This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903. Excerpt: ... 'it only is when he is oat he is acting, ' let him make the fools stare, but give others something worth looking at-Good Mr. Carver and Gilder, good Mr. Printer's Devil, good Mr. Bill-sticker, 'do me your offices' unmolested! Painting is a plain ground, and requires a great many heraldic quartering and facings to set it off. Lay on, and do not spare. No man's merit can be fairly judged of, if he is not known; and how can be be known, if he keeps entirely in the back ground? A great name in art goes but a little way, is chilled as it creeps along the surface of the world, without something to revive and make it blaze out with fresh splendor. Fame is here almost obscurity. It is long before your name affixed to a sterling design will be spelt out by an undiscerning, regardless public. Hare it proclaimed, therefore, as a necessary precaution, by sound of trumpet at the comers of the street, let it be stuck as a label in your mouth, carry it on a placard at your back. Otherwise, the world will never trouble themselves about you, or will very soon forget you. A celebrated artist of the present day, whose name is engraved at the bottom of some of the most touching specimens of English art, once had a frame-maker call on him, who, on entering his room, exclaimed with some surprise, What, are you a painter, sir I' The other made answer, a little startled in his turn, 'Why, didn't you know that? Did you never see my name at the bottom of prints?' He could not recollect that he had. 'And yet you sell picture-frames and prints?' Yes.' 'What painters' names then did he recollect: Did he know West's?' 'Oh! yes.' 'And Opie's?' 'Yes. 'And Fuseli 's?' 'Oh! yes.' But you never heard of me?' 'I cannot say that I ever did!' It was plain, from this conversation, tha...