Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-21
same person entirely produce the work, the
whole sum will be handed over to him.

whole sum will be handed over to him.
f. S. Church, n. A., has presented
water color copy of his painting, Knowl-
edge is Power" to Vassar College. The
picture is that of young woman attired
in an Oxford gown and cap, seated within
grove, holding book, and surrounded
by FIVE huge tigers. The animals are
charmed by her presence. The original
picture was dedicated to the college girls
of America. n. B. The spell-bound gazer
is expected to take his choice between the
lady or the tigers.
The most noteworthy exhibit in the
collection of pictures now on view at the
Hanover Gallery, says the Pail Nail Ga
zette, is Meissonier's celebrated "1814," the
famous work in which Napoleon is repre-
sented on his white horse retreating from
Moscow at the head of his column. The
size of the picture is only ten inches by
fifteen, and the curious in these matters
point out that, as the price asked is e16-
900, the painting is valued at over hun
dred and six pounds per square inch.
If half is true that M. Emile Cartailhac
tells about the remains Of primitive archi-
lecture on the Islands of Majorca and Mi
norca, the arch9ologists of Spain, France
and Italy have been dull indeed. He re-
ports TO the Academic des Inscriptions that
there are complete towns on these islands,
surrounded by walls made of immense
blocks of stone. There are tdldyots, round
towers built in the same way over caves or
crypts, and ndu or nauetas, elongated towers
shaped like boats bottom up, which cover
tombs.
DIR. Charles Waldsteln, who has recently
occupied for few months the dictatorship
of the American School at Athens, pro-
poses to resign his position at Cambridge,
England, as curator of the Fitzwilliam
Museum, but retains his lectureship in the
university. DIR. Waldstein visited Con-
stantinople last winter. and has good
word to say for Hamdi Bey, the educated
Turk, who enrages European antiquarians
by endeavoring to secure for his country's
museum all the yields of excavations in
Asia Minor and elsewhere. DR.. Waldstein
will return to the United States for month
or two this summer.
Speaking of the American decorative
works shown in New Bond street, London.
the Atteneunl calls them novelties in the
best sense Of the word. They "exhibit
characteristics of their own-sumptuous
colors and admirable finish, the luxuries of
craftsmanship of fine order, being mos
marked of all. Design of the higher kind.
which delights in pure and noble form,
and the decorations arising from it are vet
to come. At present even these subtle ele-
ments are by no means conspicuous by their
absence, as is usually the case in examples
of voluptuous design"
In the matter of the arts, SAYS the Pail
Mall Gazette, Professor Hubert Herkomer.
a. R. A., NJ. A., Slade Professor, comes
nearer to being the Admirable Crichton of
our time than any other man of the day.
A painter in oil and water color, an en-
graver in etching, dry point and mezzo-
TINT, draughtsman on wood and paper,
wood carver of pre-eminence, an ironsmith
Of the highest skill, a lecturer on the fine
arts at one of the great universities, the
founder and principal of an art school of
worldwide fame, his own architect and
civil engineer, a newly-developed maga-
zine writer, playwright, a musician, a
theatrical manager and actor-he now ap-
pears as theatrical 'machinist of great
ingenuity and scene painter Cd still more
originality, singer and an opera compo-
ser.
Benjamin Creswick was Sheffield work.
man, earning his living by the sweat of
his brow, and with apparently no prospect
before him but life of manual labor. But
he had the good fortune to live on the
Walkley hillside, and one Saturday after
noon, when the weather was too "dirty"
for a walk, he strolIed into the museum
which Mr.. RuSkin and the brethren of the
St. Georges Guild had established at
Walkley. 1t was the turning point of his
life, for it opened up to him a new world
and future full of endless possibilities.
He borrowed of the curator-the late Mr..
Swan-two photographs of Mr.. Ruskin,
and set to work to model bust of the au-
thor Of Modern Painters" Of course he
had no technical knowledge, and it was but
a poor attempt, but there was the hall
mark of genius on it all the same and M
Ruskin, who was shown the work, was 50
struck with it that he invited Mr.. Cres-
wick to Brentwood, and afterward arranged
for him to study sculpture at Oxford, with
the result that he is now at the head of the
modelling department of the famous Bir-
mingham Municipal School of Art.