The record-union., 1898-11-06

New York Sun: The annual exodus
Of girl students bound for Paris art
schools has begun. The number OF
American girls in the art classes of
Paris has for years been very large,
but this year the entries are larger
than ever, and the narrow streets OF
the quarter where they live will be
swarming with the strange young Wo-
men whom the French at first greeted
with horror, but now accept as Wen
meaning, If unintelligible.
There is a delightful side to student
life IN what the girls insist upon call
ing the Latin Quarter though most OF
the art colony lies quite outside of the
quarter made famous by Murger. The
happy go-lucky quality of the life, the
freedom from conventional demands
and restraints, the fellowship of the
students, the picturesque Paris set
Eings, the undeniabIe art atmosphere
all these things appeal to the Ameri-
can girl with her Independent spirit,
her enthusiasm and her. hunger for
new experiences. She enjoys life.
Whether it is good for her is another
story.
But any sensible woman who will
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students and study the life will find the
rose color fading and viii lose some OF
her enthusiasm over the miscalled bo-
hemianism in whose name so many
absurdities are committed. In an up
town studio a few nights ago two Wo-
men artists discussed student life in
Paris, and a Phillistine who has no art
in her soul, but has lived in Paris, lis
sod n
elect airing her own private opinions.
Both of the women studied in Paris
for years. Both have been decidedly
successful; and yet they beWailed the
increase in the number of American
girls among the Paris students.
Il will go out of my way any time
to see a young girl who is planning to
study in Paris" said the painter I'm
less the case is an unusual one, I al
ways say Don't and if I can talk her
out Of the idea I feel that I've done a
good thing. There was a time when
one had to go to Pars for good instruc-
tion- That isn't so now.'
It cannot be very gratifying to the
adherents of homeopathy in this coun-
try that the enthusiasm which was
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monument to Hahnemann has not been
sufficient to bring the scheme to con-
clusion. A very fine design was Sc
lected; the granite work has been cut,
the sculpture cast in bronze, and now
architect, sculptor and founder are
only waiting for the balance of the
money to hand the monument over to
the promoters. Meanwhile, a memo
rial that would do honor to the cause
and be an added ornament to Washing
ton, is stored away piecemeal in dis
creditable oblivion.
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New York Post: Daniel C. F'rench's
statue Of Rufus Choate has just been
unveiled in the new Courthouse at Bos-
ton. This statue, though not so readily
attractive as much of Mr.. French's
work, is probably the greatest thing
he has yet accomplished. The meas
ure of his success is the reasonable
ness with which he has suggested the
various characteristics of his subjects
most complex personality. Rufus
Choate was not only a profound jurist
and a deep and independent thinker
upon the great problems of his time;
he was also an idealist with the mag
ination of a poet a master, as well,
of the actors artifices, able to draw
tears and laughter from his auditors,
and yet as sincere a man as ever lived.
The problem of epitomizing so many
traits; of fixing in permanent language
such a many-sided, infinitely ductile
temperament, demanded a great deal
more than technical resourcefulness. 1t
called for big mental grasp, and that
Mr.. French has been equal to this de-
mand is the real point for congratula-
ton and praise.
Dagnan-Bouveret's picture, Christ
at Emmaus,' is to be presented to the
Carnegie Gallery, Pittsburg, by H. c.
Frich, one Of the directors.
Musical America: Fritz Thanlow, a
Norwegian landscape painter, and
John Lavery, famous portrait painter
of the so-called Glasgow School," are
in New York. Both men have played
important parts in the development of
modern painting Fritz Thanlow, the
painter of water, snow, and the night.
was one of the first landscapists who
tried, like Cain, TOT express the musical
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n rhythmical language and each pic
ture not merely delineation of a
thought, of sentiment, but an essential
ly musical composition that has its own
pictorial temperament. Some of his
best-known pictures are LIE Village
Bleu,' LES Sau1es' and La Riviere
dArques.' Herr Thanlow lived for
merly in Paris. For several years he
has made Dieppe his home. His wife
is a grandchild Of the Russian Princess
Soltikoff. He came to America, ac-
cepting the invitation of Mr.. Carnegie,
to serve as one of the judges at the
coming art exhibition at Pittsburg.
Miss Jane Barlow, the author Of the
cleverest Irish tales Of the day, is the
daughter of a Senior Fellow of Trinity
College, Dublin. She lives quietly at
home, and has paid only brief and
casual visits to the West of Ireland,
the scene of most of her stories of
peasant life.
Anatole France is about to publish
another volume Of his "Histoire Con-
temporaine," and he is writing new
novel to be called lille d'Amour.'
Inc following rarities in books We're
SOLO recently by Sotheby, Wilkinson &
Hodge; T. Gautier, 'Mademoiselle de
Maupln," 1888, on ''papier du Japon. .
one OF 100 copies. f13 los; two first ed
idons Of R. B. Sheridan, 1.-The Rivals, y
ITO, fine copy, Els, and THE School
for Scandal" ITS, f24; r. L. Steven
son, THE Charity Bazar,, with auto