Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

looking as we gaze a that saraeop-
linguistic the twentieth century. ilie
hundred Years which separate us from
the man. who placed II where We now
sea it4a4doubtless with pride and tri-
&lluph uspeakable--seem such trlNi-H
al span OF time that we almost expect
to find SirJohn Soane himself at OUT
elbow as we turn away at last q MUS
da.ed and aWed and make our way,
lookup trifle vaguely at the mallS
Interesting things which catch our
eyes nj every turn, up stairs again ana
into The IIogarth room. Here Is
THE Rake's Progress. which brlngs
us back to modern times With q rush.
and hero, TOO, is in admirable series
OF ltngarth's pictures. called M iIlee-
ton" There is an interest about these
pictures apart from their extraordinary
artistic merit They werc bopghtfrom
Hogarth BY David Giarrict, who vas
asked by tho painter to subscribe for
the plates md they hung In Gar
rielt's house until they We're bought
by Sir John Soaue ut Mrs. Gartickas
death, in 1928.
NOVEL PICTURE GALLERY
1t needs no very active exercise Of
the lima siGatfon to believe that this
particular room must have been
source of special pride to Sir john
Soane. The curious device for the
ecpnoinaing OF space which is hera
carried into effect must have been the
outcome OF 20 much careful thought
and planning that 1t would have been
hard indeed had he not rejoiced In the
success OF his singular invention, The
wallis on three sides of this room con
sist OF movable rlanes, all having
sufficient space between for pictures
and all moving ON hinges or pivots.
10 put the matter Very simply, each
wall is a Kind of picture book, tho
leaves of which can be turnrt at pea-
sure How the ihvciltor1pf those lcayss
must have delighted in tuniing them
only the walls themselves could tell
us!
a corridor leads from the Hogarth
room through what are called the
dressing room and the little study bnrk
into the library. The library again
leads into the halt whence IL stair.
case goes TO the drawing room.
PRICELESS MANUSCRIPTS
Tho drawing room is another fine
double room Here are more illunlin-
ated manuscripts, among them Tasso's
"Gerusalcmne Lihorata," and the sec
ond volume OF fifteenth century
French translation of nJoscphus"l Here,
too, Sir John Soanc appears in yet
another capacity. He WAS u great
#Shakespearcan scholar Il sacn,s. anu
tho first three folio editions OF Shake
speares plays have had their place III
his collection. The third folio, dated
u 1864, is exceedingly rare, an this great
ter part of the edition MAS blurred m
the great fire OF London. III lGii n
splendid collection OF gpinS Is dcliglt-
\ fu, not only Ia the tonlipSseur in
such things but to any true lover nf
beauty, and some richly carved ivory
furniture of Indian workmanship is
We'll worth attention, not only because
1t Is said to have been brought from
tho palace OF Tippu sahib.
STRANGE PIECE or WORK.
Tho wallis OF this room also are ar
ranged to soincEcStcut on the picture
book" system and many Of Soano, $
own architectural designs arc hero
preserved Among them Is surely as
strange Il piece Of work as any man
ever cxccItcd It is q picture PAINTED
by himself Of the sank OF England
properly the chief Of his architectural
works=4as q no expected IT to appear
when time should have done It's worst
With II and IL should be u ruin among
ruins. The picture IS most careful
~ worked out and IL must have been a
task OF no small difficulty.
Ii brings us from, the mans coll
lection to the man himself With II sing
gulariy inststcnt touch upon our lmaE
nation and our aympathieS What
was there In the mind fsthe architect
as he worked out the perspective OF
those broken, rooflcss wnllsg What
thoughts filled the brain on which age
was beginning to lay that $touen which
sometimes makes for greater wisdom9
Was his brush guided solely by the
vanity OF the man who sees sst hisAoWn
work perfection who can conceive of
mo change other than the decay OF
the race itself capable Of sweeping
\ away the building he raised2 Surely
not entirely. May We not rather trace
in those lines something Of the pathe-
tic consciousness that the end Of all
things is but vanity, that no mans
work may endure for ever and that
at the last to the hopes ana anbi-
tons and even to the failures OF ever
man there comes a. gentle fading into
nothingneSsH