The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-03

story Of a discussion at the Leweses'.
Some one maintained that everybody
had written tragedy. Yes said
Lewes, every one, even Herbert Spen-
GER" "Ah!" interposed Huxley, Il
know what the catastrophe would be
an induction killed By a fact"
Here is an anecdote which Duff had
from Gladstone: Mr.. Gladstone, with
Mrs. Gladstone and their eldest daugh-
ter, came dew11-on- Saturday and stayed
till this morning. He was in excellent
spirits and talked much. One parlia-
mentary anecdote which he told ought
to be well known, but l heard it for the
first time. Golden was replying to Dis
raeli in a speech upon free trade so
admirable that Peel, who was very
Chary of praise, said to Gladstone:
What a consummate speech he is MAX
ing!" when presently he got into griev-
Gus oratorical trouble in a strange way,
In order to explain some point with
greater clearness he said: Now, will
give an Illustration of what / mean.
Here is my honorable friend the M. +.
for Durham sitting by me. He is spin
ner Of long yarns of a low quality. The
house, in which Bright had at that time
a position very inferior to that which
he subsequently attained, screamed with
laughter, and Golden stood for some mo-
ments unable to conceive what had oc-
CURED.
In the Goth annual exhibition in New
York of the Society of American Artists,
Whistler is represented by four exam
pies, all of which evidence that his mas
ter hand has not lost its cunning. These
are Westminster Bridge" deliciously
warm in color, and with marvellous de-
tail work; a marine, THE Blue Wave"
hard in color, but full of movement; an
other marine, characteristic in color and
title, symphony in Violet and Blue,
and a little interesting sketch, "a Note
in Carmine."a Fhe exhibition of the So
ciety this year is a good one. The cata-
logue contains 346 numbers, of when
some thirty-six are miniatures and por-
trait busts, so that upward of 800 can
vases filT the walls of the South, East
and West. and Vanderbilt Galleries, the
miniatures and portrait busts being in
the Central Gallery. The star" pic
lures of the display are, as usual, with
two or three exceptions, in the large
Vanderbilt Gallery, and it will not sur
prise the art lover to learn that the
names upon them are those of Sargent,
Whistler, La Fargo, Chase, J. w. Alex
ander. Barse and Bogert. The last two
artists are winners, respectively, this
year of the Webb and Shaw prizes-for
the best landscape painted by an Ameri-
can artist, under forty, and the best
composition in oil containing one or
more figures by an American artist.
New York Times: Another compare
lively recent arrival from his wander
years in Paris is William Day Streetor
of st. Louis, whose skill is shown in ten
canvases Gn the American Artists So
ciety exhibit) of small dimensions, some
of them bearing traces of the influence
on him of Jean Paul Laurens Charles
c. Curran seems to have been Mr..
Checks favorite, since there are no less
than sixteen figures and other pieces
pressed by the still-life painter Emil
Garrison, formerly of San Francisco, who
has fifteen pictures, and by Edgar Scud-
der Hamilton of Texas, graduate of New
York and Paris schools. whose fifteen
pictures show him a colorist of mark,
with a fine sense of the beauty of the
human figure undraped but not brutally
IHdilZEQ. pa
and Hamilton show the stuff for future
greatness in art. a..3
Germany, exclusive of special publ
cations. issued last year BAIT political
and advertising papers, coming from
1852 centers. According to COMPARE
son of population, there is one paper
issued forsevery 1902 inhabitants In
l., r0Ay MI h
lished for -, 800 inhabitants. The ex-
port book trade of Germany in 1896 was
worth 10000 600 marks. In the an
alysis of these imports, the American
percentage is 10, and from England
the total value was estimated as G3U,-
600 marks. The Tauchnitz publica-
tons in Germany of English and Am
erican books accounts for this.
Great preparations are on foot al
Madrid for the celebration of the three
hundredth anniversary of the birth
of SPANS greatest painter Some even
say the worlds greatest artist for
there are many folks wise in art1ore
who believe that Velasquez divides the
kingship Of painting with Rembrandt,
and therefore think it quite proper
that it should be an all-the-world cele-
bration. and not merely an occasion for
the decoration of the shrine of king
of art by his own countrymen. In a
way it will be universal celebration.
To be accurate it should occur in 1899,
for Velasquez was born at Seville in
June of the last year of the sixteenth
century. &. But as there will be a World s
Fair in Paris in 1900, to inaugurate
the twentieth century, the celebration
has. been delayed year. 1t is expected
thar the art lovers and artists who go
to the exposition will make the detour
TO Madrid, where, besides the peren-
NAL celebration of Velasquez's talent in
the rare collection of paintings at the
NIuseu del Prado, they will find an in
teresting lot of Velasquez's personal
relics, literature, etc, brought together
for the occasion.
The collection now in the Prado is
one of the most interesting and valu-
able in the world Besides nearly all
the important works of Velasquez,
there is an overwhelming list OF
samples of the work of the most fam
Gus artists of italy, Spain and the
Netherlands. Most of the pictures
were bought by Charles V, Philip H.,
Philip W., and Philip V. When Vel
asquez made his second trip to Italy
he was commissioned by Philip " to
order paintings from Titan, Tintoretto,
Guido, Giorgione and other less famous
Italians Many Of these pictures are
now in the Prado, though it is. quite
likely that many others, with several
of Velasquez's pictures. persisted when
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