabyles meet the French in the strictest amity, and cheat them if they can.

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This market-place is a sort of commercial neutral ground, where both Arabs and Kabyles meet the French in the strictest amity, and cheat them if they can.

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There are effects of light sometimes, towards evening, especially over the sea, such as we have never seen in any other part of the world. We know one or two landscape painters who have filled their note-books with memoranda of these phases.

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We are speaking, of course, of colour and effect, not of details that may be put in at any time.

21

Under some conditions of the atmosphere we have obtained more perfect outlines of the leaves of the aloe, with their

22

And have we not, generally, imbibed more of the trick or method of colour, of the master, than of his inspiration – more, in short, of the real than the ideal?

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The palm-stem we have sketched is of a different variety and less formal in character than those generally seen in the East; nevertheless, there is endless variety in the forms and leaves of any one of them, if we judge from photographs.

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We had prepared a drawing of these palm-trees in sunlight; but perhaps Mr. Severn's view of them in a storm, will be thought more characteristic.

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At the time we speak of, journeys into the interior were much less frequent than they are now; when there is a railway to Blidah, and a diligence to the Fort Napoléon.

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'Last Winter in Algeria,' by Mrs. H. Lloyd Evans.

'I was roused from sleep by a sound as of some one beating the floor above, and the walls on every side. It increased rapidly in violence, till the whole house shook and rocked and seemed giving way beneath our feet. I saw the wall in the corner of the room split open, and immediately afterwards masses of plaster fell from the ceiling and walls, bringing clouds of dust and a darkness as of night.

'On the Place it was a fearful scene, people came tearing down the neighbouring streets, women and children ran aimlessly hither and thither, shrieking wildly, men uttering hoarse sounds of terror, whilst the ground heaved and trembled beneath our feet, and we gazed at the surrounding houses in expectant horror; it seemed as if they must fall like a pack of cards. The young trees rocked and swayed, the flagstaff waved backwards and forwards – the wind moaning, the rain pouring down, whilst above all rose, ever and anon, the sound of cavalry trumpets and the rolling of the drum, calling on the troops to quit their tottering barracks.

'The Arabs alone stalked about unmoved, shrugging their shoulders and muttering "It is destiny!"'

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General Randon laid the first stone of the Fort Napoléon in June, 1857. This fort, which occupies an area of more than twenty acres, and is built on most irregular ground, was built in a few months.

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October, 1857.

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How many a man is sheltered from the winds of the world by a grove of sleek relations, who surround him and keep him from harm; such a man has never really tried the outer world? and has but a second-hand experience of its troubles.

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'Under the Palms,' by the Hon. Lewis Wingfield. London, 1867.

31

We shall not be accused of alluding in this category to such painters as the late Horace Vernêt; or to Gérome, Frère, and others who study here in winter time.

32

It may not be thought very practical to suggest much sketching in the open air, as the light is generally considered too trying, and the glare too great, for any very successful work in colour.

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To reverse the position – it is a fact, which may be proved bystatistics, that there is as much, if not more, benevolence, forbearance, and mutual help, existing amongst the lower classes in the 'black country,' as in any other part of the United Kingdom.