The record-union., 1898-09-25


thing from such an art body, when
proudly shrined in glass and gold, upon
a stand in the water color room, is the
address to her majesty the Queen, who
is the royal head of the Royal Academy
OF Arts, presented on the occasion or
Che completion of the sixtieth year OF
her majesty's reign, exhibited by spe-
c1al command of her majesty. It 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 il 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"
Walter Gilman Page, the Boston art
list, has just completed an historical
painting representing the Boston mas
sacre. It is one of the largest can
vases Mr.. Page has ever attempted,
and will be put on exhibition at an
early date.
Bancel La Fargo 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
aty quite surprising. His work has
gone on steadily deepening its note
and this window is worthy to be count
ed among his best performances.
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In all the statues of Goethe scattered
throughout Germany the poet is repre-
sented as he appeared at 80 or 60 years
of age. Leipsic is now about to put up
q statue of Goethe in memory Of the
three years-1765 to 176S-which he
spent as a student at the University of
Leipsic. It 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.
n. 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
general 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 its location only on
land Other than the Capitol or library
grounds"
Some musical statistics of London ares
rather interesting. The big city has
about 1000 orchestral instrumentaIist
dncluding 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
in the world which can boast upward
of seventy orchestral drum players.
Paris, at any rate, is happy with only
twenty-four. London has ninety from
bone players and thirty-four teachers
of the banjo. There are several Amer
ican cities which can go London sew
eral better IN the item of banjo teach
eTs, 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
rinderpest; they objected to railways,
compulsory education, and to roads of
all kinds. South Africa was a land
entitled to be q nation among the ma
tons. He felt sick when he saw the
state Of things in the Transvaal,
State which was rotten through and
through, and depending largely for en-
couragement 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
ed to take possession Of the land and
develop it in a hurry In the South
they dreamed of 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
a very good cause, that they We're our
masters. We had allowed them to put
back the clock in South Africa, and
the result was seen in Johannesburg,
which was a fostering sore in the heart
OF the country. It was not good
enough at present to claim our rights
by force, but If they used a Continental
difficulty as their opportunity then
would be our time to strike.
Lowell's conversation was inexhausti-
BILE. his information astonishing. Pleas
ant as he was even as an antagonist,
ne would occasionally lose his temper
and use very emphatic language. /
was once sitting next to him when
heard him stagger his neighbor, a
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