Grant Allen

Philistia Grant Allen

Short excerpt: That night his cosmopolitan refugee friends were all at liberty; his French disciples could pour in from the little lanes and courts in Soho, where, since the Commune, they had plied their peaceful trades as engravers, picture-framers, artists?-colourmen, models, pointers, and so forth?for most of them were hangers-on in one way or another of the artistic world...