New-York tribune., 1900-05-13

war has thrown shadow even over Court fes
tivities. and many ladies are forced to be
content to look stately in mourning. Lady
Chesterfield. Lady Helen Vincent and Lady
Rivers Wilson are described the best dressed
women at the Drawing Room. There were
numerous debutantes. The funeral Of the Duke
OF Argyll occurred the same day, and conse-
quently the military bands were silent in the
palace yards
The Queen has returned TO Windsor this af-
ternoon. receiving warm greeting from the
throngs Of spectators in the streets and leaving
the Princess of Wales TO conduct the second
Drawing Room on Monday. The dinner at the
French Hospital is the only important banquet
tonight the Australian delegates being allowed
to have a day off in order to visit Warwick
Castle
Royalties will be busy next week laying cor
nerstones and visiting hospitals and the ROYAL
Military Tournament will come on with a UNIQUE
pageant entitled Defence Not Defiance" and
designed to illustrate the critical periods of the
volunteer movement of 179s 1860 and the pres
ent day The gun crew from the Powerful, with
big bore from Ladysmith will be the patriotic
attraction
Lord Croner's niece. who will marry Lord
Granville. has come from Cairo where she has
been passing the winter, and becomes at once
the most interesting figure in London society.
The two days' sale of the Peel heiriooms has
been attended at WilIis's rooms by a large as
semblage of fashionable people and connoisseurs
of art. The receipts aggregate more than S312-
500. SO that Lady Peel will be certain TO get
her marriage settlement this time. even If the
expenses of the lawyers have been very heavy in
conducting the prolonged litigation. The prices
high. except for engravings. The auctioneer
made appeal to the English millionaires to
purchase the famous pair of Van Dycks and pre-
vent their shipment to America, by presenting
them to the nation. This pair Of Genoese por-
traits, painted during Van Dycks first journey
to Italy, brought the remarkable price of S24-
30, or more than twelve times as much as Sir
Robert Peel paid for them The purchaser
Mr. Macleod, a Scotchman and the overrated
portraits will remain in the United Kingdom.
All the pictures in the collection were sold at
high prices. especially works by Collins. Hopp-
ner. Jan Steen and Muready The portrait Of
Marie Antolnette attributed Greuze brought
1,Joo guineas Nell Gwynne had belated tr-
umph when her portrait was raised above the
red screen. for the spectators were touched by
her pretty face and applauded heartily. This
and other works by Sir Peter Lely brought ex-
oeptionally high prices. and even poor lot by
Sir Joshua Reynolds and Gainsborough's dull
portrait of Blackstone were eagerly competed
for. Haydons Napoleon al st. Helena" which
ode. brought 400 guineas.
Statuary less in demand than pictures
but Chantry's bust of Sir Walter Scott
manded remarkable price. Chippendale tables
and French and Italian bronzes eagerly
competed for at high prices, and a pair OF
Louis VI candelabra, which saved from
destruction when the Tuileries sacked
brought $4,000. Peeis judgment as an econo-
mist was completely vindcated by this sale and
dealers will have large stocks to unload upon
American milonaires.
Christie's auction also have been
thronged during the week. One of the most re-
markable treasures sold was a set of panels of
Brussels tapestry. by Urban Leyniers, with
scenes after Teners. These tapestries from old
Holland were sold for 2,200 guineas.
Nine. EIeanora Duse has appeared at the
Lyceum Theatre in Sudermann's "Magda,' with
fairly good support, and menaces the public
with a speedy revival of The Second Mrs
Tanquery.' The theatres doing fair bust
ness but with few exceptions not crowded.
Mr.. Beerbohm Tree has announced the date for
the production of rip Van Wrinkle" with a
splendid setting of the Catskill Mountain DRAMA
and viii deliver lecture oxford Shake
speare and the Modern Stage"
Mr.. Hall Caine has returned from Rome after
a winters residence there. but has not COM
pleted either the book or the play upon which
he is working. He hopes finish the work
during another six months residence in Rome.
Sir Walter Besant has explained the motives
Of his Atlantic Union at the dinner at the Au-
thors' Club, but has not convinced Americans
living in London that he has adopted the best
method of promoting good feeling between the
two countries He has formed a council, head
ed by several lords, for increasing the social
privileges Of American travellers in England
for opening houses and providing entertainment
for them and enabling them to places of
historical interest in the United Kingdom. 1t is
not probable that American visitors will like
the idea of the esta bshment of II clearing house
for social introductions and courtesies. They
will prefer to England in their own way
and present letters of introduction of their own
instead Of appearing before the Atlantic Union
as social mendcants. Mr. Andrew Carnegie
has run through London on his way to Scot
land, but not many Americans of note have
yet arrived.
Mr.. Ritchie has excited the Indignation of
wheelmen by the GOODNESS with which he re-
ceived a deputation armed with complaints
against the railway service.
The motor car tour of one thousand miles will
be brought to close tonight NF
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