The record-union., 1898-09-25

The London papers were not enthusi-
astic this year over the exhibition OF
The Royal Academy. The Chronicle
declares it is hopeless to expect any,
ming from such an art body, 'When
proudly shrined in glass and gold, upon
q stand in the water color room, is the
address to her majesty the Queen, VINO
Is the royal head of the Royal Academy
OF Arts, presented on the occasion OF
1he completion of the sixtieth year OF
her maJesty's reign, exhibited by spe-
c1al command of her majesty. 1t is an
address signed by every member, we
believe, Of the Royal Academy of Arts,
The frontispiece of which was designed
and drawn by Sir E. j. Poynter, the
president of the Royal Academy, and
the initial letter by Briton Rivere, r.
"A; but we venture, in all humility, to
say that if it had not been signed by
these eminent names and thus indorsed
officially by the academy, it would have
been spurned as a piece of decoration
by any manufacturer with the slight
est glimmering of artistic intelligence"
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Walter Gilman Page, the Boston art
list, has just completed an historical
sacre. It is one of the largest can
vases Mr.. Page has ever attempted,
and will be put on exhibition at an
early date.
Bance1 La Farge has been showing
recently a stained glass memorial win
dow which he has just completed. Mr..
La Fargo, instead of being carried off
his feet by the overwhelming power of
the art Of his father, John La Fargo,
has developed an amount Of Individual
ity quite surprising. His work has
gone on steadily deepening it's note
and this window is worthy to be count
ed among his best performances.
In all the statues of Goethe scattered
throughout Germany the poet is repre-
sented as he appeared at 80 or go years
Of age. Leipsic is now about to put up
a statue of Goethe in memory of the
three years-1765 to 176S-which he
spent as a student at the University Of
Leipsfc. 1t is hoped that this statue,
for which 10000 marks have been sub
scribed, will be ready for August next,
in which case the ceremony of unveiling
will take place on the 2Sth of that
month, being the 150th anniversary of
Goethe's birth
The statue of Hahnemann, by Chas.
Fl. Niehaus, which occupied so promi-
nent a position at the exhibition of the
Sculpture Society in New York. will be
set up in Washington, when all the ar
rangements are completed The monu-
ment, says the Star" Of that city, in
Guiding the elaborate architectural set
ting, is estimated to cost in the neigh |
borhood of $4,000, a good part of the |
sum having been already raised by |
subscriptions. Those interested |
in this memorial to the distinguished !
physician who founded the homeopathic |
school were anxious to have the statue |
placed in the Congressional Library
grounds, but the resolution granting a
site passed by the Senate a short time
ago provides for it's location only on
land other than the Capitol or library
grounds
Some musical statistics of London are
rather interesting. The big CITY has
about 1000 orchestral instrumentalists
Qncluding upward of 700 violinists)
besides more than $500 other teachers
or professors of music; while in the
provinces there are over 5000 more.
And yet academies Of music are turn
ing out new teachers by hundreds a
year. London is probably the only city
an the world which can boast upward
or seventy orchestral drum PLAYERS.
Par1s, at any rate, is happy with only
lWenty-four. London has ninety from
bone players and thirty-four teachers !
or the banjo. There are several Amer /
ican cities which can go London sew |
eral better in the item Of banjo teach |
ers, but otherwise the figures from the /
British metropolis are probably world |
leaders.
AT the dinner of the Anglo African |
Writers Club Mr.. Kipling gave a sur
Vey OF conditions in South Africa. He |
was quite outSpoken and direct upon |
the relations which ought to exist be- |
tween the natives and the white ruling /
races. He declared that there was |
need of sympathy between the white |
men and those who We're doing the real /
work for the material DEVELOPMENT of /
the country. The blacks he described |
as a simple and lazy race, who OBJ |
jected to most of the elementary rules |
Of civilization. They objected to pre- |
cautions against sheep disease and
they objected TO railways. |
education, and to roads of |
all kinds. South Africa was a land
entitled to be a nation among the ma. I
tons. He felt sick when he saw the /
state Of things in the Transvaal, a /
State which was rotten through and
through and denendine- Iaroalv foy on,
upon Continental sympa-
thy. He was entertained at dinner
given by white men who dared not /
speak their minds freely because they
were spied upon. The Boer farmer, he |
said, resented the thrush Of energetic, |
aggressive, progressive men, who want |
ad to take possession of the land and /
develop it in a hurry. In the South |
they dreamed Of a Dutch republic, but |
there was room for all. They should |
stop talking anti English and anti |
Dutch, and go on tilling and develop /
ing the land. With the Dutch we must /
be Infinitely patient. They believe. for /
b very good cause, that they were our
We had allowed them to put |
pack the clock in South Africa, and /
the result was seen in johannesburg, |
winch was fostering sore in the heart |
Oh the country. It was not good |
enough at present to claim our rights
oy 1orce, but if they used q Continental /
as their opportunity then
would be our time to strike.
Lowers conversation was inexhausti- /
Die, his information astonishing. Pleas
ant as ne was, even as an antagonist,