Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-10
EUS.sfNfS k.2T TREASURES.
Thirty of Them Now at Bfanrwoo<
 Valued at Sl5O,00O

Valued at S15O,0OO.
 To speak of John Ruskins art treas. ures is to think of Turner The ex- amples by this master at Brentwood are not LOW so many as they once were, iD large part because of his gen. erous gifts to Oxford and Cambridge, to say nothing of the famous Loire series which, complete, he gave to the Oxford galleries. To the university towns he gave, for instance, several beautiful water colors of Venice, of the junction of tho Greta and the Tees. which he regarded as one of the very best of the Yorkshire series, the mag nificent "Richmond, Yorks." now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, and others. Again, instead of remaining in his possession, "The Slaver," given to him by his father about the time of his majority, is now In America. Even today, however, the thirty or so Tur- her water colors at Brentwood, be- side many sketches, each one chosen with view to some particular beauty. sr characteristic, constitute one of the finest collections of the kind owned by an individual. They enable us to follow the development of the artist from l792, when as a lad of IF he Sainted his own portrait, through his Eario1s significant phases, onward to the early forties, when he shaped some 3f the most wonder-provoklng and ex~ iuiste of his creations A value of something like f30,0 900 has been put gpon the assemblage by one who has recently been at Brentwood, but, in trGth, linked so closely as they are to Guskin's life-work, while they remain together they are invaluable. Twenty two years ago Mir. Ruskin exhibited his Turner's in Bond street. The cpl iogue to this fascinating notes is dated Brentwood, 10th May, 1878, and after ward comes this simple and beautifus tribute: Being my fathers birthday who, thct@-a as aforesaid, he sometimes would nvt give me this or that-syet gave me not only all these drawings. but Brantwood-and all else. e.'-Lon- 6on Letter. in New York Evening Post
 Whalo Dispurber.
 Last year the sardine fishery on the biscayan coasts was good deal spoilt by the presence of a large whale, which seemed to have got itself "cor- hered' in the wedge of the bay ot which the Bidassoa's estuary makes the apex. All the sea here, for some thing like 200 miles out, is shallow, so one can imagine the commotioD chat rather badly flustered whale would make on finding himself threat sned by stranding among the sardine population. Naturally enough the fishery did not prosper with suck large disturbing influence about. Bu. 1t is not a little singular that this year again, so far as the season has gone, little has been doing, and surely this cannot he occasioned by fear ot last years whale. But whatever the reason, the fact is too true that the sound of the lookout mans horn has been seldom heard (they post u mat on watch for sardines in the bay, whose duty it is to sound his horn on their appearance, 10 summon the fish qrmen to the boatsl, even though the ceremony of the "Inlerlo : los sar- linos" has taken place, with all it's ehll3isl pageantry, in all the Biscayap villages that the sardne fishery con- cerns. Luckily the Basques are not wholly dependent upon their fisher les; but, of course, their degree of sue cess makes a difference to thpm.. Ch.sago New6.