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THE SUN, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1914.
FIRST OF MACEX)WELL CLUB SHOWS
--NEWS OF THE ART WORLD
7TTI.KK PA SCI. V nf Paris litis or
rlvnl In New Vnrk. He Miya he
Jin nut mi emlgrf. Ho came to
Ui l.i country rtlmply because he
hudicd tt see Anicrha. He wilt Htuy a
fortnlent with us und then nit south
ward, to Fiurliln, Cuba, he doesn't
know where.
A number of ijh were trylnK to per
m.irto lilm, since he muHt quit Now
York, to go to Saw Orleans assuring
him thut It was beautiful down there
lovely architecture, rare colors, "as
swell as Venleo," norne one. In the
crowd ventured; soft climate, "beaux
ingles" rmlncntly palatable, good op?ra
mid eating, nil In fact that the soul of
mi artist i'iu!d desire, but Pascln did
Jiot succumb to our enthusiasms. Hnme
'thlng thut somebody to!d him years ngn
tlxed Florida In bis mind ns desirable,
and bcslde.1 he firmly Insists that Flor
ida Is not no far nwny a New Orleans!
Not Hint It Is our affair' The choice
of h.ibllHt by tin artlt of Imagination
Is often swayed by trifles light ns air.
The planting of Gauguin upon Tnhltl
nnd Su Vinson upon Sniuoa rould not
have lieen nrrangid by others, find the
only tmlnt Hint concerns us Im that In
,thte plarea they found foil upon which
iliey could flourish. I'nllke Gauguin
ntid Stevenson, Pascln Is not looking for
an nsylum. Ho Is n pa"." en kit bird. He
sure be wIM abstract honey from Flor
ida utttinitrh personally I ,im not nt hII
sure .that Florida herself will recognize
l'.wln'i" product mm honey.
To uu dl-lntrrrtril Northerners It !
will be gr-at fun to see what I'ascln
brings b.irk In bis portfolios from down
t'irn. For that matter, since he Is to
be Willi us a fortnight, tve had better
watch out ourselves. Mr. Heiison''
"Dodo"' said of the marriage atnte, "It '
1s both h responsibility and tin oppor-1
i unity, nnd the k.ime may be cud of I
Mr. Pascln's visit to us. It la all
cry well for us to brush our hair
pompadour fashion, and sit straight up
and down In our chairs In respectable
poses. Wo can't, of course, keep that
sort of thing up forever. Wo cannot
even keep it up two weeks, nnd the ex
actly wrong moment of the tanyo is
'the moment that Mr Pascln will catch
"us, you may bo sure.
As an artist ho s not enamoured of
masks and poses. Ho has not said so,
but Judging by hh drawings, I should
say l n Is not deeply concerned wIMi
lecordmg the outward aspects of r-
snectHhllltr. Itesnectabllllv is a thlni; '
that s sure to get Itself recorded, nuto- J
matlcally If no other way, and for that I
reason probably Mr. Pascln lets It alone. !
There Is no crying need to publish it. ;
since It publishes Itself. He has none of
lie anltnos.ty against vlrtuo that seems '
to put bitterness Into the pens of our '
modern F.tiglish satirists. Ho In, to j
put the matter ns simply ns poullIe '
more concerned with beauty than with
satire, although satire Is thete. It
as though the beauty In his drawings
!s conscious, the satire unconscious.
Digging In subterranean pa.ssages his
its dangers nnd so have the senrchlngs
of an artist among the wreckages of tho
human stream. The topic Is un Invit
ing one and one that must be discussed
and understood In America before wo
can hope to make New York the capital
of the arts. Wo Have poised mor.ilUy
and art in the scaliw before this and
sometimes morality wins and sometimes
net wins bin far. in each decision,
there Is always n oire that insists Hut
there has ls-en Juggling with the scales!
So much depends in young couniHej.
such us ours, for Instance, upon who :s
umpire! ICmlly Dickinson, our almost
forgotten poetess, ilalnieil in a poem
that nil lioslorr agreed was perfectly
all right, that truth and bcmity wem
me. and as truth and in inllty are alio
one, It follows ns the night the day that I
morailt) anil oeauiy are one; ami coii
sequent!) if P.iscln's drawings lire Ii.mii
ilful tiiey aie moral.
We may all auree na-ely to iliis ib
iliictton at nin e m- we iniy make a fuss
and tiv I., st. mp upor. 1'ineln as w
N'ampi d upon tcn'M. Wilt wiiiiman
unci Foe. but mioih r or lattr wo must
. ine ar.anal. for art alwajs wins In i!ie
end. and I'.isoiu has a talent tha 's
prodigious.
It I.- altogellur likely that liefore tliejSKy. nut me uiuj upon tne groin u da.
season Is over we shall have a public! side them has entirely earthy Interests,
exhibition i.r his work nnd then all the jit has Its linger In Its mouth, a bad
ii' .ml mid scientific phases of his urt' habit that should be lntant!y corrected,
tn, iv 1 nslderrd in detail. It would Mr. Dornn, If this be not a dream child.
lie no'blng liss than crime If we fait) The group of sculptures by tho lato
i .show this Mult li r undents. Think Iouls Saint Gaudeus is In the nature of
: ii Di gas coining to tow n with a linn- 11 memorial exhibition. It contains his
dred or o wnter colors and no one "Ceres," a sober, simple and fine bronr.e
c ing ibeni but a t irilfiil of experts! head, and a number of decorative pieces,
nn i "i ti'i- 'It Is ii-c to llgure 'nniotig which are models of the "Vnn
n an bl 'or i, fur as modern art Trnmp" and "Prince Henry" stalues
1 r nro-icrl not' of gioatrr impor- 'made for the New York Custom House
.'-a"-.'
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Cour r.y of Knotdlar UiiUrlu,
lance may happen throughout the win
tcr.
That admirable Institution, the Mac
dowrll flub, opened Its doors this week
upuii thu first of Its series of fortnightly
shows. These, shows, we havo to re
Iternte from tlmo to time, are arranged
In a fashion that dispenses with the.
academical Jury system. The artists
form In groups of six, eight or ten, ac
cording to their sympathies or prin
ciples, hlro the gallery for a fortnight
and hang what canvases they choose.
There are no stem committees In the.
way, nothing but the simple, little mat
ter of raising the price of tho rental.
This doesn't seem to be dllllcult, and In
truth, divided among eight on ten as It
usually Is, It Is a trifle.
This Ingenious Idea has prospered at
the Mnedowell Huh and during the last
few years mcasuijble results have been
obtained. In fostering young talent no
other gallery has been mi effective.
Numbers of young people, who could nol
possibly puss tho orthodox Juries here
gain a hearing and find ndmlrcrn. A
wild looking picture thnt frightens one
at tlrst glance Is found upon examina
tion to hae qualities of nature. Then
In month or two the artist Is exhi
biting In Fifth avenue shops or In Inter
national exhibitions. This desplto tho
fact that the Macdowoll Club Is very
much hidden uway, that the public Is
I onlv half nware that It bus the tirlvllece
of seeing theso plenties and that six or
eight visitors to the exhibition nt a
time constitutes a crush
A crush Is all very line and desirable.
no doubt, but not so Important sn the
chance, thnt is given for an artist to
see his Idea upon a wall and to Judge
at la.t for himself as to whether It
speaks ns It should, or speaks at all
It can be readily Imagined that some of
the worst pictures Hut have ever been
painted appear In these shows. They
do no harm. They make a foil for the i
surccssc. Honest failures are not dis
graceful, though Insincere pictures are. i
Insincere pictures are rare at the Mac
dowrll Club.
The opening show this year Is rather I
suave, gentle and unremarkable. In '
Hint, history repeats Itse'f. Tho club I
last year put great reitralnt upon Itself
In the early part of the season and
didn't venture anything wild nnd cii-
blstlc until the first fury of the art crit- (
nlwTs very savage In the early
autumn, hud blunted Itself upon other I
things. The chlif performers are An-
netta Saint Caudens. Helen Furnsworth i
Mears uml Hubert C. Dornn, 1
Mis Mcars. who wus a pupil of Au- i
KUkUih Saint Caudens und for a time his
assistant, shows "Dawn and I-abor." two
femab. figures that move rhthmleally
compose will and have character, al-
mougn me group is siiii m a sKotcny
state. Her "live" rec;ine and appears
to ! a new version of that lamentable
alTalr. Hv Is half nsbep. it Is evl-'
dently Jin,t after the midday repast,
which In those das was tin- pilnclpal.
one of Him day. The wily n-rpeni pic-,
sents the apple, which Is all extremely
small one, Mi-K .Mcars bidding with tin!
savants who claim that lli frill' In I
I'lue.stion was a crnbapple. and Kv
I somnolently accept a. if u,: Mear.'.s
t"r' ' he proved true, thru lots of
I'voplo will come to Kve's defence, say- 1
i that ,hc shouldn't have been blamed
I"0 heavily as she has been, for nt the
j muiiivni of leuq.lailon she wu not her
j
I D"rnn s w.ili nlo forces us to
! '""'h the eccleslasilcil cibwels fiom
our brain-. He submit" a small M.i
(fauna and a Crucifixion, am hi lnrg- ,
-I canvas is ailed "Faith" He works
In Hi.- dcioratlve iinnner that suggests i
1l l..M..A.l. ftll n. . '
i ,-inir-tii .tiiiii-i ,ti inner., nun at
times Ml- IVivlf.v, T.lt.-n nil .Umnlnrj
' he gels i tcei:ent renllin without tsie-
cliilly trying for It.
Tin' "I'e'i rh"ro II. lis" is pleasantly
true, allhougli the painter was as miKh
Interested In I lie di sign as in rea Ism. I
' i"'in I'numivr ,
fuinlly. primitively drawn against a con-
'Veiihonai luiulsuape. The father and,
' mother of this composition un upon,
their knees praying straight up Into the
"Lea Cygnes," by Oaston La Touchu,
Mr. Halnt Gatidens, who was born In
I.tspcnnrd street, New York, In IS.'.-i, died
In Cornish, N. II., In Maioh of iust
year. Ho was seven years younger than
tits more famous brother Augustus, lu
whom he was always devoted, and with
whom he worked for many years.
Tho Daniels' (lallery Is more New
Yorklsh than ever. The fashion of the
pictures It exhibits Is "up to the min
ute," ns Miss Mary Harden said of her
gowns. Tho swiftness of life and the
vustness of the changes that are taking
place before, our ejes ure apparent even
In the names of the artlst.t that Mr
Daniels presents to us. .orach, Wort
man, Lulls, Kueltne, Mnnlgault. Such
names! How ttlp Van Wlnklo would
stare and blink at them.
Who are there people? Not a single
good old fashioned American In the list;
not a Cadwallader, Middle, Cabot or
even a Smith! Vet when you talk to
these young people you And that their
accents nre perfect nnd thnt they know
more of slang nnd the Constitution of
'the Fulled States than you do yourself
One heats tho waves lapping around
On Inhibition at Horlln Photographic Co,
King
tho base of the Liberty Statue a one
gazes at the vivid colors, and one won-
ders, seeing our past so far away from
us, nt the perplexities of the future
that seem to bo swooping tn us. Wo
hopo that Mr. Daniels and the others
w ho keep th" tires going beneath "Tho
..... ..
.... -siL.!i, -ar-viij-t.'(..v r .
Melting Pot" will have firm hands and
stendy ones when the mass finally be
comes molten nnd It Is time to steer it
into permanent forms.
The pictures of the opening show now
on all have features to arrest tho at
tention, being painted for tho most part
with great decision ami force, Jerome
Myer's "Italian Festival" nnd Mrs. Pen
dleton's "Landscape" being tho only
works that may be said to have nny
thing like reticence. I. eon KroU'a nnd
(Ins Magcr's landscapes arc among the
"strong" ones, seemingly painted by
athletes at the top of their training,
but giving us agreeab'.Q nature for ail
(hat. Mr, Magcr's method at present Is
a trlflo too much like Vnn flogh'a, but
that Is one. of the things that are Im
plied by being "up to the minute." liror
Nordfcldt's bench scene has u touch of
caricature, but It Is done In attractive
color. Stuart Davis shows a portrait, a
'.nrgo lady done In hot colors, the out
lines In crimson and shadows In mauve,
that wc regret extremely not to have
liked overmuch. Mr Davis frequently
figures with great ecl.it In tho Mucdow
e.l Club exhibitions and Ills canvases
of the Homeric Times, by Leon
are so decorative and witty that we
havo acquired quite a soft mot for them.
Mr. Illrubaum of the Ilerlln Photo
graphic Company hn.s rescued another
young artist from oblivion for us and
given him a show. The iinmu of the
now artlsl Is Herbert Crowley and he
makes drawings In pen nnd Ink which
aro elaborated und detullrd to a degree
thnt will astonish you, water color draw
ings of u whimsicality that recalls .lohn
Tennlel und little grotesqiio carvings
that seem to have come out of medlieval
(lermnny Instead, Mr. HIrnbnutn as
sures us, they came out of a dingy New
York hull bedroom.
He Is nil Englishman, this nrtlst, wlio
has chosen to make New York his home.
He thought at onn tlmo of n mimical
career, ibut his timidity made concert
appearances Impossible, and after a few
recitals with varying success In Paris
and New York ho finally gave up these
attemplH and devoted himself lo ar!.
Jlo studied for u while In the Academic
I ill I on. but tho Instructor happened lu
ho unsympathetic und nsaLslnd him
little. For the munt part lie has been
self-taught. Ho has lived quietly nnd
unnoticed lu Now York, but one or two
tiny pen und Ink drawings In tho hls
torlo exhibition of modern art nt the
Armory finally uttracted and held tlu
attention of a few visitors.
Kngllah Inllueures are naturally ap
parent In Mr, Crowley's work and thu
chief la Aubrey lleardsloy's, with Ten
nlol recond. Crowley multiplies tho In
tricacies of Iteardsley to such au extent
that wo doubt If any modern audlencn
can follow him to I tin end of It ui'.h
enthusiasm. Ho Is very fond of pattern
ns such and frequently weaves cob
webby backgrounds of animal nnd llor il
forms for a background to tho main
inutlf,
His moM ambitious drawing Is thn
"Temple of Dreams"! probably thn
drawing thut Is referred tn In the cata
logun a.s having required years nf
labor, Microscopic forms nf flowers
nnd butterflies mBke a background
which fades to a halo of light nrnund
the top of thn Temple, Tho repeated
units In this pattern are laboriously
achieved,
Heardsley had an audience, He se
cured It early In his short career. It
was with one oyo upon this nudlence
that lie lavished invention and eleganc.
upon the tassel of a bell ropo In the
pjtfccura comer of a drawing, for h
knew hli nudlence w with him, nd
that the lively touch would be esteemed
as wit. Crowley's "Temple" lacks th.s
sense of "touch." very likely because of
the hall bedroom.
The repeated background has some
thing hopeless in It like the carvings
of a pesoner who works to pass the
time, despairing of npptnuso. One thinks,
In estimating It. of the workers at
oriental rugs who also tolled nt their
tasks during terms of years, and who
must often, ns they wovo In their re
peats, havo been thinking of something
besides tho motif. In their case some
thing outside themselves saved them
from incohanlcnllsm; the fact, that ns
the months ran along they were con
tinually running out of wools, nnd the
now wools never quite matched the old.
When Mr. Crowley breaks through
his reserve, to speak of his drawings,
somo of bis hearers aro Impressed by
bis profundity and "others are con
fined," says Mr. Hlrnbuum Hi his
prefacn to the catalogue, "as If they
were listening to Gertrude Kudu's cryp
tic anil Incoherent complexities. 'Hop
ing things will happen Crowley will
till you lu describing b.s ilriwing, has
noth.ng to do with dream').
Bakst.
"A dream ennnot happen. A dream
i.. It seems to me that we nre made up
ol threo parts: tho circumference, the
centre, and tho spaco In between. The
circumference, combats evil; the centre
Is the conclusion we come to from that
combat; the space In between consists
of conclusions purified. From this space
III between arises a cono Blmp"d figure
of vibrating truth which rises higher
and higher as experience comes to us.
"From tho combat of good and evil,,
dreams uro born. T.lfo cannot exist
without tho dreiun, Tho dream cannot
exist without life. Developed llfo de
velops tho dream. Tim liner thn conolu
s.oiim tho purer the life and the dreams.
Tho purer the dreams the purer tho llfo
to come. AH this reminds us of Blake
and his message of emancipation from
reality through the shaping spirit of
Imagination, nnd although Illako is
practically unknown to Crowley, art
seems to be for loth men merely nn In
adequate means of expression for a
spiritual message."
With Mr. Crowley's works are shown
a number of the recent designs hy I.enn
Hakst, the celebrated I'rancn-nuselan
painter.
ART NEWS AND COMMENT.
PVOI, JIANSHU has designed a
medal to bo Issued to nuMnbern
of the Circle of Friends of the
Medallion as the eleventh In the series.
Thn ocenrion Is the celebration this au
tumn of the south anniversary of the
founding of the city of New York, Not
only wern houses erected by itil 1 on
Manhattan, but in thnt yeur Adrlaen
lllock built tho tlra ship, which ho
culled the Ito-tliss, thereby forecasting
by the name of Ms nitio yacht tho spirit
of enterprise, that was to Characterize
the Manhatt.inese for threo hundred
years tn come.
Tho obverse shows an Indian offering
a Hollander tho pipe of peace, A Dutch
ship, a beaver and a windmill are ap
proprlatn additions. The reverso offers
New York enthroned, holding the torch
of enlightenment In her right and a
skyscraper in her left hand. Commerce,
seamanship nnd wealth are hinted at by
fitting symbols. On one face the letter
ing roada, "New Netherland Founded
16Il"i on the other "Tercentenary, New
york 1614." These designs have been
ppTovd fcrihs committee in ohrg,of
Grotesque in Bronze,
the Commercial Tercentenary of New
York. From the bulletin of the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts wo learn that Mr. Mun
shlp's lltllo bronr.e group called "Play
fulneus," which was purchased by Mrs.
C. C. Hovey from the sculptor last
spring, will bn exhibited In the institute
In the Martin II. Kaon memorial collec
tion. This work is one of those that
Mr. Manrhlp executed during his resi
dence In Homo mi a fellow of tho Ameri
can Academy.
Helen Farnsworlh Mears. some of
whosn sculptures are In the current
exhibition of tho Macdowell Club, was
born In Wisconsin. Her llrrt commis
sion was for a figure representing thnt
State, which won her a prize of ftiO
In a competition. In Kurope she stud
ied with Collin, Merson, Puescli and
Charnentler and for a number of years
after her return to America sho assisted
Mr. Saint fJaudens In his studio. Ex
amples of her work are In the Hmtth-
sonlan Institution, the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Ait, Downer College nnd tho
Milwaukee Public Library. Sho haa
recently completed a heroic figure for a
fountain to be erected In a public park
In ICati Claire, Wis. This figure will bo
placed In a basin, forty feet In diameter,
the architects of which aro CSeorge H.
1'ost & Sons.
Hubert C. Doran, whose paintings are
prominent In tho same exhibition, rays
of himself: "I nm a pupil of Kenneth
Hayes Miller. I am probably Interested
In mural decoration as much as any
other form of painting, but do not ex
ix?ct to specialize In that branch more
than any other, ns to me art Is merely
expression f ontself, no matter what
branch of nrt Is chosen. During the
past sunimtr I worked as assistant to
Abbott II. Thayer. I love Hie work of
the early Italians and of most of the
great masters dawn to the modern
Frenchmen, Of the great modern tri
umvirate Van fiogh, Ci-zanne and Ciati
guln, the latter npp-als to me most
strongly, though I love them nil. Of
our own Americans, Davles, Miller,
Hyder. Hlakelock, Martin. Twachtmnn
and Hunt appeal lo mn very much."
Two young Fnglish rtcheM of prom
ise, James Mcltey and William P. ltob
Ins, lane a Joint exhibition in the
Knoedler Galleries vrhlch is sure to
meet with appreciation and npprobnilou.
Mr. Mcltey apparently felt, like many
another etcher, that the moment he
hnd earned tho right to call himself a
professional he must start off touring
tho world In search of picturesque ma
terial. He found It In Tetuan. Henachle,
nnd Henlcnrlo, but as It also often hap
pens, be did even better at home. Ho
has a tendency to the extreme of sim
plification, such ns lu No. 21, "The
Shower." where the subject Is n slmpbi
hnystack with n few scratchy lines in
the sky to show the breaking clouds,
but simple as it is, the soft wet day is
all there. In this and some similar Im
pressions ho Is at his most original mid
best.
Two very beautiful nnd decorative
canvases by (aslon I,a Touclio have
also recently arrived at Knoedler's, ono
of which, "Lcs Cygiies," we reproduce.
The Greenwich Village Inn. Just off
Washington Square, appears to tie an
art centre as well as an Inn. In the
upper galleries at present there Is a dis
play of posters nnd sketches by Noonn
Pcrnc-idn und St. Clalro Hreckons, and
In the lower room, where the artists of
the nelghbonhoo;! foregather for food
nnd conversation, a numler of drawings
by Btuart Davis aro to lie seen. Most
of these drawings nre so slight that
Mr. Davis's philosophy of life cannot
bo deciphered at present, further than
thnt he seems to be greatly preoccupied
with large ladles. All nf his sitters are
remarkable for weight and width. It
Is of course poeslblo that' these ladles
are boarders at tho Inn and In that ens
a loyal emphasis upon the width would
bo pardonablo to a frequenter of the
Institution nnd would endear him to
tho management. Artists nre up tn these
little tricks sometlniPH.
The October number of Art In Amrr
Ira cnntalnw an excellent study of the
water colors of WIuhIow Homer hy
Kenyon Cox, a paragraph from wblch
HUlIlces to show his enthusiasm and his
Justness:
"There must bn rea,ons, morn or less
valid, for a preference; so vividly felt -felt,
nt times, by Homer himself--for
these water colors over his morn elub
orato works In nil. and ono of these
reasons I liuvo already touched upon;
It Ik Homer's extraordinary technical
mastery of tho medium, If from the
tlrst bo painted better In wnter eolorw
than hn was ever uble lo do In oils, it
may he said that, In the end, he painted
better In water colors with more vir
tuosity of hand, more senso of the right
use of tho material, more decisive nias
tory of Its proper resources ihan al
most any modern has been able to do
In oils. One must go back to Ituboss
or Hals for a parallel, In oil painting, to
Homer's prodigious skill In water cslor,
nnd perhaps to the Venetinns for any
thing so perfoctly right In Its technical
manner. His felicity nnd rapidity of
handling aro a delight, and to see thn
way, for Instance, In which all tho com
plicated forms and foreshortenlngs
of the head of a palm treo am given In
a few Instantaneous touches, each touch
of a shape one would hardly hnve
thought of. yet each Indisputably right
In character, Is tn have a new revela
tion of the power of sheer wnrkmsn
ehlp. Bvrrv Sargent's stupendous clev
erness In water color Is not mom won
derful, though Sargent sesms to be
by Herbert Crowley.
thinking n little of thn brllhanrv of hh
method, whereas Homer Is tb nr
single-mltidcdly, of the oMert or i .
effect to be rendered, and Is rlever or
because he I sure of what he u,.nt-
do and sel.cs Instinctively on tbe r
est way of doing It."
Two new courses of free pui.i . l.
hues 1n art havo been arraign! uy til
Hoard of Kducallon for the month o
November, both beginning on ibe ev
nlng of November 1L'. At Pubn. s hi.
Mi, L'2s Hast Fifty-seventh street lyn,
Welberg of the College ..f the I'ly
New York will give one or the r.. ;rf
on "Modern Artists anil Their Meais
Inking up In turn, Millet. Vli tle
Manet, the International rt Frpo
tlon and UihIIii. The other ro'iin
wlileh will begin on November 1" w
bo that by .lohn Qulncy AdHtns
ant secretary of the Municipal Art ''otn
mission, on "Art and Dally Life " w it.-'i
will be given nt Public School la:. MM.
street, west of Amsterdam nvmie
Next Tuesday evening, Octoiier j;
Alexander T. Van Ijier will continu-.
his course on "Tho History of Pnintlns
at the Museum of Natural II stnn
Seventy-seventh street nnd Central Pari
West, with a lecturo on "Hnben.s anl
Itembrandt and the Painters of the
Netherlands," whllo on the evenlnn of
October 29 Dr. Hruno Hoselll of Ad'lph'
! College will lecture at Public School SJ
on "Ilnvcnna: The Ancient Gateway of
Orlentnl Power."
This anecdote concerning a HTf&t
name Is recounted by a writer In Lr
Mai In:
"I Tinve been tnklng long walks In
these streets, formerly so populous, now
deserted, of Helleville, ha Vlllette an'
Montmartre. None but old men, wome
nnd children killing tho time talkln.
from one doorstep to another like conn
trymen when their labor Is over. Am
the task of theso poor people Is over
the tons have gone far away to defen.
tho paternal soil; nothing Is left fn'
tho mothers hut to guard the Iioufos are!
to hope lu silence.
In Montmnrtro in one of these humb!
shops where tho glass doors have tt'
ringing hells to nnnnunce the visitor
heard this touching story. A few d.iv
ngo tho daughter of tho house, a I rl
young thing of in, fiancee of a neighbor
a young workman now nt ono of "
eastern forts, went to a photogrnp
to bo "taken," Alns, the proof tha' w
submitted was most uncomplime nta
"Whnt will my llnnco say when 1
sees me like that, with swollen eyes ai
wrinkled checkM7 He will believe u
III. What a torment for him at a me
ment when he needs all his courage ft.
lighting!"
The young mldlnetto was telling th!.
tn a friend lu a creamery, not invig n
Ing Khe was overheard, Nrxeithe'.
quite near her was our good pun1'
Wllctte. who tooh his a'bum from h
iwkcl nnd In a few minutes had m "
from the despairing Columbine t
prettiest sketch In thn world. H Id.n
it out to her he s.ilil:
"Maik-molsclle, here, If you wlih.
n portrait that you may send to your
friend!"
ENGLISH ACTRESSES.
'What an KiirIUIi I'ln t rlstit Think
of Their Tnlents,
H. Mnrdonsal Hastings, the r.nsl
playwright is now In this toun'ry i
superintend tho production of tt-'
new play lie has wntcn tt
Alia Nazlmovn. After Hie pel
formanco of "Pygmalion" nt ''in Par
Thoatro tho other night ho told a fit
reporter his Impressions of tbe London
actresses. He said:
"Quito the most accomplished sctrei
on the Kngllsh ulnge, Mrs Part .
Campbell, Is ono of tho w iciest women
in society. Sho revels In thnt sen.
satiric, extrinsic form of humor whir'.
Is us delightful to Its exponents ns
Its auditors. This brilliant woman
appreciation of the most sub'le humor
of life Is undoubtedly largfl) r spot
slble for the zest nnd ilio I'fe ..r he
nctlng, Sho s eternally young.
rauso her senso of fun Miames the Im
pertinent advances of Time.
"In Hhaw's 'Pygmalion' she is a shf
delight. Her Impersonation of f
flower girl Is In thn highest vein of con
edy, nnd her enjoyment of the part '
Infectious. New York will certainly
slst upon keeping y.Hta DnoUWc a vr
long time.
"WhereaH the Kngllsh actors ss
body am the best In he wnrtd fthsr
cannot be more thnti one Chatlap'n In
UiiHsta), Kngllsh nctresfes nre so mir'i
poorer In quality. The young nctr"Mi,
In America are Infinitely better t1"
those in Kngland, In London a p11'
tern performer Is turned out, Ffi y
beauty; she cannot walk, &he s t"
duBtrlous; sho can' war her cln,v'"
sho lives with her mother all light r '
h1i can't act. She Iiiin threo poses-
"N. 1, Seated, with chin in r.VJ:
hand gazing Into space.
"No. 3, Htnndlng; left hand nn Mr
right hand mirllng on table.
"No, 8. Rtnndlng; pecking nt nnw "
left linnd with nulls nf right,
"I'nquestlonobly a very nice ulrl.
Oh! my hat! Mrs. I'atrlolt Campbell
1h the ono marvellous exception anion
tho Kngllsh actresses, the one art''
She haa that capacity which mean" "r
the author of the play eomothlng
prnachlnsr collaboration. How sh '
caped being moulded like her Mtf'i
Is difficult to aurmlsni let us be con
tent with the glorious faot.