The record-union., 1899-01-01

Frederick A. Shaw, whose example OF
translucent sculpture, Sylvia, the
Wood Nymph," was exhibited at the
National Sculpture Societys exhibition
in New York, has recently executed an
important work Of this character for
the window of an Episcopalian churcn
in Brunswick, Me-, of which State ne
is native. He has also made some
triezes to be electrically lighted, from
behind at night. Mr. Shaw usually d.
vides his residence between Florence
and Paris, but is spending this winter
partly in New York and partly in Bos-
ton.
''Moderne Kunst," in reviewing the
exhibition of opalescent glass of Ameri-
can manufacture. recently held in Ber-
lin, says: These opalescent glass
plates of American manufacture are ar
tistic creations of the first rank, as
novel as they are beautiful. 1t is
worthy of notice about these plates
that the thicker they are the more
beautiful are the effects obtained by
the blending. of the colors. Some OF
the combinations are really of marvel
Gus beauty. The rays of color run from
the center to the rim as well as longi-
tudinally, and resemble a brilliantly
and delicate1y colored muscle or the
most intricate. cobweb. The American
opalized glass, is far superior to the
famous Roman ware of the same char
acter, both in the artistic shaping of
the material and in the blending of
colors. One of the most beau
tiful goblets at the exhibition is the
joint work of America and Germany.
The opalescent glass was, produced in
New York, but the mounting was exc
cuted by Hugo Schaper, court jeweler
of Berlin, a brother of the we'll known
sculptor, ana one of a small group of
men who for quarter of CEN
fury have maintained a foremost posi-
ton in the higher branches Of indus
trial art in Berlin"
During the course ofsthe recent Rem
brandt exhibition at Amsterdam the
magnificent picture known as Esther,
Hannah and Ahasuerus,' belonging to
King Charles Of Rumania, was serious
ly injured. A nail had been left in the
wall upon which it was hung, and ulti-
eyes. An attempt will be made to re-
pair the damage as carefully as pos
sible, but the experts declare that,
whatever be done to the picture, the re-
pair will be clearly noticeable in a few
years. Meantime the royal owner has
been awarded 5000 guilders, as COM
pensation for the injury to his prop
erty.
A fact not generally known is that
Sir Edward w. Hamilton, K. C. B., the
author of the monograph on Mr.. Glad
stone, just published. was the great
Englishman's Private Secretary for a
number of years, and thus had excep
tional opportunities for studying Mr..
Gladstone's personality and for observ-
ing his methods of work.
There is the greatest difference in the
world between authors in the matter of
correcting proofs. Some writers make
few changes in galley proofs, and none
to speak of in page proofs. Thomas
Nelson Page is not one of these. He is
never tired of reconstructing his SEN
fences and rearranging his phraseology
all in the effort to give a more effect
I've form of expression to his idea. He
spent several years in writing Red
Rock" but even after the appearance
of the novel in magazine form he made
so many changes in the proofs of the
book that he became the despair of the
printers.
Few people have an adequate idea of
the heavy expenses to which the great
magazines are put when they attempt
the elaborate illustration of an import
ant serial. The drawings, for example,
for Henry Cabot Lodges STORY of the
Revolution all of which appear as
illustrations in the two volume edition
of the work just published, required
the exclusive services for many months
OF some of the best artists in the coun-
try, and We're made at a total cost to
'Scribner's Magazine" of about $12, 600
f&&
The tone of the London Spectator is
more kindly towards American books
thanait used to be-perhaps because it
looks upon all things American with a
different eye than it did. Thus in the
course of long and alphabetically
appreciative review of Joseph Earle
Stevens's Yesterdays in the Philip
pines" II quotes the authors descrip-
tionsof a tropical storm and gives, as
"a quaint Americanism. for whatever
it may mean, the statement that the
rain '.sizzled in through the cracks like
hot grease when a fresh doughnut is
dropped into the spider The Spec
tator' is too far away from New Eng
land to appreciate the force Of this
smile.
The earlier novels of the late Harold
Frederic, which give so dramatic a
series of pictures of life in Central
New York State. the authors home.
have had a good sale and are being
called for more and more frequently
since Mr.. Frederic's death. OF "Seths
Brothers Wife," there have been sold
about 5000 copies; of The Lawton
Girl" about 1900; of I'm the Valley"
about $3.50; and of In the Sixties"
made up of The Copperhead' and the
'Marsena" stories. about 1000; in all
not far from $4,000
The revival of colored low relief has
been quite extensive on the other side
OF the Atlantic. 1t is used mainly for
the purposes of FREEZES both in and out
of doors. The men who seem to have
given most attention to it are Messrs.
Gerald Mora and F. Lynn jenkins, who
work in collaboration, one being a
painter and the other a sculptor The
most important example of their in
terror work is probably the frieze in the
Trocadero restaurant, London, which is
extremely in color, without being gar
ish. But it is quite possible to feel that