The record-union., 1897-11-14

New York Tribune: Ine lHuIdii -
very popular at the American Museum
Of Natural History. When he arrives
in town he is introduced to the scuip-
tors studio on the top floor OF the
building. and if he proves TO be a fair
type of his family or tribe he is at
once engaged to pose A mask is taken
of his face to facilitate matters, ana ne
lends his presence for a short time
When he leaves, his counterpart IN
plaster is set up in the glass cases be-
low. where primitive American art is
exhibited.
Kasper Mayer, a young Bavarian
sculptor. pupil of j. Q. A. Ward has
been engaged on this work for more
than a year. He returned from the
Indian reservation of New York State
lately, whittier he journeyed with Mrs.
Harriet Maxwell Converse, honorary
chief of the Iroquois, who went along
to introduce him and to vouch for him
He brought home with him several
barrels of masks representing the vari-
Gus tribes of the Iroquois nation.
A superb young Mohawk boy named
Deerfoot was recently introduced to the
museum authorities by Mrs. Converse.
He will go down in history as a repre-
sentative of the Mohawks. He is as
straight as an arrow, and in every
feature he represents the noble red man
of his tribe. He has also a fine copper
color, and his hair is perfectly straight
and black as coal.
Failing Star, another model intro
duced by Mrs. Converse, is an Abemike
woman, and now belongs to the Cana
dian Indians, who We're driven from
Maine in 1744. She is to be modelled
in full figure for a glass case in the
museum.
Two famous models of Eskimo Indi
ans were supplied by Lieutenant Peary,
and they have been utilized in a fam
ily group in one of the large cases in
the anthropological department.
Kasper Mayer, the young sculptor,
will in time know as much about Indi-
ans as an archaeologist, for there is
work enough laid out to keep him
busy the rest of his lifetime.
The Critic: A. It. Quiller-Couch says
that he has only one serious complaint
to make of The Choir Invisible" which
lis that is was not written by a Wo-
man.; but, he adds, Il make this COM
plaint merely out of personal pique,
and because, without the guidance OF
L
had blundered into the confident asser-
tion that this was a Womans novel"
Mr. Couch rightly says that he blum
dered" when he called The Choir In
visible" a woman's novel. a woman
might have created John Gray, but no
woman that ever lived would have
made a heroine of Mrs. Falconer The
theme of the story, as Mr.. Allen must
a ind
variant of Thackeray's 'Esmond," and
its treatment has just that touch Of
hardness which Thackeray did not en-
ploy, but which we might confidently
have expected had a woman taken
Beatrix In hand" oddly enough"
adds Mr.. Couch, t'the femininity of the
book does not stop here. The hero
John Gray-is a mighty fine fellow.
and fights a panther single-handed and
without weapons, and yet, as Stevenson
sad of George Eliot's men, one can
not help suspecting he has a comb at
the back of his head
In the case of the latter was it NOT
cock 's-comb that Stevenson detected?
Certainly Adam Bede wore no feminine
adornment.
Mr.. Whistler has been snubbed by the
Royal Academy! A few days ago some
one IN Italy sent to the artist a busi-
ness circular, addressing it to him at
THE Academy, England" The Post
once people added to the address the
words, Burlington House." and the
postman took it there But Burlington
House declined to receive it, and wrote
on the envelope, Not known at the
r. A" 1t finally reached it's destina-
ton, and its vicissitudes so amused the
famous If eccentric painter that he sent
the envelope to the Daily Mail" in
whose columns it was reproduced. with
this note: Sir: In these days of douht
ful frequentations, it is my rare good
fortune to be able to send you an un
solicited, official, and final certificate
or character. And l am, sir. your oba
dent servant, J. McNeill Whistler"
THE Temple Classics" is a series of
reprints edited by Mr. Gollancz. and
puoiished In style much like that of
the DAINTY Temple Shakespeare" The
page is longer and narrower the hind
Ing slightly different. and the typoe-
raphy somewhat varied. but equally
tasteful. Thirteen volume have already
appeared: Baeon's Essays" reprinted
from the edition of 1925, with an index
cf quotations (translated), and a CLOS
sary; THE Last Essays of Ella with
carefully revised text and marginalia.
and twenty -four pages of judicious
notes by w. Y. Craig, A M; Southey,s
Life of Nelson" with photographed
notes and table of events in the life
OF the great admiral: and Part l. of
Malorys ''Morte d'Arthur," containing
the fist seven books. from Caxtons text,
with the spelling and punctuation mod
ernized- a glossary of archaic words is
appended The work will be completed
IN four volumes.
IL X. Bush Brown has just completed
the model of his equestrian statue of