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Edwards was born in Fair Haven, Connecticut in March 1859.
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Quis funera faudo Explicet, aut possit lacrymis aequare Labores? Urbs antiqua ruit, fnultos dominât a per annos; Plurima perque vias sternuntur inertia passim. Corpora, perque domos, et religiosa deorum Limina! (Virgil, Æneid, II. v. 361.) Surviving the ancient wars and revolutions in this, "the Cockpit of Europe," the great examples of architecture of the early days of France remained for our delight. The corroding fingers of time, it is true, were much more merciful to them, but certainly the destroyers of old never ventured to commit the crimes upon them now charged against the legions of the present invader. These fair towns of Picardy and Champagne are sacked, pillaged and burned even as were the beautiful Flemish towns of Ypres, Malines, Termonde, Dixmude, and Dinant on the Meuse.... Never again shall we enjoy them: the chalices are broken and the perfume forever vanished.... The catastrophe is so unbelievable that one cannot realize it. The Seven Churches of Soissons, Senlis, Noyon, Laon, Meaux, Rheims, St. Remi; these such as man probably never again can match, are either razed to the foundations, or so shattered that it will be impossible to restore them. It is said that the Imperial Government has promised to rebuild these Gothic masterpieces.... One cannot trust one's self to comment upon this announcement. Imagine these sacred ruins.... Rheims!... Rheims can never be restored to what it was before the bombardment. Let it rest thus.... A sacred ruin—the scarred, pierced heart of France! Likewise "these fair sweet towns" of the middle ages; these wonderful little streets and byways, filled with the gray old timbered houses, "old in Shakespeare's day." Up to the outbreak of the war there were many of these throughout France, in spite of the wave of modernity which resulted in so much so called town improvement. In Arras the two old Squares, the Grand Place and the Petit Place, survived until destroyed by bombs in 1914. Those double rows of Ancient Flemish gables, and the beautiful lace like tower of the Town Hall cannot be forgotten, although they are now but calcined beams and ashes. Between the Seine and the Flemish frontier lay a veritable storehouse of incomparable architectural monuments. Of these Rouen, with its famous Cathedral, is happily out of reach of the guns of the invader, and one hopes out of danger. Beauvais likewise has not yet suffered, nor Chalons, with its great church of St. Loup and St. Jean, but the Cathedral and the town of Noyon have been leveled, and the gray walls of incomparable coucy-le-Château, "that greatest of the castles of the Middle Ages," whose lords arrogantly proclaimed "Roi ne suys, ne prince, ne duc, ne conte aussi; je suys le Sire de Coucy," have vanished forever from the heights under the wanton fire of the invaders' shells, and twenty thousand pounds of powder placed in the walls and exploded in revenge on the day of the retreat (April 1917). Amiens, for some reason, has been spared, but it too may yet receive its baptism of fire, even as Rheims. Amiens and Rheims! Never were there such miracles of art as shown in these temples! Rheims is now a ragged ruin of roofless leaning walls. So Amiens, miraculously preserved, is now the greatest existing example of Christian architecture in the world. In the following chapters I have quoted extracts from accounts written by eyewitnesses of acts committed by the invader in the devastated towns of France. I am not responsible for these statements, nor can I vouch absolutely for their truth, or correctness. I give them for what they are worth as part of the setting—the frame work of the pictures I have made of the noble, now vanished monuments which can never be replaced.... If I have betrayed bitter feeling it is because of their destruction by whomsoever accomplished. "Woe be unto him from whom offense cometh." The Author. Greenwich, Conn. May 1917. CONTENTS VANISHED HALLS AND CATHEDRALS OF FRANCE FOREWORD ARRAS LIL
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Old English Ballads - A Top 100 Music Book of Historical Importance. A Book of Old English Ballads by George Wharton Edwards and an Introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie. Complete Edition containing over 25 traditional English Ballads including Chevy Chace, King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid, King Leir and his Three Daughters, Fair Rosamond, Phillida and Corydon, Fair Margaret and Sweet William. This apparent arrest, in the ballad stage, of a story which seemed destined to become an epic, naturally suggests the vexed question of the author ship of the popular ballads. They are in a very real sense the songs of the people; they make no claim to individual authorship; on the contrary, the inference of what may be called community authorship is, in many instances, irresistible. They are the product of a social condition which, so to speak, holds song of this kind in solution; of an age in which improvisation, singing, and dancing are the most natural and familiar forms of expression. They deal almost without exception with matters which belong to the community memory or imagination; they constantly reappear with variations so noticeable as to indicate free and common handling of themes of wide local interest. All this is true of the popular ballad; but all this does not decisively settle the question of authorship. What share did the community have in the making of these songs, and what share fell to individual singers?
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Edwards was born in Fair Haven, Connecticut in March 1859.
Edwards was educated at Antwerp and Paris.
He showed an interest in art from a young age, and began his painting career on neighborhood barns and fences. He moved to Greenwich in 1912. Edwards was art director of Collier"s magazine from 1896 to 1903.
He was manager of the art department of the American Bank Note Company from 1904 to 1912.
He was a contributor both as a writer and illustrator for Harper"s Magazine
The Order of the King of Belgium
The Order L"Académie française d"Art
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
His mural "Hendrik Hudson" hung at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and he painted defense posters for Greenwich in both the first and second world wars. In addition to writing and painting, he designed bookplates for local people and institutions in the North East.
In 1930 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1945. Bookplates by George Wharton Edwards
Edwards died in Greenwich, Connecticut at the aged of 90.
In 1884 Edwards was awarded prizes at an art exhibition in Boston, and went on to receive honors from other cities in the United States and Countries in Europe, including: Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Belgium Chevalier of the Order of Isabella the Catholic Chevalier of the Royal Order of the Crown of Italy.
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He was a member of the Cos Cob Art Colony.
