New-York tribune., 1905-11-12

shire since Ii Is in the market, with valuation
Of 100000 which is considerably more than was
paid for the Marlborough Raphael In the Ma
tfonal Gallery, and that was the highest price
ever before asked for single picture. The dealers
assume that the English patrons Of art will not
act promptly enough to have it for the National
Gallery, and that either the German Emperor
will buy it for the Berlin Gallery or that 1t VIII
go to America, like the two Titan portraits re-
Gently seen in London. Among the twenty-six
old masters French, Spanish and English, now
exhibited at Agnew's, two have lately been puf-
chased by J. Pierpont Morgan, namely, Rom
ney's Vernon Children and Raeburn's Lady
Maitland The beautiful Hoppner portrait OF
Miss Conssmaker is also destined for America
Largilliere's decorative portrait of Lafayettes
mother is in the gallery. The most strik-
ing works in the exhibition of portrait painters
at the New Gallery MilIets portraits and
drawings and few by Corot and Dubigny lent
by the Forbes executors. The portrait OF the
former American Ambassador, Joseph II
Choate by Herman Werkomer, is shown anc
among the other subjects are Huxley's wife al
eighty, Professor Francis Darwin. Madame Mar
chest and Henry Wood the conductor or the
Queens Hall Orchestra. Besnard, Gandara and
Blanche the three principal French con-
tributors, and their cleverness fairly oVerieaps
itself. Water colors by Harpignies and Alfred
East are SHOWN dt Liie Oliici SoLioiASS tNi@N NNO
is a notably fine exhibition by the Royal Society
In Pail Mall with strong work by D. Y. Cameron
and Z. R. Hughes
THE OPERA SEASON
The Covent Garden opera season. with italian
singers. reinforced by Nine. Melba, continues to
attract crowded houses Andrea Chevrier has
been produced with an unusually strong cast
and received with marked favor. The Hay
rT~bo has
.rab,inS Charles Hawtrey to reappear In Lon
dor with Jessie Bateman and Holman Clark III
Sidney Bowkett's Little Miss Dean and receive
most cordial welcome. Granville Barkers
r,ax 1.-THE Voysey Inheritance" at the Court
Theatre deals with the embezzlements of a firm
of solicitors and is diffuse and overcrowded with
incidents.
Sir Edward EIgar In lecture at Birmingham
University, has represented music as at its best
,rban tt cannot be described, and referred to
Brahrns's Third Symphony as a piece of absolute
ro,,s;o without a hint of what in the COM
posers mind.
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL.
The dean Of winchester has fully confirmed
from the architects surveys the alarming re-
ports of the condition of that noble cathedral
and en,phasized the necessity for immediate
action Nothing in the nature of a restoration
is contemplated but more than Sloo.Ooo VIII De
REQUIRED for the preservation OF the structure
The fault lies with the foundations which were
not carried deep enough. and now rest on quick
sand often flooded with water
The thirteenth century manuscript stolen from
cravss Inn has been mysteriousy restored by
tbe thief who did not know what TO do with it
Bunyan's famous anvil has been found equally
strangely In a heap Of scrap iron and will be
auctioned of sacred rehc
More significant than the fortunes of these
ral;oso,,s cr,rjos have been the great demonstra-
tfons of public interest in the Bible societys
work at Albert Hall and the emphatic demand
from the leaders of philanthropy that Sir George
William. should be buried in st Pauls with the
highest honors in recognition OF his services as
q world worker in founding the Young Mems
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