The record-union., 1899-12-03

and initials, title and trial pages Tor
various works, specimens OF goioeI
blue type and leaves from the nrsl
and the last books printed at the
Kelmscott Press. 1t was during the
closing years of a busy lifetime, when
his interest in social questions had
waned, that this many sided man OF
genius found leisure for experimenting
with ink, paper and type, and for re-
storing the art, of printing and bind
ing books by handwork. Every book
lover who sees this exhibit Of his WORK
is impressed with this final proof OF
fertility of invention and refinement OF
taste.
The west and north galleries and the
corridors are filled with varied anu
interesting collection of handlcfall-
The large room contains cases OF PRINT
ed books, bindings, enamels ana Jew
elry, embroideries, enamelled glass ana
copper and silver work. The walls are
lined with embroideries. IeedleWorK'
fire and banner screens, tapestries ana
lace, altar frontals and ornaments ana
designs for wall papers. stained glass;
costumes and carpets. There. are panels
In plaster, bronze, copper and pottery,
electric wall lanterns and silver ana
bronze brackets: overmantels anu
portieres; enamel plaques and plates IN
repousses silver and a wide range OF
other objects, from a. case to nolu
Spencer's .'Faerie Queene" to designs
for the end papers of children's picture
books. In the north gallery there are
oak cabinets and chairs; dressers, with
porridge bowls and copper jugs; frames
for mirrors and pictures; carpets, tap
estries and silk hangings; altar and
professional crosses, and ornamental
potteries, metal work and fabrics with
out end. In the central hall there are
lead tubs, garden gates, red luster
vases, sundials, painted tiles, silver
tankards, eagle lecterns, aims boxes,
brass door knobs, a grand piano ana
a great array of art work OF every
kind.
This vigorous society consists OF a
hundred art workers with a wide cir
cult of industrial activities. Waiter
Crane is the President, and among the
members are Sir w. B. Richmond, Hal
sey Ricardo, w. r. Lethaby, H.: VIII
son, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Miss
May Morris. A series of lectures will
be delivered during the winter in the
New Gallery on the arts and crafts
movement the pre-Raphaelite school
in relation to the revival of design and
handicraft, guilds, pageantry and the
masque, the Gothic revival and Will
lam Morris. 1t is a society which has
taken up earnestly that great crafts
mans work of reforming, directing and
refining English taste in design and
color This exhibition is superior to
the last one in technical skill and orig
inal power 1t clearly indicates that
while London is not yet abreast with
Paris as an art workers school and
center it has outstripped Munich and
Antwerp in every branch of decora-
tive are.
New York Post: Messrs. Curtis q
Cameron Of Boston. whose "Copiey
Prints reproducing the principal muir
al paintings in this country and notable
paintings publicly and privately owned
in America, have become established
in popular appreciation, announce a
new series: 1.-THE Durer Prints" A
very attractive little catalogue sets
forth the purpose of this new depart
ure, which is to reproduce the master
pieces of art in foreign galleries by a
process worthy of the great engraver
after whom they are named" The list
at present includes: A child series, an
angel series, a Madonna series, a Rem
brandt portrait series, a peasant life
series. They are in rich brownish
monochrome on etching paper, the size
of the sheet being 10x13 inches and Of
the print, approximately, SKI inches.
The recent declaration of leading
official Of the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston to the effect that the purpose of
the institution is amusement and not
education, has provoked a tempest of
controversy there. The Boston Her
ald'' thus joins in: Unless the senti-
ment is disavowed by the responsible
authorities of the museum, it is liable
to work unspeakable harm to the in
terests of an institution in which Bos-
| ton takes the greatest pride, and which
has an important bearing on the ma
terial, as well as asthetic and intellec-
tua1 interests Of the New England me-
tropolfs The very seal ofEhe museum
symbolizing the trinity Of Art, Indus
try, Education, and bearing that le-
gend, should be sufficient to show that
its purpose is quite the contrary of
that declared by the curator Were the
function Of the museum purely one of
amusement there might be no need at
all for arrangement in separate gal
leries and departments, according to
periods, schools and Individual coIIec-
tons; no need for catalogues; no ex-
cuse for the presence of the unrivalled
Morse collection of japanese pottery.
SO thorough in it's scientific formation
and classification. The main thing
would be to bring together in groups
all the paintings, sculpture, draperies.
orlc-a-brac, ETC., with a view to effect
I've compositions. 'Jimcrackery.' how
ever, is distracting enough in a domes-
TIC parlor, and 1t is a question as to
now much of it on museum scale the
pubic could stand without an alarm
ing increase in the percentage of the
insanei"
He Married Himself.
John 9. Thomason, ~ years of age.
of SIM, -,