The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-06-26

the Art workers Gutid there Is little Oh
interest happening in the world of art,
unless it be an artistic event that cricket
eleven Ct well-linown painters. having
Mr.. Abbey. r. A, as their captain. played
the other day against an eleven headed
by Or. Conan Doyle, and got well beaten
for their pains. But there are plenty OF
exhibitions with US and something Of in
terest to be gained from a glance at them.
In the first place, as Mr.. Joseph Penneil
has lately been pointing out il is some
what significant that the chief attrac-
tioHs consist OF pictures representing that
very school which up TO the present time
the nation as represented by the National
Gallery. has not deigned to consider
worthy CT notice. So far as the National
Gallery is concerned, modern French art
seems to be summed up in the work OF
Rosa Bonheur. Now. Rosa Bonheur was
a very popular painter, but she hardly
represents the so-called Barbizon group of
painters who are Frances greatest glory,
even though she did paint in Fontaine
bleau and the neighborhood. So IL is that
in the national treasure house Of art one
looks in vain for the names of Rousseau
and Millet. Troyon and Courbet, Daubigny
and Corot.
II is to the small commercial exhibitions
in Bend Street and Pail Mall that the pub
lie has to go in order to see any note
worthy examples Of these masters. Collec-
tions shown by two dealers whose very
names are significant of the present for
eign influence in English art. Messr3. OBJ
ach and Van Nisselingh. present us with
Daubigny at his very best and an exqui-
site early Corot. There are two fine crayon
drawings by Millet and an exceptionally
beautiful pen and ink landscape sketch by
Theodore Rousseau. French art of quite
another type is 10 be seen at the Rem
brandt gallery. where Mr. Dunthorne has
gathered together a representative collec-
tion of NJ. Hellu's dry points and pasLels
1t has been NJ. Hellu's misfortune, through
the medium of that suppleness and grace
fulness of line in which he is unriyaled
among modern etchers. TO poetic the
modern Parisienne and to translate
into terms of art the modern
passions and frivolities of his
countrymen. The present little exhibi-
tions shows, too. that he is as satisfactory
IN color as in monotint and is as brilliant
as pastellist as he is as an etcher. His
pastel portraits arr convincing in their
vitality. To those who only know NJ.
iielr by the reproductions of his work in
Try poiHtstnese pastels must be revela-
ton.
There is another exhibition which has so
far not attracted the attention it deserves,
but which is of especial interest to Ameri-
cans. At the large Grafton galleries NJ
Bing offers a show of which the leading
feature is the glass work of Mr.. Louis
c. Tiffany, of New York His work is
represented in more than one direction.
There is a large exhibition of his favrile
glassware which allows Londoners TO see
for the first time to what a height of per-
lection in form. color, and texture Mr..
Tiffany has carried the manufacture of do
nestle glassware, while in another direc-
tion his mosaic work, as evidenced by a
large and important Last Supper" is
particularly interesting at time when the
St Paul's Cathedral mosaics are being so
eagerly discussed. His stained glass win
dows. too, with their remarkable and novel
technical effects are shown 10 advantage.
1t cannot be said that Mr. Tiffany has been
received with open arms by any English
critic. His favrile ware they praise highly
and predict for it a warm welcome among
English collectors, though from a COM
mercial point of view the high prices
which the difficulty in its manufacture
necessitates will probably stand in the
way Of its popularity. His mosaic, how
ever, was disappointment to everyone.
Nor was ii to be expected that his stained
glass work, relying as it does on accidental
effects produced in the manufacture of the
glass itself, should be at once convincing to
the countrymen of Burne- Jones, William
Morris. and Selwyn Image. However, his
work has caused something like sensation
among English craftsmen. There is no
doubt that his influence will be traced in
English applied art.
a Remarkable Man.
Mr.. Lawson TAFT. the chief obstetric
surgeon in England. who died this week,
was a remarkable and many-sided man.
!, Tod
to the last. When his health began to fail
he went to live in his house on the Welsh
coast. near Llandudno. He left request
TO his relatives to be buried in a cave in
his garden there, where he used to amuse
himself in his flower beds. The Home Sec
retary was asked whether from a sanitary
| point of view any objection would be taken
| by the authorities, and the reply left his
| family free TO comply with his last wish.
But, acting on medical advice, his tody will
be taken TO Liverpool and cremated and
the ashes returned to Llandudno in an urn
/ and quietly inferred in his garden cave.
| Lawson TAFT was the most powerful and
active of the minority of medical men who
have fought constantly against vivisection.
I He wrote TO one Of the medical journals
I only month ago:
Some day l shall have a tombstone put
over me and an inscription upon it. / want
only one thing recorded on 1t, and that tc
! the elect that he labored TO divert his
| profession from the blundering which has
| resulted from the performance of expert
ments on the subhuman groups of animal
life, in the hope that they would shed light
on the aberrant physiology OF the human
groups Such experiments never have
succeeded, and never can; and they have
as in the case OF Koch, Pasteur. and Lis
1 hut
| have covered our profession with ridi
Very few OF his colleagues, even wher
they shared his conclusions, sympathizet
with his sweeping denunciations. In hi;
| last public appearance he attacked tht
| cry Of the doctors that the whole ques.
tion can only be dealt with by medica
men, and that the laymen must stanC
aside. II was layman who had convert
| ed him absolutely to anti viyisectioI
views. OF the three phases, sentimental
religious, and utilitarian, II was the las
that appealed to him. All the world ough
TO be entitled to investigate its utility
Medical men were net a privileged priest
hood who could say TO the public. WI
assert this or that. and you must beliey
it." The days of that kind OF priestcraf
had gone forever. He admitted h
was not a psychologist, but he was place
by his profession and position as a judg
OF physiologists The latter made their ex
periments and asserted their conclusions
but they had TO come TO the Court o
Practitioners to determine whether thos
conclusions were valid and of use. II
pronounced them of no use. The so
called medical inspection CT vivisectiol
was a fraud. It ought to be done by
lawyer, or a business man, c. some on
wholly unconnected with the medical pro
fession. His words en- the so-called safe
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