The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16

claim to be regarded as the greatest
authority on the classics at present in
the house of commons.
\ bill to provide compensation for
Irish town dWellers who effect i'm
provement in rented property was un-
der consideration. Upon this un-
worthy topic Mr.. Field brought to bear
the thunder of impassioned eloquence.
The house listened in mute astonish-
ment Round bricks and states and
waterspouts he wreathed a garland of
flowery rhetoric.
He made a picturesque figure. A
shock of fluffy hair encircled like a
dark gray aureOle his handsome brow,
his finely chiseled face was aglow with
the light of inspiration, although only
kindled upon brick and mortar; his
chest, under it's wide eXpanse of shirt
front-he looks to be in perennial
state Of evening attire-heaved with
the impatient fires within. A poet in
appearance and instincts, with Strik-
ing resemblance to Victor Hugo, Mr..
Field conducts the unpoetic but thriving
business of a butcher in Dublin, and is
honorary secretary of the local victual-
ers' association.
His own eloquence at last failing,
Mr.. Field fell back on what he called
the classics" He who fights and
runs away may live to fight another
ought not to grow rich at the expense
of his neighbor."
"Ah, you can have more" he cried,
shaking a quiVering forefnger at the
new chief secretary and the attorney
general, but I hope you are well up
in your classics"
Thereupon, with no other warning,
he shouted across at those distinguish
ed and lonely occupants of the treas
ury bench: "Summum jus, Summa in
juria," which, according to a Latin
phrase book, means, The extremity of
the law is the extremity of injustice"
The house cheered heartily this eXhi-
bition of learning.
But" said Mr.. Long subsequently,
"the honorable member has revealed to
me terrOrs other than those usually as
sociated with the position of chief sec
retary. 1t appears that he may have to
be prepared to undergo a careful eX-
animation in the classics"
Whitechapel is for the moment the
temple of the mid Victorian and pre-
Raphaelite artists, and this week the
local art gallery was thronged with
east end patrons of the fine arts. The
members of the Whitechapel smart set
young Jewesses wonderfully dressed
in feathers and purple and Israelitish
young men, wearing jaunty neckties,
leisurely strOlled through the galleries
In the afternoon. East end factory
girls paid a flying visit in the dinner
hour, and at night the gallery was
crowded with all sorts and conditions
of Whitechapel workers. The visitors
were on the whole appreciative, and
many who came in a critical mood re-
mained to praise. Burne-Jones and
RoSSetti they were pronounced "a fair
treat" and Millais and Ford MADDOX
Brown were declared to be "bit of orl
right" The east end art patron has,
however, a prediction for a picture
which tells a story, and many visitors
who turned away from the Turner's
fingered by GoodalPs telling picture of
THE Emigrant Ship and W. P Frith's
Railway Station" The women gazed
with critical eyes at Morris cretonnes
and studied early Victorian fashions
attentively. For in order to convey the
proper early Victorian atmosphere to
Whitechapel the art gallery authorities
have got together an astonishing COL
lection Of clothes, chiefly remarkable
Tor their extreme ugliness. Old fash
1oned wardrobeS have been ransacked
for skirts which sWelled over crino-
lines, 1910 bonnets lined with roses,
gorgeous hand painted Scarfs, a tre-
mendouS white muff once carried by
the famous countess of BloSsington
fashion in the fifties. The early Victo-
ria idea of evening dress shocked the
decorous Whitechapel maidens. who
also made their first acquaintance with
another fashion monstrosity of the pc
ROD, the caleche, a voluminous and
thickly padded hood, which early Vic
toria ladies wore over their hats and
caps.
The spring exhibition of the Society
or British Artists was opened in it's
hall, in Suffolk street, this week. No
1eWer than eight new members have
Joined this year, among whom Mr.
frank Salisbury is perhaps the most
important. His portraits shown at the
exhibition have much of Romney's
freshness and charm. One is a lively
circular picture of girls head, enti-
lIed Spring. while in another is a
mother whispering a secret to her child,
VINO gaZes out of the picture in Joyous
surprise. Mr.. Palm, another new mem
Der, sends clever picture of a boy
In brown velvet. Mr.. Collins pictures
OF jay eavesdropping while lovers
llnger by a style, peacocks and a stoat
poachIng, are all in water color. very
humorous and eXquisitely finished
Among older members the president.
Sir Wyke Bayliss, as usual, has many
fine interiors of cathedrals. with pro-
cessions of priests and choristers Mr..
MacLean'S large picture, moonlight
over the Sea-" is full of brilliant vet
subdued color; while Mr.. Lenfesty's
Coast of Cornwall" is a mastery rem
dering of Il very fine bit of rocky coas st.
MI Pootets very poetic impressionist
enects of boats on French rivers. and
Mr. Demorests no less impressionist,
put very beautiful peach blossoms In
france, are obviously inspired by a
study of Claude Monet's work. Mr..
Rex Vicar Cole sends an exquisite
beechWood In Charfedale. Mr.. Hal
HurstS best picture is a group of the
three daughters of Mr.. Wilsenby. Mr..
Adam Proctor's old Dutch waterway is
very small, but brilliantly painted I'm
cool tones Of gray and green, with n
clear saffron horizon and heavy storm
clouds.
Responding to the toast Of "The
Guests" at the annual dinner of the
Forelgn Press association at the Hotel
Cecil this week, the countess of War
wick said she appreciated the honor
done her In coupling her name with the
toast because 1t was interna tional in its
character. There could be no higher
vocation than that of bringing about
peace and good will among nations
which they had the power to infiu-
ence. AS a socialist, she felt the i'm
portance OF the growth of international
comfy. In this period Of stress and
strain, when nations were still domi