The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-28

not difficult to trace the influence of the one great composer native to Vienna, whose genius and charm came home to Schumann, as it dtd later to the world, 1 with all the force of an unexpected revela- ton. May it not have beea the very sense of his own position, in the eyes of the world at that time overpowered by the influence of Mendelssohn, which famed the flame oi his affection for Schubert, himself the victim of the all-engrnssinx genius of Beethoven2 However that may be, VIC have at any rate to thank his enthusiasm for the revelation of Schu- bert's genius, and for the beginning of the systematic excavation cf his maru. scripts which has been carried out so tar (pei haps little too fan in our own day. .SafErday Revieav.
 At Bath. Gainsborough of course be- came acquainted with all the brightest spirits of the time. the bucks and fashion able beau ies of the period, and it is their lineaments thus preserved that gaze down upon us again to-day from the walls of the GIosveuor gallery, where they have been collected together from all ends of England. There was Qain, the actor, WAO kh AS Sot4 AS RCtSo5hC0 Wikh culty to sit to Gainsborough, and only consented after the painter said, If you will let me take your likeness shall live forever" Here is Garrick, whose DOT. trait must have given the artist no end of trouble, for it is said that the great actor varied the monotouy of the si,tings hy making the most changing and grotesqae faces. His wife, however, pronounced il the best portrait of her Davy" ever painted, and Garrick himself sufficie fly approved of 1t 10 present 1t to the corpor- asion of S;ratford- on-Avon. Chasterton, that marvellous boy oi genius. also sat to Gainsborough, as we'll as tue authors of '' Pamela" and A Sentimental Jour- ney;" he limned Canning as a young man, and William Pitt more than once. There are four portraits of this statesman at the Grosvenor, taken at various pe- riods of his liie-a keen, handsome face, with the curious gentlemaply look owned by men sf that period, or painted into them by famous artists. There is also picture of the fair Mrs Fir H arbert, re- pu.ed wife of George ", a smiling, .in- some dame. Near to her ham the Il d earl of Stanhope, the inventor of the OR0uuORC tObo anu OthCk NOu" trivances-he who opposed the American war and approved the French revolution, and hence was known as citizen Stanhope. He was father to the famous Lady Hester S.anhope, of eccentric memory, who re- tired to Syria and lived among the Qruses. This earl, who was frequently represented in Gilray's caricatures, was one of the most energetic men of his time, and he looks it in his picture. He only gave two sittings to the artist, but these were enc ugh for Gainsborough to render his character. Full of energy is the whole 6gure-the face with its resolutely closed mouth, the determined grasp with which he holds his stick. Of different and mi'der character is the portrait of the first earl Sps ncer, grandson of the great duke of Marlborough, a lover of the arts and every luxury; of wh ose mag nihcent marriage festivities an eye-wit- ness relates how the bride was borne in sedan chair lined with white satin, a black page walking before, and three footmen behind, all in superb liveries, The diamonds of the newly married paig were the gift of the great duchess Sarah, and were worth Ico oook. The shoe OuIAaSS ot ShS OAtoSSiOom oAO1C WSiC worth 90 oooL One of the finest and most spirited full-isngths painted by Gainsborough, also on view now, is that of Colopel St. Leger, the worthy boon companion of the prince regent, concern ing whose daring deeds the scandalous chronicles of the regency have much to tell He was the founder of the Hell Fire club, and has given his name to the St. Leger stakes at Doncasisr. or his audacity Walpole preserves a character istic anecdote. He had to appear in court one day for ducking sharper, and was going to swear. The judge said to him "l sec. sir, you are very ready to take an oath" "Yes, my lord," replied St. Leger. My father was a judge" The portrait represents him in his m saiy beauty and insolent, dashing vivao!:y - Lca6on Society.