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Germany. France shd italy. but this 10 the
ArSt ttnasl that a collection Of his works
has been placed before the public In Lon
don, and he is taking the town by storm.
Al the private view q crowd filed the gall
tsries, a most dist nguished crowd.
The reason for Mr.. Laszlo's popularity 10
not far TO ssek. His portraits are ex-
tremely attractive. They are strong and
ct the sane time delicate; they are full OF
vivscity without exaggerated action; they
are pleasing IN com. ~os!tion, and the color
ing is soft and rich.
He has rare insight into character and the
gift Of Selling a characteristic attitude and
fixing it on canvas His technique. too, 10
amazingly brilliant-almost overPower-
ingly 90 under the conditions in which
the Portraits ere shown on the present
occasion.
They are too crowded and too large for
the gallery. For instance, the interior
with the full lsagth figures Of Countess
schonposn- B vchAeim and her daughter
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serted in the yulgate and has never been in
the public use of the Church. The Vulgate
text of Wisdom. Eccle siasticus. Baruch.
M~accabees l. and II. is not st. Jerome's.
Of the New Testament, the Gospels are
the revision Of the Old Latin based on Greek
manuscripts, and the remainder Of the New
Testament is again the Old Latin hastily
revised by the saint. The whole work Of
the translation Of the Old Testament ex-
tended over the period 39l-4O5.
In the course of time, first the manu-
script copies and later the printed editions
Of the Vulgate were multiplied to such an
extent that the errors of copyists and false
translations. repeated. modified. some
times corrected. often altered, had to be
collected in what is o known as the vari-
ants of the Vulgate. In 1892 Cardinal Bel
amino at the request of Pope Clement VIII.
published the revised edition OF the Vulgate
known as the Clementina,
The Barnabite monk Vercellone under
took the work of revision of the variants,
but he died without completing his work
and only published one volume. Since
1891, when Veroellone died. no further at
tempt toward a revision of the variants was
made until the Pope intrusted the work to
the Benedictine order, ..r
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This task was intrusted TO the Holy See,
and the Roman Pontiffs, SO far as the con-
ditionR Of their times permitted. did not
hesitate to extend their cares toward a
revision Of the Yulgate. although it was not
given them 70 arrive TO the complete real
ization Of such a difficult enterprise. Until
the time cones for an important revision
which will enable an amended edition Of
the Vulgate to be published q preliminary
study Of preparation by means Of which
the variants Of the Vulgate either in codes
or in the writings Of the Fathers can be
collected is indisy ensable.
Toward such a study several learned
men have already contributed with intel
!igsnoe and zeal, and among these should be
mentioned the illustrious and in~defatigable
Barnabite Father Vercellone. AS this work
is very complex, it has been deemed oppor-
tune that it should be officially undertaken
by a religious order capable Of disposing
Of means proportionate to the difficult
undertaking.
The eminent Cardinals Of the Pontifcal
Commission for Biblical Studies have
decided. and his Holiness Pope Plus X,
has deigned 70 approve, that the illustrious
and worthy Benedictine Order, whose pa
tient and learned works in every branch OF
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the Latin version and chung to il for many
centuries after the time of St. Jerome.
When the Council Of Trent issued its decree
on the authenticity OF the Vulgate the
term became irrevocably fixed on the
version of the Scriptures made by st.
Jerome.
ST. Jerome's work did not consist of indie
pendent translations from the original. At
the request Of Pope Damascus he undertook
the revision Of the Latin text Of the New
Testament, corrected many errors, but re-
tanned faulty translations which did not alter
the sense Of the original. Later he revised
hastily and imperfcctly the Psalms, and
his version, known as the Roman Psalter,
was introduced into the Catholic Church by
Pope Damascus and retained until the liturgi-
cal reforms made by Pius V.
In the year 1856 st. Jerome left Rome for
Palestine and at Bethlehem between the
years Ss6-s91 he made his second revision Of
the Psalter, now known as the Gallican
Psalter, az it was first adopted in France.
Subsequently this version was inserted in
the Vulgate.
In 3l st. Jerome began his translation Of
the Old Testament from the Hebrew original,
including, Of course, a third version of the
Psalms, which, however, has never been in
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modern clothes, hardly to be wondered OF
when hls national dress is Do becoming.
II n may judge by the portrait Of Count
Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador
TO st. Petersburg, who is represented wear
ing the dress Of a Hungarian nobleman-
black velvet tunic, with a gold belt and a
CLOAK worn over the left shoulder like an
English hussar's. Whenever he can he
avails himself Of military costume for his
portraits Of men.
This is permissible. but surely 1t is a mis-
take to depict 90 many Of his women sitters
In a hat and a suggestion Of drapery. The
hat is obviously studio property, since it
appears in more than one portrait. This
tends to nulify the individuality OF the
sitters and to destroy the worth of the
pictures historically.
Much Of the charm Of Gainsborough's
portraits is due 70 the admirable way in
which he makes the dr. asses, 50 character
istic Of the period. harmonic with the
faces Of his sitters Happily Mr.. Laszlo
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MORoCCO,S COAST SURVEYED.

Additions TO Geographical knowledge
Made Through a French Womans GIFT.
Anybody who wishes to learn the latest
facts about the Atlantic coast Of Morocco
should thank the French woman whose
munifcenoe provided the means by which
these additions to geographical knowl-
edge have been made,
This lady is modest as well as patriotic.
She has not permitted her name to be con-
nected with the surveying expedition that
was fitted out with the funds she supplied.
How she came to be associated with this
geographical enterprise is a short but
interesting story.
She read in the newspapers n day
that the Committee Of French Africa, a
private association in Paris, desired to
raise a fund for the exploration Of the
Atlantic coast Of Morocco. At that time
France was beginning to manifest great
interest in Morocco. which resulted in
sending a number of exploring expeditions
into the Interior
The Committee of French Africa said
that one of the first and most important
things to 10 was to acquire more exact
and fuller information concerning the
Atlantic coast and the harbors scattered
alongNhe seaboard. No funds we're avail
able for the purpose.
When she read this paragraph the pa
triotic French woman seated herself at her
desk and wrote 10 the committee that she
would provide the sum Of zoe, 900 francs
for the Quitting Of a ship and explorers
to undertake the photographic explora-
ton along the Atlantic coast, to survey
and sound the Moroccan ports and to ascer-
tain how far the rivers emptying into the
Atlantic might be utilized for navigation.
She stipulated only one condition, and
that was that her name should not be made
public.
The condition was very cheerfully &C.
cepted, a ship was fitted out, and for five
months it was enga ged in sounding the
coastal waters and studying the lower
parts Of the rivers of Morocco along the
Atlantic. The exact position OF fifteen
important points along the ocean was
ascertained and particular attention was
given to the study Of such important coast
towns as Mogador and Ma "a gan.
Lieut. Dye who commanded the expedition,
has recently made his report. He says
there is not a good natural harbor along this
stretch Of the Atlantic coast. A number
OF the ports can be provided with such
works as ~breakwaters and landing piers,
at no very great expense, which will safe
guard vessels. decrease the cost of handling
freight and vastly improve the possibility
OF developing trade along the coast.
One curious and interesting result of
the survey was the discovery that all the
longitudes of the coast must be placed from
two to four geogra phical miles further
west than they AVE hitherto been repre-
sented on the maps.
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occupies nearly the whole Of one van.
They looked much better In Frankfort.
where q quarter Of the number were shown
In a larger gallery among other pictures.
This brilliance is due to = discovery Of
Mr.. Laszlo's. He does not use canvas to
paint Of but q kind of millboard specially
prepared with a solution OF gum. After
eeveral years the paint remains just as
luminous as the day it was laid on.
Less cumbersome than a wooden panel,
but possessing the same rightly, this mill
board lends itself to Mr.. Laszlo's style Of
painting. which is very rapid. He works
with such precision and each brushmark
is 30 carefully considered that no retouch-
ing is necessary. The portrait Of Princess
Pauline Metternich-sandor in its way the
best thing in the present collection, was
painted in two hours, and many Of the more
elaborate portraits. such as that OF the
Countess Jean de Castellane. we're COM
pleted in four afternoons.
Mr., Laszlo has an aversion to ordinary
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EIGHT HOUR DAY IN FRANCE.
Government Departments Find a Drop In

Figures have recently been collected in
France as 70 the results Of reducing tine
hours OF public employees. They show that
the theory that shorter hours mean equal
or greater product is not sustained.
In the workshops Of the Department OF
Posts and Telegraph in Paris the working
day was cut for experimental purposes
from ten 10 eight hours. Az the outset IL
looked all right. The men put on a great
squirt and at first their ardor did make up
for the reduction OF time.
But the ardor soon cooled; the enthusiasm
and the product diminished with equal
speed and at the end Of three months the
output OF the shops was estimated as 20
per cent. less than of old the diminuuon
euualling the cut in the working day.
The Ministry OF Marine made a similar
experiment in the boiler shops at Toulon,
reducing the day from ninc and a half
hours TO eight. Later the experiment was
extended to all the arsenals and workshops
connected with the naval administration.
The experience was exactly the same.
At first there was no appreciable reduction
in the volume Of work; then IL began falling
of until it reached a drop Of is per cent
or nearly the equivalent Of the reduction
In time.
The Ministry Of Wal since May. 1905, has
altered the days programme in all its estab-
lishments 30 as to reduce the actual time OF
labor fifteen minutes a day. from nine
hours to eight and three-quarters. Not
w~ithstanding the small reduction in time
the volume OF work dom has fallen from
Q to 10 per cent. in all the shops.
From these results the French economists
conclude that men are capable OF doing
just so much work an hour-in other words,
each has a normal rate Of speed and the
normal gait cannot be permanently affected.
In particular they conclude that Psyche
logic conditions have much less to DO with
the performance OF mechanical work than
has been supposed.
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ecclesiastical erudition constitute a true
monument of glories legitimately COL
lected through the course Of many CEN
turtles. should be officially invited TO
undertake this most important and pom
derous study. ! appeal to you, Father
Abbot Primate, who with 60 much zeal
preside over the Benedictine Confed-
GRAFTON Of which this Monastery of Saint
Anselm is the worthy centre, so that with
those sentiments Of devotion to the Holy
See which are we'll known you assume in
the name Of the order this important
task. and while congratulating you on
the high trust placed in the family of Saint
Benedict l hope that the sons Of such a
great father will correspond with hasty
Joy and happy success to the honorable
invitation"
The Vulgate is the Latin version Of the
Scriptures which the Catholic Church
has declared to be official and authentic.
The name was originally applied to the
Greek translation OF the Old Testament
which was the common or current version.
as very pro baby before the time of st.
Jerome there was no Latin version Of the
Bible which wal considered as the current
or commonly received version.
The name began to be transferred to
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him to secure an enga cement The courts
decided in favor Of the young singer.
Paul Dukas seems TO have composed in
'Ariane at BaTbe Bleu" the most successful
work that the Opera Comique has produced
In some time. MaeteTlinck has written a
beautifully poetic text on the old legend
Of Blue Beard, and Dukas's score lie said
To be a revelation of the most modern school
Of French composition at its best. GeorR-
cite Leblanc, who is Nine. Maeterlinck in
private life, had the leading role. The
last Of Andre Mesa gers operas to be sun
at the Comique was "%Fortunio," founded
on Re Musset's lie Chandler" One of
the first artists enga ged by NJ. Massenet
for the opera when he became codirector
was Mary Garden, the American soprano.
The French Government has voted a large
sum for repairs necessary In the Grand
Opera.
The season Of the Theatre de la Monnaie
ended with two performances OF Tristan
und Isolde" in German, which Felix Mottl
went from Munich to conduct. Carl Bur
rian and Marie Witch OF Dresden a the
leading roles. Burrian was recently deco
rated by the King Of SaXony. So popular
are the operas Of Wagner in Brussels that
the seats for these performances were sold
out weeks in advance although the prices
were doubled.
Luigi Mancinelli's Francesca & Paolo'
will be produced next season at La Scala.
Another Italian conductor who has an
opera ready lie Maestro Mascheroni who
was conducting last season in Madrid.
la Perugina' is the name Of the work
he has just completed.
Regina Pacini. who shares with Regina
Pinkert the title OF being the queen OF
colorature singers in Italy has just married
and retired from the stage.
Pietro Niascagni has been travelling
through Italy 20 conduct performances OF
AMIGA" which he has rearranged. He
has been received everywhere with great
enthusiasm, for his country people have not
forgotten his frat opera, There wal little
success, however, ~fof'Amica.'
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TASK OF. THE. BENEDICTINES
A FIRST STEP TO A REVISION OF
THE YULGATE.
=. Il. LIS Il ..

Work Entrusted by the Pope TO the Hene-
dictine Order The Variants OF the Wi
gate 70 Be Collected and Compared
The Revision Long Contem plated.
ROME. June i?.-The task Of studying
and comparing the variants OF the Vulgate
version Of the Bible, which the Pope has
committed TO the Benedictine Order, is Of
worldwide interest, and the action Of the
Pope taken at this time is Of the utmost
Importance in view Of the conflict Of ration
alsrn and religion. The following details
concerning the matter are therefore Of
value
The first report that the Holy Father
had intrusted 70 the Benedictine Order
the revision Of the text Of the Vulgate
was an exaggeration which grew out OF
the fact that the letter outlining the Pope's
wishes which Cardinal Rampolla sent 10
the A~bbot-Primate was not published
until recently The Bsnedictines have been
invited 70 undertake plainly and simply
the continuation and completion Of the COL
lection Of variants Of the Vulgate begun
by Veroellone in 1850.
An official revision on the part OF the
Church Of the authentic Latin version Of
the Sacred Scriptures is not intended,
although the step now being taken by the
Biblical commission has been considered
as an indispensable preliminary 10 such a
revision. The limits Of the present task
are set forth in the letter written by Cardinal
tsmpolla as president Of the Pontifcal
commission de Re Biblica. AT the recent
conference of all the abbots OF the Bene-
diotine Order held at SAINT Anselmo on the
Aventine, which is It's international centre,
this. letter was read by the Abbot-Primate,
Dom Idelbrande de Hemptinne,
The Cardinal after recalling the institu-
ton Of the commission Of Biblical studies
by Leo XIII. q y that sits object is not
only that OF encouraging in Catholic educa.
ton the study OF those wise and sure rules
which while accepting the conquests OF
science do not depart from the traditions
of the Church, but also TO give ar impulse
10 Biblical studies which are more impor-
tant now when troubled by universal doubt
and the evolution Ct r~ationalism.
Zone Of the most useful arguments
the Cardinal continues, which should be
proposed to the discussion Of the learned
iB certainly an accurate and exhaustive
study on the variants of the Latin Vulgate.
Already the Fathers in the Council OF
Trent, while recognizing the Vulgate ss an
authentic edition for the public uees Of the
Church, admitted its intersections and eS-
pressed a vote that with all diligence IL
should be submitted 10 a most minute ex-
animation and reduced TO q share more def
nitively oonformed to the original texts
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CORPSE SCARES BURGLARS.
CHASTITY Experience OF Two Apprentices I'm
Crime In a Paris Apartment.

Two young burglars in Paris had a CHASTITY
experience lately and a narrow escape from
being held FOR a crime that they did not COM
init. They were both new TO the house
breaking game. They were lads OF 10 and
20 years, butchers apprentices out Of work
and ~penniless and with associations in the
Apache gangs how terrorizing Paris, which
led them TO turn naturally 10 crime as a
means OF getting on their feet.
They chose as the scene Of their first trial
the apartment OF a well to do engineer
named Danclos, who lived all alone in a
house on the Rue Myrha. They made their
way into the house at night after the lights
had been put out, but as they figured before
the hour at which Danclos usually returned
from his game Of dominoes at the cafe.
They got into the apartment by a skeleton
key and shut the door noiselessly behind
them. Then while one of them prepared
TO strike a light the other CROPPED his way
a couple OF feet forward in the anteroom
OF the apartment.
As he did 30 he jostled against something
that gave way before him. then came back
and hit him rather heavily, then backed
away again. The young burglar gasped.
He stretched out his hands and felt a mans
clothing and then the legs OF the man inside
and a chilly hand, all swaying horribly
TO and fro as he touched them.
His cry lac his companion strike n
match in a hurry and In it's pickering liaht
the pair saw Danglos hanging by a rope To
the gas fixture. He was stone dead but
the couple said afterward that the hideoIslv
distorted face as they watched IL In The
light OF the match seemed to be prinninr
at them as II to say: Aha! I've caught YOU,
have ~
They dashed out Of the room and down
the stairs at headlong speed. The clatter
they made aroused the concierge. and
while they fumbled at the front door he
scrambled into his trousers and boots and
pursued them down the street. Acouple
Of handy policemen headed them of and
they were marched back 10 the house
whore the door Danglos's rooms were
found open. plainly showing that thew had
been there.
As the body was still warm, the police
took IL into their heads that the couple had
murdered him as a sequel 10 robblnp his
place. But the next day IL was established
that nothing had been stolen and also hat
Danglos had often threatened suicide
because Of HE sufferings from an incurable
disease. The chair which be had Kicked
from under him completed the story. So
the two apprentices in crime will only have
charges OF attempted burglary 70 answer.
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has already devoted a subsidy to the new
institution. Geraldine Farrar will not sing
any new roles during her spring engage
ment in Berlin, but will create the role Of
the queen in Don Carlos" when Verdi's
old work is revived there next October.
Arthur Fredheim, who Is we'll remem-
bered here as a piano ~virtuoso, has COM
posed an opera, The Dancing Girl" which
has been producedwith success in Leipsic.
The German Emperor has given 81, 900
TO the society which looks after the preser-
walton of the house at Eisenach in which
John Sebastian bach was born. More than
$40, 900 has been raised for that purpose.
So great is the ambition Of Germans TO be
admitted into the singing societies of their
country that there has been established in
Berlin q school in which men are trained
in choral singing 70 as to increase their
chances OF being admitted.
The lot Of the singer is harder in France
than in my other country. Nowhere else
lie their helplessness in the hands OF So
called agents so great. A case recently
tried in a Paris court showed much OF this
unhappy state OF affairs. A yo ung man
with a fine tenor voice applied to a teacher
for instruction. By the terms Of his agree
ment he was 20 pay this Marseilles teacher
$500 out OF the receipts Of his first engage
ment, then 10 per cent. OF what he received
every week and 10 take instruction from
no other teacher. He was also forbidden
10 accept any engagements without the
consent OF his teacher. After a short time
the professor died and the tenor, having
applied to Albert Care Of the Opera CO.
mique, was told that he had a good voice
and ought TO study. but sang 10 badly that
an engagement was at the present time
impossible.
The widow Of his first teacher brought
suit a. soon ss he had obtained an engage
ment. She demanded the $500 and In addi-
ton $500 for his breach OF contract In going
10 another teacher, who finally enabled
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NOTES OF MUSIC ABROAD
ELENA SAM, 4 KINGS FAVORTTE,
ONCE SANG HERE.

Frieda Hempel MH3ins n Great Success In
London, as IL Mime. FleiScher.Edcl
--PlanS for MunirhS Wagner Festival
The New Observation-Disclosures Opera.
The late Elena SAM. whose name has
~recsntly been revived by the suit Of her sons
against the Spanish crown. was not a b.
hemiAn. but a pure blooded Spaniard.
She was educated nusieally in Europe
and came to this city in 1878, at the
very outset Of her career. She sang at
the Academy OF Music in October Of that
year, appearing first as Siebel in Faust
Later she Gang AIpcena and the regular
4ntralto repertoire Pauline Luoea vaG
The star Of the troup. Nine, Sanz returned
the next season to Europe n her only
other appearances in this country wers
made when Max MaIstzek, the impresario
Of the company, brought the singers back
Tor a brief season in the spring,
Her vogue in Europe soon spread and
abe was engaged at the Teatro Reale when
Alfonzo XII. met her, She continued 70
sing and made q notable Carmen. a role in
which abe was especially beloved In the
French provinces. Her royal lover grew
Jealous, however. Of the few hours that she
gave 10 the stage and insisted on her re.
tirement She lived quietly In Mac rid,
and there her two sons were born.
She wac enriched by him and there was
an ample allowance made for her sons,
Who we're ~educatedin Paris. Elena Sans
literally gave away every cent that she
possessed Her apartments swarmsd with
impoverished actors and singers, players
10 the orcheStrAh where she had sung,