Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-14


rooms are light and airy and overcrowdlng
is avoided by every tenant being compelled
to enter into an agreement not to allow
more than two persons to sleep IN one
room The playground for the children Is
large. and the small garden will be kept in
order by the councils workmen. But or
the 5000 occupants there must be many
signing for the cottage they remember in
the country.
Show Sunday Neglected.
Last Sunday was show Sunday for out
siders. For the benefit of the uninitiated,
let me explain that show Sunday is the
day on which artists invite their friends
to come to their studios to see the pictures
which they intend sending to the Royal
Academy. Outsiders, of course, are those
who are not R.A.s and A.R.A-s. These
latter have their own special show days a
week later. The glory of show Sunday,
however, is a thing of the past. Time was
when it was a society function, which was
made doubly, nay, trebly, attractive py d
dish of BohemianiSm and spice or SAP
batarianiSm and many a picture was sofa
in the studios The great picture-buying
period, however, is over, and many artists
no longer keep the day. The artistic nelgh-
borhoods of kensington, Holland Park. ST.
Johns Wood and Chelsea did not present a
busy aspect today, but a certain amount Oh
visiting was done. A few people examined
pictures, but the majority-especially the
ladies-tattled over tea in the drawing
rooms.
Several notable changes in artistic Lon
don will take place during the year. The
Egyptian Hall is coming down, and this
will leave the New English Art Club home
less The International Society of Painters.
Gravers and Sculptors will occupy the new
gallery in the winter which means that
there will be no exhibition this year by the
Society of Portrait Painters.
OF several private views which are now
$50 IDe% iray, fol
gallery. Here there have been brought to-
gether fOrty-two water color drawings by
Mr.. c. ]. Lauder. member of the Royal
Scottish Water Color Society. whose gen.
eral title, Venice Before the Campanile
Fell indicates their scope. Familiar fea-
lures of the enchanted city and its en-
virons are again seem The great COlleoni
statue, the always favored AbaZzia of San
Gregorio, veritable hive of artists; Tor
cello as observed from Burano, the Rialto,
the Salute, the proud Lion of st. ark's, the
doves Of the piazza, idle fishing boats on
the lagoon-it is hardly necessary to do
more than name these subjects in order to
convey an impression of LADDERS freely
rendered drawings, which are well known
in Scotland.
At Leighton House the development of
Mr.. G. F. Watts art may be traced onward
from 1896 to last year in a loan collection
which consists of fifty examples. At the
Ryder gallery are a number of paintings
and studies-landscapes marines, etc.-by
Mr.. Alex. Mclean, r. B. A., while old Lon
don drawings and pictures by Mr. H. c.
Clifford are the attraction at the STAFFORD
gallery, Bond street The exhibits of Mr..
F. F. Foottet have for some time been a
feature in Suffolk street. Now he is hold
ing one-man show at the Bruton gallery
Blake Collection Sold.
The fine collection of the productions of
William Blake, the property of the Earl
of Crewe, formed by his lordship's father.
the late Lord Houghton, was disposed of
at Sotherby's this afternoon, and some
cases reached remarkable prices Blake's
Inventions to the Book of job" indeed
realized the highest price ever paid for a.
book-the $4,000 which Mr.. Quaritch had to
bid for it before he silenced the opposition
of Mr.. A. Jackson. being f615 more than
the highest bid hitherto recorded at Soth-
erby's: The record till now has been the
bid Of f4,9s5 for the Codex Psalmorum
from the Lyston Grange collection, about
twelve years ago.
Blakes Inventions to the Book of Job
included the twenty-one original designs and
the twenty-five proof engravingS, of which
Gilchrist wrote: lone of the last, If not
the very last work, bought by Mr. Butts
of Blake was the original series of water
color drawings or inventions for the Book
of Job, the longest and most important
series executed since The Grave in 1906
still loftier in theme, nobler in achieve
ment, most original and characteristic Of
all his productions. This set of drawings
to Job has passed from Mr., Butts son into
the possession of Mr.. Moncton Mines
Uord HoughtonC
The next highest price of the day was
f1,96O for THE Original Inventions for
Millions 'L'ANegro and II Penseroso,' for
series Of twelve beautiful drawings in COL
ors, with the text of the poems and ex-
plantations Of the designs in manuscript
which it Is believed have never been pub
lished. The original edition of 1.-The Book
of UriZen'' was sold for f307. 1.-THE Songs
of Innocence and Experience. Showing the
Two Contrary States of the Human Soul"
fell for 600 to Mr. Quaritch, as did many
prising sixteen plates and frontspiece. Of
America; A Prophecy" brought f295, and
for 1.-The Marriage of Heaven and He'll
ego was obtained. The eighteen lots real
lied 919,7765.
National Statue to Gladstone.
The public had an opportunity yesterday
of viewing the national statue to Mr.. Glad
stone, which has been placed in the Abbey
not far from the spot where the statesman
was laid to rest. The statue, which Is the
work of Mr.. Brock, R. A, appears to have
been placed in position last Friday, and
there was no formal unwilling ceremony.
Indeed the arrangements were kept so
quiet that very few who attended divine
service at the Abbey on Sunday appear to
have noticed the statue. The statue stands
in close proximity to that of Lord Beacons-
field the two great rival politicians stand
ing side by side the statue of the late Wis.,
count Peel being on the left hand of that
which has been erected to the Grand Old
Man" Mr.. Brock has depicted Mr. Glad
stone in the gown of D. c. L. of Oxford
University and with face slightly averted.
L. II. MOORE.