The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23

public school. The Advertiser has lately published a strong editorial ad- vocating such movement. The South Is cursed with amateur house. keepers and inefficient cooks and poor household service. We need missiona- ries to teach the gospel of labor and responsibility of the woman at the head of the house. see here con stantly the most unique labor saving devices. I see things done cas- fly that we do with the utmost difh- oulty. II see household arrangements and conveniences that would save our housekeepers many a weay step. Let our girls be taught all this from their youth up. If they are able to hire many servants, well and good, they can in their turn become teachers and spread blessing afar. l think wealth and breadth of culture should mean that every nation of earth lend us the best they have. Best of poems, best of books, best of music, art, cookery, household and domestic science. educa- tive progress-best of all should be ours, that we may In our turn pass 1t on
 These very interesting valuations of the worlds great artists are taken from a very valuable reference book
 
 "The man who could paint the Mona Lisa in the conditions in which he lived proved himself a genius, had he done nothing else. This portrait of a lady of noble bearing. only the head and bust placed against simple back ground of gray. suggesting mountains. is so lovable, so dignified, SO ten derly executed, so atmospheric, so strong so beautifully constructed. and, al nothing better has been done by any painter since. It stands today the model for all portrait painters, and we wonder the more when we think that nothing but the rigidty of the Gothic influence came before him. In these days painters have masters. men of experience in their own lines; Leon Gothic to study, and from 1t he devel- oped the art which today is our art" "Duer was a comet. Where it was dark he gleamed out and then it was dark again.
 Tt is a sorry task to speak slight ingly of something which many peo- pie love, but no art critic has the right to pretend that the superior mechanics of Guido is in any way great art. It may be pronounced remarkably excel lent painting, however. He learned how to paint better than any other of the numberless students in the Caracci academy. but he did no more than that. Fine painting is worth having. when we cannot command great painting"
 T am disposed to place Velasquez at the head of the portrait painters of the orld. As knowing as Hals in brush work, while much more refined; as capable of securing noble express sion as Van Dyck and still more subtle in characterization; not as rich col orist as Titan. yet his tone of gray are the embodiment of colorfulness- possibly a more difficult accomplish ment. Above all. there is an element of character greatness displayed by Velasquez which. it may be, no man in all the world has equaled."
 Anglo saxons do not admire the robust women of Rubens in twisted attitudes. With it all. though. there is but one Rubens and originality has no price"
 "Goya was above all else an artist His work will not endure the criti- cism of the extreme classical school men, but the fascination of 1t is ir- resistible No classicist could give us those dainty Spanish women, could catch the peculiar coquetry of their pose and bearing. as this man did
 The things that made Velasquez great were found again in Goya. though far less well regulated"
 "Constable's ability to see correctly,
 to make gray the brass which most people thought should always be green. to show the glimmer of frost or dew on the surface of things, such matters as these executed with con-