The Washington herald., 1908-02-09

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In box and told him that if ne kept weIl
back and was still people could not rec
ognize him; yet hardly had the curtain
risen before voice from the upper gal
lery cried " 'Ulloa, Gladstone,"
The premier was surprised bat some
what gratifed too, and he asked SIR
Henry how any one could possibly have
imagined he. the prime minister. was
there. Sir" said the COurtly actor, you
cannot help being recognized by the
gods"
An interesting portrait is that OF a
stern-looking. full-bearded man who looks
straight out at you from the canvas. with
brows wrinkled little his jaw firm set.
A man of determination this whose eyes
seem to look clear through you. II is evil
dent-even 10 an amateur of painting
that the artist here has reached that
point of which Kipling speaks where a
man shall paint the thing as he sees it, -
for this stalwart figure of his grace the
Duke OF Norfolk is a living. dominant, de-
tiance-breathing personality. This is a
mani That he is a duke. too is an acci-
dent, He is painted here in his Office as
lord mayor OF Sheffield. and you can be
quite sure that under his municipal guild
ance such "a thing as graft" is unknown.
II IS an honorary Office, else he would not
have taken il, for when he was post
master general of England on a salary OF
$4,000 "A year that salary was given over
TO charity. without ostentatiOn and with
out ado This portrait is the very acme
Of Interpretation. The man who sits here
quite at his ease, is figure. not on his
dignity, but full OF conscious power The
face reminds one somewhat at first
glance, OF that Russian, Wittc, who, for
all his struggles. failed to bring order
out of chaos in Russia; but the touch Of
real strength that is lacking in the Rus
SLAMS face Is present and dominating
here. lie sits In a hard oak chair. leaning
slightly forward 10 the desk on which is
scattered red-sealed documents and bills
One hand rests on the desk. and il Is
clenched; the other grasps the arm Of the
chair-grasps it SO tightly il seems as
if an impression were made on the hard
wood And these hands so capable so
strong, are as interpretative Of The char
aCteT Of the man as is the face.
He is a Knight Of the Garter and the
ribbon of the order Is about his breast.
and over his shoulders Is thrown the gold
chain Of the lord mayor, but these things
the artist has made extraneous-they
have little 10 do with the soul OF the
man. What counts is that high forehead;
those deep-set eyes. in which there is
little laughter. the bTistly hair. brushed
straight back from the brow: the square
jaw. the set bones Of which are visibe-if
not TO the eve. then through the artists
skill to some other scnse-undeT the
brown beard.
You can understand from the look Of
him that this is an unusual man; that
there are things back of him. blood
and tradition and the memories of great
deeds. Here he sits COntemptuOus Of the
eyes that look at him. the fifteenth Duke
OF Norfolk. Henry FitZAlan-H Howard, pre-
mier duke of England; Earl Of Arundel.
Baron MalITaveTs. Earl OF Surrey. Baron
FitZAlan. Clun and OsWaldestre. earl
marshal and heritary marshal and chief
butler Of England, premier duke and earl
X. q. G. OF the order Of Christ; all this
and besides 1t ALA man, That is what
the portrait shows,
Looking through these eyes into the
past. you csn recall that here is the rep
resentative of much that is oldest and
best in English history Through
these black eyes YOU can 90 back TO
tllE ttI ltt- y lttl Ills dllttSltIs sHI NJ lll-
lam Howard tHereWaTd became chief
justice of Common Pleas. but back Of
the law is something else. The grandson
of the chief justice was admiral Of the
North under King Edward III-and now
we can begin to understand, dimly, what
is written IN this face before as. Now
we chance upon a later ancestor, the one
who was created Duke of Norfolk who
Ted the van of Richard HIS army at Bos-
worth Field. and who fell beside his
cIOOked-back master on that fatal day of
1875. The son of this duke took up his
fathers bloody sword and won the battle
of Flodden Field of James " Of Scot
land in 1913. but then he fell on eyilstimes
for his family, for his eldest son had his
head taken of by the eighth Harry, who
treated his friends as he treated his wives
and was the first monarch to bring the
art of literally cutting his acQuaint-
anCes TO a fine point,
The fourth duke was also beheaded
having been found guilty Of holding COM
municatiou with Mary, Queen of Scots.
And red-headed Elizabeth, not content
with this, had his eldest son confined to
the Tower, where he died a prisoner in
1885. Il was the great-grandson Of this
prisoner who was restored to the duke