The record-union., 1897-01-31

1.-THE divergence between the Govern
nnent ON the one hand and Prince Sci
Hrra ON the other respecting the right
of the latter to sell and send out of the
country certain masterpieces contained
in his art galleries has at length been
arranged" says the Rome correspond
emit of the London STANDARD" THE
Prince presents certain works of art to
the nation, and in return has the in
Scription of fide commissario removed
from his galleries, leaving him free to
deal with the rest as he pleases. The
works to be given up to the nation are:
THE Maddalena,' by Guido REM; Vita
di Gesu,' by Giotto; Shepherds in Ar
cadia,' by Bartolommeo Schidoni; 'Pico
Changed Into a WOOdpecker,' by Giro
1amo da Carpi; Madonna, st. Giuseppe
and St Pietro Martyr by Andrea del
Sarto; Madonna and Sleeping Child,
by Giovanni Bellini; 'Vestals Carrying
the Statue of Cybele,' by Girolamo da
Carpi; Church of Gesu at the Sanctifi-
cation of ST. Ignazio,' architecture by
Gagliardi, figures by Sacchi; Vision of
FIatre Tommaso of CelanO,' author un-
certain; Portrait of Stefano Colonna,
by Angelo di CoSimo, surnamed Bron-
zinc. Statues: Semicircular pedestal
with figures of three Bacchanti, Etrus-
can female figure, Etruscan male fig
Dre, statue of an Empress, yelled, colos-
sal yelled statue
New York POST: Louis Paul Des-
sar, a promising young American
painter whose work has made a place
for itself in the local exhibitions within
few years, is exhibiting at the Du-
rand RUel galleries half a dozen of his
recent canvases-three pleasing por-
traits of women and three landscapes
with sheep. There is a picturesque
charm about the latter. a feeling that
in doing them the artist was more
truly himself than when he did the
portraits. There is one of a flock strag-
CLING along q shadOwy roadway t1ecked
With sunlight; another of the folding Of
the flock by moonlight, while the third
has for its motive a flock grouped about
some big stacks of grain, or hay, faint
ly iNumimed by a half-moon.
A large nude female figure by Greuze
known as La Madeleine, Blonde" as
distinguished from the same painters
brunette Madeleine-is also on view in
New York. 1t is said to be one of
Greuze'S Well-known works, but it cer-
tainly is not distinguished in itself for
many of the features that make for
good art from the modern point of
visw. The best that can be said of it is
that the flesh tints have a delicate vi
tality that save it, but the kneelng PEN
itent is a weakly. sentimental. boneless
creature, whose penitence is not con-
vincing, while the setting is altogether
commonplace.
Christina Rossetti was the oldest
compound of strength and timidity She
could be adamant ON a. question of po-
etical style, maintaining that she was
right no matter who said She was
wrong. But she could accept correc-
ton with perfect grace A friend who
published the other day some recOl-
leotions of the poet, draws two little
vignettes which are in vivid contrast.
Miss Rossetti, coming ON visit to her
friends house, upon her arrival, she
was shown to her room, to prepare for
the simple meal of the household. She
arrived by an afternoon train, and it
must have been a late tea supper. My
mother, finding after the lapse of some
time that she did not appear in the
drawing room circle, went upstairs in
search of her, and tapping at her door
found Miss R0Ssetu ready, but waiting,
in some trepidation, too shy to venture
down alone, or to be formally an
bounced by the servant, into the eX-
pectant group in the darwing room. "
1t is Of this shy nature that the same
author writes as follows: Most of all
! used to wonder at and admire the
way in which she would take up and
hold in the hollow of her hand cold lit
tie frogs and clammy toads, or furry
1nany-legged cateTpillars."
George w. Gable is to occupy an edi-
koral chair in New York. He has as
sumed the literary management Of
Current Literature abandoning his