New-York tribune., 1908-04-25
THE TALK or THE DAY.

A circular has been issued Munich calling at
tention the fact that the papers III Germany
and in other countries have been printing reports
about the extensive business which is being car
RED on by Munich dealers Of high standing
and by Munich artists in counterfeit pictures.
The reports also state that Of the spurious
works sold 10 England and America. In ex-
planation the circular says that suspicion rests
upon only one person for coUrterfeting. and he
has nothing whatever do with creative art"
Two dealers have been arrested for selling spurious
works, but neither they the who has not
Yet been found has any relations with the artistic
world. There is no evidence at hand that the
spurious pictures were sold 10 England and Amer
| lea, reports the prices realized are
not remotely correct The circular is signed by
Professor Hans Won Peterson president of the
Munich Society Of Artists; Hugo Freiherr Won
Habermann. president Of the Munich Secession
Professor Fritz Baer, president CT the Luitpold
group; D Heinemann. art gallery; A. RIegener
royal book and art establishment WINNER & Co
and E A. Fleschmann. art dealers by royal ap-
pontment.
Mother Gin very low voice Tommy your
grandfa ther is very sick Can't you say something
Tommy (in an earnest voice )-Grandfather
wouldn't you like to have soldiers at your funeraI?-
Lippincotts
No more paper" is q fat that has gone forth
after a meeting OF theatre directors in Paris Near
" all the managers OF the chief Paris playhouses
were present Only two were opposed 10 the mo-
ton but they were influential members. namely
Nine Sarah Bernhardt and NJ. Max Maurey who
controls the Grand GuignoI. Each theatre lessee
retains the right distribute twenty seats among
his or her friends every evening. Beyond that no
free tickets after the dress rehearsal and the
performance to be given
The Dentist-Now open wide your mouth and
The Patient tafter the extraction Doctor,
Me,Up aitDT '" '-- in
In a recent address in Philadelphia DR.. Edward
A Spitzka the brain specialist, spoke strongly
against hanging of convicted u1urderers and in
favor death by electricity Dr. Spitzka declared
that electrical executions painless and that
hanging was the reverse basing his conclusions on
his observations at a score OF hangngs and at
thirty-one electrical executions in several states
yes. It's very similar" answered the other He
Bile by the fire and waits TO be fed Washington
Star.
A postcard received in the last mail from Paris
has d picture Of the Pantheon and under II this
tribute 10 the noble OF noble family: In
answer 10 many requests 20 follow the example OF
/ the Due de MoutabeIo who protested against
Pantheon honors for Zola, the Of the late
President Carnot said. I do not protest because !
/ respect the dead. whose should not he dis
turbed b., the quarreIs living. / do not pro-
test because the memory of dead hon
ors which the nation has conferred upon them
cannot be contaminated by the grave at their side
Does the honor Zola express the sentiment OF
the nation? 1t is for TO judge But in any
event judgment OF period affect neither
| the past the future. Two Carnots In
the Pantheon the great Republican I.azare Car
not whose body removed from Magdeburg
in 1889. and sadi-Carnot the murdered President.
you'll notice said Finnick. the poets invari-
ably refer to the earth she Why should the
he fgf tuip ifa To lr,ou
why not7' replied Sinnick Nobody
know just how old the earth is.''-Philadelphia
Presa.