The record-union., 1897-06-27

see nothing coming?' It is now many
years since you. the first, gave vent to
cry of distress, and to a call for the
reaction of good sense and good taste.
1t is asserted you wrote, that the
naturalistic novel is part of a litera-
ture founded upon science. But, in
truth, it is denied by science, which
knows only truth, and by art, which
knows only beauty. The naturaistic
novel drags in vain from one to the
other its fat deformity. The one and
the other reject it. 1t is of no use,
and it is ugly = Would art be
worth what it costs US if it had not
the use of sowing our lives with charm
ing images?"
The International Studio: For the
coming summer preparations are being
made in Stockholm for an exhibition of
arts and industries, which will probably
be the largest of it's kind which has
taken place in the Scandinavian coun-
tries, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Russia will also officially take part in
the department of industries; the three
Scandinavian countries have been per-
sonally invited to take part, and nearly
all have accepted the invitation. The
site chosen for the exhibition is the
beautiful island Djurgarden, which lies
in the district of Stockholm. A fan
tastic city is already appearing there,
and all agree that in more than one of
the buildings now being fitted up, one
can see traces of a revival of Swedish
architecture, which until now has not al
ways been able to stand the test of COM
parison. The Committee of the Exhi-
bition has the good fortune to have as
President the youngest son of the King,
Prince Eugen, who is one of our most
original and sensitive artists, a man of
strong individuality and open mind, and
with courteous and fascinating man
ner; and by his side stands as head
Commissioner, the painter, Oscar
Bjorck. The other Commissioners are:
F. Bohety (architecD, Count Won
Rosen, Baron G. Cederstroon, r. Berg
and Zion (the painters), and the sculp-
tor, T. Lindberg.
The late General Walker said that in
vention was a natural aptitude of the
American people, and gift to which our
economic conditions had given the high
est development. AS a result the United
States is pre-eminently the land of ma
chinery. Mechanical processes domi-
nate our productive enterprises as no.
where else. This is likewise the testi-
mohy of an eminent foreign observer
Professor E. Levasseur of Paris, who
has depicted these conditions and the
consequences which flow from them in
an interesting study of the "Concentra-
ton Of Industry, and Machinery in the
United States publications of the
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science, Philadelphia).
The learned author pays a well-de-
served tribute to the inventive genius of
our people as attested by the Patent Of
flee returns, and records his own OBJ
servations Of the remarkable fashion
in which mechanical processes have per-
meated into the everyday life of our
people. Such alarge use of machinery
involves an intensity of labor unknown
upon the European continent, as his evi-
dence amply demonstrates. 1t brings
with it concentration of industry Pc
culiar TO the United States. While it
brings attendant evils. the, wheels of
progress. do not move backwards, and
the advantages outweigh in large part
the Inconvenience. 1t is the. conclusion
OF the author that industry in the
United States is better. equipped than
anywhere else.e The essay is one which
will bear a careful reading by all who
are interested in our industrial condi-
tions.