Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1916 — Woman and the Arts. [ARTICLE]

Woman and the Arts.

In the minor art of dancing, and In the nobler work of reproducing the music of the great composers, and in acting the characters of the great dramatists, there are women of high, and even of highest rank. But to leave these more interpretive or reproductive arts, only in fiction does she approach the mark of men. For here she must be counted with the great of the craft. And even should some crabbed soul insist that the rare company in which are George Eliot, Jane Austen, George Sand, Madame de Stael, and the queen of Navarre, does not include the one who Is greatest in the guild, yet there is no discomfort felt in naming these women along; with Scott and Dickens, Hugo, Cervantes, and Boccaccio. But speak of the other creative arts, and we feel at once the chill. Chaminade looks ill at ease in the presence of Beethoven i Joanna Baillie, with Shakespeare; Angelika Kauffmann, with Michelangelo, —George M. Stratton, in Atlantic.