The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-26

sons 10 be married at least once in their lives
But the number is much less considerable.
alas. of those 70 whom IL happens to Keep the
anniversary Of their wedding day at the close
Of half a century. not only with sincere retro
spective gratitude and delight but In the
midst OF children and OF grandchildren hound
together by genuine affection and genuine
sympathies. How singularly picturesque and
beautiful are the groves Of nine and oak
and beach and chestnut, beneath which the
morning hours Of this perfect autumnai day
were passed. In reading letters and kilograms
OF congratulatlou from all parts OF the New
World and the Old. you perhaps do not know.
and It would be idle for me 10 attempt with my
pen to show you. You must take my word Tor
It that no poet could ask q lovoller or more In
spring landscape. wherein to set up the altar
Of his affections and II story had not been
born poet. he would never have made him
sell a sculptor. DO you think this riddle?
Go to the Metropolitan Museum mot forgetting
to take your eyes with you'll and spend
an hour there with his Cleopatra in
marble. Then 60 home again. sit down
with the "GraftlI d'Italla," not n large
volume. but rich in the ore Of genuine poetic
thought and feeling, beyond any other book Of
verse as yet contributed by times noblest
offspring" to the literature Of mankind. and
read therein his Cleopatra, embodied not In
marble, but lin thoughts that breathe and
words that burn" The American Senate
chambe is not. think. exactly an Academy
OF Arts and Letters But one should never
hastily drown boy merely because boys in
general are a tribulatlon and trial TO their
parents; and whom I sometimes ind myself
tempted to think OF all politicians az mecca
sarily Philistines, l recall the surprise and
pleasure with which l once heard that
prince among politicians. the late Senator
Conklin9. express with emotion and with ear
nestness his conviction that this single poem
OF CLEOPATRA "sufIlced to put story among the
greatest OF poets"
In Italy. as in France. the day is ra-
tlonally divided In the middle by meal
which Is somewhat irrBtionally called by
us q breakfast, tho fact OF each twenty-iour
hours having been broken. OF course. long be-
fore by the coffee and rolls OF the early morn
ing This breakfast yesterday at Vallombrosa
would have been regarded in tho New England
OF Story's early youth as a very substantial
dinner. enlivened and diversified by toasts and
little speeches, not the less delightful or spir-
tied that no reporter was there to freeze
came the dinnor. served as II the break
fast we're a thing OF the middle ages
snd dIsSgssed as II It were real 6rsek
liant series Of taDl eaux wants organized and
arranged with instructive hereditary taste
the whole com pany merrily brin ging the ftsti-
val to a close. with grand dance led Off by
together and acclaiming the Halloween with
shout and song as buoyanty and as brightly
as the Youngest OF their descendants. till tho
measure OF the music changed. and the
kehraus came.with the stately jubiant strains
Of Mendclssohn,s Wedding March.
The personal friends OF Mrs. story beyond
the limite Of Italy will take this terpsichoroan
feat as the best assurance they could have
steadily sweeping away the effects Of the seri.
ops ne's sn ThSs three Years tSs age SO much
Christopher Columbus and to tho mastodonic
semi; centennial" OF an American home in
ness upon which the reyerent instinct OF an
tl1ue art insisted. The two sons of story. who
with the chise aud Julian. the cadet with the
SbrIsn tG2k their part II the iufsc OF The
where believe that Waldo Story has been
using his rifle with. great success among
in company with that mighty hunter,
DR.. Neyin.,, who upholds the banner OF
nae at m SSsnst tho VaeSn ana y.
works. With the early winter. however,
Walao st9Ty vii again TO hard at work in the
He has the passion OF a Praxiteles for that
form Of plastic art in which the genius OF paint
meet and blend their divers forces into one
harmonious combination Of emotional delicacy
IN expression Win NlSDT anu precision In OUT
marvellous sSs rslsi in the the %useS Hi INA" at
Athens. OF The due! tetwee1, Marsyas and
Apollo. any good photograph OF one OF Waldo
story's best bNs reiefs will mako you agree
with mo that he works more truly In the spirit
Of the best Hellenic art than any or than all Of
the Academic sculptors. who have peopled the
churches and the palaces Of Europe with their
panels since tho Gates OF Paradise" were set
W in Florence. Very little OF his work think,
has yet Geen seon in galleries or exhibitions.
la n ia ina
during the last three or four years has been
given to the construction for Lord Rothschild
unique in its kind. 70 which that portentous
being tho future historian" will probably
the nineteenth century did not go out in
an unredeemed carnival OF upholstery and
taste Lord hOthsehild IclI the design and the the
iately with Mr.. Waldo Story. who found him
when It came into his hands TO overcome the
very serious disadvantage Of u wall on one
side broken by vast bay window. The panels
are seventeen in nun Der, wrought In the finest
Carrara marble. hnd set In huted pIasters OF a
very peculiar and exquistely tinted Portuguese
are all NEUROLOGICAL, and tho various groups
OF figures are suOOrdinated wi tn extraordinary
skill to general effect which may almost be
called choral, though every group is OF itself a
complete and independent presentation Of q
Though a mere recital OF the subjects must
necessarily give very Inadequate notion OF
the charm ana hlgnlHchnce OF these WORKS SO
harmOniZed and combined. this room at Tring
is destined to MI such an important place in
the history OF modern art that / ought, per-
hans. to make tho recital here. The two
largest panels measurins nine feet In length
by four feet six in height. are set on either
side OF mAntel, itself 30 important that I
must presently speak of 1t again and apart.
These two largest panels represent. respec-
lively Diana setting forth with her nYmphs
to tho chase and Pegasus fed and cared for by
tine Muses.. ! have no intention here OF enter
Ing Into technical details but II is impos-
siOls NOT 70, sreaE with, admiration OF the
effects OF surface and one may
almost say OF color, produced in the
group OF Diana and her nymphs, 10y tile
subtly managed contrasts between the smooth
and lissome forms at tho goddess and her at
tendaLt- all moving forward eager and in
l. nj. and tho shaggy, vigorous hounds, strain
Ing At the leash. In the group 81 Pegasus and |
the Masses. nga.n, the neck clothed with thun-
der" and the curSing plnions OF the divine |
steed ford another opportunity not less |
fSlicitousy treated for n similar aud yet quite |
and distinct picturesque effect. |
he lessor pInrts. still important In size, rep
res, NJ a." mTths 4 cupid amt Psyche. Ieda |
and the swan, Venus AuadYrmene. and IIsLe: |
and the ptusl4inE J. completed and the pro- |
gression aud connection OF the groups carried |
out by purely decorative aud admirably |
trratei re- +. ut tail. graceful luwering plants !
and reeds. What the French call the |
e mot" ~ the whole combination ia |
given a. ] have SAID. ly the mauteL I