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-oughness, to see a man of skill, of intellectual brilliancy in the manipulation of his brush and his pigment, to trace his dextrous  [dexterous]] handling of form back to those unrivalled drawings by Calame. The efficiency of Fromentín in portraying the surface of the desert and the values of atmosphere with his overwhelming skill and knowledge as delineated in the leg and neck of an Arabian horse surmounted by a Moorish cavalier in Bournous - all of these authorities you feel are respected by this able old [?] who venerates the names of his master.  But this is a digression from the sunny side of State St. between Madison and Washington of an afternoon where the shoppers in search of the best that came to Chicago in the late sixties, gathered in the neighborhood of Griggs Bookstore.  There was