New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-27
BRITISH GOSSIP.
NOTES FROM LONDON.


IFROM ills REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUNEJ
LONDON, March 6.-The Washington Club Is not
to have NJ Gladstone's house. II has been scId 10
Sir Arthur Guinness, the wealthy young brewer who
bIewed a haronetcy along with his stOut-or rather
whose father did. Tne price is stated at t3o,OOo.
Mr.. Gladstone seems 10 be steadily putting on the
vanties of the world. He has sold not only MS
tOwn-hOuse but part of his we'll known colestioh
of pottery. / suppose If there was one tning ne
AIRED for more than another it his jugs and OFT
cites and other crockery. His collection mscel-
laneous, but iine and contained fewer bad things
fewer cOunterfeits than most private museums
boast Of Certain kinds of pottery he understood
extremely well Greek. Etruscan and early Engilsn
in particular. He has chosen good time to SELL MOI
in the memory of man has pottery brought snch
prices as it brings now; and the high prices are py
no means confined to tine genuine and good. or to
really fine specimens of genuine ware IL you ike
to risk yourself at Chrstie's some day when mis-
cellaneous sale is You may often even see unde-
niable modern limitations sold az figure that would
be dear for the same porcelain, if old aud good 90
the most trivial bit of ware If it happen, to be OF
rare variety, Is greedily bought up. dealer toid
me one day last Winter that he had a piece OF
Henri Deux or faience d'oiron Now of the par
tcular species of pottery which goes Dy Ihoso
Names there are exactly ffty.three pieces IN exist
ence--the description and whereabouts OF each
piece being known, and most of them being In puD-
lie collections or in the hands of such people as the
Rothschids who are not likely to dispose Of them.
One example was sold in 1865 for f1100, and this or
another has since, believe been resod to the South
Kensington Museum for 81 200. So | asked the
dealer which of the hfty-three his was,
and lie said no one of them, but newly discovered
piece. No doubt looked ncredulous, for he asked
In lrn
being far too precious expose to the general gaze
in a shop. / promised to go but went not, and
little later, being again in the shop, and asking
about the Henri Deux was told it had been sold
The price, he said, was $1,000. "Oh, then" said'
"you found it was not genuine ~ Yes,' he
answered, at was genuine but added, with kind
of modest confusion uDusa to bric-a-brac dealer,
" 1t was not very important piece. you know"
Further inquiry elected the fact that 1t was the
cover to a pot which opens a wide field to the
mathematical mind for conjecture what the pot
itself would bring should it happen to occur some
day collection. l may add, far more celebrated
than Mr.. Gladstone's-that of the publisher, Mr.. Ii.
G. Bohn-ls soon to be dispersed by auction.
To return for a moment to the Washington Club
the only item about it can add is that meeting Is
to be held of some few of the gentlemen who have
been asked 20 ioin The circular, of which | gave
the substance last week, was issued without any
name whatever This was scarcely judicious
thing to do. Everybody 10 whom it was sent would
naturally ask FIRST Of all, who was concerned IN the
matter. 1t is now proposed that few well-known
gentlemen shall allow their names to be used ana
this ] hear they disposed to do, on beng salts
fed that the protector is really able to supply me
money necessary for acquiring house and starting
the club, and that members Will be enectuaiy pro-
tected against all liability.
fine Boughton of small size was sold this after
noon at Christie's, The Syren" about 20 by IA
inches for l4 guineas, say $50 gold. If any hard
up Americans have Boughtons they want to dispose
Of they may be sure of a good price by sending
them over here. No artist rising more rapidly In
price or reputation. His pictures intended Tor TINS
wears exhibition ut the Royal Academy are three in
number and well advanced. Two Of them are com
papion neutrality-suspicious. by force of contrast
one called Gray Days. the other COaIeur tie lose Each
consists of one central full length figure OF yOunG
woman; the former au representation OF melancholy
clad in gray, leaning on a gray stone wall, the
atmosphere and everything about her gray and
bleak vet filed wi a peculiar charm, ana not less
lovely in tone than if less sorrOwtul. The other 10
in white, radiant in face, roses clustering high
about her. the air all sunshine, and such sweet
colors pervading the picture as belong to sweet
and happy woman The feeling shown IN the two
taken together is singularly genuine aud true. Oh
the larger picture, entitled Woman and her Master,
must postpone what have TO say, only remarking
that 1t is one of those landscapes with figures III
which Mr. B1ughton has so often shown a genius
quite apart from that Of any other artist OF his time
His ambition enlarges with his growing success
and this picture covers more canvas than any he mas
before painted. l may quote brief notice OF lt
from this weeks Acadmy by Mrs. Mark Pattison,
very competent aud accomplished critic:
The scene s a large common. the edge OF which Is
with cumps OF distant trees undcr ne shelter OF wlch
little homestead shows itself Tue line OF road leading
through this common sweeps IN long depressed htlt-
circle right round the whole space Near 10 "a low on
the right hand old laborer sits idy, hammer III
Is a cart and men busiy engaged leading away stones.
Up road, little further on move me pteou- nkures
of three women, heavily laden with varou. burdens.
and one or them dragged back by child IN 'front.' or
this group some PAGES anean Walls tlo man ~ or
ences his unembarrassed hands thrust clu nY lhlO NJ
hees The hunOr OF this situation Is not, however un-
wisely forced. The movement or the groups ana ntr
character ia thoroughly IN keeping with, and suJor-
dnated TO- the general interest or the scene The prn
cipa feature Of the design the fine curve OF the ne
OF road and the way in which the minor lines oil aus
spends the style OF the design II IS grave ana pa;
nched has not only OF distance and air, out
felt in relation 70 the preVdllnR sehtmeh
There is certain stamp of character Mr. Bought0ns
treatment of this subject. an OF serious
and considered spirit which 10 Indicate that ne
has in him vein OF power and Independence Oh
Thought and fee ling than either COer de Rose or cray
Days sweet and graceful as they are would lead Us
" expect
Mr. Gladstone's new pamphlet "Vaticanism' was
in its fifteenth thousand yesterday-some eight days
after its publication. This sale, though not quite
80 rapid as that of the first essay, is even more
remarkable because the novelty of the discussion
has worn of. People of q prophetic turn of mind
predicted that this would scarcely sell at all. The
newspapers gave it little attention. but it appears
there is public more or less Independent Of news
papers and of prophets. which knows what it wants
and buys it. No cheap edition has yet been issued
Not little curiosity was excited its first appear
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