New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15


to repeat the Catechism during half an hour Of
four or five years. and the following is what they
my duty toads God is to bleed in him to fering
and g ioat wThold your arts Withhold my mine
and to give thinks to put my old trast in him to
call upon him to onner his old name and his world
end end. 70 save him truly al me Gays OF my mes
MY dooty lords my Nabers to love him as thy
self and to do TO all men as we'd thou shall do
mother % onner and to bay the queen and eli tina.
my goonas teaches a h pas t. l and et2s 70
oughten mysilf Iordy and every to all my betteTs
jest in ali my deens to beer no malls nor ated
steel nv tu 70 ro oeP a spes pnd agng @
ISLANDERS; not to civet nor desar othermans good
ana to my dooty n that state E II life and to each
II ms peeS,Se % goa 70 cal y, men; ,o,a od
somewhat quickly. that their curious phonetic re-
ciated '-'' iea- o'''' can ' 'fD'
At the book shop of Ernest Dressed North. in
East S9th-st. there may be seen Just now
capital little exhibition of drawings by English
illustrators. The collection embraces works by
men as old as William Blake and as modern
Mr.. Charles E. Brock. For the charm Of
association the most attractive group Of all is
that OF number of sketches by Thackeray.
One OF these. q caricature of Maclise, is an in
imitable bit of delicately humorous draughts-
those of Blake They show like practically all
Of his works, grave technical limitations; but
there is one piece here, a study of old man
instrucaing a youth, drawn for Young's Might
Thoughts" which superbly illustrates his faculty
for the portrayal Of figures Of patriarchal dig
nifty. Other drawings notably "An Oracle Con-
suited Venus and Mars" Classical Conpo-
sftion" and Diana exhibit the sturdy imitator
of Michael Angelo, heavy in style, at fault in
in the notation of violent movement and in the
creation within the limits of a slight sketch. of
a strange and profoundly moving sentiment
In contrast to the playful sketches of Thack-
cray and the sonbre designs of Blake there are
shown in this exhibition handful of technically
brilliant drawings by the late Charles heene,
some Enthusiastically charming bits by Kate
Greenaway and divers interesting things by
Leech, Cruikshank and Caldecott. Mr.. Brooks
twenty-five watercolors for 1.-The Vicar of
wakefeld' and his sixty-four pen and ink
drawings for the Essays of Ella" with a few
examples of Hugh Thomson and Tom Browne.
leave the best impressions in the section of
work by living draughtsmen. The exhibition
brings forward altogether about two hundred
drawings, and while miss the work Of
like Fred Walker and Du Maurier, it gives on
the whole. very fair idea of the English school
Of illustration.
We quoted the other day from English
paper Mr.. Bertram Dobells communication on
the origin Of BIacaulay's famous New Zealander.
This brings us the following letter:
Your issue Of the 9Th inst contains an article on
the origin of MacaUlay'S celebrated paragraph on
the New Zealander surveying the ruins of ST Pau's
from broken arch of London Bridge The thought
is clearly presented by Volney in his ''Ruines gu
Meditation sur les Revolutions des Empires" He
finds the past spendor of Asia In modern Europe:
sRefechissant que await ste jadfs activtA des
lieux que je contemplate: Out salt, dis je. 81
tel ne sera pas IN jour rabandon de propres
contrees? ui salt, 81 les rives de la Seine de
IL Tamise GU du Suiderzee. Ia on maintenant, dams
ie tourbillon de tant de iouissances 81
voyageur moi ne s'assevira pas I'm jour sur
de rnuettes ruines ct pleurera pas solitaire
la cendre des peoples ct la memoire de leur
grandeur"
1920 When the first edition of this work was pub
lished is unknown TO me. J. Q. r.
Dayton, Ohio, Dec. II, 1905