The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-22
WAY
In Which to spend an Afternoon Pleasantly
 and ProtltabIy.


 and Profltably.
 It is one of the most astonishing things that there are people who have lived within stones throw of Yale and yet have never had the glimmering of desire to see other than the outside of this institution.
 Into the inner precincts of the unlver- sIty the great majority of people canaot enter, but such buildings a Peabody Museum, the gymnasium, the Yale School of Fine Arts, and others, are thrown open some on certain days others any time and all times between the hours of 8 a. m. and D. m.
 Such one is the Yale School of Fine Arts. For the small sum of twen- ty-fve cents person may be admitted to the Art school, spend a morning or an afternoon pleasantly and profitably examining the treasures of ancient and modern art with which this school is so well equipped. One of the finest col | lections of plaster casts of masterpieces Is seen here, and one is not obliged to go to New York, the Mecca of New Ha- veners, to see a perfect model of the Laacoon, or of the Venus of Melos, or others equally noted. It is another case of the old saying, Familiarity breeds contempt" A person says in answer to question, "Have I been into the Art school lately?" NO! They are all fossilized there." If by keeping up with the times and providing an eduip- ment, often not owned by larger schools they are fossilized, then let us have more of that kind here in New Haven-but "chacun son gout.'
 Among the paintings the Jarves gal lery of Italian art is worthy of note. Here again the aristocrat or plebian nose is inclined to become tip-tilted Because those horrid old pictures are perfectly ridiculous; where is the draw ing or the coloring, should like to know! They are perfect caricatures."
 When these same people think that those "horrid pictures" represent a pic- torial bible and there was no other for the mass of people at the time when these pictures were painted, per- haps their noses will come down to the normal condition.
 Among the modern paintings is one which has recently been added to the collection called 'The Wise and Foolish Virgins" by Franz Won Pilot. This picture is Oriental in design and color ing, and alone is well worth the price of admission Prof John F. Weir's Forging the Shaft" is picture well known to the art loving world, is in the gallery. The Trumbull collection of miniatures and colonial pictures is ex- quisite. Two of his pictures are Wash ington Resigning His Commission and Washington Signing the Declaration of Independence, have been copied he- roic size, and the copies placed in the capitol at Washington.
 Very few people know that the re- mains of the artist and patriot, to- gether with those of his wife, lie under the Art school, and whose memory is commemorated by two tablets, one In the basement wall of the school inside and the other in the outer wall.
 For the lover of the bruised (black dilu plue, WAlu tie usual dCCOIHpdnl- ment of yellow and green) style of painting, there are one or two examples as rainbowy as one could desire.
 In the cabinets of a room near the entrance is s. Wells Williams collec- tion of Japanese bronzes and porce- lains, we'll worth the visitors close at tention. Another room is devoted to the Alden wood carvings, eonfessionals of the fifteenth century, from Ghent Belgium. From the first of June until the middle of September the work of the students of the school is on exhibi- tion in three of the rooms on the first floor. Let us try to enjoy and profit by the pleasures which come within our reach even at our very doors.
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