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THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1897
 
A GREAT SCULPTOR.
George Henry Payne reviews the work of George Grey Barnard, sculptor, in the New York Commercial Advertiser. Mr. Barnard, the well-known presbyterian minister at Madison. 
It is now three years since George Grey Barnard exhibited his work in the salon of the Champs de Mars and received from the most authoritative of the French art critics praise interesting in its sincerity and remarkable in its enthusiasm. During the exhibition he was the talk of Paris, and when he decided to return to his own country, America, it was against the advice of his artist friends in Paris, who told him truly that although he was coming to the land where he was born, he was coming to a lang where he was unknown, and where he would be less appreciated than in critical Paris. But Mr. Barnard, with something of that same intensity of purpose that caused him to withdraw from the Beaux Arts and work for eight years alone, dared even America, no little temerity for a man whose genius had entered so strongly into the original. Last year he exhibited in the Logerot gardens the same works that he has shown in Paris, but there was very little public appreciation, and it is only now, three years after what might be called his 
and two years after he

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George Henry Payne, says of our Scuiptor, George Grey Barnard: "Of Mr. Barnard's life there is not much to write. It is more crowded with thought than it is with events; it is represented better by his several achievements than by a chronicle of dates. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1863, moved to Illinois with his father, entered the Chicago Art School in 1881, and went to Paris in 1883. Several years later, inspired by the feeling that what he had to do must be done alone, he withdrew from the atelier in which he was studying and set up his own studio and worked there- alone. There he completed his "Brotherly Love," so dramatic and delicate, so poetic, so real, and his "Two Natures." There he developed his mysticism, his feeling for the absolute. For he is a mistic and a poet, and in his writings, unpublished, unconnected and without literary form as they are, he expresses that same wonderful idealistic vitality. He sees life, but not as others see it, life ennobled, in its entirety, both the past and the future. When one considers that the sculptor has been but a few years in his thirties, that he is yet a young man, that his greatest work was done some six years ago, one feels with animation the greatness of the future, a future as great for the country as it is for this tireless individual. It seems strange to have among us here in America, where so many attempts at sculptural art have verged on the ridiculous, a man who can, does and will rank with the greatest. The only trouble is that in having him so near we may not see him in his true light. That is a fear, but is a fear that does not come when one stands before the marble of one who has the fire, the force, the vitality, the poetic insight and the emotional nobility of dominant genius.  

Charlestown's Graduates.

CHARLESTOWN, April 29.--Special.--Friday night the commencement exercises take place here. Those who graduate are Misses Della Schalk, Georgia Masmer and Nellie Brnett.

Trial of Banker Winstandley.

JEFFERSONVILLE, April 29.--Special.--The defense in the case of I. S. Winstandley, who is charged with receiving deposits for the New Albany banking company after the bank was known to be insolvent, opened today in the circuit court in Jeffersonville. The principal witness for the state was John M. Day, an expert accountant. He showed that Mrs. Breyfogle and the daughter of I. S. Winstandley had overdrawn their accounts just before the bank's failure. Floyd Tuley and Josiah Gwin, the newspaper man, testified that they had made deposits a short time before the bank went under. Robert Baldwin, an expert accountant, was the state's last witness. The defense is sanguine and says that the state presented a very por case. This is the opinion of others. The case will likely reach the jury tomorrow.

They Will Be Good Hereafter.

SHELBYVILLE, April 29.--Special.--Several days ago Peter Lackey, Charles, Fred and William Nave were arrested by Deputy Fish Commissioner Sanders, charged with having used dynamie to catch fish in Blue river. Lackey and Charles Nave were fined $40 each by Squire Andrews and gave notice that they would appeal to the circuit court. This morning Lackey came in and entered a fee of guilty to the charge and paid his fine, and stated that from now on he would cease the wholesale killing of fish and assist in having prosecuted every person engaging in the same. The three Naves will also follow Lackey's actions.

Milroy's Successful Commencement. 

RUSHVILLE. April 29.--Special.--The most successful commencement in the history of the Milroy schools occurred last night when the following graduates were given diplomas: Lizzie Osterling, Mary Tompkins, Erma Nordmyer, Edith Walters, 

The two elder ladies stood still in the utmost embarrassment.

"I shall never be happy again," said Constance mournfully.

"Don't say that," implored my mother. "Perhaps there is a mistake."

"How can there be a mistake?" asked Constance, raising her head. 

"There can be no mistake," said the aunt hastily.

"How could he be so cruel to you?" cried Constance, kissing my mother.

"Cruel to me?" cried my mother.

"You said he was cruel to you."

Of whom are you speaking?" cried both ladies

cision and clearness that conventional [[cut off]]gory requires, but in spite of that the [[cut off]]up has movement and life, and the ex-[[cut off]]tion is as bold as it is finely shaded. All [[cut off]]aid with majestic energy, an energy that [[cut off]]ws its power and scorns useless details." [[cut off]]ere is  idealism, if you will. But it is not idealism that makes an obvious appeal, rather the idealism that approaches to [[cut off]]sticism.

Of Mr. Barnard's life there is not much to write. It is more crowded with thought that it is with events; it is represented better by his several achievements that by a chronicle [of] dates. He was born in Pennsylvania in [18]63, moved to Illinois with his father, entered the Chicago art school in 1881 and went to Paris in 1883. Several years later, inspired [by] the feeling that what he had to do must

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DINNER TO ARTIST TANNER.
Honor to the American Whose Picture Has Gone to the Luxembourg.

Henry O. Tanner, the American artist, whose Salon picture of this spring, "The Raising of Lazarus," was bought by the French Government for the Luxembourg Gallery, in Paris, arrived in New York yesterday from the French capital, where he now makes his home. Mr. Tanner will remain in this country until about the middle of September, when he will return to his art work abroad. To-day Mr. Tanner will go to Philadelphia to visit his family.

Last evening, at the Waldorf, an informal dinner was tendered to Mr. Tanner by Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of this city. Among Mr. Ogden's guests were Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.; Mr. George Grey Barnard, the sculptor, and Dr. George W. Crary.