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as a hux and a
protection from
oxidation. After
being dipped in
the borax, small
cuttings of silver
solder are placed as
close as possible to
the parts to be sold-
ered. Heat is then
applied by means
of a blow-pipe,
evenly and slowly at
first, then gradually
increasing, until the
metal is brought to
a red heat, when
the solder will how.
Next it is cleaned
and oxidized by ap-
plying chloride of an-
timony, after which
it must be slightly heated and thoroughlv dried.

HE CITY HOME OF AN ARTIST
BY ALICE M. KELLOGG

T
THE home of the well-known painter
and illustrator, Mr. Arthur 1. Keller, in
the city of New York, is of interest viewed from
two different standpoints: as a departure from the
accepted, conventional furnishings and decorations
of the metropolis, and as the place where an artist
of high rank executes the work that makes his name
familiar in many households. In the dual capacity
of painter and illustrator, Mr. Keller has made for
himself an enviable position in this country, and is
awakening considerable attention abroad. A bat-
tering array of medals and prizes marks the pro-
gressive steps of his rapid achievements—a gold
medal from the Philadelphia Art Club in 1899 for
the picture, Lead, LigL/; a silver and also a
gold medal from the St. Louis Exposition; a silver
medal from the Paris Exposition of 1900 for the
painting called HAM/Mwg'fowL Rere/dMw;
bronze medals at the Pan-American Exposition,
and the Evans Prize at the American Water Color
Society. Other honours lately accorded this artist
are the selection of his work by the government for
the Munich Academy and for the collection belong-
ing to the Boston Art Club.
The historical romance is Mr. Keller's particular
affinity in illustrative work, and the Colonial era
perhaps his happiest phase of expression, although

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his ability in character sketches is too marked to be
allowed to fall into disuse. The Civil War period,
and the still earlier one of 1830, Mr. Keller invests
with distinction through his picturesque rendering
of the costumes and settings of those times. Every
admirer of Gilbert Parker's "Right of Way" finds
interlinked with its literary fascination the sym-
pathetic presentation in picture form of its thrilling
text; and so of Owen Wister's "The Virginian,"
Stockton's "Kate Bonnet," Miss Herbert's "First
American," Mabel Wilder Goodwin's "Four
Roads to Paradise," Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s, "The
Clansman," and other late publications.
Mr. Keller has wrought out in his city home cer-
tain elements that are only too little attempted in
the majority of town houses—a feeling of breadth
and space amidst architectural lines that are un-
pleasingly long and narrow; a charm of colour
without any obvious manifestation of a "colour
scheme"; an old-world atmosphere of repose in the
strenuous environment of metropolitan life.
To realize these conditions certain alterations
were, of necessity, effected in several parts of the
house, and radical changes were made in the wall
decorations. The first item for improvement was
at the entrance where two narrow black walnut
doors were removed and a substitute made with a
large, broad door painted white like the interior
into which it opened, and hlled with a single sheet
of plain glass.
The hall and drawing-room were given the same
colour tones of green and white, with a plain green

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