The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-13

After il most interesting stay abroad, during which greater part of the time was spent in Paris in the art centers of Europe, Mrs. J. B. Raulston will return to Birmingham the latter part of June or early in July.
 Mrs. Rauston. who has achieved national reputation through her exquisite work on porcelain. has on this visit abroad enjoyed somewhat leisurely so- journ in the old cities, and renewing acuuaintanee with her old favorites in the art galleries, she has made some ex- ceedingly interesting notes of her daily wanderings. particularly relating to works of art These notes of criticism and reference. will unfortunately be only private diary. unless Mrs. Raulston's pupils are able to prevail upon her to publish them as little guides to foreign galleries, something like the interesting booklets arranged recently by Mrs. Caro- line c. Lowell
 With the rare discrimination and art appreciation of Mrs. Raulston, her criti- cisms would be most valuable and hope that she will not allow these art notes collected on her present visit to be mere ly for her own perusal.
 She has been abroad since the late sum mer going first to England and to Lon don, and then getting glimpse of rural England, in the Devonshire district. There she painted little landscapes, a group of which were sent over to Amer ica
 The greater part of the winter was spent in Paris. and in the spring Mrs. Raulston went to Italy. In Venice she was heard of simply worshipng Titan s Assumption and Gionani Belllnnis' lovely madonnas, admiring the facades of the old palaces, here a Gothis arch. and there gem of sculpture glowing with mosaic.
 When 1t is considered how many churches there are in Venice. possibly a hundred, and each containing one or more masterpieces of painting or sculpture, it is easily understood why artists loiter in that dream-city. so beautiful and deca- dent
 From Venice with its fascinating life on the lagoons. Mrs. Raulston went on to Sido, which she described in some | ltlltTS as Il DdIItH flIdCl Ol ldilu WdSHtN by the pillows of the Adriatic. There it was that Doge went out annually for the ceremony of the marriage of the sea with Venice and cast the ring into the water from his ship. The Ducal palace and St. Marks remain to tell of the magnifcience of the dead Doges, and the prisons and Bridge of Signs record their cruelty" wrote Mrs. Raulston.
 The artist was also in Verona on her way to Munich her route being through the celebrated Brennerpass.
 Munich with delightful days. then Switzerland. Lucerene-that gem by the beautiful lake in the mountains-and then Paris again.
 Mrs Rauston is now in London. where she was born and reared and where she first began her studies in the old gal leries. May and June in London, after a long, long absence, and a few weeks to enjoy the pink and white hawthorne in full blossom, the tulips. the azalias making splotches of color in the greenesi and softest of grass, and besides all this joy, there Is today the modern Brit ish school to be seen. the Watts and Burne-Jones paintings, but any one whc had childish memories of London would on going back in later years, care even more for the hawthorne and the flowers than for all the BurneJones in England Mrs Raulston has a rare collection oi porceains one of the most exquisite vases possibly in any private collection.
 It is done in roses of a brilliant tint ~.,.tto t,.1n f1.ah hla Aulich, the rose connoisseur pronounced it a gem in porcelain decoration. The colorings are not only wonderful, but the technique Is marvellous and the roses look as if they might have been painted on a rare old frieze, there is such sweer and power to them and so much express sion. How such depth and such rich ness could be accomplished on porcelain seems remarkable, for effects so rich are only reached on canvas, and when at tempted by any but a discriminating col orist are more frequently b.zarre. This single rose vase, running far into the hundreds, if 1t could be purchased at all is a vase about which romances could be dreamed, and with the passing of the years it has taken on the richer tints and seemed to draw into itself much that is interesting to the collector. It Is easy to associate it with those old porcelains, the historic value of which makes them almost priceless, and ,hat if we were living in the days of the Iouises, when art treasures were stolen from the pal aces, many of which have been found in the old curio shops .n New Orleans, that this rose vase would have delighted the eyes of an old connosseur as we'll as suggesting in It's rare loveliness those treasures that found their way to this country from the French court in the days when New Orleans was called 'le petit Paris" What pretty stories are told today of those old treasures par ticularly a Rose du Barry vase that was owned by a Creole family. who sold it to buy the rousseau of Creole beauty. COMFORTING.
 Openwork stockings and low-cut gowns have not much to do with pneumonia,