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Title
Illustrations for "Flights Abroad"
Description
Short story by F. St. Mars adopts centers upon a black kite--that is, the migratory predator--who as the narrative opens is hunting in the Southern Downs of England. A series of events take it across Europe and eventually to Africa, engaging in showdowns with wild dogs and avoiding human hunters. In a dramatic finale, the kite kills a grouse but then: "Another rush of wings, mightier than the first. Another scuffle. Another burst of feathers, and the kite was down. A tremendous and awful apparition of a bird, known but vaguely to men as a war-like crested eagle, was on top of him. And there the story, and the life of our black kite, ended quite abruptly thus--!" (427). The story's point of view owes something to literary naturalism and its dynamics of Social Darwinism, most famously rendered in the works of Jack London.<br />
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Four illustrations to Mars's story were created by New Deal Gallery artist A. E. Cederquist. Their captions run as follow:<br />
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Page 419: "Before science he was a black or migratory kite and had no business where he was at all."<br />
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Page 423: "He knew that a caravan meant a city sooner or later, and it may mean food."<br />
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Page 425: "He dare not take his eyes off the crouching, advancing red shape in front of him."<br />
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Page 426: "The first sand grouse was down again, the kite on top of it."
Creator
Cederquist, A[rthur] E[manuel] (1884-1954)
Publisher
The Outing Magazine
Date
1910-07
Contributor
Cooper, Ken
Source
The Outing Magazine 56 (July 1910): 419, 423, 425, 426.
Format
1. jpeg, 393 KB<br />
2. jpeg, 429 KB<br />
3. jpeg, 187 KB<br />
4. jpeg, 441 KB
Type
Still images
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Magazine illustrations