The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-20
ART AND MUSIC.

David Forbes in the Criterion.
Mr.. st. Gaudens acknowledges that the
quarrels and politics of the New York sculp-
tors have driven him abroad to Florence 1t
is natural enough. Any one who knows
anything of the factional disputes, the wire
pulling and nasty jealousies of the New
York clique will not blame him in the least
Here the sculptor must fight not only the
env1ous incompetents, but he is at the mercy
OF all sorts OF political rogues l happen to
know something about the commission" ex-
acted from those who contributed to the adoIn-
mentS to the new library al. Washington. And
that is only one instance. The successful
sculptor in New York must combine the
guile or the serpent with the calousness OF
the book agent.
BY the way, you know the Nathan Hale
statue in City Hall park?
Have you ever noticed that the clothes but
ton on the wrong side-that is, the left-like
a Woman's?
According 10 The Writer, music lovers will
have another source of information in the
Music, Art and Drama, which will appear in
New York under the edttorship of John G..
Freund
A readable incident of Moses ,Mendelssohn's
life appears in Success, translated from the
German. The composer in love with a
merchants daughter, but the maid did not
favor his suit because of the bunch on his
back. Mendelssohn finally asked permission
to take leave of the girl.
He went up into the dwelling apartments
and seated himself by the daughter, who
was sitting near the window in raised seat,
With piece of needlework in her hand. They
talked together pleasantly, and Intimately,
but the maiden did not look up, and Mendels-
sohn did not look at her. At length the
maiden put the question: DO you really be
lieye that matches are decided in heaven?"
"Certainly And something very unusual
happened in my case. You know that, &C
cordng to a Talmudic saying, at the birth Of
a child it is announced in heaven. This and
this one will have this one and this one Now
when I was born, my wife was called out for
me-but it was also declared that she would,
said, "a maiden who is deformed will very
likely be bitter and harsh; maiden ought
to be beautiful. Dear God, give me the
hump, and let the maiden be beautiful and
comely.'"
Scarcely had he said this, when she fell
upon his neck. She became his wife, and
they We're happy together They also had
beautiful and brave children.
Hay Forbes makes a very ugly thrust at
Paderewski in the Criterion, and announces,
with convincing confidence, that Josef lIof-
mann, the twenty one-year old virtuoso, has
supplanted the Polander in the popular
worship. For the sake of little Josef, go
more softly, Hay!
From the Anaconda (Mont.) Standard.
The Woman's Club Of Lincoln, Neb., with
$40 members, Is one Of the largest clubs in
the country. The conservative and exclu-
sive clubs have long been the theme, but
now we read of, everywhere, the inclusive
club which is, of course a department club
with reciprocity as Its fundamental principle.
The pledge of the Lincoln club indicates
the broad spirit which 1t aims to cultivate.
1t invites the following women to become
members: First, the university graduate;
second. the woman of common school edu-
cation third, the self-educated woman;
fourth, the woman who belongs to other
clubs; fifth, the non-club woman; sixth,
the woman who does not believe in clubs;
seventh, the woman who does not wish to
wants to attend the club meetings but twice
year. NINTH the woman who wants to be
member for the name Of it; tenth, the tired