Ralph Herne Author:W. H. Hudson 1922. Born in Argentina, Hudson, British author, naturalist, and ornithologist, is best known for his exotic romances, especially Green Mansions. Ralph Herne begins: My morning paper contained among its editorial notes a highly eulogistic notice of an oil painting by a young native artist, entitled Un Episodio de la Epidemia. Viewed simply as a ... more »work of art, the paper said, it far surpassed the best productions by native artists hitherto exhibited, and gave rise to the pleasing hope that a new and powerful genius had at length arisen in their midst, who by his works would remove forever the reproach that this most cultured city of South American had pens but no pencils. Apart from this, the picture had a strange fascination for those who had passed through and had been witnesses of the recent calamitous period, vividly recalling to their minds the terrible scenes with which they had been so familiar. Everybody, the writer said, was running to see it; for it had just been placed on exhibition in the Calle Diamante, one of the principal streets of Buenos Ayres. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.« less