Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-17

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OF the noble game Of poker, but / lind that
a royal Hush or tour of a kind are fine
hands to bluff upon if you can bluff with
a smile that is chlldlike and bland.
PICTURE SUNDAY.
The first two exhibitions OF the year
open in May. The last Sunday in March
is the last Sunday before the great ma
Jorlty OF the artists send in their pictures.
1t Is called 'Picture Sunday" because
on that day the studios are open to the
artists friends and 20 artistic society. 1t
was thought that depressed trade and the
gloom Of the political situation would
this year make Picture Sunday" parti-
cu!arly tame. But it was not so, and
sometimes looking around London and
contemplating ner well-dressed crowds
ana her largely patrOnized shows and en-
tertalnments, one is inclined 10 wonder
at the universal declaration OF bad trade,
shortage in money and general mis-
cry. Picture sunday was as bright and
gay and pleasant this week as in any
previous year; and, Notwithstanding the
east winds, lilacs were in bud in the
suburban gardens, the elms and planes in
the parks were showing delicate tints of
pudding brown and green, aud wherever
there were little garden plots
crocuses were conspicuous in yellow and
white and purple blooms. There are
some notable pictures on the easels. Mr..
Faed, Z. A, has painted a very character
tstlc work, SOB, why left l my HOme?'
1t depicts an old Highlander who has
emigrated to Canada. He is sitting
lamenting his "beroic ScOtland' on the
shores Of Lake Ontario. wonder il Mr..
Faed has in view any covert sarcasm upon
Canada in this lament of the scotch emil
grant? ScotchMen are very proud OF Scot
land, but they are often found away from
nome and not generally lamenting. Mr..
Petite, r.. A, Will be well represented
IN two very remarkable pictures-"The
Chieftain's Candlesticks" ana ''The
Musician" The first mentioned is an
artistic rendering ola notable incident in
Scott. A chieftain in the old days comes
to the South. His English host boasts of
his treasures. Among them are some
grand silver candlesticks, The Scotch
chief is a trife sore on being challenged in
to the exceptional splendOr OF these
He saysh e has finer candlesticks
at his home in Scotland than these OF the
The host makes him a bet that he
has not, and goes overt to Scotland with his
friends to settle it. They find their host
in a wild kind of barbaric splendOr,
and are conducted 10 the dining hall TO see
CHIEFS candlesticks. They consider it
polite to confess that they are finer than
the English silver for the chiefs candle
are stalwart clan5men armed to the
teeth and carrying torches. Two of the
in'Mr. Pettie's picture guard
chiefs chair and form a striking eX-
ample of Mr.. Pettie's fancy and method.
Mr.. Briton RiViere, r. A. will send to the
Academy a mastery work in "RiZpah,"
in which there is much to impress the
imagination and touch the heart. The
mother, worn out with watching the dead,
by the watch-tire; while the jackals
are proving about gibbets and a lion and
liOness are seen moving stealthily ava
under "the first glimpses of the dawn"
MIR. Long, X. a, proves to us
that no subject is h~ackneyed for
the nan OF genius. He has
given us a new and beautiful treatment
OF 1.-The Finding OF Moses" and Mr.. Firth,
r. A, still finds interesting material in
the lite of DR.. Johnson. This time she re-
allies for us an incident in BOswelPs stO-
ry of Nine. de Bouiller's visit to the ia
nous photographer. Mr.. Parton. the
American landscape artist, has a dream
like study of WargTave on the Thames
and a superb October stretch of riverside
meadows with COWS. The studios were
crowded all Sunday afternoon, the artists
houses being as attractive to many visit
ors as the pictures. Among the most ar
tistic and palatial of these modern pal
aces of art are the residences of Mr.. Long,
Mr.. Holl, Mr.. Broughton, Sir Frederick
Leighton and Mr.. Colin Hunter The Roy
al Academicians and Associates are al
lowed a week longer for sending it than
the outsiders, which of late years has
tended to make two picture Sundays in
stead Of one. i may therefore have ONE
thing special to say of the works of Sir
Frederick Leighton. Mr.. B~roughtOn, Mr..
Filder and other leading painters next
week.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
The Queen is fulfilling all the current
hopes OF her; she is ECU and about" she
will give special entertainments for the
season at Windsor and Buckingham Pal.
ace; 1t is not unlikely tina she will short
be seen again at the theatres; in MAY
she will open theCoIOn1al Exhibition, and
in the same month she will visit Liver
pool and be the guest of the Corporation.
Truth continues to be sarcastic on the IT,
tie OF Royal Highness conferred by the
Queen upon Prince ~Battenberg. The
Prince may not see Truth. He looks a
trife Indifferent 10 English life and man.
ners, is evidentlyphlegmatic and content
ed; did pot laugh the other night at ''The
Magistrate" which kept his wife in ga
ripple OF mirth," but he appears to be
greatly pleased with the hearty recep-
ton which the public give him whenever
there is a chance to applaud him. l think
the people are cordial in their recognition
of him out of respect for his wife, a desire
to please the Queen, and as a matter OF
good manner towards a stranger. "Tim,
the Penmau," a new play by Sir Charles
Young (whOm you know in America)
went so we'll at a matinee that il is 10 be
transferred to the evening bill Of the Hay
market. 1t has been said that Messrs.
Russell a. BashfOrd, the new managers,
are s'played out" This is not so; they
have had their failures. They mean to
wait and work until they meet with sue
cess. This is the right spirit and should
bring its reward, the professional mat
NEE" is not much known in London,
though OF late wears an attempt has been
made to annex it as an Anglo-American
institution. Mr.. Irving has invited mis-
brother and sister actors to come and see
Faust" on April -. They are respond
ing In "a flood Of applications for seats"
''Faust' continues To maintain its prom
Use of being Mr.. Irving's greatest imam
cial success. Mr.. Bran Stoker's Ameri.
can lecture looks well in It's brown paper
covers and reads well, too. 1t has re-
ceiyed flattering notice In the press, and
is a pleasant and just tribute OF admira-
ton for all that is good in American In
situations. MIR. Stoker had special adj
vantages in the way Of opportunities for
glimpses behind the scenes OF social, po-
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