New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-13
LONDON NOTES
Political Engines - Sailing
Pictures-HOlme LGcg.
London, January %

| taxing petrol and motor cars. These
were electoral agencies largely employed
/ by the friend the enemy" and the
| Radical budget maker succeeded in in
! creasing their cost, il he could not pro
I hibit their use altogether. The motor
! car enabled the Unionist managers 70
/ draw in their reserves Of ownership
voters from a wider area than has ever
been covered before II defeated in
North Wiltshire Professor Massie, one of
the most influential Nonconformists.
His Unionist opponent had as many as
a hundred motor cars while he himself
could not muster more than two or three.
Outvoters we're driven TO the polling
places from London. Bristol, oxford.
Gloucester, Hungerford and the renlotest
ranges of Salisbury Plain and taken
back to their homes without expense.
The corrupt practices act would have
been violated and the election invaIi-
dated if their railway fares had been
paid by the Cnionist agent, but motor
cars could be lent and kept in constant
operation without infringement OF law
Many other close county divisions were
carried in the same way. In no previous
election has the polling Of ownership
voters been equally heavy. Systematic
arrangements were made for securing
the attendance of these outside voters
at little inconvenience to themselves.
The plural voters were mainly Unionists:
the motor cars were on the side OF
wealth, the Esta blished Church and
social position. rather Fhan democracy
and Nonconfornity.
The abolition of plural voting cannot
be expected until there is another demo-
cratic House with a majority much
larger and more stable than Mr.. AsqUith
now commands. With the budget and
veto questions uppermost and q Home
Rule bill deferred until the relations OF
the houses can be settled by compromise,
| royal warrant or constructive legislation.
there is no likelihood that election meth
DDS can be reformed before there is an
other national contest. Prohibition of
the use of motor cars is clearly fmprac-
tica BILE when one Of the main parties is
bent upon retaining the full advantage
of superior wealth; and so. also. is the
substitution of a single polling day for
an electoral period OF over three weeks,
since the operations OF plural voters
would be restricted by concentration Of
activities. There are reform measures,
however, which will enlist the sympathy
and cooperation of candidates and party
men on both sides.
One is the abolition Of house toulouse
canvassing, which is disIiked a : 4 weari-
some and ineffective process Society
women would plump for this reform. for
they detest what they describe as ''po-
Htical summing Another reform
which would meet with little opposition
IS the prohibition Of political cartoons
and posters on hoardings Neither party
gains any practical advantage from the
display Of pictorial exaggerations and
lies and from the Disagreement Of
streets
The Sailing pictures and drawings
which have been beaueathed TO the ns-
ton are now on exhibition at the Agnev
galleries, with the exception Of twenty
eight paintings already in the National
Gallery. The trustees are allowed 70 ex-
ercise discretion and either to accept or .
10 reject them, and il is likely that about 7
half of the 279 works included in this
splendid gift will be thrown out. Not
all can be accounted great masters. but !
it is an adnira BILE collection for supple +
rnenting the treasures OF the National I.
Gallery, since many of the pictures will (
i'll gaps, especially in the early Flemish
and German and in the modern French .
sections. and not few Of them are by
minor painters who are not represented /
IN Trafalgar Square For this reason /.
the task of selecting what they will take
becomes an easy one for the trustees /
although the walls of the little gallery +
are overcrovded with these interesting .
works and there Is not a favora BILE OF /
portunity for examining them critically.
There are two portraits by Frans HAS. .
which will be important additions 20 the .
long Dutch room in the National Gallery {
One is an early work, woman with /
wonderfully painted hands and lace, and {
the other is a strongly modelled cavalier .
with a glove The Rembrandts are .
sombre landscape with light concen- 4
trated on woman bathing and 2 mas
terry portrait of 4 man with iron gray
hair and cap. The Van Dycks. Prince
panghi and the portrait Of 2 lady. are
also of fair quality.
The best Hobberna-and II IS 2 beaUri-
fuI one-shows = path through woods F.
with cottages in the background. under =
spacious sky full OF light and air The
finest OF the nine Ruysdaels is a wood
land scene, with cattle and q pool II .
water under a blue and gray sky, painted .
in his most minute rather than his
broadest style. The best OF four Cuyps
has the usual group Of cattle and the
nerds1?au on The bank, and the charac-
reristic atmospheric effect. The National
Gallery already mas five Hobbemas,
PuvsdaeIs and Cuyps. but only two Ia
ferior Jan Yer Neers. And here IS a
charming one, = lady in a blue dress.
with spinet. and there is an even more
interesting interior by Peter de Hoogh--
three men and Z lady in pink at luncheon.
with the room full OF clear sunlight
The most brilliant Teniers is the -Tric-
trac PLAYERS perfect in detail ana ex-
0uisite in coloring.
In addition 10 the Flemish and Ger
man primitives there is q series of Italian
holy families and religious pictures.
some of them exceedingly quaint and by
pajnters unrepresented in the compre-
hensive national collection. The wistful.
-,-,,or Farad Madonna with the Holy .