New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-26

comparison of an old master with a modern.
| One OF the illustrations is engraving Dy
! Timothy Cole Of the portrait OF young Prince
| Balthazar horseback. by velasquez' IN the
Prado at Madrid. Another is a half tone from
| the Portrait of a Lady, by Degas In hrs
Gardner's collection. The VelasQuez is one oA
the great paintings in the world, and tnoush
Mr.. Coles block does not do justice 10 as
textures the reproduction still proclalHs inc
brilliance of the Spanish master Now tie
Degas is a very different piece of WORK. yet ~
holds its own superbly beside the Velasquez-
In fact, this is one of those modern portralus'
like the Berlin" of Ingres. in the Louvre
which make the spectator realize that now and
then. in our own time, painter has arisen
with something of the blood of the OIymplahS
in his veins It happy idea OF Inc Zen
turv'' to make the work known 10 tile puOi'0
AT large. When we saw it in New-YorK some
time ago it was being exhibited to comparative
" few observers of artistic affairs
In .bs handsomely printed volume entitled
"cir William Henry Fowler" (The Macmillan
Con,nanvl Mr. Charles J. Cornish mas written
an excellent memoir of the late director Oh lio
Natural History Museum in London VINO vas
also president of the Royal Zoologicai oo0te''
With the scientific aspect of the narrative we
NAV deal at another time, noting now Simply
the chapter which relates to an eplsouo "
Flowers life OF interest to readers OF 4eliiiSo
In 1899 the naturalist visited the poet at ALI
worth where the Duke of Argyh was a.'o
guest Tennyson did not hesitate 10 IaiA va
suhiects outside his own field The FORMER
geological changes OF the world" wrote fIo"ei
IN his vife's notebook at the time, ana lhe SUE
cession and extinction of animal life ana eVotu
luton have great fascination LOT h4ni' "
was very anxious for my OPINIONS as " 80
Questions and their relation to peIleI III SS1
creation Of and providence in ruAhs' inc VIZ
He smoke very severely OF those who trleu
to shake religious faith in others by HFeEe4e"'
treatment of sacred subjects. But inc
subject which they both (the poet and the duke)
seemed TO feel most keenly. and to which they
constantly referred, was the political decaoehCe
of Mr.. Gladstone" Flower was shown phono-
graph sent by Edison to Aldworth in which were
reproduced several of Tennyson's shorter poems
..in q wonderful echo of the poets voice" The
record of the visit contains the following further
glimpses of the late laureate:
He read some of his new poems and then y I
ventured 10 ask whether he would not reao one et ~
of S the 01 DUKE of wellington and he seemed pleased
at the Gh4 oGS him 0 that had often read It to
children whose first ideas OF the duke OF WSILlns5
him He said. u hope you pronounce 1t Pf9P
erly-aIi the novels broad and Ions oaIneh'af-
was very upon the imPer in t1Seq
sic
and newspaper writers. Although generally rather
severe and depressed, complaining of old age ana
weakness and of the political and social state OF
the country, he often jocose In a grim way
The duke was upon some particular Diet lnVo!v'
ing occasional drinking OF a cup or not WatSI.
When an tea Tennyson offered him some ano me
duke said Not YET man Will bring II wheh tiie
fOh see; he always keeps you in hot water
Speaking of the Duke OF Wellington l ASKED MN
If he had known him personally, and he SAID that
he had never met him but once. at an evening
nartv and that the host offered 10 introduce hlmI
but that he declined. being, he said, very shy ana
thinking that the duke could not know VINO ne
-. 49, 49,. 1000 !,
brary large corner room looking TO the south
west and commanding a fine view. Then came the
promised reading of the Duke OF Wellington,
He reclined sideways the sofa, holding the book
up in his hand, near his face, with lamp oehlnd
AS he had been talking much during the DAY ana
was suffering somewhat from cough. Halarn
begged him not to read. and felt that ought not
was resolute. saying that he had promised me 70
do IT. and so he would. and he read II all through,
while the duke and I listened with the deepest
attention. Hallam left the room, because, he said
afterward II was painful to him to see his father
making such an eXertion. but II was satisfactory
TO find that he was none the worse for IT, and con-
tinued TO talk afterward with the greatest ANNA
ton. One interesting circumstance connected with
this reading that when he came TO the line
Who sold the truth tho hour.
he paused looked up. and said. "As afraid
Mr.. Gladstone is doing now.
Parker's bad beginning. How the Democratic can