Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-06
Correspondence RrcoRp.uxlos.l

rake so interesting his fugue-C-oogle and
classical wobble," as a young composer
among my friends is wont to characterize
this masters forms. Mrs. Norton sang
twenty times at this concert, which seems
almost too often for her delicate voice,
Hatton's "The Lark now Leaves his
Wat'ry Nest" and Gounod's tou ching,
half-churchly Roasignol" being among
the number. It was quite news to many
the stir it did, to discover that Sir William
Davenant was the author of the highly
poetical words of " The Lark now Leaves, +"
the music of Hatton's ballad being much
better known than the words.
There was TO have been amateur singing
also at the kettledrum at B'nai Birth
Hall on Monday night, but the courage of
the artists dropped before the responsible.
ity of singing to eight hundred people, and
the entertainment remained dance. Some
flowers were sold to preserve the charitable
character of the kettledrum, Miss Bah
cock, Miss Blanding and Miss Jarboe hav-
ing the posies in charge. The tickets were
sold for the benefit of the State Woman's
Hospital name, by the way, which al
ways reminds me of the puzzled face with
which an Englishmsu, who was asked to
contribute his shekels TO this worthy char
ity, inquired But who ia the State
woman p Who, indeed, John Ball?
BANJO CLUB.
Miss Jaboe is the President or organizer of
Banjo Club, whose members are wrestling
"girlfully" with that jolliest of little il.
struments. San Francisco always thrills
to craze just one year from date, and it
seems as if the fair cnss who "picked F"
upon the string" two summers ago at
Mount Desert had tossed their Fairbanks &
Co.'s and Stewards across the continent,
where they had been caught by Western
amateurs. A jigwell played on banjo with
metal head is the very best recipe for
driving dull care away that has yet been
invented it takes any amount of patience
and fine, strong, flexible, artistic hand to
master and control the delicate strings,
simple as the instrument seems. Hamle:
has summed up the necessity of skill in
treating a musical instrument, however.
Dobson's patent is the most unfair handi.
cap that has yet been devised for banjo
it boxes up the whole head in wood, with
some wild idea of superior resonance to be
obtained therefrom doubtless only the
idea is false one, like that Frenchman's 8,
who only had one.
The idea of founding a Hopkins dy-
nasty" as some one called last nights
wedding in Trinity Chapel, is not bad
one, however. 1t was full reunion OF
Californians-calledt the most clannish oil
travellers, and DIR. Plat, who has such a
reputation as marrying man, completed
the transplanted local color. 1t is much
debated whether Mr.. and Mrs. Tim Hopkins
design returning to San Francisco to take
possession of the beautiful Queen Anne
house, whose splendors have seemed SO neg
lected. There is material for
ENRIcHING LUXURIOUS HOUSES
In the new lot of paintings now on view
here. 1t is like cutting the leaves of a
new magazine to take ones first hasty look
round the walls of the cozy, sky-lighted
room where they are exhibited, though to
be sure one fair maiden sailed in and
sailed out again, remarking casually,
Nothing new, see :" but perhaps it
was for a wager. There is something new,
however; for instance, life-sizs terra
Gotta bust, executed from bronze called
"The Nubian"-an adorable thing. The
head is turned quite to the left and little
dropped, the bare arms and shoulder drawn
anu III Win hliiu OI RESIST
ance; the breast and neck are like reality,
and so the profile, with its yelled eyes,
containing just enough of race character
istics to suggest slavery, while the arrested
shoulder shows the untameable spirit of the
woman. The hair is entirely covered by
turban or Golf pinned at the nape of the
neck, and the surfaces of this head-dress
hold the light in masses in a wonderful
way.
AN ELEcTRoTYPE PANEL
Is another new and choice acquisition to
the gallery. 1t represents young chorister
boys singing over each others shoulders all
from one book. The lads range from nine
to fourteen years old, apparently, and have
in their faces besides the common interest
with which they are all singing, and the
common likeness of boyhood, traits and
lines and expressions that make each boy a
vivid individuality; they are suggestive
little corps of drdmdtis person9 as they
walk along in high relief, with timely
hint of Christmas carols about them.
Among the paintings, one Of the most odd
and attractive, is a scene in the Bots de
Boulogne, by Miralles. It is almost start
lingly natural, and has every mark of be-
ing painted out of doors. The foliage in
the back. ground is whole scale of cxquis.
tie brown green's, and in the foreground,
balancing herself on fashionable heels, and
catching up daintily a fashionable dress
with fashionsbly wrinkled long glove, is
the most audscious and Partisan of CO.
QUOTES, her head, on which blue veil is
peculiarly caught, thrown little back,
with
SLIGHT SMILE,
Fascinating by reason of its mirthlessness.
There hangs near this another boldly-c
ored little canvas, in the school of For.
tuny and in the style made familiar to Cal
ifornians by Humphrey Moore. A woman
Jet us even call her a lady-sits in pink.
walled boudoir, under a green banana
sparse.leaved and mournful banana, such
as would naturally be placed in pink.
walled boudoir-and this lady is occupied
in Joining or parting a sheet of purple
velvet embroidered with yellow. The
texture and dark richness of this piece OF
embroidery are beautiful; for the rest OF
the picture, one has to cultivate q taste for
it as one does for olives, but the technique
makes the cultiysting worth while. At
the other end OF the gallery is picture,
under glass, by Langee, an artist whose
pictures have been pronounced hors con-
cours by the Salon. This one shows a
young woman in short-sleaved mauve
gown. She is longing in a large chair and
reading book, the wrapping OF which is
on the polished wosd floor at her feet.
These arc crossed in front of her, and the
artist has had the courage to make her an
kles the size they naturally appear when
pushed out in the way she has them. Her
slippers have
SENSIBLE HEELS;