New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-26

fragment of historical record or ecclesiastical
lore and some individual comment In strain
OF reverent sympathy. II Is good discursive
survey of the Christ in pictorial art, with the
emphasis all thrown on the religious side Of the
question.
Mr. Laurence Hutton's PORTRAITS in Plaster"
Narper & Brothers, is book in which all that
IS repulsive in a ghastly theme has been dis
PEELED through the tact and good sense OF the
author. His portraits are really masks. taken
for the most part after the death OF the individ-
nails represented and It IS hard TO look upon
them-espccially upon such casts az those or
Dion Boucicault Henry Edwards and Thack-
cray-without an involuntary shrinking from
their grim reality. But Mr. Hutton changes all
this writing so pleasantly Of his treasures that
their chill atmosphere. as OF churchyard mould
f. forgotten. The collection he possesses Is it
seems the largest of its kind cStant. II compre-
hanJs princes and painters. statesmen and poets,
actors and przc-nrhters and ornaments or the
Church. just thc mere names in the index Ma
poeon Leopard Keats. Cromwell and 50 on
through a list Of undiminishing splandor-touch
the Imagination ana awaken curiosity. Eoth in
stincts are amply satisfied in the reproductions.
MIR Hutton says: Il recognized Mr. Ernest
Hartley Colerilgc once in the corridor Of Lon
urcs and the .hapc OF his head to the mask Of
his rrandflther" This we car we'll believe. by
como strange economy OF death these masks seem
70 take from the faces Of their originals all the
fleeing and pcrplexng minutae Of cycr-changing
life and 10 give You in their immObe purity the
fundamental lines Of nature. Lawrence Barrctt9
image. for example. rcncws with almost uAcanny
yivjducss the impression that always appeared
f. come from tn very roots II his individuality.
ParadoxicaI a. it might seem 10 say 80. 1t j.
nevertheless true that the mask ~ Barrett mas
more of the essential man In II than many 'N-
cellent photographs taken in lie. Mr.. hutton
prediction for dramatic notabilites is wei
known and IT Is not surprising - find him par
ticrlarlv interesting on those If his heroes and
herolnes who have adorned the stage. or Booth
he gives no death mask. contenting himself
since the actors family So desired It. with cast
taken So far back as 1864. We can reconstruct
readily from this beautiful relic the figure tnat
hewitched the paycoers Of thirty years ago.
Curtis wrote OF him then: Booth Is altogether
prncely" satisfying the most fasudous mag
inati0n that this is Hamlet a. b" lived In shake
spoare's time" Recalling another sTienli IN
tcpretcr Of Shakespeare, Mrs. Sllions. THIS vol
uinc gives striking cast ana som" amusing
anecdotes The mask ~ that great actress
NOD
Gated hy any data in that gcutleman's possession.
hlt surely no documents were needed - con-
firm the legend that this represents the Tragic
N,,s. b,rs.r could any one h,.t ,he original -
.ht, ,i,.,.r t,v. n,.,.jt.I Gair.A.r1ugh's vol
,,,tc .>.,,,a.i.n. "pa,nn ,uu~ nose. madam,
,h.-. is ,o.,I, i,"' TharkorAv's nose comes in
,- ,,,. ..r,f. celebration I'm NJ IIat'ou's tx.
.rh. novelist Wa never .y,rsr O. ,Ac up 90 i's
j-r.e,l,rifi.s q CONTOUR ard rcl.aol hugely
p.,r,ss r.lTs remark o. him when ho was
p, stand as godfather O. 4 a.. aIs sou: 'l.or j.
,ba.s.r.,, I h.r. vou WON'T pr. sent tho cnII
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NJ tiu,to,i FL. MT ehary - fragments - per-
eor,f, ut. th... iu.t quoted BOA, hl4 b.-t qu0-
t,.I.ns sr. those. which h, makes iu q serious
y.in from c,rf.,np. riue.ls authorities. Read.
beside the east II Citour. the notes on him h'
G.org. Eliot. who found n.s head 'fuil ~
r,w.r u.rp..l vIth hDuh0m.c." ana said p"
l,. ll.,l .s d. .urh "h. ID ught ~ many matters.
I'm. ihart.i Heaven and made D., bfa.t y
,h.,," U.,y .x,.,l. the words ana The plaster
tally, Thor. s.. % description - Gioss-tti. taken
from am anonymous article in "Elacew .d's Mag
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