Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-01-26

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moonlight scene, is one and the same. 4
The subjects Of his collection this week
are chosen from English, Dutch and
successful aspect Of the exhibition Is
general public accepts what Mr. Smith
men, possibly more serious and artistic,
have their pictures returned to their
studios. 4
/ stopped to replace fallen log on
the hearth and the door opened and In
came breezy woman friend, always
full OF gossip of the world. The kind
of friend who comes in with u
feather-dustcr OF good-fcliowship and
brushes away all those cobwebs that
have gathered ON the horizon of our
hearts vision when We are left too
much to ourselves.
'fs'Oh III have Just been to hear Sauer,
and you, stupid, dull-thinking blue
stocking have been sitting here alone
dreaming.
"Will he be of the eiectp''
Z Certes, machere, ull New York is
wild over him, tho public like him
and Reginald DeKoven has put the
stamp Of approval on him. He is q
great artist, thoroughly legitimate and
refined In his methods. He is not us
great. as Paderewski, but he is the
next high-class player. He has q per.
sonality quite aside from his hair.
And his hair--why do all great
musicians indulge in this oxtra-
ordinary hirsute adornmentY His hair
is redundent and picturesque and
dances about at crucial moment In o
manner most engaging. 1t will prob
ably have its votaries, and the silly
society girl begging for locks of il will
enable Sauer to dispense with tonsorial
bills. People who know tell me his
technique is uncommonly fine; that
his pianoissimo effects are n specially
and are marvellous in their fairy deli
cacy. Piano playing has been brought
to such pitch in these days that 1t
takes an artist Of uncommon capacity
to make any Impression at all, and
that Sauer has made an impression
proves him at onco an artist"
By-the-by, my dear, you know
Clement Scott, who has for SO many
years agitated dramatic circles with
this sarcastic tipped pen as dramatic
critic Of the Daily Telegraph in
London. He has left the paper on
which he worked for 80 years and is
devoting himself to writing the history
| OF the English stage during the last Az
| years. Scott Is clever fellow, and
after he is laid under the sod and
| people have forgotten his opinions OF
| this and that historionic celebrity, his
| Lays and Lyrics will be remembered.
| In this country they are out in a cheap
| edition, the Routledge pocket library.
There pathos and exquisite touches OF
sentiment appeal to all hearts. !
wonder how any people, hearing 20,
Promise Me- know that he wrote il
and sent it to Mary Asquith, who
afterwards became his wife. "The
Garden Of Sleep" is another exquisite
song of his. In more serious vein is
"A Tale Of the Tenth Hussar."
What are you readingg
| am simply CHANGING over Jerome's
"Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow y
for / see the critics HAYS treated ii
very badly. ! am inclined to like It,,
| though they do call it frothy. They
complain that there is no raison d'etre
| for its being written; that jerome
| Ctlnlpg his light faDCiaS ON the Dubli(
very much as If fiinaipe them into 4
| waste basket i don't see why the,
are so hard on it. 1t has no other ain
than the name applies. but this
fsIdle Fellow shows in his .sSeconc
Thpughts'' that he has absorbed som'
OF the truths Of life and he sees /,
| pathetic humor in it's hollow side
The critic who condemns this as trash
will probably laud some poor attempt
Of q love story. 1t reminds me of the
reprimand of a professor to his pupi
for using the word .'ain't:" "Ain't
How,often am / to tell you amt AIM
word?" ~
sGl Nl
Come. sit here with me by the fire
and viii brew YOU n cum Of nv hes
ian while we look over these two nav
volumes iust issued from Scrjbners
Henry Cabot Lodge's ssStorv of n,
Reyoiution.n You SEQ MI. Lodg,
dedioates his work "To the Army ant
NAVY Of tbe United States. Victora q
Manila. Santiago and Porto Rico
worthy successors of the soldiers ant
Washinpton. won American Independ
ence." AS one always expects of
good story-teller, Mr.. Lodge ha
colored this history with his own FER
sonality, and anyone interested il