The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-05-27

of Regnaut's and the Fuller memorial exhibit
ton, are no more to be seen. A few visitors
from neighboring cities, or travellers from far
ther of, go straying about the rooms, and col
lect in little groups at last before the Autome-
dan, expressing their pleasure or giving utter
ance to their criticism in the free and easy
manner of strangers who know that the sea-
son is over and the home crowd has dispersed.
Not much after all seems to have come from
the Fuller exhibition, for the management OF
the auction sale was unfortunately taken ont
Of the hands of the artists who one and all
loved and admired Fuller and his work, and
had made the best of plans for the sale, which
ii followed out, would have made the family
of the Artist better off by good many thous-
and dollars. Buyers came on from New York
and further west, prepared to offer at the start
high bid; when they were confronted as
they approached the large canvases they had set
their minds upon, with the placarded informa-
ton that the sale of these were limited-that
is, that certain fixed sum up in the thous-
ands had been set for start andsthst no lower
| sum would be accepted for start 4bautCompG
| about in disgrfhey had come on in good faith
At al unlimited auction sale, and at the last
moment were met with this damper to their
really generous Intentions If the managers OF
| the sale had announced at the first that they
| should thus arbitrarily set their own value,
start off the bids at their option, the feel
| ing would have been a little diffeleut but
| the BUYERS felt as II they had been unfairly
1 treated in coming to the sale as to any other
1 sale that had been announced as free and open
/ % all bidders.
The exhibition II it did not In view of the
i auction Encouragement do much good in the
| way of disposing of the pictures. did great
/ deal Of good in introducing Fuller, and gave
| thoroughly great deal Of pleasure. 1t is one
thing to see a solitary painting now and then
of an artist and another thing to see collection
of the artists pictures. When looked at the
| room full of Fuller's pictures felt that this
atmosphere that has been talked about SO much
was not after all in itself, his best and greatest
| point In direct view of so many cans asses,
this atmosphere became too much OF "style, :
and got to be q mannerlsm. But apart and
superior to this all the time, is the poetry, the
ideality of Fuller's conceptions. II the con-
| ceptioN is not ON every occasion completely
carried out, If one can find fault now and then
| with the drawing, there IL ever present that
noble suggestiveness, that ideal, that spirit
that will immortalize all these later canvafes
There Will OF course arise now a Fulel
: resemble .Aa~ Sioror craza
wnlcn some artists have not overcome yet Ii
this school we shall see young artists thinni,l1
themselves out with filmy hazes until il viii
not be difficult to see through their figures n
the canvas beyond. They will fondly thinb
that they are getting the Fuller spirit when
they only catch his external atmospheric ani
this atmosphere without the spirit is verify like
| the body without the soul --
Mr.. Whittier, our Quaker poet, has been In
town lately and sat to Edgar Parker for anothi
er porTait1this one to be hung with the john
brignt at the Quaker school in Providence
Rhode Island. The face and shoulders will he
copied from Mr.. Parker's portrait of Mr.. Whit.
tier last year, as that couldn't be bettered bn,
the later portr ait is to be three quarters pic
.ure giving the arms and hands, and represent.
Ing Mr.. Whittier as sitting.
i NOW on DlCtures T want 10 oav
apo9t new young painter who is coming for
ward, who has the most extraordinary nam,
that wss ever owned by mortal man in thi
american country. This name is the Orenta
one OF. ChIld9 Hassam What, Won DOM
mean to say that he is American, that he is q
this sectieniof the country" exclaimed. as
heard it the other day for the first time AM
was assured that such was the fact, that tbi,
softly syliabled name, without the faintes
suggestion OF our western shores, was owned
by thrifty young American who wears the
ordinary garments of our civilization and
speaks the ordinary, matter-of-iact language q
our land. have not yet seen any of Mr. Has
sans canvasses-he has been exhibiting lately
In New York-but some Of his illustration
which have seen are exquisite Let nv read
or turn to the June number of the Wide A WAKE
ana look at his illustration of Wordsworth I
"Apparelled IN Celestial Light" That show
| pretty well what he Can do Ia that line.
While the painters are OF, the people wht
remain in tbseity by necessity of one kind d
another betake themselves on occasions to thf
suburbs to pay last Winters calls, as they pu
1T. The subsrbans are in their glory. All alone
through LoDgwood, Brookline, Jamaica Plain
Koxbniy, dorchester, etc., the click of the ter,
MS racquet is heard, and on every lutte q,
large estate one sees the pretty sight of the
tennis cisd players at their play-work. Their
are no end OF clubs, bat the prettjest hv for =
the games is that of archery It thrives at Ia
maica Flaln, where they have an archery olui
Wnicn one OF the young lady members With,
named "Hitormlssit Club" At the beginning i
was good deal more on the "missit" order thar
a VIC nls; Dol practice has improved all this
anu now prizes are won by the dexterous hands
tnat can twang bow and send the arrog
nome TO the mark every time. The game as a
show piece for the feminine PLAYERS il unri
vailed. In launsy archery costume a girl
WIN pretty inquire, who has made herself an
expert, has fairer field than she has ever had
before, aud the best chance in the world IL
make her shot do more effective duty than }
merely mechsnlcal one. Another cheerful suh
urpan sound is the horn of the Tally.ho coach
%. Inere are not many OF these, but the few
suddenly seem to turn the New England road
SIDE into an English highway. A week more
II This weather lasts, the garden party will be
IN 1uil swing and the Bostonian will be only tor
nappy to accept the suburban invitation to cal
SALADS and ices under out-of-town tents q,
spreading oaks and naples. If the invited
Can 60 to their garden gaieties in a fourth.
nand vehicle and after winding flourish of a
sounding horn the JOY is complete. Not all Of
US can have this Joy-perhsps not all Of us
silent aspiration going up which, ii put inte
orm would run something like this:
IL we must be punished for our shortcom-
lDgs II we must learn the virtue of renuncia-
ton, let us not take our punishment, or our
virtue of remuneration in being OBLIGED tn "a
nounce or to forego the happiness Of going to !
garden party in Coach and Four
NORA PERRY.