New-York tribune., 1912-03-23
LONDON NOTES
cartoons at ChriStie's-Futur.
iStS--Spy Drama.
London, March 3.

sraphic stone ana subsequently coioieu'
the bulk of them have been drawings
leslie Ward, Pellegrini, Chartran,
,,soroas Mast and other artists which
I'd he reproduced by chromo-lithog-
.ny ~ over eight hundred of these car
.sors which saw the light between 1869
"a 1890. have been auctioned off as
.,,,cnirs for country house smoking
D.o,os and 10 dealers bids for collectors
.,,folios. and there has been brisk
,,retition for the best known su5jects.
vor four days there has been a motley
rrocession of sovereigns, diplomats.
I,otasren. philosophers poets, actors,
u,pIionaires. cricketers, Jockeys and So
dol celebrities through the auction room.
T,s hands Of the clock have been turned
toc, 10 the 70s and sos. and the
r.onle. great and small. who once were
,oked about in clubs and drawing rooms
have had the centre Of the stage for TWO
- three minutes before being whisked
~ st the flies, and the languid spectators
,,o,ching the shifting OF the faces and
tsures have been reminded how history
ras made hand over hand.
bismarck in uniform has been one Of
the earliest figures, as he was carlca-
,ured forty years ago, and his veteran
rroneror William, "Unser Fritz" and
yoltke have followed him. Garibaldi, in
,,hitA cloak and red tie, has masquer-
sded as a mountain bandit; Victor
rr,manuel has swept by with stately
stride. and Plus TX and Leo XIII have
,uued benignantly as the hammer
dropped. Napoleon III, Gambetta, Louis
Blanc, Theirs. MacMahon and Bou-
Isnger have formed a striking French
vroup. and there are characteristic
oriental figures In scarlet fez, such as
Ahd-ul-Aziz, Midhat and Ismail. Glad
stone has been seen several times IN
b,sh collar and with beaked nose. and
Besconsfield has been man OF mystery
lingering his gloves and smiling WIN
ronic disdain White haired John
prieht Parneu shabbily dressed but
bslIigerent; sincere Bradlaugh and cynl-
cal Iabouchere. heayy-eyed Harrington
and wide-awake Chamberlain, STOPPING
but subtle Salisbury, Lord RandoiPh
Churchill. with curled mustache ana
arms akimbo; scholarly Sir George ire
yelyan, Rosebery in early manhood Har-
court with his ponderous manner, and
RsIfour narrow-waisted and Jaunty as
he WAS in 1887, have made their bow
and retired. King Edward was por-
trayed with dignity by both T1ssot ana
Ward before he came TO the throne;
there were excellent likenesses OF queen
Alexandra and the Empress Frederick
ana the Duke Of Connaught, with yellow
hair spruce figure and white gloves
was the beau ideal Of soldier IN the
eos.
The comic spirit has enlivened the
auction room when the philosophers
meets and artists have been introduced.
Herbert Spencer muff1ed with an enor-
nous cravat. Carlyle under a broad
trimmed hat. Pasteur playing with a
pair of white rabbits. John Stuart MIL
overwhelmed with melancholy, Darwin
with long white beard and Huxley ana
TvndaI with their. scientific cock-sure-
ness were deftly caricatured. Cardinals
Newman and Manning We're treated
with more respect, but Pusey, Dean
Stanley. Charles Kingsley, Bishop Co
lenso. spurgeon and Moody and sahKey
were drawn with free hand. The hu-
NOR became broader when Swinourne
was crowned with a heavy sheaf OF req
hair. or Wagner with baton outstretched
was fitting on the edge OF chalr' OF
Whistler with his white lock twirieo ms
fopp!sh cane, or Ruskin was in fuil en-
toyment Of his picturesque STYLE or
Tennyson and Browning became prosdic
and bored men Of the world.
A large group Of Americans have also
enjoyed this brief triumph at Christie's.
Among them are Charles Sumner
Charles Francis Adams, Horace Greeley
General Grant, Hamilton Fish. James
Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes
General Schenck, Bret Harte and James
Gordon Bennett.
II the page cartoon in Vanity Fair
has been a title 10 fame in the past, the
prices Of the drawings are not to be
accepted as unerring evidence OF the
final judgments Of history. Otherwise
horse jockeys will be rated as more I'M
portant personages than archbishops
dukes justices or court officials, and
Sir Francis Burnand, at % guineas, has
superior distinction to either Bismarck
OF the Baroness Burdett- Coutts ct 10
guineas, or TO either Thomas Carlyle or
Joseph Chamberlain at 1S guincas
Dealers orders from capricious patrons
account for the vagaries Of the auction
room. by which the clock winder Of the
Continent. NJ. de Blowitz. is rated at
suineas. with beggarly economy, when
his oldtime puppets, the sovereigns and
statesmen Of his time, soar high above
him with pushful effrontery.
The italian Futurists, less fortunate
than the ost-Impressionists OF the
Grafton Gallery, have been heralded as
reyolutionists in art and have been
laughed out OF London. There are four
OF them In the little gallery in Sackville
street Baccioni, Russolo. Severini and
Cara, and they have poet, Marinetti'
to blow the footing horn for them be-
lore the walls Of Academic Jericho. The
walls stand; art critics are undismayed,
and there are no credulous faddists OBJ
sessed with the idea that the old mas
tiers are false gods, and that these Ital-
ian anarchists are inspired with visions
OF the new heavens and new earth.
The Train at Full Speed" and "The
Pan Pan Dance at the Monico" are the
most original of these incohorent pict-
ues. in which the spectator is invited