The record-union., 1897-03-28
akiies. given for the purpose 10y

and weeklies, given for the purpose by
the Denver Public Library, whose Lii
brarian, John Cotton Dana, cO-operates
actively with the Principal of the school,
w. II. Smiley, and it's Supervisor of
Drawing, Emily II. Dawes. A circular
Of the exhibition, issued at the time,
gives full information regarding this
ingenious educational innovation, and
can no doubt be obtained by teachers
from Mr.. Smiley.
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now?" exclaims an English paragrapher
at the end of his acknowledgment that
Miss Marie Corelli's still unpublished
novel, 'tZiska,'' has already gone into
a second edition on the strength of
the booksellers preliminary orders.
The first edition, exhausted by these
orders, is one of $4,000 copies. Thus
the happy Miss Corelli triumphs over
her critics. But the practical reader
only remarks that there SCENE to be
80 900 or more people in Great Britain
who have exceedingly bad taste in
books.
Mr.. BaIrie's next work is not to be a
novel, but a dramatization of the story
which has thus far been his most sue
cessful production, THE Little Minis
ter" With all due respect to the eX-
cellence of The Professors Love
Story" it may be questioned if THE
Little Minister will make an equally
good play. 1t has dramatic possibilities,
yet its best qualities seem of the sort to
be hurt by exposure to the footlights.
An anonymous writer in 1.-THE Pro-
gressive Review" tells some interesting
anecdotes of Wait Whitman. He writes
especially of a talk with the autocrat,
who said: "Oh, Whitman, well, well,
well, Whitman is all very well-he has
capacity, but it won't dot won't do.
l tell you what. it's something like this;
you know skiIlful cooks say that the
fainteSt CdOr, the mereSt Whit, of as
safoetida will give a piquant flavor to
dish-and 1 can believe that; but to
drench it in assafoetida, no, that won't
do. Now" he continued the other
day Lowell and Longfellow and [ We're
chatting together, and the subject Of
Whitman turned up. Said Lowell: I
can't think why there is all this stir
about Whitman: | have read a good
deal of his poetry, but L can't see any
thing in it can't see anything in it,
Well, said Longfellow, I believe the
man might have done something if he
had only had a decent training and ed
ucation.'
1t is said that Munkaczy has become
a hopeless maniac of a violent type.
and that he will probably die within
a year. He will leave his wife almost
poor, for he spent the immense sums
he earned with reckless prodigality.
The value of his pictures has been
rapidly declining Of late, owing to his
persistency in using bitumen as a body
color, instead of as a glaze. In con-
sequence some of his earlier works,
now in Paris, are already in ruins.
Mrs. Eliza Greatorex, the landscape
painter, illustrator and etcher, who died
in Paris on February 10th, was born in
Ireland on December %, 1920. She set
tied in New York in 1899. but had re-
sided in Paris for a number of years
before her death. She was an A. n. A,
the only woman member of the Artists
Fund Of New York, and an honorary
member Of Sorosis Her daughters,
Eleanore and Kate, are we'll known ar
lists.
The models made for the competition
for the statue Of General Sherman to
be erected at Washington will not be ex-
hibited after all, Carl Rohl- Smith. the
successful sculptor, having refused to
let his model be exhibited as he con-
siders that the National Sculpture So
ciety, of which, by the way, he is a
member, has not treated him WELL
The extraordinary Robert Buchanan,
in announcing the fact that he is bring
ing out five books Gncluding two new
ones, The Ballad of Mary the Mother"
and 'the New Rome" makes this curl
Gus statement: Il am the only surviv-
ing Religious Poet, and as possibly the
last of the race"
NJ. f RI. de Haas, painter of great
promise, died on January 10th, at the
age Of -. He was the only son of the
late NJ. F. II. de Haas, the well known
marine painter.