The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-13

issued two voIunsa Mt that price, Barrie's
"Wipdor In Tb,um.n and Ian Msclaren's
"Beside the Bonnie Brinr Bush," An edition
OF 100 600 ot e,cb wa, taken IN, moro were
a.tcd for hut tb.v rsfussd 10 print any more.
Thus IL NAV bs seen that publishers opinions
ON tbe .,,n.,pv noyeI ara distinctly varied.
They all ..em 10 .pnee that an edition OF o.. =
600 must he sold betore there Ia any profit. and
that the boom for thi. YEAR Ia over
year aso there were gloomy faces IN 'he
majority OF the London studios. Tor times were
bad. the picture buyer was absent ana tns
butcher and tho baker had tho bad taste 10
hint that settlement OF their itt'e accounts
would oblige. But times have chanReu' for
some mysterious reason trade aslmproVeo'
and nine out OF ten OF ones artistlc ltlenus
seem on tho nigh ROAD 10 fortune, why
should be that three pictures shou'u hs
disposed OF to-day where II was oiineuH
To get rid OF one year ago. no one seems
! TO know. though every one agrees that the
facts arc as stated Certainly II does not mean
that there has been any marked raising OF tho
standard OF production during the year ouite
the other way on the contrary. Tor 1t IA ma
ter OF common consent that on tho whole the
season WORK mas been quito pelow the aver
age. Financially " may have been lat. but
artstically 1t has been very lean year There
were no new regulations made at the great
summer exhibitions. the Academy ana the
new gallery Included. WINE the majority OF
regulations which were already tmaue uh-
uouhteby suffered somewhat.
ferhaps Mr. Sargent was the only painter oil
emnehce who held his own; and even he by
no means repeated his triumph 81 the year De-
lore. Among tho Younger men. even 40 prom
ising PAINTER US Byam Shaw. OF whom only
TWO years ago such great things was expected
ialeu 10 ADVANCE. 30 IL 10 that we nave been
locking forward to the winter exhibitions IN
the nope that they lesser in importance. &C
'hcy are 'hhn ths summer ones. mighty IN
'he'r degree help to redeem the situation.
'uuElhG Nv 'he hrst ~ theso the snow OF the
Royal society al British Artists, these hopes
are not to hc realized Founded some three
quarters ot century ago TINS society mas iate-
~ been making strenuous Efforts to throw on
thc"Nl uhul'luhH "hich hhNscIustersu AROUND
IL ny eIectlhg 10 I's membership some ot the
more promising OF the youngsters such as Ie-
ell AId'n'J W. i. ManeuI' H. y. livsns' Leon
v so'on anu "iiir'd Bah But me boys OF tho
Oh orixade' SIT tins trick To call them' arc
not 10 10 easily led out ol their familiar paths
anu 80 IS mat IN tho so
cietys galleries are multitude oil so
called pictures which might easily have
features OF the modern Engilsh school. All
tho conventional bnnalities Of tho most mere
trlelous aneedotic art. belonging as one had
iondIY hoped to n past generation. there they
all were the smug-'aced little girl with her
FOX terrier, the sp!cE-and-sran country girl.
with her well washed AMI carefully eombed pet
cav. tho commonplace girl reading her love
lew ', "s pou' &c SA .nnsI ., ne ,sce1us
m'h,Nerlns aoHe'' me wear daughter, taxing
her basket OF groceries to the old cottaGer all
-, ,b., h,dlv r,I,,., 7, "a o,i,, 4, r..t.nd
y, ". N'''. ""'', pa'n'.u " - oA" !" n"k
'hat 'h'' Iarucu'ar genre seems To nourish
o, ms ueoased form OF ar, seem by their very
numbers to control. with but few exec ptions.
tho publl, .,hIhi,Iop.
Th.r. ,,. hov.y.r ,,,,,,o
ioh Artists. but this year these exceptions Ar.
hS no means so striking asusuA'. There are
three large nudes. but mono OF tho three Is
worth more than passing rei.rene. In each
but in none OF them 10 the Ophidian more con-
,s .''ut ',an .n' rs" anu nISod Ine largest
,ne mos am rnp''SaS ana the ieeoIes'. I, an
Ara" ana ~. by Mr. r,'s%o., D'ys' entitled
,nns. seem. ,ro" % @ ,o M nTTe IS IN:
ws S ;nss snS.s Of I.sI,n a" his worst
from Keat.. LAMA" and treat. IL s"G IN u
smooth academic fashion suggestive o, tn.
worst faults OF th. modern second ra,.
Fronch schoo, Mr. Hal Uurs, Sp ia's
ton Of Mr. Dana Gib.ou's BLACK and nn,,.
method. ,snd. a vulgar portrait. yulsarly
p Isan b tners ar. some clever little land