Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-04-01
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.


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New York HeraId-ur. Brown and
Mr- Lasyiey, Etc.
Special Correspondence OF TIE EVENING STAR.
NEW YORK March 81, 1882.
visited the Academy Of Design last evening to
see what our artists have been doing for myself.
The first Impression the visitor receives is that
there is an extraordinary number OF good attempts
but very few real works OF art One can run
through the rooms, II he has O good eye, and pick
these out In a very few minutes, and when he has
picked them out he can count them on his fingers
There knot OF visitors all evening In front of
Thomas Honenden'S "Elafne," OF which there has
been so much talk. II this indication OF interest
counts for anything, and the fact that people oter
before IL a long time and return to Ii again and
again, the artist may feel that his two years OF
diligent work on 1t has not been thrown away.
The scene Is taken from Tennyson's poem,
at that point where Elaine Is described as
having been brought in and is lying DEAD on a
couch, The face Is that Of a fair woman, whose
figure, what Is seen OF It, is all that grace or form
can suggest. Her hair, which is q rich brown,
falls loosely on her shoulders and upon the pillow,
and one arm rests on the coverlet thrown over
her, OF old gold The expression OF the face Is OF
one in peaceful sleep. Launcelot, who Is fine
figure. stands near her head, presenting striking
profile. This is as IL should be, but the king and
queen who are standing on the opposite side of
Che couch are as uninteresting specimens OF roy
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anywhere-So bad are they In fact that it seems
the artist must have spite against them. Sew
eral OF court ladies' are well drawn, well drap-
ed, and seem to have life In them. The artist
values his painting at $4,000 There are number
OF paintings held at 81 900 and $4,000, but others
ing School Green Room,u attracts q great deal
attention II Is the work OF j. Wells Champney.
S n9s dD,s su w In ss
the grace or hgure and atttude-or, to put it
another way, this is lacking there is no interest
at ALL The young ladies are diligently employed
In getting themselves up in picturesque costumes,
and show an astonishing familiarity with the pow
lot Is dressed in small clothes, which become her
wen turned legs, and Is having moustachios
painted by schoolmate. When you have looked
at Thomas w. Shields Mozart Singing his Re
guiemn YOU have seen the best OF the
stefan the day before his death, propped up in a
great chair. His shirt is open at his throat, and
on a score In mis- hands, while several musicians
and singers, In the picturesque costume OF the
time, are performing the requiem. There are sew
which recall the severe timss OF Purltanism in
New England. As they record period IN our ma
tional life, there should be more OF them Gilbert
Gaul has done wen in finding his subjects In the
late war-a field that genius would soon win a
sThe Stragglers," two soldiers trudging along side
by side, engaged in conversation, and apparently
The Other IS Charging the Batter r an actio a
taking place In ravine at night, the light OF q
nets As usual, the negro character is portrayed
by several artists The most noted is $. Uncle Ned
and !" by T. w. Wood, the vice-president of the
academy The ebony face OF an Old darkey is
brought into strong contrast to the peach bloom
OF blqe-eyed youngster whom he carries on one
arm. +. A. Bridgman, whose oriental paintings
created such furore here year or two ago, has
two specimens OF his work here, both of which are
Characteristic. One is portrait of an eastern
lady. and the other is an Algerian interior. came
upon a striking picture hung over the
II r. "
!, Is "A Day Dream" The picture IS poetical u
thrown into startling relief by the blending of the
SKY and the water In which it is gliding. and the
boat, in their anatomy and attire, are almost
Grecian. stalwart figure, with barred arms, is in
the DOW rowing. a fair woman In a white robe Is
reclining on the bosom of her lover in the middle
OF the boat, and stately woman clad in white
the blade Of an oar W Soe wbo W Srs5 nr %th
Ing about with black skull cap on his head, said
never happened before. 1t was rare good luck.
THE MARQUIS DE LENvILLE,
or louisville" as most people cali him. Is still
wandering about You viii remember that said
a few weeks ago that began to look upon him
with considerable interest in view Of the extraor-
binary changes in his accent at the Lotos Club
dinner He began with the oysters in such broken
English that even the walters couldn't understand
MN, out as the dinner progressed he became more
anu more n5tesiole until he not only spoke
gave il a broad Yorkshire STAMP. After desert h.
twisted his 1ewened insignia at his neck for mo-
nent IN embarrassment, and then suddenly said
that he was New York correspondent of the Lon
don World. 1t struck me as being rather odd that
for the World, when he continually asserts
that the country is "beneath any gentleman's
A@ericans and FrsnkfOrs JewsS S sti mo- sV one
Challenged the statement OF the Marquis, and he
certain ik who are widely known as the .coifish
aIiStocracy." All this is written because woman
VINO passas as the the wife Of the e, Marquis has been
The lady who runs the famous wax-works exhi-
piuon In London simultaneously comes the
information from England that Madame TusSaud's
daughter has run away with adventurer who
wore heavy whiskers ard gold eyeglass. Still
the Marquis may not be q fraud, and his running
away with the showwoInan's daughter certainly
does not stamp him such, as marquises like
other people, do foolish things Still the MARQUIS
is rapidly creating vigorous desire for more
knowledge OF his former life, and begin to fear
that when the facts come out it will be the DID,
old story.
THE EsTHErIC CRAZE AGAIN
II Is without doubt becoming an esthetic age
Gfimpses OF the estheticisms into which the FASH
ionable world Is about to plunge may be obtained
through shop windows, but one gets over
wheiming sense OF it by going inside. BonnetS
are made with nothing visible anywhere hut
1owerS; dresses have flowers at the neck or ON
the eorsage, sometimes both, and even trailing
down upon the skirt. Besides this, the amount OF
lace5 and ribbons on costume IS bewiIdsrpg to
say nothing OF the pleatng and stirring and puff
Ing Onc WOutu t0l1A bQ3I IllS would satisfy the
young lady OF fashion, but IL doesn't There must
be flowers also on her parasol-a big bunch Of
them Parasols OF this description were In
tended for watering places and seaside re-
sorts, but there IS an ayowed intention
TO carry them in the street counted on one saw
In a shop the other day two large roses, four half
open ones, six buds with a backing up OF green
leaves Provision mas been made for the languish-
Ing maiden who worshipS the suniowers. Some
C'nes there are as many as three Haunting their
Wealth Oh gold from one parasOL There is art also
III the handle. Instead OF the common place stick
there Is carved ngure OF some animal so large
That II VIII task the dainty fingers OF the owner to
keep fast held OF IT. One OF the most striftn0
designs Is that OF an owl holding rabbit In its
Claws In nothing perhaps does the young woman
stockings. SO stockings are embroidered with
fowers-the Wild kind that grow in the
fields end woods Some OF this embroidery f. so
exguisiteiy done that one can fancy Oscar Wilde
holding pair OF stockings In his hands, crying
over them. Still more-fanS decorated, not I'm
tne Japanese fashion, but with flowers painted by
nahd All IN all, the woman OF fashion, with the
oloo:n In her cheeks (Which the New York woman
WI nave II she mas 10 resort TO the rouge pot for