The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-26

ton of any kind, and solely through
voluntary contributions from those she
loved the memory of Winnie Davis,
.'tha Daughter of the Confederacy,
will be honored by the erection OF
handsome monument over her grave III
Hollywood. 1t will be the first TRIBUTE
of the kind ever paid to Southern W.
man by the women of the South Inc
Winnie Davis Monument Commlttee
soon had $1,000 in hand, and designs
for a monument to cost that amount
We're asked for Many We're SUBMIT
ted. but the New York Camp of Con-
federate Veterans desired particularly
a design by Zolney, a New York
sculptor. This was an angel in italian
marble. the price of which was S3,O0O.
The sculptor's friendship for the Davis
family caused him to reduce the
amount to 81 $50, which included the
$1,000 raised by the women and S6oO
given by the New York veterans. FOL
neys design was accepted as soon as
Mrs. Davis expressed her wish for 1t.
The sculptor is now at work on a
bronze statue of Jefferson Davis, to be.
placed at his grave in Hollywood, and
is also designing the Winnie Davis me-
mortal tablet of bronze, to be placed
in ST. PauFs Episcopal Church here,
in which Mr.. Davis received the news
of the virtual fall of Richmond. 1t Is
the purpose to unveil the monuments
and memorial at the annual meeting
of the Daughters of the Confederacy
next fall The design for the monu-
ment is a seated angel. 1t will be
carved in Italian marble and mounted
on a hammered granite pedestal with
coping in front The statue meas
ures a little more than seven feet Inc
granite pedestal is two and a hai1 Ieet
high three and a half feet WIDE ana
two and a half feet deep. The coping
is six feet long. two feet wide ana
fifteen inches high
The latest thing in pendants for the
long Cyrano chains consists OF tWo
large watch crystals, which are in
closed in an adjustable rim, securely
fastened into a ring by which it hangs
from the chain. In a space between
the two crystals couple of pictures
may be placed or a flower, where 1t
can be looked at constantly. This
flower may be changed each day, or
with each costume, and apparently car
ries a sentimental idea, which IS most
fascinating to the romantic maiden OF
the present day.
The third of the bronze doors de-
signed by Warner for the Library
building at Washington is an interest
ing and successful piece of work. Her
bert Adams. who has had the some
what difficult task of reproducing the
sketches for the two principal ngures
in the representations of MANUSCRIPT
and symbolizing Truth and Re-
search" which Mr. Warner left, mas
done his work we'll. The door itself Is
fourteen feet high by seven ana one
half feet wide, and its two leaves arc
divided into three panels. Figure COM
positions fill the semicircuiar lynn.
panurn above the door and the iaIs
of the center panels. In the tympdhuih
there are seven figures, the center one
a draped female figure, with TWO huue
boy figures at her feet. AL the llsne
and left are two kneeling figures In low
,e1iaf svmbolizfng Egyptian and Greek
writers. while two more in front, ming
+,,a +,,onanum angles and modelled IN
the round. symbolic Jewish and Cnris-
tian writers. The composition, whlie
simnle is dignified in effect There Is
much refinement in Mr.. Adams detah
work and the border decorations.
which have roses and orchids as mo-
x,r11
t;ves are charmingly conceived anu
worked out The entire door Is REMARK
ably artistic, and could MI ain
revisit earthly scenes he Wouiu p
snn,ablv express his warm approval
Of the manner in which Mr.. ADAMS
has carried out his designs.
literary Digest: That the grea'
Rnssian qnoraIisft and artist, Ioistoi
and the leading French literary cf1tlc,
Rr1,netiere should independently a.iu
almost simultaneously formulate SUD
stantfally similar views on the reika'i
between art and morality, is d cui iou9
coincidence. Tolstois emphatic reJec-
10, of beauty as the ultimate oplscs
of art is. in fact, reinforced py iaehe.
novel. If not startling, arguments -
Rrunetiere. He recently dehVeieu .
lecture on the subject of art. ana lioi, !,
report in the journal des Depaes
we translate freely the foiiowiiis
sumo of Brunetieres leading losaS.
1.-The doctrine which treats art Us
eoma divine power in humanity, a uoc-
trine finding expression IN poe.lc
HYMNS to the eternal beauty OF arr NJ.
Rr,,netiere held to be false and PERM
cious. 1t is not true, he insisted, that
art even the art of genius, ennobled
and elevated everything it touched, as
ARTISTS and their theoretical defenders
would have the world believe. The sup
nosed purity and innocence of Greek
Plastic art was, If not deliberate ny
noc,-isy. then at least an impertinent
lest 1t was pagan art, and paganlsm
was 11nouestionably the wild alteration
of the energy of nature.
..At the basis of every form of art
tbere lies according to Brunetiere, the
seed and germ of immortality, which
require only O. favoring condition 10
blossom forth into full flower. TO
nrove this. three important considera-
tons were presented. In the hrst
place art in every form Appeals 10 US
solely by means of pleasure or sensual
qualification. Where there is no beauty
there is no emotional gratbflcalon, ana
it is therefore natural and unavoidaoie
that art should aim at the excltatloh
of pleasurable emotions and make II us
only end and object. The art OF the
eighteenth century was passed III re-
view to substantiate this thesis Even
the elegies of Andre Chenier were o
perpetual Indictment to intoxicatlon ana
delight, the more dangerous because OF
their exquisite elegance.
tom, the principle of all art? The an
swer Sanitation of nature But ma
ture is not always beautiful. Indeed,
she is often ugly and repulsive. So i'm
moral is nature, SO repugnant to our