New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-03
LOVE is AMONG RUINS.
,,p RTTRNE-JONES,S GREAT PICTURE DE
sTROYED BY AN IGNORANT WORKMAN.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS NEW HUNTING COSTUME
SEEKING to RECOVER LETTERS FROM
BIsNARCK-THE INDIAN YIcERoY'
ALrY-A RUSSIAN sUPERsTI'
rIoN-pRINCEs GO
VISITING.
nv CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE

| TIoN-PRINCEs GO
my CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE,
| ropvr,on,; 1893. BY The Tribune @'soeo"'n
london. Oct. 1.-The news that MI nurns'
Jones's well-known picture '.s ~"T.
pu,ns" has been completely DESTROYED past
~ homo of reparation will seem 10 ',any
,"on,a n whom English art Is dear h'tie
| short of a national calamity Inc pc'u'. wa
| entrusted by Mr.. Burne-Jones " 49,. o."
| firm of art publishers at their ursen. ietues' ~
| ,ha nurnose of reproduction by process, anu h''
vi IL, a,d tho publishers know that the picture was
u,oter-co,or but Mr.. Burne-Jones mad even ,aken
the nrecaution to affix label on the paeA VI e's
work stating its medium, and that any n,ols'
| wouId be injurious thereto In spite Ok .n's 'h.
| ,cture was apparently confded to some ignorant
u,o,,a who covered the whole surface with
| nrenaration of white OF egg Inc re-
| sult is the destruction OF all the ma.
| touches and finished tones. Inc iaees "'
| hands are smeared and blurred anu, :"
fact one of the records OF the lie Oh one VI Inv
GREATEST painters Of this or any century ID prac-
| ttcaIlv wined off the roll Of fame. When one rs'
| members the crowds that collected peiore Love
| Among Ruins" each occasion Oh 's u.',e "a
| hibited to the public, one gets some rant hAns "
| the indignation and dismay which the news Oh ns
destruction through carelessness has sp'e"N NN
| cast among all lovers Of art
| The Queen has taken a drive nearly e'e.S
afternoon, but the weather stopper al c'
| usual excursions to Glassalt, shiei LON,
later. Linn of Dee and Lions Face ana there nas
been very little shooting in the royal 1ores's Ing
prince of Wales is to arrive at Marlborough Rouse
| on Saturday morning from Braemar' anu y" -
day His Royal Highness Is going 70 .>e"aes
| for race week. and afterward to sandrinshaih ~.
| a few DAVIS The Prince will also be at Newmarket
| during Houghton week. and the Duke Oh Ca'c,iuss
intends 70 be there at both meetings. Duke Alfred
of Saxe-CoburgGotha is to be in England during the
first fortnight in November and VIII speho d week
| at Bamoral with the Queen, ana re" u"SS q.
sandringham with the Prince and Princess =.
| Wales The Duchess Is to stay In Kumahia uh.A
| ,tor tho accouchement Of her daughter, and II -
exnected that she will spend most Of the winter q
/ St. Petersburg
DIXIE ALFRED WANTS HIS MONEY BACK
| Clarence House is to become the town residence
| ~ the Duke and Duchess Of Connaught. near
that Duke Alfred desires to be paid for the improve
| ments which he has carried out there' iheiuuine
| the addition of another floor at the top OF inc
| house. and to be compensated for MS eHpehuI."ie
| IN internal alterations and decorative work. Car
| ence House was for than twenty years the
| residence Of the Duchess of Kent, whose preue'
| cessor there was Princess Augusta. 1t Is ohcaiiy
| regarded as being portion OF ST. James > Faaee'
| THE GRAND DUKE STAYED AT A HOTEL
| Grand Duke and Duchess Serge and Grand Duke
| Paul who are staying at Balmora on WISH 10
end of this week and will stop at Bristol Hotel TOT
| few DAVIS befor, proceeding to Darmstadt The Grano
4, Duke will probably be at Newmarket next "eeA
| on Czarewitch day. and they are to visit "ihdsor
| Castle and Frogmore Mausoleum This Visit 70
| the Queen was very suddenly arranged by series
| OF kilograms. The Imperial guests would nave
| been ouartered at Buckingham Palace but Tor the
fact that the whole place is dismantled and IN con-
| fusion as the drains are being overhaued 80 they
went to Hotel Bristol. and the Queens servants
and horses and carriages have been placed at their
| disposal.
| THE CAR DIsLIKEs GERMAN.
The Gar while at Copenhagen. makes no secret
| OF his profound dislike to the German language
| which he knows but persistently declines to speak
| or listen TO- This often causes considerable ems
barrassment and only the other day while at
| tending n meeting OF Danish iremen ne refuseo
| to answer of the officers who addressed MIN
in German until the query repeated in English.
| Grand Duke George OF Russia, the second son or
| the Gar is to spend next winter In Madeira or
| Algiers. He will receive visit from his parents
before he leaves the Crimea, where at present ne
| Is staying. A curious rumor has been going about
| that the Car intends to dsinherit the Czarewitch
| in favor of his third son, Michael, who Is only
| fifteen years old, because the Czarewitch Is OF
weakly constitution This report has no foundation.
| 1t originated with the peasants, who hold the be-
lief that there will be another Car Nicholas
| in Russia, there being old prophecy to that
| effect 1t will be remembered that the elder
brother OF the present Emperor was called Nicholas
and died before he succeeded, leaving both his
Empire and bride to his younger brother Alexander.
MASS AT THE TOP OF MONTE ROSA.
| The Queen of Italy has just climbed to Grfetu
| Peak OF Monte Rosa, taking with her two priests
who said the highest of high masses so far az
altitude counts, albeit it was low mass canonicay.
An altar stone was placed on wooden table winch
was planted the peak as memorial Of the
Queens mountaineering piety. On the table Her
| Majesty has written an Italian inscription which
may be translated thus: "All that Is great moves
| us to believe for faith is itself greatest. Before
these high SUBMITS. these solemn glaciers. all mis-
| cradle doubt Is silent and faith rises strong ana
living up to God"
PICTURING TIE DUKE OF YO9KS WEDDING.
Herr Tuxen, who has been commissioned by the
| Queen to paint large picture Of the Duke OF
| York's wedding. has been staying at Fredensborg
Castle and several sittings have been gwen TO MN
| by the King and Queen of Denmark. the Care
| witch and Princess of Wales and her daughters.
Herr Tuxen will come to Windsor about the end OF
November, in order that the Queen may give him
sittings and he is stay for some time In London
| TO take portraits of other personages who are 10
appear in the picture The Queen has an immense
collection Of works OF this class, OF which, how
ever only two are really of any historical inter-
est Wilkes First Council" which hangs In the
corridor of Windsor Castle. and Frith's Marriage
of the Prince of Wales" in the promenade OF the
gallery OF Buckingham Palace.
BISMARCK AND THE EMPEROR
correspondent at Berlin tells that II Is
generally believed In Germany that the Emperors
real object in making advances to Bismarck is to
induce the ex-Chancellor to give up number
OF letters which written to him by His
Majesty during the illness of the Emperor Fred
erick. The present Emperor then treated Bis
marck with unbounded confidence. and IT is sup
posed that he fooshly indiscreet in some
of his communications to the Chancellor.
During the German Emperors visit to Austria and
Hungary His Majesty seized every opportunity
OF wearing the new hunting costume which was