Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-05

| Frederick Leighton, presiue"' VI .us
| Academy, has in the centre q seated
Apollo holding 4 Tyre; 10 his right
hand thres girls In a group are singing
and some young men are listening; at
each end Of the division Of the trieze
Is a young girl asleep one Of them Is
holding a Tyre, and some young men
and girls are looking towards her and
| waiting for her to awake. The back
ground is Of dcep-blue and white
clouds. The graceful Greek costumes,
the artistic but pastoral grouping ana
the poetical air given to the whole
make this charming picture.
LIVELY PICTURE.
Below this hangs profile portrait
of /" Phebc,'' young, fashionable girl
with auburn hair, and an adorable far
complexion free from paint or powder.
| She wears green velvet hat and plumes
slightly on one side, and is sitting on
red morocco chair, the top OF which
peeps up in the picture. The lovely
face stands out well from amid the har-
monious coloring, as if languidly con-
scious of its beauty. Serenely wan
dering in a Trance Of Thought" is the
title Of another picture OF Leightons'
representing a young girl with pen,
siye expression Of face. She is dressed
entirely in blue, and is Of fair COM
plexion. This is considered one OF
The best pictures in the exhi6i-
ton. and, if one may breathe
heresy, is fit to be placed side by side
with those Of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Its Distinguishing characteristics are re-
finement and good breeding. Alma
| Tadema's " A Reading of Homer " is
picture and story combined. Backed
by q semi-circular marble wall, a
Young girl is reclining on bench; a
young man beside her on lower plane is
holding her hand in one Of his and
Tyre in the other. In the foreground
another young man, with fur corselet
on, lies at full length, and third, at
whom all the others are looking, sits on
a marble chair at the foot Of the bench.
This last is unfolding parchment
roll. A strip of the blue Mediter-
ranean appears above the edge of
the white marble. The drawing and
painting Of this picture are very good.
The deep interest shown in the attitudes
and expressions on the faces of the lit
tie coterie, the grace and spirituality of
the young girl, and the excitement of
the reader are all happily given.
GooDALL's WORK.
Frederick Goodall has picture to
which a quotation from Archdeacon
Farrar is applicable, and which strikes
the keynote Of its theme. The subject
is the Christ-child's knowledge of God
as his Father. The pluinpest of boys,
just emerged from early babyhood, is
on his back, and is looking with appre-
ciative placidness at door that
is lowering over him. The religious
sentiment is taken away by the intensely
mundane appearance of the boy, who
is too successful from such a point Of
view to suggest anything heavenly. lie
is extremely well painted, and fascina-
ting to look at. There are numberless
landscapes on view. Vicat Cole has
one of Iilley Mill, near Oxford, in
which the heavy gray sky of an ap.
preaching storm is well represented. \
seated statue of Irving as Hamlet, by
G. 0nslow Ford, is strikingly life-like,
but in sculpture the English school
does not equal the French.
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
The international Inventions Exhibi-
ton is popular place with Londoners,
and is nearly always filled with people.
he centre is laid out in gardens and
terraces, and these are surrounded by
payilions, courts, galleries, and annexes
Of all sizes and shapes, and containing
the objects exhibited. The London
street is usually crammed with visitors.
1t is an irregularly-built street of diff
ferent widths, and on each side are
houses that are exact copies of some of
the old and noted ones in London.
Passing under the Bishops gate, orna-
mented with statues of Bishop William
the Norman and st. Gle Renwald,
fourth Bishop Of London A. d.
CTS, the picturesque gabled and cross
beamed houses come into view and give
good idea Of past domestic architec-
ture. At the end of the first vista is
an old church tower, then the street
bends and becomes narrower. The
house Of Sir Richard Wilmington, of
nursery rhyme and aldermanic fame,
has painted front in imitation Of the
original gilded carvings of the armorial
bearings Of the city companies. The
front is said to be Of later date than
when Wilmington lived, but the rest Of
the house is supposed to be that which
he occupied. The French Ambassadors
house, the residence Of the Due
dc Sully, Minister of Henry w.,
is decorated with the French crown,
feur dc us, and two hands grasping
one another, in token Of the firm friend
ship existing between Henry ". and
Elizabeth. The houses are principally
occupied so as to show useful compari-
sons between ancient and modern
| nuHulCialts, anu SOlue VI tHc pcISOuS
engaged in them wear the costume
corresponding with the date Of the
houses. There are twenty-five Of them
in a few minutes walk, and they pre-
sent to any one who has no leisure to
travel through the by-ways Of England,
where similar houses are still standing,
an accurate picture Of how English
towns looked in the past. The Inven-
tons Exhibition is so planned as to be
a place OF amusement as well as
business undertaking, Bands play
every day from 3 o'clock; the water
plants and the outlines of the vari-
ously-shsped buildings are lighted by
electricity on certain nights in the
week, and other amusements are pro-
vided at intervals. Dinners, teas, and
luncheons are to be had on scale Of
charges to suit all pockets, and the
cheap ones have the merit of being
good. A cup Of tea or coffee is to be
had at some pavilions for cents at
others for 25 cents; dinner is to be