The record-union., 1898-05-29

From Bruges comes the story of the
discovery of a book printed with NOV
able types twelve years before Guten-
berg's Mainz Bible. NJ. Gillidot Van
Severen, the city archivist, in book
called 'L'Euvre DeJean Brito,' de-
scribes a ''Doctrinar' in the Paris Ma
tional Library as printed by Johannes
Brito, citizen of Bruges, printer OF
books. and inventor" in 1445. This
points to a revival of the Roster legend
and the tale of his types being stolen
by an apprentice named John.
New York Times Several new bronze
statuettes by American sculptors have
been aided to those by MacMonnies at
the Starr Galleries. Among them the
most attractive are Edwin EIwells two
Egyptian figures Isis Imposing ST.
lence" and the Goddess of Fire" Mr..
EIwell has treated the hieratic pose,
the clinging drapery and the accessories
proper to his subjects in fashion OF
his own and so as to evolve from them
a quite modern source of beauty. There
is a spirited small bronze of a buffalo
by the well-known sculptor of animals,
A Phinister Proctor. Some notable
statues and reliefs in bronze, by the
Italian sculptor. Petrilli, are shown;
and the reduction of MacMonnies'
group for Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and
a new statuette by Elwen, THE Or
child" are expected shortly.
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Miss Julia Nelson has the distinction
of being not only the most classically
beautiful, but also the tallest of Eng
Iish actresses Alma Tadema considers
her an ideal Greek figure, and he is very
fond of designing her costumes, He has
even made several suggestions as to the
arrangement of her hair. Miss Nelson
always wears her own hair on the stage
whenever it is possible. Miss Nelson,
no doubt, owes a good deal of her ar
tistic success to the coaching of her Ia
nous sister-in-law, Miss Ellen Terry.
Mary Russell Milford used to declare
that there was no place in England like
her sunny Berkshire" AS to the cOun-
try people, they were unmatched for
their suavity, courtesy and respectful
manners. One day Miss Milford was
walking through a pasture with an in
credulous London woman. There was
lad driving a COW, and his manners
were to be tested. Now" said Miss
Milford, you will see how gallant are
our country folk" There was gate to
be opened, and the boy opened it and
the women passed through. There was
triumph on the part of Miss Milford.
The London woman put question to
the boy, You're not Berkshire, I'm
sure" and this was the gentle boys
reply: "Thee'rt a liar, vor I be-
1.-The Transcript (Boston) says of the
death of Aubrey Beardsley: THE
young man who with much originality
brought the art of Cheret into popular
Anglo Saxon knowledge had long been
out of health. His art is the art of the
abnormal, apart from the sanities, sim
plicities and sweetness of nature, fever
ish but of a beauty in color and an in
sistence upon the lure of strangeness
of line which made its influence wide
spread and of extraordinary fascina-
ton to all who came under its spell.
Beardsley had a fine gift, and with the
will land better health) might have
come in his maturity to rank with men
whose work and fame will live. But his
genius flickered like flame with queer
lights in an often unwholesome atmos-
phere, and now the flame has died out
But it has left much more than the
ephemeral and evanescent sputtering
of posters which seemed to be its i'm
mediate result. Thousands of artists
| have felt its influence moving toward
the day when nationality in art will be
less thought of than ever before in
the worlds history. as cosmopolitan
habits and knowledge make artists
more and more citizens of their one
land of art-the purest, indeed, the only
democracy in existence. 1t would be
difficult for anybody to decide from his
pictures whether Beardsley was
Partisan, a Londoner, New Yorker,
or a San Franciscan of Spanish and