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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-08-06

"Romanists," says an exchange, "arc
fond of applying the term Catholic to
themselves only, and in so doing Prot
estants back them up, but they are
only Roman Catholics. The "Roman-
lists" are entitled to the exclusive use Of
the name Catholic, because their church
is Catholic or universal as to time and
space No other Christian denomination
can justly claim Cathclicity or nnivcr-
salty. Some of them, however, call
themselves Catholic. a.s II ashamed Of
being called Protestant; jut they have
no title to the appellation and arc mas
queradng under false colors.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-08-06

Seven Protestant church mission
boards will take up active work in Cuba
directly the Spanish are driven out
They intend to introduce modern Chris
tanity' among the benightcd Catholics
Of the island and thus rescue them from
the errors of "Romanism." We predict
that their labors In Cuba will he no more
successful than in lie South American
republics. They ought to unite among
themselves, before bothering the Gu
bans with their discordant doctrines.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-08-06

The English aristocracy appears in a
bad light from their connection with
swindling bankrupt named Hooley.
He secured the names of British lords
and dukes for his prospectus to influence
investors to take stock in his enter
prise, and fleeced them to the tune of
S12,O0O,0OO. He paid the members of
the nobility about half million dollars
for the use of their names. Lord Albe-
marie, Lord Warwick, Lord Winchelsea
and the duke Of Somerset are implicated
in the financial scandal.
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Another volume from the indefaugable Andrew Lang. MT Lang is said to have almost finished a history of Scotland, which will be ready for publication some time this autumn.
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AUTHOR OF
 GHETTO."
ISRAEL ZANGWILL,

riddle propounded by those who called the meeting: How shall a Jewish state be established?
 They were in earnest, these dreamers of dreams, these propounders of prob lems, intensely so. Yet as a body, what did they accomplish? Nothing. For days they argued and debated. The result? Absolutely nil. They merely emphasized the truth of the statement repeated tL-ice daily by those of them who were numbered among the Ortho- dox that they were not like unto the multitude. Yet the meeting in Basic had one effect. It inspired one of the visitors thereto to write a book. which is one of the notable publications of the year. It is entitled "Dreamers of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill, and is published in the United States by Messrs. Harper & Bros, New York.
 This is a chronicle of dreamers," an- nounces Mir. Zangwill by way of pref ace, and he concludes sadly: For this book is the story of a Dream that has not come true" Pessimistic? Yes, in deed, a complete study in pessimism comparable only to the work of Henrik [bsen in his most depressing mood and sounding the lowest note of despair at the view of unattainable ideals and unrealized ambitions.
 It is difficult to gather from MT. Eangwills present work whether he is
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to the dreary struggle for bread carried on daily within it's confines. Nor was this all. With bitter irony he painted the Hebrew when he had grown gross. exhibiting the Jeshurun, who had waxed fat and kicked as merely an elaboration of the poor East Ender, and showed through him the fallacy of the theories advanced for the solution of the oft-mooted East End problem. MT. Zangwill may or may not have intend ed to act as an interpreter for his peo- pie in their variety; but unquestionably this is what he did in his first great book As a result we were given a pie ture of such lifelike fidelity and so full of the true spirit of humanity that the whole world was moved upon by it.
 "Dreamers of the Ghetto" is in the main a collection of sketches bio graphically treated. They are written with all of MT. Zangwill's descriptive power Characters so different as Baruch, Spinoza, Heinrich Heine and Zevi, the Turkish Messiah, are depicted against the back. round of the particu- lar environment that constituted the Ghetto of their periods and countries
 Historical accuracy has been aimed at with considerable success, and, where possible, the sentiments expressed by the several characters have been drawn from their own writings. Some of the stories, and those by no means of the
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SHOR T NOT E s
 ABOUT AUTHOR s.
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Julia Magruder will have a book out this spring with Herbert s. Stone & Go. "A Realized Ideal'' is it's title.
 Eugene Field in His Home," by Miss Ida Comstock Below, sister of Mrs. Field and member of the family for years, will be published by E. P. Dutton & O. this month.
 Another volume from the indefatgable Andrew Lang! MT. Lang is said to have almost finished a history of Scotland, which will be ready for publication some time this autumn.
 MT. Rudyard KipIing is credited with the completion of a new book to be called "The Burning of the Sarah Sands" If present arrangements hold good 1t will appear during the later spring.
 Professor Max Muller has been prepar- ing his writings for a uniform edition which Messrs. Longmans are to publish. The volumes will be issued monthly, be- ginning with the Clifford Lectures on Natural Religion" "The Chips From a German Workshop" will run through four volumes. while 'The Science of Lam. guage" will fill two.
 Thomas Wentworth Higginson has just corrected the final proofs of his 'Tales 
 tic" which will shortly be published by the Macmillan Company. The book will treat of the cycle of romance that lies within the early Irish, English, Spanish, and other traditions of the Happy Isles of the West before the historians work of stamping out fancy with fact began.
 The manager of a large distributing book concern in London impresses on writers the advantages of a good title. Nine-tenths of the people who buy books select by means of the title only That sounds interesting says the possible purchaser, and so he buys. This man. ager, who only wants to sell books holds that a title should be short, crisp and concise and that it should convey clear impression of the book. Then let title be eIphonious," he adds, it sticks better to the memory
 The Dodge Book and Stationery Com pany of ,his city has issued "A Ccnec- tion of Wild Flowers of California" made by Miss E. C. Alexander, with appropri- ate sonnets contributed by Misses Ina D. COolbrith and Grace Hubbard. The work is one of the daintiest productions of this State we have ever examined, and the utilization of natural flowers is a most effective one. Four editions already issued testify to the popularity of this charming volume, which is sold in vari- ous binding from 50 cents to s.
 We have received from the publishers copy of "The Coming Light" pub- lished in this city. The objects of .-e magazine, as outlined on it's tftle page, are: ITO liberate man. woman and child, socially reIigiously and politically, to ed- ucate and to raise mankind from animal ism to Godhood, from limitation to liberty, and in every way to assist individual and social development" The promoters of "The New Light" are Drs. Cora A. Morse and Mary A. Jarney The magazine ap- pears to be intelligently edited and we'll printed and illustrated.
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oft, sweet fingers that no lover would

soft, sweet fingers that no lover would ever clasp.
 But Rachel wept for her child and would not be comforted.
 But the dead Jew is resurrected ln the living Christian. The scholarly apostate is compelled to deliver ser mons during his novitiate n large oratory near the Ghetto. After his ac- ceptance of the monastic vows a Bull is issued, making it incumbent upon the Jews to attend his sermons. Rows of the devout are painfully whipped toward the church door, and their sober faces indicate the attention they are giving to that strange institution, the Predica Coattiva. Alas! Joseph the Dreamer" did not know that. adopting the whimsical device hit on by droll, all these devout Hebrews had waddlng stuffed deep into their ears!
 By and by carnival week arrives, and with it the Roman Hebrew touches the extreme of indignity, the Jews race. Six representative members of the lie brew community are compelled after a hearty meal to run race. To acceler- ate their pace a mounted officer with squad of soldiers gallops at their heels. Noble sport forsooth! On spacious pretext it is decided to compel the runners to compete again, notWith- standing that young Jew has been rendered the pallio as winner of the contest.
 One of the runners has fallen un- conscious. The young Hebrew who has reached the goal first begs for cup of water, but no one stirs to give it to him, and lifting the head of the old man, he finds that he is dead. Then drawing a crucifix from beneath his cloak, the young man announces him. self. It was the renegade. His self
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jected to every kind of advertising monstroSity ranging from the red or yellow front of a building to the brutal and vulgar posters that cover the bill boards of our cities, and the display of questionable and unsightly goods in our shop windows.
 But there are some very beautiful means of advertising also, to which many of the posters distributed about our different stores testify, and there is probably no factor of this time that has exerted a wider influence in the di- rection of educational art than the pos ter.
 It requires no mean ability to pro- duce a design that shall convey the de- sired idea in an attractive and beauti- full manner, and many of our very best artists have legitimately turned their attention to this new industry.
 The designs we see are varied in character, but, very much after the manner of the houses that are built or the bonnets that are constructed, they are apt to be an expression of the thought of the patron ~ather than the idea of the artist, frequently resulting in very strange ~-d inconsistent prod ucts.
 Now a design may be dignified or frivolous; it may be refined or the re- verse. It may attract by it's beauty or through it's appeal to the morbid and unhealthy qualities of thought. It may tell it's story in good composition, skill full drawing and satisfying color. or it may violate all principles of technique and be bizarre and gaudy.
 The poster of to-day generally aims to combine the language of words with that of form and color, and the suc- cessful poster is the one in which these two forms of expression supplement each other
 To simply letter a crayon or oil por- trait, landscape or flower study, when the picture used is unrelated to the let tering, is but to evade the problem of fitness of design for a useful purpose and to degrade the art thus utilized
 In looking over a collection of post CTS one naturally questions the artists motive in the use of certain clements, for very often the treatment of the sub Ject may be allegorical and the forms involved symbolic.
 Much interest was manifested in the competitive designs exhibited at the Sketch Club week ago. The board of managers of the Woman's Hospital offered a prize of $25 for the best and $15 for the second best design for a poster which should advertise the Por-
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sacrifice on two occasions has proved vain. The Dominican Jew is tried and found guilty, and is condemned to the stake.
 We shall not quote MT. Zangwills s powerful description of the Dreamer's awful punishment, but we cannot for bear reprinting that horrible drawing of Joseph's father and mother celebrat ing the execution.
 In the house of Manasseh. the father of Joseph, there were great rejoicings. Musicians had been hired to celebrate the death of the renegade. as tradition de- manded, and all that the Pragmatic per mitted of luxury was to hand. And they danced man with man and woman with woman. Manasseh gravely handed fruits and wine to his guests, but the old mother danced frequently set smile on her wrinkled face, the whole frame shaken from moment to moment by peals of horrible laughter.
 Of lighter kind, yet, having in it's composition a certain pathetic element, is the story entitled, The Palestine Pilgrim" Aaron, the peddler, Russian exile domiciled in Manchester, has by dint of much self denial amassed a few pounds. He has no family and deter mines to spend the rest of his life in an attempt to establish a Jewish state in the Holy Land. He breaches the idea to his associates, and he is laughed at Nevertheless, he makes the journey He is on the point of entering the port of Jaffa, and is in transport of happi- ness at at last reaching the land of his fathers. Let the concluding para graphs of the story tell what success this Dreamer of the Ghetto encoun- tered:
 He had one foot on the soil of the Holy Land, when Turkish official in shabby black uniform stopped him.
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trait Loan Exhibition now on at the Hopkins Institute of Art.
 In studying these compositions one was forcibly impressed not only with the diversity of thought that one idea could suggest, but also with the dir ferent styles of expression.
 While some showed great imagination on the part of the artist, others were only good examples of technical skill Some were decorative in conception and handling, being simply rendered in fiat tones, in good color combinations. while others did not quite reach this stand ard of excellence.
 One fact was quite evident, and that was that the artist as rule has little patience in mechanical work, such as is required in lettering, and there were not a few cases where the spectator was permitted to supply deficiencies in this regard.
 The most beautiful design was that of Miss Louise Schwamm This young woman has repeatedly given us exam pies of her ability, and 1t Is gratifying to see her produce something so excel lent. The two beautiful girlish faces profiled against broken yellow back ground are ably complimented in line and color in the violet iris border above and in the olive-toned panel below. The decorative handling of the color scheme, which is that of contrasted harmony, and the thought suggested. make it we'll deserve the first prize which was awarded to it.
 The second-prlZe winner consisted of sphinxlike portrait of a woman paint. ed in tones of blue green gray on a me dallien, which made a pleasing contra st with the broken red background upon which was placed the lettering of the poster. The conception of the subject. by which this talented young artist aimed to express womanly dignity, was handled with much feeling
 Probably the most successful piece of applied design was very interesting study In soft yellow grays, by Benia- min Armer. in which two figures repre- senting Charity were relieved against a pair of black wings and enclosed by some very pleasing conventional mo- tives. MT. Armer most surely has a feeling for breadth of line and symme- try of arrangement. His design was commended not only for it's artistic qualities. but also for the excellence of its lettering.
 The choice of the designs among the members of the sketch club was one
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that received honorable mention-the design of Miss Mabel J. Williamson. This beautiful product represents d vel poised girlish figure standing reposeIcl- ly in the middle of the picture, holdlng a portrait in her arms. The subject IS decorativelv treated in fiat tones and the color scheme is much admired
 Mrs. Arthur Mathews exhibited very pleasing study in browns, repre- senting a girl observing nersell Ill hand glass, while MT. Joullin showed head of a woman worked in crayon, and Joseph Strong expressed ms ldea of what a poster should De III all OH portrait of a woman. MT. Ireehpaulil exhibited two water color stuules, oIle representing some people viewing an exhibition and the other the lhlellor of a studio.
 Miss Helen Hyde contributed the study of a chubby little woman goWned in empire costume inspecting some pictures This study was painted on vellum and was very pleasing Ill US monochrome color.
 MT. Nappenback showed some very skillful drawing and some most excel lent lettering in both or the studies he sent, while Robert Mckee showed some very able pen and Ink Work III his two examples.
 Miss Nellie Treat contributed very pleasing study of an old-fashloned portrait and Miss Kate Halls pen and ink study of a woman looking through lorgnette at some pictures IS most excellent in it's simple handling. MISS Mabel Downing's black and White study called forth much favorable com ment.
 Douglas McClees' allegorical study had much in it to commend. The treatment of the background was es- pecially happy The mass of rich blue most fittingly relieved dainty inc or white smoke that subtly wound its up- ward way
 MT. RaphaeTs design WIS much ao- mired and considerable surp1 -e was expressed that it did not receive some notice from the judges. It represents three beautiful figures grouped against woodland background arranged m series of three decorative panels. The design shows considerable consclen- tious thougNt and effort
 Probably the most artistic design was that entitled ''The Town Crier, by Edwin Arnold, student at the art school. This is most 'postery" inas- much as it suggests the usual mode of advertising, printing, together with the consistent use of the materials from which a poster is made. It is modest, refined, dignified md excellent in technique. The color scheme is that of analogous harmony and is very sat- isfactory. Tn this design nothing of fends and much pleases. MT. Arnold's design was sufficiently appreciated by the judges to receive honorable men, tion. k. M. B.
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they my parents-the mild man of busi- ness the cever, clear headed, romance disdaining Dutchwoman, God bless he :! No. my father was Germany, my mother was the Ghetto.
 The author of "Dreamers of the Ghetto" has rarely shown his remark able versatility to greater extent than he has in this collection of sketches. Whosoever would know the ancient Jew, the medieval Jew. the modern Jew, must study this last work of their most capable interpreter It is a careful analysis and remarkable study of the attributes of the Hebrew in many lands and under many con- ditions Those of the stories that can be classed under the head of pure tic- ton are the best of their kind.
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.rYour passport" he said. in Arabic. Aaron could not understand. Somepody interpreted.
 q have no passport" he answered, with a premonitory pang.
 "Where are you going?
 '"ro live in Palestine
 "Where do you come from?"
 England" he replied, triumphantly feeling this was mighty password throughout the world.
 "You are not an Englishman""
 "No-o." he faltered. "I have lived Tn England some-many years
 "Naturalized?
 NO" said Aaron, when he understood
 .What countryman are you?'
 Russian
 And Jew, of course?"
 "Yes"
 NO Russian Jews may enter Pales- tine"
 Aaron was hustled back into the boat and restored safely to the steamer.
 In another sketch MT. Zangwill has undertaken the responsible experiment of voicing the thoughts of Heine. Most of the monologVe is striking, and shows the remarkable power of Zangwill in sympathetic imagination. We quote:
 am Spain, am Persia. I am the North Sea, I am the beautiful gods of old Greece. I am Brahma breeding over the sun lands, am Egypt, l am the Sphinx. Ach why was not I made four square, like Moses Mendelssohn, or sublimely one-sided, like Savonarola? To be Don Ouixote and Sancho Panza is one, oh, what tragedy! should have loved to have been Mllton-like one of your English cathedrals. tc IIrith eta fol home in the country, and dogs and horses. and a beautiful wife. In short, I should like to be your husband. Or, failing in that, my own wife : whose idea of culture is cabbages. My very pa rents never understood me. Nay, were
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I0S RT should be beauty applied.
 U N The most artistic thing is that NS which, while being beautiful is
 best fitted for it's use. Too fre- 1uently the adjectives beautiful and ar tistic are used as synonymous, where as they have different meanings. The latter may include the former, but the former may exist without the latter. A thing may be very beautiful and yet be out of place, and therefore mar tistic For this reason decorative painting-or that which adapts itself to utility and considers its environ ment-is more artistic than pictorial painting, which is absolutely individual and not relative to anything.
 All art found it's origin in utility. The first pictures and sculptures were de- signed to tell stories, and at the same time to decorate buildings, and while having a mission to perform were yet subordinate to the structure of which they were a part
 A pictorial representation is apt to play a solo port. Its reason for being is its beauty, while a decoration be- longs to and acts as an accompaniment to a useful purpose.
 A poster is designed to perform a ser vice Its principal object is to adver- tise, and just so far as the method of advertising is subordinate to the full fnment of this purpose is it artistic. By advertising we wish to inform the world of the existence of line of goods and herein set forth their good quail ties. To do this it is necessary to at tract attention, therefore the mode of advertising must be attractive.
 Now the word attractive has also come to have the same meaning as beautiful, whereas it may mean just the reverse, for we are sometimes held by the force of something very un- pleasant. It is as impossible to es- cape from a shrieking sound as it is from a shrieking color. The ear and the eye must receive il, no matter how unwilling.
 Tn this great world of competition each man feels it his business to use just such means of outwitting his con- petitors as will get him the attention % the public. and we therefore are sub-
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an advocate or an opponent of the so- called Jewish state, but that concerns us not. He has other claims on our at tention. While yet a mere stripling he realized that the rose of romance can and does bloom in the raw air of the poverty-stricken London Ghetto. He it was who recognized that the mere tear ing down of the barriers of iron could not remove the restrictions placed
 around the Ghetto Hebrew by himself, and he even perceived a humorous side
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There was recently assembled in the little town of Basic, in Switzerland, a conference to discuss and if possible to adjudicate a cause which has been heard before the court of the nations of the earth for many centuries. From nearly every civilized country came delegates to this notable meeting, which was called the Zionist Confer ence, and various as were the tongues spoken by them they exceeded not in number the solutions given to the great
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Julia Magruder will have a book out this spring with Herbert s. Stone G Co' "A Realized Ideal' is its title.
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FIRST PRIZE, BY MISS LOUISE SCHWAMM.

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MT. Rudyard KipIing is credited with the completion of a new book to be called "The Burning of the Sarah Sands. If present arrangements hold good it will appear during the later spring.