The record-union., 1898-03-27

leIS gives aOueu point 10 the LoAiOH tL5
from the publishers Circular:
The pitfalls and difficulties that be-
set the translator Of technical terms
are well known, but a record has been
made in connection with "All the
Worlds Fighting Ships the new ma
val annual in four languages. In this
work a translator encountering the
words this ship has very raking fun
nels" produced a sentence that, trans
lated back into English, reads: This
ship has most obscene-looking fun
nels"
The following is from London
Truth: The fact that another coll
lection Of Miss Kate Greenaway's de-
lightful drawings of child life is to ba
seen just now at the Fine Arts Soci-
ety's galleries serves to remind us how
much we owe to this accomplished lady.
She has achieved a result which far
greater artists than she have, as far
as l remember, never accomplished.
For Miss Kate Greenaway, be it re-
membered, has completely revolution
lied the dress of the children of this
generation. The late Mr.. Du Maurier
did much to popularize black stockings
for a while amongst little girls The
late Sir John Millais, too, to some ex-
tent, affected feminine fashion by the
costumes he painted in certain of his
pictures. Marcus Stone, George Les
lie and Mr.. Luke Fildes have, doubt
less, given hints in some of their paint
ings which milliners and modistes
have been glad to avail themselves of;
but Miss Kate Greenaway, as I have
l. &I,1
this.
She has transformed the costume
of our juveniles; she has given her
name to an epoch in dressmaking; she
has carried the British nursery at the
point of her paint brush. If you seek
my monument she might proudly say
with Christopher Wren, look around
your And if one does look around,
be itein the Nurses Walk in Kensing-
ton Gardens, the amphitheater at
Olympia, or the dress circle OF Drury
Lane during the pantornime season,
one sees Greenawayesque costumes on
every side. For Kate Greenaway is
still, if may so put it, the Allah Of the
nursery, and Liberty is her prophet!
THE present exhibition reveals no
new features in her art 1t has it's
ings of children and of child life that
she excels, and her work loses much
of it's charm when it deals with grown
ups A frame of drawings, lent by
John Ruskin, is included in the exhib-
its, and serves to recall the fact that
the Sage of Coniston' highly appre-
ciates Miss Greenaway's work"
NJ, vor1- Mail oo5 T-x-,o~oe-. FrLo
score of monotypes by Bruce HorsfalI
that have been at the Keppel gallery
afforded little light as to why mono
types are produced. It is only neces-
sary to say that a montype is the sin
gle print that can be made from a
painting in oil or printers ink on a
smooth metal tablet.
The possible advantage of technique
that the smooth surface of the metal
insures is evidently about the only
plea for this method, and Mr.. Hors-
falls monotypes seem hardly more ex-
pertly handled than they might have
been if the work had been done on the
paper. All but six are marines, and
they are inclined to be niggling and
petty in treatment. The best is a
faint green print in the middle of the
=
sea, with a vessel far out on the water.
A narrow beach in the foreground
gives the observer a point of view. All
of the monotypes are in monochrome.
One of the oddities of social life in
England is the difference with which
some authors reveal their occupation.
It is good form to stand before the
world as a barrister and to write nov
els by stealth. We have known such
cases, men whose gifts in literature
could not persuade them to abandon
their rather ostentatious, though fruit
less, pursuit of the law A correspond
ent of Notes and Queries" alluding
to the matter, tells a good story. can
eminent professional man." she saws
was staying at a country house where
l was also guest. One day it was
raw and damp, so we spent a long time
gossiping about poetry and poets.
When the conversation came to an end
my companion said: Pray don't men
ton to any one this talk we have had
II it got known that I cared for poetry,
everybody would think that I could not
possibly be Of any use in my profes-
sion.'
Miss Milford records. in one of her
letters, that Barry Cornwall was an
assumed name. He is she saws a
young attorney who feared it might
hurt his practice if he were known to
follow this idle trade'-that is. poetry
She also tells Of another friend Of
hers the son Of rich Alderman. who
was disinherited because he vou1d
write poetry"
So extraordinary was the contrast
between Goldsmith's published works
and the silly things which he said that
Horace Walpole described him as an
inspired idiot. "NoI." said Garrick
wrote like an angel and talked like
poor poll" Chamier declared that ii
was a hard exercise of faith to believe
that so foolish chatterer could have
really written 'The Traveller"
New York Tribune: f. T. Reed the
clever author of Mr.. Punch's Animal
Land, " has added two more of the
Hterati to his menagerie Sir Edwin
Arnold, squatting on four legs, with
Fusiyama and a bit of Oriental archi-
lecture in the background. is described
as THE Jappypote or Lytervaysha.' >
His fun description follows: This lit
tie Animal writes such nice poetry. He
is found at all swarries with his chest
smothered all over with stars and kriss-
anthenuns and rising suns and other
ornaments He has heard the East
a-calling, so he doesn't like London
there is not enough houris and dymios
and things about They say he is
growing a pigtail-be feels so orientle >