New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-05

hours from Liverpool, or just ten miles an hour.
The new tmdes-uniOnsm IS now 10 nave an
organ. perhaps an official organ. Mr.. Tom
Mann edits it himself. one Of the newest Oh new
unionists His Radicallsm has lately been shown
in action as well as in speech. His new gospel
may be summed up in sentence: Whatever is
that workmen do not like is wrong. lie proposes
TO right il. He will he useful TO read because
he is TO q certain extent outspokcn and reveals
some, if not all, the wishes and plans OF tins
new conspiracy against society. specimen OF
Mr.. Tom Mann's labor views may DC seen
in his declaration that "we are eight-hour men
out and out; that is until we see chance or
getting seven six hour day Then, when
that hour comes. he will be a siX-hour man out
and out until he sees chance Of getting lve
or four hour day, and so on. 1t is a lively
thing, the new tradeunionisu.
The negotiations long pending between Mr..
Whistler and Glasgow respecting the purchase OF
Mr. Whistler's admirable portrait of Carlyle ended
yesterday The City Council of Glasgow voted
TO pay Mr.. Whstler's price, $1,000. Some OF the
Glasgow dailies thought the price too high, but,
says the chroncler Of their proceedings, yielded
TO the suggestion of one speaker that the picture
twenty years hence would be worth double the
money. The Council thereupon voted unan-
mously to buy the portrait. Carlyle liked Mr..
Whisters work better than any Of the other
three pictures for which he sat
Easter has brought no important theatrical
novelty. The nearest, perhaps, to Importance
comes Mr. Bronson Towards play, The Henri
eta" produced a week ago at the Avenue Theatre.
friendly audience received it with some cordial
ity, and there were Americans enough present to
take up the purely American illusions with which
the piece is thickly sown To Englishmen the
argon of Wall Street is but foolshneSs. The critics
themselves, almost Omniscient though they be,
owned themselves puzzled, and their perpleXity OF
mind is accurately reflected in their notices of the
piece. Mr.. Towards ceverness as a playwright
is admitted 1t was, indeed. known before. Now
his literary skill is admitted and what the
English playgoer cannot understand is his failure
to adapt n piece 50 overcharged with local color
to the English comprehension. What perpeXes
him even more is the fact that, as Mr.. Clement
Scott AYERS Mr.. Howard has gone over to the
realists deserted that dealism in pursuit of which
he won his reputation. In Mr.. ScOtts energetic
phrase Mr. Howard has discarded the gram
matical rules that hitherto have influenced
dramatic composition We are allowed to under
stand that this is evidence Of healthy reaction
against Ibscnism. or. to adapt Mr.. Punchs word,
lbsenity. The piece and the performance have
started some interesting points of comparison be-
tween London and New-YOrk IL seems to he
agreed that the play was better acted in New
York. Yet Mr.. Howard good-naturedly
gives his English interpreters certih-
cate of character, and declares himself
perfectly satisfied with the whole rendering The
dominant fault says Mr.. Scott, of Mr.. Towards
play is the mixing of serious and comic interest
in scenes where they clash. | am told, CON
tnues this very serious and very brilliant critic,
that American audiences don't mind this; in
fact, that they rather like it. ii 80, am s'rrS
for American audiences" Perhaps some day Mr..
Clement Scott will go over TO America u explain
his views on dramatic art. You wouh ma hlm
well worth hearing, whether you agreed with him
or not.
The new production Of The School for Scan
olal" at the Criterion may not seem to call for
much notice but it calls for a respectful pro-
test Mr. Charles Wyndham is the producer,
and Mr. Wyndham's mistake, or one of his mis-
takes, is in treating Sheridan as if he were a
modern French dramatist with whom all liber-
ties might properly be taken To alter the scenes
and text is bad enough: to play Sheridans master
piece in the wrong key throughout is worse 10
mt that lowest of low comedians, Mr.. Blakecy,
into such a part as Crabtree, and to cast Miss
Victor as Mrs Candour, ere offences which the
Lord Chamberlain himself might almost he called
on to deal with. What saved the performance
was Mr. William Farrcn's admirable Sir Peter
Teazle Mr. Wyndhams Charles Surface was not
less admirable in many respects, though
not quite Shcrdan's. Mrs. Bernard Beere
played Lady Teaze in that muscular style
which cvokes applause from the British pit and
gallery
The lady who desires to be known TO the world
rs Ouida has taken up her parable in respect TO
American copyright. Her testimony, too, is worth
quoting and following as well. She describes the
new Copyright law as recognition by Congress
of the fact that your intellect is worth as much
az vour umbrella Then she says: This new
law so honorable to the American Nation, has,
think. been received in an unworthy, ungraclous
manner. generally speaking, by those whom IL
will benefit That opinion has the more WelshI
nc coming from one who is certainly not bllhded
h, nartiality 10 America or Americans. she gives
nor countrymen it, indeed the English Dc her
,ountrvmen. a Just rebuke for some of their own
eins toward literature, notably Tor allowing
novel to he dramatzed against the WISH ol 'ie
outbor. and says: The English robbery is qul'e
&C had as the American. The latter is no" eh"e"'
,,h,. not the former?" But the English genius
as rever been in the direction Of seeing the Deah
in its own eye.
Lord GranyTle's death deprives Mr.. GLADSTONE
Of one of the few peers OF this realm loS"ilS
devoted to him and his present policy. lheS '"o
had been close friends for forty years. Loru
Granville's career has been distinguished lie
has played a great official part, has been MIN
lister during many administrations, and hnailS
lcd the Opposition in the House OF LORDS WIN
tact and good temper when both were hiuch
needed. Political posterity will remember MN ~
Foreign Minister, post in which, to tel ''e
truth bluntly, he did not shine lie was soou
Foreign Minister in fair weather ana Snoo'h
waters. When he came into collision Wlth master
ful. rough natures like the late Emperor oi
Russia or like Prince Bismarck, 1t was not Loiu
Granville who had the best of It, lhe VeSSeI ol
orcelain met its usual fate against the vessel Oh