Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-20

GREAT PICTURES: as Seen and Described 10y
Esther singleton author of ''Turrets. Towers
and Temples, translator Of The Music Drama Maaa
& Company. Washington: William Ballantyne
& Sens.
Art is largely matter of personal I'M
preston. In the degree that the mind OF
the observer is cultivated to a state OF APP
probation 1t is possible that great paint
ing may be realized by the beholder at The
full measure of the artists meaning 1t Is
a happy thought to present the personal
interpretations placed upon the world
great pictures by the worlds famous
writer's Thus is afforded A multltuoe Oh
art views and impressions which In then-
selves demonstrate the individuallsm Oh arr
and the fact that the point of view Is all
| in all The compiler has not sought 20
make a selection of the greatest pictures in
| the world but rather to bring tosether
those that have produced powerful I'M
preston upon great minds, Whlch Is per
| hans as reliable a standard Of selection as
| any other. 1t is in keeping with the hlsn-
est ideals that such names as Michaei An
CELLO Raphael, Rubens, Holbein, 1ltlan'
Rembrandt da Vinci. Constable. Murlllo
Rosetti. Hogarth, Durer, Turner and Reyn-
olds should in this manner be associateu
with such other names as Gauuer, Pater'
Ruskin Dumas Thackeray. Charles Lamp,
Swinburne, Shelley and Goethe.
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| PORTLAND CHASE; BY Aioett c nnS,nTII
| Hart. Boston: Honghton. Mititn company
Washington: VIM. Ballantyne sons
The present biographer was led to his
task largely by the discovery that there
was no complete and satisfactory record Of
| this great mans career. None of the three
biographies extant was acceptable from the
broad point of view of accurate perspective
| T. T. Trowbridge's 1.-The Ferry Boy and the
| Financier' was romantic and was really in
| tended as campaign document. Wardens
Life is thought to be uncritical and I'M
| discriminating. The best biography, that
| of Schuckers. while acceptable in all other
respects, does not contain reference TO
valuable documents which have latterly
come to light and bear with Importance
upon Mr.. Chases career. Consequently Ar.
Hart seeks to present a work which shall
utilize all of the materials of the three
works mentioned, while digesting Il mass
of letters and diaries to which he has been
given access by members of Mr.. ,Chase's
family. He intends that his work shall be
accepted as a brief history of three distinct
epochs of American history-the western
political anti-slavery movement, the imam
cial measures of the civil war and tie
process of judicial reconstruction-as seen
through the activity of the anti-slavefy
leader, the fnancier and the jurist.
COLOR N PAINTING. SCULPTURE AND AR
CHITECTURE; Essay in Comparative Aes
professor Of aesthetics in Princeton University.
author Of Art in Theory SC. New York: q.
P. Putnam's Sons Washington: Woodward Il
Lothrop.
Prof Raymond has devoted many years
to a close study of comparative aesthetics
and is thoroughly qualified to deduce the
principles of proportion as exemplified in
art and nature. This volume reveals a
tendency in these times to refine the ex-
ternals of life, to seek the somewhat neg
lected ideals of the ancients and to combine
them with the wonderful advances of the
present to the end of a more perfect life
than the world has ever known. Such a
result must flow from a diligent contem-
plation of the essentials of proportion and
harmony, in sculpture. painting. architec-
ture, music and literature. Prof. Raymond
holds that the vital factors Of harmony are
everywhere required to produce perfect re-
suits. When they are ignored or distorted
the result is ia Sc.
SEARCH LIGHT LETTERS. BY Robert Grant.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Washing
ton: Brentano's.
These breezy, sensible letters are divided
into four parts. those to a young man or
woman in search of the IDEAL to a modern
woman with social ambitions. to young
man wishing to be American, and to a
political optimist. They are, however. in
terestfng to very many others The advice
offered is all good, and If followed would
produce excellent results In this busy world,
which too seldom has time to consider the
niceties of life. There is no attempt at dog
matte preaching. 1t is rather the direction
of a flood of "search-light' common sense
to bear upon some of the commonest emer- !
gencies of life. Robert Grant is in this enter
prise the symbol Of a sturdy citizenship
which seeks the plane of right living with
out ostentation or insincerity.
KATE FIEIp; Record. By Lillian Whiting. |
Rrow 4
Kate Fields life was filled with romantic, |
pleasant and tragic influences. She was at
one time one of the widest-known women |
of the time. Her lines of activity were in |
Vulnerable Latterly they concentrated in |
her Washington" which afforded her an |
excellent medium for the dissemination of |
her pronounced views and her highly Gull |
tivated literary and artistic tastes, Miss |
Whiting, who was one of her most wor-
shipful friends. seeks in this volume TO per-
petuate some of Miss Fields thoughts and |
every sense worthy the subject, which ap-
peals to the interest of a very wide circle /
OF American and European readers. |
IN CASE OF NEED THESE MAY CONE HANDY. |
Book of Pictorial and Versifed Admonition
By Ralph sergengren. Boston, Small. May
nard Company.
There is enough wit in the pictures and 1
the verse of this nonsense book to save il /
from failure. 1t is a series of suggestions /
as to what to do in certain emergencies
such as meeting robbers at night a run
away thug. being found by a mos QUITO /
falling in the sea, meeting a savage beast
falling in love. seeing people off at the L
train, being caught by a confiagration and