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A PAINTER OF CHILDREN—BOUTET DE MONVEL.
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM "XAVIÈRE."
A mock treatise on politeness, "La Civilité puérile et honnête" brings a daintier, more varied atmosphere, for the study is becoming deeper and the understanding clearer. The individuals differ much more; each has more distinctness, more reality, more charm, the old men and the women as well as the children. The "La Fontaine" is a new development, not only because it brings animals to the front, but because it shows the artist making his effects with simpler touches and with the exact meaning still more free and more telling also. In stories by Anatole France, with his studied
