The record-union., 1899-12-17

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Ferdinand de Lessep's colossal bronze
statue has been set in place at Port
Said, and dedicated. Whose statues
will be erected at the entrance OF the
Nicaragua, Panama and Cape Cod Ca
mails?
The second annual Photographic Sa-
lon, just concluded at the Academy III
Philadelphia, was a pronounced sue
cess. Over $4,000 visitors attended, and
the sales amounted to $500. In the
PHILADELPHIA Photographic Society's
Gallery. an exhibition is now being held
of prints by Clarence White, which Were
seen at the Camera Clubs rooms in
New York last month. Following this
will be successive displays of the work
of Miss Eva Lawrence Watson, Mrs
Gertrude Kasebier, and Of DR.. Norris
and Mr. Abbott.
Philadelphia Ledger: Artists are
queer lot" remarked one of them yes
terday, as he smoked pensively, IN ms
Chestnut street studio, and gazed de-
jectedly at half-finished sketch l
can't do any work to-day, just because
I dreamed of a red headed girl last
night. That lets me out. can dream
of any other kind of girl and 1t doesn't
affect my work, but if the vision OF my
dreams has red hair I'm no good the
next day. No, it's not superstition. l
don't know what it is. All artists nave
their off days from some cause or otner,
and some of them have antidotes. l
haven't any. I just give up when the
red-headed girl comes across the path
of my dreams. A friend of mine coun-
teracts the effect Of his hoodoo by
clothing himself in an outlandish way
l have seen him working in an opera
hat, the coat of his dress suit, and
pair of pink pajamas, and doing good
work at that. Another friend of mine
always eats lot of raw onions when
he has a particularly sentimental sub
ject to handle. But when it comes to
me, just have to give up"
Consul General Mason of Berlin has
made a report giving description or
an association organized in Berlin some
years ago for the purpose OF applying
a new process of colored photogravure
to the reproduction of the masterpieces
in the royal galleries of Europe. The
educa tional character of the work. Mr..
Mason thinks, makes it worthy of no
tice. The report reads as follows:
1t will doubtless interest the friends
of aesthetic culture in America to know
that a society in Berlin, known as the
Vereinigung der Kunstfreunde fur die
amtMchen Publicationen der Konigli-
chen National Gallerie Union Of
Friends of Art for the Official Publ
cation of the Royal National Galleries),
which is organized under a charter is
sued by the Prussian Ministry of Wor-
ship and Education, is about to send a
delegate to our country for the pur-
pose of establishing branch Office in
the United States. AS it's name i'm
tributing among the educational and
religious institutions of Germany and
the people in general facsimile copies
in colors of the great masterpieces and
famous paintings in the royal galleries
in Europe, thus planting the seeds Of
art education in the minds OF the r1s-
ing generation, and fostering among
the intelligent classes a cultivated
taste for wholesome art.
The popularity which the society en-
joys here and the success which has
crowned it's efforts must be accredited
to the artistic standard of its produc-
lions, which rise far above the mean
ingless black and white prints, cheap
chromos, photographers, etc, that flood
the German art market This super
iority is due, in the main, to the pecu-
liar process owned and employed by
the society in it's reproductions, pro-
cess which, in due course, it intends to
transplant to the United States. It
differs in it's methods from any hereto-
fore employed, inasmuch as it enables
the reproducing artists not only to. Gre
ate true facsimiies of the original in
every outline, by means Of photography
and steel etching, but also to produce
the depth of coloring and the peculiar
tiles of manner of each master by a
special employment of the colors called
heliotint, thus reproducing the char
acteristic handiwork of the artists.
The methods employed bv the society
for the distribution Of its productions
among the educational and religious
institutions of the country and the
people at large are unique.
1t obtained at the start list of pa
irons, who, In consideration of certain
annual contributions, caused the society
to distribute a number of the works
among the educational institutions of
the country This list of patrons grad
ua1ly grew, headed by the Emperor and
Empress of Germany, who are followed
by many of the members of other royal
and princely families in Europe, until 1t
has reached an aggregate membership
of more than 10000.
These patrons gradually introduced