When Victoria ascended the British throne on 20 June 1837, G. A. Henty was not yet five years old. Yet in thousands of young boys' lives Henty was destined to be as important as the queen. In a 1980 review of the most recent biography of Henty, Eric Stok...
G. A. Henty once described himself as "a fierce and truculent Briton, ready to defy the whole world." It was an exaggerated yet appropriate description, given Henty's character and appearance. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with a large head and a...
Peter Boswell, Bruce Jenkins, and Joan Rothfuss. 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story, Part II. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1999. 280 pp., ills. $59.95, $35. paper. Exhibition schedule: Walker Art Center, October 9, 1999-January 2, 2000; Modern Art Museum of Fort...
CIRCUS PROPRIETORS ARE NOT BORN to sawdust and spangles. Consider this: P. T. Barnum was nothing more than a dry-goods peddler --that is, until he bought a black woman for $1,000, a sum he quickly recouped by displaying her as George Washington's 161-year-old mammy....
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