Europe and elsewhere, by Mark Twain [pseud.] [with an appreciation by Brander Matthews and an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine]

EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE
be quite at myself and able on the instant to tell it
from the others and pick it out when wanted.
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It
steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait
develop and take soul under my hand. First, I

FIRST YOU THINK IT'S DANTE; NEXT YOU THINK IT'S
EMERSON; THEN YOU THINK IT'S WAYNE MAC VEAGH. YET
IT ISN'T ANY OF THEM; IT'S THE BEGINNINGS OF DEPEW

throw off a study-just a mere study, a few apparently random lines-and to look at it you would
hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I
cannot tell, myself. Take this picture, for instance:
First you think it's Dante; next you think it's
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