The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-14

foreigners were requested to leave Paris,
so that in the event Of q siege the city might
have no unnecessary mouths to feed. SO
he made the best Of his way to italy, where
he was to spend many months. In Milan.
where he stopped for a day, he was en-
chanted with the beauty Of the Milaneee
women. Italian ladies' at that time still
wore black lace Owe their heads instead
Of hats. Their dresses were open In front.
the necks being bare half way down the
Chasss. : YVES st.cct by the feminine type.
Upright. slender wasted women; delicate,
generally bare, hands: oval faces, the eye
brows OF an absolutely perfect regular
ity: narrow noses. well formed, the nos
triis c~urving slightly upward and out
ward-the models Of Leonardo and Luini.'
In Florence the people attracted him lees:
the women seemed to him to have nc type
at all compared with the lovely faces and
forms Of the women at Milan and Parma.
The deas attracted him least OF all. AZ
Florence our author saw Rossi play Hontt.
The performance was a disappointment
TO him, iuasnluch as Rossi. with his purely
Italian nature, did away with the essen
tiallv English element in HdnLet The
keen English humor in his hands became
AD6uIQ 81u IlulCulOubs HNuHtec . hOChp@NASA
to act Roeei overlooked altogether. HON.
let TO him was q noble young man who
was Rrieved at his mothers i'll behavior.
The details he acted like a virtuoso. For
instance, he was very effective during the
mimic play, when lying at Opheiid'S feet
he crushed her fan in his hands at the mo-
ment when the King turns pale. Brandes
derived his chief enjoyment not from the
acting but from the play. The piece sud-
denly revealed itself to him. he says, from
new aspects and he fell PROSTATE in such
an exceeding admiration for Shakespeare
that he felt he should never rise again.
It must have been touching to hear the
Italians remarks on Hamlet. The play
was new to them. One frequently caught
the observation: 1T lie a very philosophical
piece"
The present volume of Brandes's remin-
~iscences leaves him in Rome, where he
passed the winter OF 1901. II is delightful
to accompany him in his rambles through
the Eternal City, but for the homer we
can only reproduce some Of his impress
sions Of Michael Angelo and Raphael. He
tells us that after gazing for hours at he
formers work in the Sistine Chapel. he felt
the injustice OF all the talk o the begin
nings Of grotesqueness in Michael Angeles
style. There are" he comedies, "a few
somewhat distorted igu1Ss; Haman, the
knot OF men 6nd women adoring the snake.
Jonas, as he filings himself backward; but.
except these, What calm, what ~grandiose
perfectioni and, which was still more re-
markable, what imposing charm! Eve. in
the picture The Fall, is perhaps the most
adorable figure that art has ever produced;
her beauty in the picture on the left was
Nike a revelation of what mankind really
ought to rave BEEN 1t sounded to Brandes
almost like a lie that one mar should have
created all that in twenty-five months.
Would the earth ever again produce fres-
Goes of the same order? He found that
the $40 years that had passed over it had
damaged this the greatest pictorial work
on earth far less than he had feared.
Raphael's Loggias our author knew from
copies in L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
He was curious to see how the originals
would look after the copies. His first inn
preston as he glanced Town the corridor
and perceived the small ceiling pictures.
each barely two feet across, was: Good
Rraciousl This will be a sorry enjoyment
after Michael Angelo" He looked at the
first painting, God Creating the Animals"
and was quite affected. There goes the
good old man saying paternally, Come up
from the earth, all Of you: you have no idea
how nice it is up here" His ext impress
sion was: How childish" But his last was:
What genius!" Then again: How charm
ing the picture Of The Fall and how lovely
Eve! And what grandeur OF style. despite
the smallness OF the space. A God, a few
inches high, separates light from darkness,
but there is omnipotence in the movement
Of His arm NJ. W. H.