New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-24
THE NEWS IN LONDON.
Confined from First Page.


going on in England is in the engineering trade
where the oeht over the eight hour day has
hecome a var upon trades-unionism and where
The Intervention Of the State is now invoked
for the second time in the hope OF concluding
n peace honorable TO employers and employed
The annual exhibition of the Society Of Por-
trait Painters at the Grafton Gallery Includes
a collection Of miniatures, which are Increasing
IN nopularlty here Mr. Whistler has a portrait
of an old gentleman in sLbdued light Fro
lessor Herkomer a bright-faced Madonna ana
there are fine portraits by French painters
notably Besnard and Blanche.
The fall exhibition of the Institute OF Painters
in oil is dull show. with over four hundred
conventional subjects and two, possibly three.
vigorous sketches one is a half-hnshed draw
Ing by Sargent Of three Egyptian indigo dyers
In turbans and draperies. dashed off with rapid
but sure brush; another is a study in red and
Grange of a plump lady by Watts: third Is an
admirable drawing Of an Old Highland woman
BY Mr.. Hugh Garter, with u touch Of the realism
Of Israeis, not to say Rembrandt. The other
pictures are Ike those which are seen every
year on the same walls Ir. Wimperis has
two breezy examples OF ths effects Of wild
weather barren hillsides and foaming tor
rents in his beloved Dartmoor. Mr.. Aumonier
has his usual June idyll with haycarts chalk
streams and broad meadows. Mr.. Orrcck lights
up an uninteresting landscape with too consist
rnt rainbow: Mr.. FulleyIove has a series of
architectural studies; Henriettc Rcnner her cat
picture. and Sir James Linton his usual deco
rative canvas with unreal woman in the
centre.
The three brothers are exhibiting collection
of designs for The Pilgrims Progress at the
rooms Of the Fine Art Society. in which Chris
tian and allesorical figures are not sacrificed to
page decoration Marie Corellis portrait by
Miss Donald Smith is ais exhibited at the
Graves Galleries and II must he a work OF art,
for there is a rush Of sightseors to find out
what il is like; and it is well known that Miss
Coreli is opposed tooth and nail 10 all methods
Of advertising. The statue of oliver
Cromwell by MIR Thornycroft Is nearly finished.
The Protector has Bible in one hand. sword
In the other Where this will stand is not
known. but probably outside the Houses OF
Parliament, rather than within There is now
good bust Of Parnen in the National Portrait
Gallery.
The Carl Rosa Company has been doing better
work this week in lighter operas than it had
previously done IN Wagner ard the experiment
Of giving cheap opera at Covent Garden In
autumn may be said to have succeeded. To-
night there is a crowded house, because the
lbrettist is the Queens son-in-law. Lord Lorne.
The opera is "Diarmid." with a Celtic story Of
the guilty passion of victorious general for
his kings wife. The music is by Mr.. Hannsh
MacCunn. The Princess Louise and Lord Lorne,
who have superntended the rehearsals. were
both present and the audience was the only
fashionable one Of the season
Mild weather is keeping the country houses
we'll filed. and the West End half empty. Gui-
sachan House. where Lord and Lady Tweed
mouth have been entertaining on large scale
in Scotland, has been closed, and they now
visiting Lord and Lady Londonderry at Wyn-
yard Park with Mr.. George Curzon and Mrs.
Curzon and large house party The Prince OF
Wales lays the cornerstone Of the new Christs
Hospital School to-day. and will go to New
market after visiting Lord and Lady Rothschild.
There will be large house parties at Sandring-
ham during November. Mrs. Hay and her
daughter are again at Carlton House Terrace.
Mr. Henry White has been in town for a day
or two. but has gone north 10 finish his outing
in the country houses. Sir Julian Pauncefote
sails to-day on the American liner to complete
his term OF Office in Washington. Major Handy
is on the same ship. fresh from Paris where ne
has been received with great cordiality as Amer
lean Commissioner for the Worlds Fair
The Times's" weekly literary edition entitled
Literature" is out to-day and promises 10 be
useful and carefully edited journal 1t cannot
hone 70 publish fresh Kipling poem every
week but the deliberate painstaking character
of its book reviews. which contrast favorably
with the slapdash notices in the many morning
journals on the day Of publication will un-
doubtedy be maintained. l. y. r
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