The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-07
CHAPTER Xxx.


Ingenious persons have shown that
a five-pound note rightly guided will
liquidate an almost unlimited amount
or liability. Let it be granted. says the
mathematician, that A owes B, B owes
| c, c owes D, and D owes A--100 shil-
| lfngS in each case. A gives a five
pound note to B. who gives it to G,
who gives it to D, who gives it to A.
The peregrinations of the same note
wipes out e100 of debt, and A has the
original bit of paper he started with.
In like manner a clever person can
bestow great favor upon another
and at the same time accommodate
several others, leaving all under obliga-
| tions to him, while blusterer, instead
/ of making everybody happy, would
! have accomplished nothing beyond
creating enemies for himself.
The shrewd Haldiman, bringing some
promised work to the editor of Our
National Art, casually mentioned that
Barnard Hope had been invited to send
some of his paintings to Paris.
What. Do you mean the Chelsea
giant? Why, that ass doesn't under
stand the rudiments of drawing, and
a pavement chalk artist who is not his
superior
Haldiman looked puzzled then he
said with some hesitation:
L confess | used to think that; but,
of course, we studied together in Paris,
and we students always underestimate
each other There is something in Bar
ney's paintings that 1 don't pretend to
understand
Understand Bosh. There's nothing
in them but the vilest and most ignor-
ant smearing ever put upon canvas"
Then how do you account for the
fact that some of the most advanced
critics are beginning to consider Bar
ney seriously as a new factor in the
art world?"
Il hadn't heard of it. Who, for IN
stance?"
We'll, I'm told that Viellieme simply
raves over his work-sayS it's dis
tinctive new note, and that Barney is
the only original genius England has
ever produced"
You amaze me. 1t can't be true.
Whatever any one may say of Well
lieme's moral nature, no one can deny
that he knows a picture when he sees
it,"
"Of course; I'm simply giving what
l have heard. AS l say. | don't admire
Barney's work myself. However, I'm
just off for Paris, and I'll find out for
you, on the quiet just what Viellieme
thinks. If Barney is a coming man,
you'd want to know it, and at least
give the first inkling of the new craze,
if there is to be one, wouldn't you?"
Certainly. But l can't believe it."
I'm not sure that l ought to men,
ton it, but 1 know that a number of
Barney's paintings are going over to
France, and l believe especially for
Vielliemes inspection"
L say, Haldiman, just find out for
me all you can, will you? 1t seems in
credible Still, art is full of surprises,
and I should like to know. If it is
true, try to induce Viellieme to write |
an article on the new era in art for
me-"
Would you print it? 1 thought you
didn't care for Barney's work
Il don't, but I'll gladly print any ,
thing Viellieme will sign. OF course, !
among the different schools endeavor /
to maintain absolute impartiality. l
believe in letting every side be heard
well, I'll do my best"
Thanks, Haldiman. I'll be very /
much obliged to you, and any expense
"Oh, don't mention it. I'm going to
Paris anyhow, so there won't be any
extra expense
The article, marvellously illustrated,
appeared in due course. The result
quite justified Barney's expectations
and expenditure, and the Barney Hope
boom ragged up and down the land. He
vas interviewed, and photographed.
For a time it was hardly possible to
pick up a sixpenny illustrated weekly
seeing the latest photograph
Of Barney in it, for the young man
developed a genius for posing before
camera that would have done credit to
our greatest actor. The picture repre-
senting him standing with arms folded
across his breast, a stern, commanding
expression upon his countenance, was
he one perhaps most sought after by
young ladies, although one in which
ne looked like Rembrandt was also
very popular. Exhibitors begged for
lis paintings, nssbobs bought them, and
understood them, which fact
made the boom a permanency. Real
painters looked at each other in amaze
nent and asked, What is the world
coming to?''-a question often pro-
bounded and never adequately an
iwered.
His great fame did not change Bar. {;