New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-08
LONDON NOTES.
Historic Houses Water COT
ors-Ne1rspqpers for WomeH.
London. November =.

America win apureciate This is the idehtlh-
cation OF historic houses where famous men
have lived The Society OF Arts attached
memorial tablets to thirty-fve Of these hteIaI!
landmarks but this work has been neglected.
during recent years. The metropolitan leglsia-
tors have made a modest Appropriation TOT 'he
-. and the first Of the new series Of plates
,,,e baen fastened over the porch Of Holly Loose'
r,.-nn5en Hin with inscription. encircIeo oy
-. v-raa+b I'm white on an ultramarine back
Ground. recording the fact that Lord Macaulay
sfe5 there The historian lodged in Clarges-st-
in 7S3S upon his return from India, and Tor
fifteen years he occupied chambers in 'he Al
hary. where the famous history was written.
The Albany has been & storehouse OF literary
"reminiscences. for Lord Byron ana Lord LyIIoh
had ia turn the same chambers and George
Canning and Lord clyde also lived there holy
To5re was the proper house TO be marked with
a memorial tablet for it vas Lord Macaulay's
last home. and he died suddenly OF heart failure
- he library while he was reading install
49, - Tl,sol,s-sv's Philip IN The Cornhill"
T.7-s Rosebery. who made one Of his fascinating
s-ee-bfe Al the unveiling Of the simple tablet.
recalled the historians Sunday dinners with
..s. ,-o,conforaist fllet Of veal and also the
great mans amazing test Of memory in learning
the LIST Of the peerase by heart; but he
81 2 loss 20 explain the old-time uses Of the
large ballroom, WneTe me guests or the county
Council mad assembled The ballroom was, OF
course. Of later construction Holly Lodge it
self stands fin a lane at the top Of Campden
HI. and IS protected from obtrusive public in
spection by high wall and formidable gates.
Lord Rosebery in his felicttous speech. raised
q laugh at his own expense by recalling his habit
~ pointing out a residence in Berkeley Square
as The home OF the second Pitt. and his suisse
oue1t discovery that the numbers had been
changed and that he had been wasting sympa-
thy and sentiment upon the wrong house. That
was neat method Of enforcing the utility Of
the Councils labors in Identifying lite-ary land
marks. There IS no uncertainty respecting the
next house which is 10 receive a memorial
tablet II is the house in whitehall Gardens
where S.r Robert Peel died after falling from his
horse 0r Constitution Hill The library where
be drew his last breath can stil be pointed out;
hut The house itself has been transformed and
enlarged during the last year for the use Of the
agents az the crown colonies The adjoin-
tug house in Whitehall Gardens was Mr.. Dis
raelTs home. where 'Lothair' was written: Ut
this is not 70 he marked with tablet since
the house in Theo5ald's Road. No, %. where
he was born. has been preferred by the Council
Two u the Dickens houses are 10 be singled
olIr for civic rernembrance-the forlorn brick
house No y Doughty-st.. where the novelist
lived q year after his marriage and where he
finished .'Pickwick Papers" and wrote oliver
Twist" ard Nicholas Nickleby." and the com
Portable residence No I Devonshire Terrace,
where Bleak House" David CopperheId" and
half dozen other books were produced. The
house in Great Portland-st No 122 where
James Boswell died is also 10 be commemo-
rated and tablets are 10 be placed IN front Of
80. Is Devoushlre-st. the home Of Sir John
IEe-scheI and Al No y Clarges-st- where the
eccentric Edmund kean lived In Wimpole-st
where Elizabeth Barrett Browning consented 10
marry Robert Browning. and where WiIkie Col
IEs died. tablet is 10 be placed in front Of
no 81. the home Of the historian Henry Hal
lam and In Meuoriam'' can well be inscribed
upon f. for Arthur Henry HaIlan was living
there when he was studying law at the Inner
Temple, and it was there that his friends
Gladstone and Tennyson saw him last in the
bloom Of his youth and promise.
The best traditions Of English water color
painting are not forgotten at the gallery Of
The Royal Society, in East Pail Mall There
are painters in this group who are not ashamed
% initiate Turner, and, while they are a long
way behind him, their work is nlumined with
Imagination and sPlendorE Of light and color
Mr Albert Goodwin, who lives on the beautiful
North Devon coast, yet wanders constantly over
The face Of the earth in his sketching tours, is
the most successful OF the Turneresque painters
il The winter exhibition Under his hand
Venice is rranshgured by blue twilight into
dreauland, and the citadel al Cairo is trans
formed into a palace Of ivory and set against
a tropical blue sky; and in the wild poppy fields
near Winchester he kindles a wonderful blaze
NJ color under murky sky. and IN his We
suvius" the mountains fire from crest
10 base. i M. Colin b Phillip with his blends
% cold blues and grays in Loeb Lomond after
The Rain" has not succeeded like Turner in
taking the mystery out Of the mists. Mr.. Robert
Little, III Sunrise or the Tiber," has dignihed a
classical subject with poetic feeling and afffu-
enc= Of Imagination, and Miss BIontaIba makes
use Of the great masters yeIlows and ivory
grays in her Venetian drawings of the Giudeca
snd The Dose's Palace. The old traditions of
The English school are honored also in the pas
iora-s q sir Ernest waterlow and in the ad-
mirat-y balanced compositions Of Nj r.
lhorne Waite. Richmond Yorkshire" is the
uos- preteutiCus OF Mr.. Yates drawings, with
ne castle ia the distance, the river in the
centre and trees and meadows in the fore
ground; but his "Aysgarth7 is in closer accord
win The old order Of water color painting, the
loaHLng river in the centre being a natural
locus for rejecting the light OF a broad. mUrky
say and the gliuts OF color in the grazing COWS
and the costumes C the saunterers lighting up
1e yerdant banks Mr. Napier Henry Is also
marine painter OF the old school. with a
-a-s-t tor inlparring movement not only TO the
waves but 10 The hsherfoIk in his dramas OF the
on the Grabbing Ground" and the Haunt
Is Sea Birds" are alike excellent in water
ling and one embodies the pathos OF
q HE sea anu ''ie o1--1' '"7
rea-.- PAINTERS Of Tie Royal Academy are well
as.,.-sa IN this water color exhibition. In
-Oa 10 Sir Ernest vvata-lovv,s mastery