The record-union., 1899-07-23

sent, he had resumed his every day
practice of sketching. This particular
design shows well with what ease it
has been blocked in. Indeed, what was
said above relative to Victor Hugo's
bolder and freer form of expression in
literature, dating from the first years
of his exile, can also be said about his
artistic endeavors. The state of his
mind exerted its influence over every
manifestation of his thought All there
was of timidity in his early drawings
had entirely disappeared. We cannot
quite say that there was in these draw
ings the sureness of professional art
list; that would be saying too much, for
Victor Hugo drew very much after the
fashion of children, who smear a. tree,
when dissatisfied with it, into cloud
He made copious use of tinted water
in fact, of anything that was at hand,
were it a remnant of coffee left in his
cup, so his drawings often eliminated
in something quite different from what
he intended at first. But for all that,
he proceeded with the splendid care
less of man more practiced than he
was in reality, and his amateurship
was characterized by such dash that
it frequently gives us the illusion of
mastery"
An interesting experiment will short
ly be made in London when the Art
Workers Guild will give a masque of
the fashion which used to be SO popular
with our forefathers. The performance
will take place in the Guildhall, and
many distinguished persons are to be
present. A London newspaper says:
THE piece is entitled 'Beauty's Awak-
ening; a Masque of Winter and of
Spring. and is the work of c. Harrison
Townsend. 1t consists of a prologue.
wherein Time himself appears, and six
scenes, named respectively, The Sleep
The Quest The Rally of the Demons
The Vision,' The Awakening and The
Triumph The main theme is founded
on the old folk tale of The Sleeping
Beauty and possesses an allegoricaE
application in the revival of the arts
in our own time. Once more we are
shown the old but ever new battle be-
tween the forces of Good and Evil,
while in the fourth scene is introduced
a procession of Fair Cities of the past,
supposed to belong to the realm of
Beauty. This leads UP to the entrance
of London, which. although redeemed
in the end, is represented as a victim
Of certain maleficent demons. To them
is assigned scene in a rather remark
able dance, in charming contrast to
which is a ballet of Forest Leaves, per-
formed by children. The authors of the
lyrics all belong to the guild, as archi-
tects, painters or designers"
London Chronicle: very eccentric
old man was buried at Pere la Chaise
the other day. He was known to al
most every celebrated painter in Paris,
during the last half century, as Pere
Jacquette. For many years he had
kept small bric-a-brac shop in the
Rue du Sentier, where he had amassed
considerable wealth by rather singular
means. He had somehow or other con-
trived to form the acquaintance of Co
rot, Jongkind, Boudin, Fortuny, and
many others equally famous, when they
were quite unknown. and obtained from
them in return for small loans of
money a great number of their early
works. which he subsequently sold for
immense prices.
There. is only one blue flame and that
is the STANDARD Wickless." Burns
either coal oil or gasoline Holbrook,
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For medicinal purposes drink Glen
brook sour mash whisky. Theo.
Blauth, 407 K street. Tel. 297.