The record-union., 1899-12-17

of subaltern officers, teachers, civic en-
ployes and people in the humber walks
of life who, however, before becoming
entitled to the privilege of receiving
such art reproductions, had to sign the
socfety's roll of membership and thus
become active agents In the missionary
work.
Keeping It's educational tendencies
continually In mind, the society has al
ways exercised the greatest care in the
choice Of subjects for reproduction. 1t
has made selections from the great
classical and modern religious painters,
Rafael, Murillo, Guido REM, Paolo
Veronese being among the former. and
Hoffman,, Plockhorst, Gerhardt and
others among the latter. 1t has also
endeavored to foster the love of home
and country by giving reproductions
from famous masters which represent
scenes from history, and it will adhere
to like policy in the conduct of its
American branch. Each year, a num-
Der of subjects from the history of the
United States, these subjects to be
chosen by an American Advisory Board.
originals to be painted by American
Washington Crossing the Delaware"
is already on the stocks in the society's
ateliers, to open the American series.)
These American historical paintings
will ebe placed on exhibition, both in the
United States and in Europe, and gold
medals will be awarded by the society
to those American artists whose works
are chosen for reproduction. American
landscapes and marine views will also
be included in this line, and it is
proposed, in time, to erect a suitable
building in one of the principal cities
of the Union, which is to serve the pur-
poses of an artistic workshop for the
American branch Of the society.
New York Post: The Philadelphia
Telegraph" offers an argument against
the proposed Salon in this city. 1.-The
country it declares, already has an
exhibition, held annually here in Phil
adelphia, that corresponds to the Salon
of France for all American purposes,
and, second, that If it ever becomes
desirable to create another national art
institute, it should be located in Wash
ington and not in New York. The an
nual exhibition held by the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of the Fine Arts is not
only national but International in scope,
and it has been by far and away the
most important, the most interesting,
and the most valuable annual exhibit
ton in America during three quarters
of century, comparable, indeed, with
the great annual displays of the Old
World" Discussion closed.
M. Ferdinand Humbert has finished
his mural decorative pictures in the
Paris Pantheon-eight panels, on which
he has given his ideas of Faith, Pa
triotism, the Family Tie and Charity,
and embodied them by incidents-or
rather pictorial anecdotes-such as the
return of fishermen by moonlight,
thanking God. for their safety and good
fortune; a family meeting in the coun-
try at sunset; and the departure for
the army of a. young man during snow.
The panels left unfinished by NJ Puvis
de Chavannes have been completed by
NJ. Cain.
An interesting story the Rome cor
respondent of the London Morning
Post" quotes as coming from Dresden
with regard to some revelations re-
Gently made there by an art historian,
DR.. Ludwig Jelinek, who asserts that
the celebrated Sistine Madonna Of the
Dresden Gallery is not the original pic
ture painted by Raphael, but copy of
the original, which is either in Rome
or at sPiacenza. DR.. Jelinek, who was
led some time ago by a minute exami-
natl of the Dresden picture to doubt it's
authenticity, has now discovered a
chronicle written by a monk, stating
that the altar over the tomb Of st. Six
tus, from which the Dresden Madonna
came, fell into ruins, and that the can
vas was damaged by falling with it,
and was afterward mended. The pic
ture which thus fell was not, according
to the chrOnicler, the original Raphael,
but copy. The Dresden Madonna
bears signs of the mending referred to
in the chronicle. These revelations
are repudiated by DR.. Wormann, Di-
rector of the Dresden Gallery, but he
has started for Italy in order to find out
whether the original is really to be
found at Piacenza or in Rome.
Old-Fashioned Christmas Dinner.
One ol'-fashioued Christmas dinners with
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