His judgements in painting and sculpture are sincere, though often betraying the autodidact and amateur.

Luckily, in so far as he was an amateur theologian, he was broad, with further mental allowances for expansion.

"Just doing a little bit of amateur painting," he explained rather awkwardly, advancing to the lady.

Dr. Parr was the last learned schoolmaster who was professedly an amateur of the rod; and in that profession there was more of humour and affectation than of reality, for with all his habitual affectation and his occasional brutality, Parr was a good-natured, generous, warm-hearted man; there was a coarse husk and a hard shell, like the cocoa-nut, but the core was filled with the milk of human kindness.

You might think for a moment, that it was an amateur proposing prosperity and success to experts.

I have had in my days a good deal to do with experts of one kind and another, and I assure you that I do not think an expert is at all the worse when he gets a candid-minded and reasonably well trained amateur.

There are sometimes cases also when the party must necessarily divide, and an amateur may have to take the lead over unknown country.

If there be not the zeal of the amateur, the skill of the professor will be of little avail.

Colour in the Whippet is absolutely of no importance to a good judge, though possibly what is known as the peach fawn is the favourite among amateur fanciers.

To arrive at this do not buy from an advertisement on your own knowledge of the breed, but seek out an expert amateur breeder and exhibitor, and get his advice and assistance.

One was told of the finding of rifles in German cellars, marked "Preserves," of German consuls authorized to give prizes for the most complete inventories of their neighborhoods turned in by amateur spies.

And though you could see that he had showed many people about in his dayand was not unaware of what might interest themthat he was, in short, an advertiser of the most accomplished kind, yet one could also see that he liked his work and believed in it, and grew wine as an amateur grows fancy tulips and not as a mere salesman.

Waiters scurry about; the café tables, crowded in these days with politicians, amateur diplomats, spies, ammunition agents, Heaven knows what, push out on the sidewalk.

To the professed and practical artist belongs the management of all things relating to schools, premiums, and lectures, so that amateur and student may be most profited.

The sportsman is an amateur butchera butcher for love.

From the outset, Maeterlinck has been an amateur of death.

The General has always appeared to me a perfect amateur in military science, although he has distinguished himself in the field.

It is somewhat remarkable that this district has produced in recent years the amateur lady champions of England in each of these fascinating pastimes, Lady Margaret Scott, of Stowell, being facile princeps among lady golfers, whilst Mrs. Christopher Bowly, of Siddington, even now holds the same position in relation to the ancient practice of archery.

He was taking this confounded journey to witness an amateur performance of a Shakespeare play, when he loathed traveling in hot weather, detested amateur performances of anything, particularly of Shakespeare, on the millionth of a chance that Antoinette Holiday might be possessed of a tithe of her mother's talent and might eventually be starred as the new ingénue he was in need of, afar off, so to speak.

It was more than likely he was on a false trail, that people who had seen the girl act in amateur things had exaggerated her ability.

But for a slight stumble half-way up his progress was very creditable for an amateur.

" Mrs. Waters followed, and leaning out of the window watched with simple pleasure the efforts of the amateur sexton.

The amateur cavaliers display their horsemanship and skill in provoking and in eluding his vengeance, in order to catch the eye of some favourite fair one, and to gain the applause of their friends and the audience.

But, for the rest, this system of working is very general amongst English painters, in whom the amateur is persistentthe building the picture up in detail, with minor reference to the mass of the structure; and this was the weakness of Brown's art, for what he did was done with such intensity that no after treatment could bring it into complete subordination to the general effect.

And M. de Guise is an amateur of exile and of beggary: truly it were a pity to thwart his fancy; and France can well spare a prince or two without making bankrupt of her dignity.