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which I clasped with the fervor of a disci- 

 ple. Something of the composure, but 

 much of the sunshine of summer abode in 

 that wonderful man. 



One warm afternoon found me in the 

 quaint, rambling house of Joseph Jefferson 

 in Hohokus, New Jersey. This comedian, 

 most widely beloved of actors, drops the 

 manner of the stage as entirely in his home 

 as he does on the stage, and is the same 

 gentle, child-like man as "Joe" Jefferson 

 that he is as Rip Van Winkle, a character 

 that will never have another such expo- 

 nent. He has even a tang of the Van 

 Winkle speech, so long he has talked it. 

 At that time he had a studio in his barn, 

 where he used to paint landscapes as a 

 recreation, and there he received me in 

 his frank and hearty manner, appearing 

 to be as tickled as a boy when I praised 

 the picture of a Louisiana bayou on his 

 easel. His rules in pictorial art are worth 

 repeating : " strength without blackness, 

 form without hardness, suggestion without 

 vagueness, delicacy without weakness ;" 

 but they are rules that, consciously or 



