The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-14

THE LEAGUE AND THE LADIES.

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The Annual Reception oil the Union League
Club i.nst Evening-Art, Music and ianc-
ing Combined to Make the Fair Friends
Of the Members Happy.
The Union League Club Rooms were a pleasant
scene last evening. 1t was the appointed time for
the annual reception given by the members to their
friends OF the gentle sex. Accordingly the finely
furnished parlors, drawing rooms galleries,
&C., were decorated with flowers and
pictures, and were gllltering with brllliancy OF
gaslight long time before the first guest arrived
The tables In the supper rooms were arrayed in
shining white cloth AMI laden with bright china
and silver and the glossy black walters stood about
with their proverbial dignity and towels flung
carelessly over the lett arm. while the captain and
the chief COOK" as well as the "bOttewashers''
went hltner and thlther in terrible furry.
Conspicuous was the master OF cerelnOnles-a tall.
graceful gentle-vOlced young gentleman, whose
very step, however, had the AIR Of puncious cere.
Nervousness, and whose habinents, OF the very
darkest and most glossy black, sat upon hlm
INCONSISTENCIES. VINO ever saw so elegant a
swallow-tal, otherwise irreverenty called q
claw hammer Ana SO ravish1ny a cravat as was
shamed by Its very immaculateness by the glorious
roundness OF the towering neck SO Swinburne
for whose eyes master OF ceremonies most usually
arrays himself; WHAT cares he for the sterner NOR
tails who rival him In all that constitutes his fame?
Tue rain pelting piteOusly without did presage
very crowded festivities; but at ABOUT nine O'Clock
the close, gloomy CABS began TO QaSn up TO inc en-
trance to the canvas archway that led to the ves.
bule, aud ladies aighted IN company with
their cavaliers and walked quickly by the
martial sergeant-at-arms anu up stars to the
dressing rooms. Ii the vexed weather out OF doors
ClOuded their thoughts and slightly chilled their
beget most pleasant moods aid dlspel all lugubrity
The gallery was enriched with paintings
loaned Oy some wealthy gentlemen, VINO
are lovers OF art TO grace this occasion,
Many OF these have not yet been submitted to
public exhibition and come almost fresh from the
CT nal Tnd hAan
ful interior scene, belonging to Ii. sherwood and
painted by S. j. Grey, "Ine Tangled Sken,n repre-.
sents young MAIDEN with soft, light skin and
golden brown hair, engaged in winding
brother. a small boy. whose back is toward ard
the spectator The girls face Is the index OF the
erect In which the predcament-the tangled con.
dltiOn OF the sKen-shOws her to be. and Is q de-
lighuu study The expression is not one Of vexa-
uon-somethlng far gentler and better. The other
the room, and not important The head OF q
''Circasslan slave." by Z. Fodder, and owned
by Mr.. J. W.. Bigelow, Is very true to art
and very beautiful. There are beside s. r. Chords
the young Nurse" by Bougereau, and elm
dustry," by Meyer Won Bremen. Both of the latter
are owned by Ex-Governor Morgan. The last is Well
known and admired. The others In the col.
lection worthy OF note are that Of Il. Blu
chanan Read, "nlawatha Bearing Mime
Fidele WinslOw HOmcr's Country School," J. M.
Harris Afternoon LOItering In the Stream.n Gift
fOrds "Lazy Day III Egypr' and the 'Peace and
Penty' OF Rubens and snyder.
The dancing took place in the theatre, the stage
OF which was covered with forest OF ioweraden
plants behind which was hidden the orchestra.
Flags and banners were hung on either side. The
order OF dancing was as lOlows:-