New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-15
NOTES FROM LONDON.
MR. BURNE-JoNES. Ex-A. r. A.-THE STATES
MANS YEAR BOOK-THE MAILS
ACTORS SALARIES.

striking enough. Inc Irltlsh puDnc, thOugh
slurgi,h minded, can sometimes see through a
,.d6er II has visited the New Gallery in large
numlers 1t has read, in its bestowed and most
,rusted organs, whole series of critical culOgies
~ those remarkable and admirable works 1t
had learned of late years to admire Mr.. Burne
I0nes on its own account, and TO perceive in him
come of the rarest and highest qualities which
90 10 the making of great painter. The Chant
TAmour7 and the King Cophctua" and the
.Brar Roses and many another work of this
stiltd and original and powerful genius are, as
=, happens, we'll within the range of the picture
,oypr who has Deem taught by the Grosvcnor and
New Galleries to see goodness and true art in
..rvases which are not academic, signed by
names to which the magic letters X. A. could not
Be appended.
The weaker brethren perhaps rjoiccd secretly
4. think that Mr.. Burnc-JOncs had, after all, tie
academy stamp upon him; though only a second
ax stamp; and hoped tp see him presently adj
,,uce from the modest assocateship, which is al
no had been thought TO deserve to the full
rleudor of Royal Acadcmician. Then, all at
oure. they read in their newspapers that he had
resigned his associateship, and broken altogether
with the Academy. There was nothing to soften
this blow They will survive it-nothing which
relates merely TO art hits the British public really
very hard-but they do feel it to he a blow.
II is eight years since the Royal Academy, do
inc some violence to its traditions and preju-
dioes elected Mr.. Burne-Jones an Associate. lie
has remained an Associate ever since. In nc
interval. such giants in art as Mr.. Frank Dick
rec Mr. Fildes Mr.. HcIkomcr. and Mr.. Marcus
Stone have been elected over his head 10 the
fpll bonons of the coveted r. A.-ship. 1t Is
nossihle there may he Academicans who think
sone Of these painters superior to MIR. Burne-
Ionss. or who think Mr.. Burnc-Jones unworthy TO
,ank with Mr. Sidney Cooper, Mr.. Dobson. Mr..
Hershey. Mr. James SAINT, or Mr.. Henry L. Wells
all of whom are members Of this illustrlous body
Elections. however, proceed upon other consldera-
,ions than those Of art. That is admitted ana, II
vou are in doubt about ii YOU have only 10
turn 10 the list of the Forty; or you may even
rad over again the names | have clted aire'N'
There was Mr.. Petite, too, who Is JUST "e'u'
Mr.. Petite, Il. A., was one OF the crudes' en-
pressions of British Philistnism Ill art 10 nc
found in the catalogue; painstakins Scotch-
man who PAINTED hot-faced knights in brand-new
armor straight from the ironmonger: lai'iiu'
record of British beef and beer and hardware
all conscentiously reproduced upon BRUSH can
vas by this industrious person; to wnoh tne
meaning of the word art was, 10 the DAY oil h's
death and final disappearance from the RANKS Vi
British Academcians, an unsolved ana III
soluble enigma.
To leave an artist Of Mr.. Burne-Jones's rank
in the official obscurity of an AssociatesiiP i''
EIGHT years is, whether it he meant or no' SUI
mon him: unless il be rather SUR upon III"
Academy itself. There are the usual oihcia ca
cuses. He did not often exhibit in the Academy
He did not attend the schools, or perform o'he'
routine duty which is expected OF IN" arls' III
the state of probation denoted ny the R''ef'
A r A. These official excuses are suihclcht III
the official mind. There is the other Flc"' VI
which one hears from time TO Time 'ia' 'no
Pov., Academy is club. and that, for the
purposes of election. it is more important ~ :"
a GOOD fellow than to be good artist There
il nothing absolutely irreconcllaple bc'weeh '''csc
,xo forms of goodness Half dozen names OF
living r. AS could be cited in proof. ana MI
purre.Jones's would have been another But h.
has Departed perhaps wisely IL was ha'o''
for an artist of his fame TO be dancing attendance
;nde6nitelv in the vestibule Of Burlington House
That is the position and attitude TO which the
caprice Of the Forty left him, and 1t IS IRON ''a'
humiljatinr position and attitude that he has
chosen 10 relieve himself by an act OF energy
and OF self-rcspect and Of respect for arr.
NtdtoSmanS
Macmillan & Co.. makes its appearance rather
late. but is all the more welcome lhis Is '''
book which the journalist in dungeon wAici
some people think his natural home, ana aiIo"''
HIM ono nrinted volume, would necessarily choose
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good In other words, it is slightly TOO full.
No editor can be expected to understand this COM
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you want only the essential facts Everything
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study Of the gcograp hc1l and political delimita-
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Mr. Scott Kettle is an excellent editor, not free
from the editorial weakness Of magnifyiDg his
calling. or from the belief that it is impossible
to have roo much Of a good thing. 1t is not I'M
possible
The publishers add something 10 the bulk OF
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