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cially constructed table desk. The useful
ness of the matter they contain will remain
sorely discounted until it has been reprinted
in couple of small octavos, fitted to be carried
into public gallery and there consulted with
perfect ease. But to want the work in that form
and to be willing, in that case, to forego the
illustrations-is not to undervalue the signifi-
canoe of the two huge volumes before us.
These, when once they have been got under con-
troll, so to say, seen to be 4 contribution of
very great Importance to the resources of the
student.
They reduce to order the chaos in which the
subject has hitherto rested, despite the Iabors of
various competent critics. Other hands have
done good work where one master or another
has been concerned but it left to Mr.. Beren-
son to survey the whole field, and, illuminating
most if not all of its dark corners. to make it
henceforth clear and practicable for every new
conner. His scheme is simple enough The text
which is confined to the first volume is divided
into twelve chapters, and the first of these we
are happy to say, has nothing of the formless
and generally superfluous introduction" about
it, On the contrary, Mr. Berenson plunges at
once into his subject. Diminishing Cimabue and
Giotto, in the absence of drawings by them
which he could regard as authentic he pro-
ceeds-after brief reference to a mediocre per-
Torrance by a mediocre artist" Taddeo Gaddi
as the sole relic of a Florentine OF the Trecento-
to a full analysis OF the drawings of Fra Angel
leo and BenoZzo Gozzoli. From these men he
turns to Uccello and the Polajuolo Verrocchio
and Lorenzo di Credi, Fra Fflippo and Botticell
ana divers others Leonardo has a chapter to
himself. ard 80 has Michael Angelo, the follow
ers and forgers Of the latter being separately
grouped. The chronological record is brought
TO a close with Pontormo and Rosso The cata-
logue raisonna occupies the bulk OF the second
volume running to nearly three thousand num-
hers; few pages OF additions and corrections
are given; there is a general index, and there IS
an index of places 1t will be seen that Mr..
BerensOn has placed what we may call the ma
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-16

ing or statue developed from it. The explana-
ton is found without much difficulty, though
distinctly varied remarks have been made upon
the subject by different authorities. Marietta
that giant among old French collectors put his
finger upon source of our pleasure in a
drawing by master, when he said that it gave
us an artists idea at it's first "eclosion'' This is
UNDERSTANDABLE. There is no charm like that of
the great artists spontaneous notation. in fresh
and vivid terms, of the inspiration which has
suddenly moved him. But this charm. which
is the same whether he picks I'D the pencil or
the brush, is combined with something Decul
larry penetrating when the former is the in
StruInent used. Mr.. BerensOn exhibits the point
with special force in what he has to saw about
BottlcellIs Dantesque Illustrations As ilIustra
lions, he grants, these drawings will to most
people, prove disappointing, since they are not
really illustrative at all. Their value CONSISTS
IN their being drawings by BotticeIH. not at all
III ther being Illustrations to Dante" and he
goes OH TO point out that the famous Florentine
Is potent in these designs because he vas
ABOVE everything master of the line in rpo,,o-
ment" - AAiO'e-
ne ne loVed TO make the line run and lean 70
MAKE II Whlrl and dance He was truIv araot
Wheh he had a theme which permiftaj ~ sIeoO
else OF this mastery. You will tiIe , eAer-
9or nIleze OF greater decorative beauty than &c
t'!1 49, 10y py the nudes leaping into the Pre-
toriaI Flames, as if these were tba ne tuIsa-
me FOUNTAIN OF Youth. while Virgil and Stti VI
d anu Dahte pass by, dscoursine; on the raIeti
o II the entire work is still to come Tba crown
s,,,ootb r yes ever drawn wave SOFTLY o,,ar =
nIaci6 meadow, wet with the waters Of Enn,
pldCiu stream. Behind the rare Ieaeo " Euhoe
af stems Beatrice and Dante, Win ene
Spberes ia are waited up gently to the biS6es
left unon me b EonTey In words the Impression
fanda~eet [equlre Dante, himself in his finoH.
Knot moments. or perhaps Shakesnsa,rlle st,
further go, movement and pattern can no
d,f,aron,I-- OF the last sentence will be found
tnaI- oppressed again and again in ~
book 1t is as linear language as en- IN TINS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-16
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1908.

Since Mr. WhiStler'S death his writings, al
most as much as his paintings and other works
of art, have been discussed in hundreds of
newspapers. In most cases they have been
treated approximately enough, yet too much
attention has been paid to their most obvious
qualities and far too little to one OF their
greatest merits Many of his ideas are of
high value. His wit is always a joy. But it is
surprising that there has not been more gen
eral recognition of Whistiers capacity for the
writing of good English. Poseur as he was
urOn innumerable occasions, he never posed in
his literary style. That will be found, on care
full scrutiny, to be remarkably free from the
affectation, nay, the preciosty, which might
very easily have been expected of him. For
one thing Whistler was not in the habit of
writing unless he had something to say. Then
he sought simply to make his meaning clear,
and he succeeded in his aim. Whstlerian
rassag e has an accent all its own, q neatneSs,
grace an artistic finish. But it never exceeds
the bounds of legitimate prose The pen was
u this man of genius what the brush was, an
instrument to be used with due regard for its
special character, and he handled both brush
and pen with the same precision and authority.
Mr. Ogier Rysden contributes to the Fort
nightly" some interesting notes on the Prize
IOem 1Ounded at OXlOrQ by Slr Roger NeHuI-
gate. At the end of the last century this prize
was awarded for the hundredth time. One
would think that the readers of the manuscripts
submitted should, among all the competitors
who have entered the lists, have found some
poets of mark, but the only winner of the
Newdigate mentioned by Mr.. Rysden who
gained high distinction as a poet is Matthew
Arnold, and he can hardly be said to have pro-
claimed his essential quality in the composition
with which he satisfied his Oxford judges. In
fact, the author Of this essay confesses that
scarcely a single poem of the whole series has
achieved any lasting celebrity" This is
puZzlng, considering that numbers of English
poets have done some Of their best work when
10 older than the average competitor for the
Newdigate. Mr.. Rysden cites Shelley's Queen
Nab" the "EndymiOn" of Keats, and points
out that both Wordsworth and Tennyson had
written to good purpose at what we may call
the Newdlgate age. Traversng the list of win
ners he finds that one became an artist and one
an ambassador, while seven entered journal
ism, sixteen became barristers and thirty-five
embraced ecclesiastical careers One doctor
figures in the list Francis Hawkins, who was
a physician to the royal family. Sixty-three
are now dead-twenty-seve of them being
commemOrated in the Dictionary of National
Biography and thrty-six are still living.
Among the whole nlnety-nine there have been
many writer's OF books. In fact Mr.. Rysden
states that no fewer than 91S volumes are to
be credited to them. Curiousy, while the
deaTth of poetic inspiration has been so marked
among these 'poets," they have written alto
gether 163 volumes Of verse, not including the
prize poems themselves.
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In these modern days few are the writers
who are content to do thing well and for the
rest keep silence. They must write about the
things that they dO-and land themselves in
abSurdty Here is Mr.. John Masefield the
author Of many excellent rhymes of sea life,
contributing a brief essay "On the Sea and
Sale to THE Academy and Literature" In
1t he proceeds, with that beautiful assurance
over which, in similar cases, we have so often
smiled, to plgeOnhOle one writer or another
"Of the men who have known the sea" he saws
who have looked into the water and seen
nhuman beauty, who have spelled out the
rlddled runeS upon the herring there are but
TWO whose words are of the spirit and not of
the lip. These are Herman Melville, q man of
great depth Of vision, but with an expression
uncertain in its beauty, a style tending in its
inspiration towards incOherence and Mr. JoseDb
Conrad, man Of lesser vision, but with bcluty
Ct craft like the delicate beauty of rare gems"
10 these names, Mr.. Masefield thinks might he
added that more glorious name of COIeridoe
but he finds no one else sufficiently pleasing to
him. unless it be an Australian, Mr. E. J Brady.
Why in the world should Mr. Masefield iDdulge
in these altogether SuperfuOuS remarks? Is he
really acquainted with the sea songs in English
literature? Perhaps. But whether he is or NOT
we fear that, like many an author or artist no
las committed himself to a theory, and can
see nothing In work which fails to meet its
conditions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-16

TO ELECTRA.
BY ROBERT HERRICK
dare not ask a kiss:
dare not beg a smile;
Lest having that or this,
1 might grow proud the while.
No, no. the utmost share
OF my desire shall be
Only to kiss that air
That lately kissed thee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-16
FLORENTINE ART.
It's History in the Dra7cings Of the
Masters.

THE DRAWINGS OF THE FLORENTINE
PAINTERS CLASSIFIED. CRITICISED AND
STUDIED AS DOCUMENTS IN THE HIS
TORY AND APPRECIATION OF TUSCAN
ART. With Copious Catalogue Raisonne BY
Bernhard oe ms R i Tive 200 Duton
Co.
For long time observers of Mr.. Berensons
activity as a writer Italian art have wished
that he might put something to his credit which
would have all the merits of his many essays
and few. if any, of their defects. They had
livelier hopes when it was announced that he
was at work upon exhaustive study of Flor
entine drawings and they must be satisfied now
that the results of that study have been pub
Iished in two massive volumes. The latter are,
by the way. far too massive. These heroic
folios, freighted with full page reproductions
printed on plate paper, are so heavy as to be al
most unmanageable without the aid of a spe-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-30

to the magazine nearest the street 10
fix the floor, and after the teams had
been loaded with the powder which
was in the magazine, it was discovered
that can of nitroglycerin, which was
stored in the magazine. was leaking.
Mr.. Goodwin picked up what he
thought was a jug of water and began
pouring it onto the nitroglycerin with
the idea of diluting it and washing it
up. AS soon as the flood from the jug
struck the floor he found that it was
nitric acid The floor at once began
to smoke. and when the men saw IT
they rushed from the building. but had
not gone ten feet when the explosion
occurred.
This magazine was therefore. the
first to go up, followed Immediately
by the gun-powder in the three wag-
ons, and several seconds later by the
second magazine. To those who
heard the crash. 1t seemed as il there
were two distinct explosions. with a
continuous roar between them. There
are, however, five holes in the ground,
which seems to clearly indicate five
explosions.
The entire catastrophe occupied the
space of scarcely five seconds, but in
that time the surrounding property was
swep. as if small volcano had brok-
en- forth in it's midst. Every house
within two hundred yards collapsed.
Trees were blown down, the grass
within hundred yards moved. while
bricks from the two magazines were
hurled far across the river and all over
the neighborhood.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-30
EXTEND WAR AGAlNsTk kELLoees
Union Machinists of Entire City to Re-
fuse Firms Work

Chicago, July 30.-A systematic plan
of warfare against the Kellogg Switch
board and Supply Company is being
mapped out by the steering committee
appointed last Sunday by the Chicago
Federation of Labor. The leaders deny
that spreading of the strike is con-
templated. but say that they intend to
adhere to the original scheme of wag-
ing a long drawn out contest, believing
this to be the best method of battle in
this instance.
The machinists are a. the head and
front of this plan, and yesterday served
rotice upon the concerns identified with
the Chicago Metal Trades Association
that they would have trouble If any of
them attempted to turn out work for
the Kellogg company. It was announced
at headquarters for the nachinists yes
terday that two concerns found doing
work for the strike-bound plant had
stopped it upon warning from the ma
chinists' business agents.
Union machinists in every shop in
the city have been ordered to refuse to
DO work for the Kellogg company. This
is only following the question of the
union relative to sympathetic strikes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-30
ON BOTTOM OF SEA.
Naval Officers at Newport Entertained
With Trip Under Water.

Newport, R. l., July 30.-A party OF
naval officers as guests of Captain
Lake, took luncheon on the bottom OF
the ocean inside the submarine torpedo
boat Protector. The boat remained on
the bottom an hour and fifteen minutes
and was submerged for an hour and
three quarters.
The luncheon was cooked inside the
boat while brisk gale was kicking up
a rough sea overhead.
To show the boats seaworthiness,
Captain Lake took the boat outside the
harbor, where the short, quick running
seas gave an opportunity to show what
the craft could do under varying con-
ditions.
In the morning the diving compart-
ment was operated and the bottom
door was opened. One of the crew then
undressed and passed out and came to
the surface to exemplify the method
of escape provided in case of the total
disablement of the boat.
Those in charge of the boat gave
a complete and convincing display of
the boats ability to run evenly at any
desired depth, and at one time it was
down forty eight feet, while at other
times it ran with only the end of the
omniscope few inches above water.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-30
BALLOONS MUST KEEP OFF.
Omaha Farmer Enioins Them from
Falling on His Land.


Omaha, Neb.. July 30 According to
temporary injunction issued in Judge
Dickinson's court, the big balloon that
is now making ascensions twice daily
from Courtland beach is restrained
from descending on the farm or prop
erty of Clause Neelsen, from destroying
his crops or frightening his live stock
Aerial navigation at Courtland beach
has annoyed Neelsen for two years.
When the balloon goes up the geogra
ply OF the vicinity is such that the big
canvas, if it escapes the lake, wild, nine
out of ten times. fall on Neelsen's farm.
Recently Neelsen hit on the plan of
charging 81 when the balloon owners
showed up to recover the canvas. When
they paid that sum promptly he raised
them to 81. On Monday he made
further raise to $50. This time the
owners of the balloon refused and Neel-
sen ordered them off the farm and
mounted guard over the balloon with a
shotgun. The aeronauts secured writ
of replevin, so Neelsen has secured a
temporary injunction.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-30
RACE TRACK MEN INDICTED.
rwenty-three 1ookmaksrs in Chicago
Under Arrest.

!. Chicago. July 80. Indictments
against twenty-three alleged boolrnak-
ers at the Washington Park and Haw-
thorne race tracks were voted by the
grand jury yesterday. The defendants
the charged with booknmaking and
keeping common gaming houses, while
the number of specific offenses against
each generally ranges from one to
three. while James OLeary is said to
have been made defendant in nine
charges. Charges under the third of
fense" law also were made against the
Halsted street saloonkseper.
The grand jury inquiry is said to-
have been precipitated by the recent
action of Justice X. Prindiville, who
gave jury trial to Steve L'Homme-
djeu on gaming charge after Assist
ant States Attorney Barnes had in-
formed him his jurisdiction extended
only to the preliminary examination.
I.Hommedieu was acquitted, and At
torney Robert E. Cantwell took the
matter to Mr.. Barnes and was allowed
to go direct to the grand jury with his
charges against the race track men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-30
ALL BID FOR NORMAL.
Fifteen Nebraska Towns Submit Com
native Bids and Offer Large Sums

E;ft.en Nebraska Towns Submit Conn
netitive Bids and Offer Large Sums
lincoln, Neb., July 30.-Late tues
day afternoon the State Board OF ECU
cation opened the lids for the new state
normal. There were fifteen towns IN
the race and the bids ranged from the
offer Of a, site made by the people OF
Ainsworth to the magnificent offer OF
s131 900 made by the people of Hast
ings, where enthusiasm runs rampant
in favor of the new normal schooi.
Central City leads in the race north OF
the Platte river with an offer OF site
and s32,50O in cash, guaranteed by the
three banks of that city. The result
of the bidding has been to show the
hands of the various competing towns,
but the probable action Of the board Is
left in the dark. altho there Is dispo-
sition to believe that there will be some
trouble ahead for the towns south OF
the Platte because of the evident dis
position to regard the new institution
as a North Platte plum. Kearney Of
fered a building worth $4,000 and
site, but no cash, while Aurora, just
south of Central City, made an offer
of $4,000 cash and site.
One very noticeable thing manifest
about the contest yesterday afternoon
was the fact that the towns were all
represented not only by their repre-
sentative citizens but by their most
wealthy men, Many of the members
of the delegations from the various
towns which crowded the office of the
superintendent were solid, substantial
bankers who guaranteed the fulfillment
of the promises made by the delega-
tions.
The towns from which bids were re-
ceived were Ainsworth, Alliance, Ord
Long Pine. Fairfield, Lexington, Kear-
ney, st. Paul, Central City, Hastings,
Holdredge and Broken Bow.
The members of the state board will
begin Wednesday morning to make
their tour Of the competing towns.
Fairfield will be the first town visited.
Thursday the board will so to Hast
ings, where 1t will meet with the warm
est reception imaginable according to
the reports. and on Friday Holdredge
will be visited. Then the board may
defer for some time the visit to the re-
naming towns.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-30

Those who served in the Cuban war
are beseiged by the agents OF the west
tern cattle companies for their papers
A few days ago one Of these young
men sold his right to a homestead FOR
$3.50, but this is the highest price that
has been paid, generally the price
being below $400. All the soldier does
is to make out his application in blank
and swear to the necessary papers, and
get his pay The agents turn these
evidences OF right to entry OF land
over to the big companies that are
gathering up land on the western
ranges and the land is thus made Sc
cure. For a time the business of Sc
curing soldiers widows rights was
fourishing but since recent rulings by
the department this has been broken
up. A few soldiers widows are going
to the government and taking up land
on an agreement as to occupation OF
the same until they are able TO prov
up. but the cattle companies lind
easier now to get the applications fror
soldiers and make what use they deslr
Of the same.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-30
CAUSED BY cARELEssNEss.
The Lowell Explosion Due to Fore
mans Mistake.

Lowell, July 30.-The magazines
which exploded yesterday We're
the property of the United States Car
fridge company Of this city. but for
tunately We're situated more than a
mile away from the factory itself. They
were built of brick, about ten feet
high, with rounded roof of CORFU
gated iron. They We're constructed
some thirty years ago. in what was
then a broad open field on the banks
OF the Concord river. During the last
decade small wooden dwelling houses
have gradually sprung up in the vi
cinity, crowding near and nearer with
fancied security to the two innocent
looking little buildings until they al
most completely surrounded them, ex-
cept on the river side, the nearest house
being scarcely fifty feet away.
One of the magazines was just with
in the roadside fence, while the other
was about 100 feet hehind it. near the
banks of the river Both magazines
ordinarily contained two or three tons
of gunpowder in tin kegs, each keg
being about eighteen inches high and
a foot in diameter.
The company has for some time been
the magazine nearest the street, and
yesterday morning eight men, three Of
them employees of the company, three
expressmen, and two carpenters, were
sept there with three large express
teams to take out the powder and mend
the floor. Two of the teams had been
loaded and the other was almost full,
when, at six minutes past o'clock,
the explosion occurred.
1t was long before the actual cause of
the explosion could be ascertained. 1t
was thought at first that every one
within a radius of fifty feet of the
magazine had been killed. but later
it was found that Clarendon Goodwin,
the foreman of the men who were
loading the powder on the teams, had
survived, together with one of his as
sistants, Amadee Boulanger and yes
terday afternoon the latter was seen
in the hospital.
He said that the men went down
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Milwaukee Wants keana.

Dubuque July 30.-A movement has
been started among the Catholic priests
in the vicinity of Fond du Lac, Wis, to
have the suffragan bishops Of the di-
0cese of Milwaukee send to Rome the
name Of Archbishop Keane of Dubuque
as the successor of the late Archbishop
KatZer of Milwaukee. A recent issue
of the Milwaukee Sentinel contains
dispatch from Fond du Lac in which it
is stated that the general sentiment
around there is in favor of asking the
vatican to name the Dubuque metro
politan as the successor of the late Mil
waukee archbishop. The dispatch fusg
ther stated that this same sentiment
exists thruout the archdiocese and thai
1t is more than likely that when the
suffragan bishops meet they will place
the name of Archbishop Keane at the
head of the list from which success
sor to Archbishop Katzer will be
chosen.
The announcement that there is a
desire to have the Dubuque metropoli-
tan succeed Archbishop Katzer comes
as a surprise to the clergy of the city.
They do not place much confidence
that such change would not be
promotion for Archbishop keane as the
archdiocese of Dubuque is larger and
equally as prominent as the archdio-
cese of Milwaukee, The only difference
is that the see city is larger.
The archdiocese of Milwaukee en-
braces all of Wisconsin and portion
of northern Michigan. Against that
the archdiocese of Dubuque includes
the diocese of Dubuque. Davenport,
Sioux City, Lincoln, Omaha and Chey-
enne