The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-07

| the best workers Of other countries.
and the organization OF the Chicago
Society of Etchers in 1910 reveals
surprising number OF American etchers
and the work seen here is full or
| promise.
All OF the etchings exhibited at the
/ Art Club interest you at once and a
great many Of them you come back
| TO over and over again. finding In the
revelation made BY the work Of the
artist some spirit OF longing that has
| dwclt in your own desires and mbi-
tons. Tho work OF George Senseney
is extremely fascinating. II liz glorious
/ with light and shade and aoftest
subtlest tints of evening and afternoon
sky. Ills Twilight" THE Old Mill"
! Chimney Corner" aud "Footoridge"
arc prominent in this collection of
! well known and wideiy-known
etchers.
! Some OF the other etchings exhibit
ed that are OF especial interest and
note are "Salutation Mexico; Cob
lin Lanterns" by Helen Hyde: Grand
Canal, Venice" by Charles B. King;
| The Giants" THE Hollow Sycamore"
/ by w. Z. Hentschel: Willows" by
! Elizabeth Colwell; "A Venice Fisher
man by Bertha K. jacques "Alhem-
bra From Generalife.' by Charles *.
Gleeson: "A City of Granite by Louis
! O. Griffith: The Old Silk Dress" by
Gustav r. Goetsch; The Outlaws" by
Earl II. Reed: "St. Etienne du Mont"
! by Thomas II. Consdon.
! The exhibition and the work sent
| TO 1t is or an unusually high standard
and grace and Richmond people are
! greatly Interested in IL
Dr. 5Ictcalrs Lecture.
/ The Letter In Literature" was the
subject OF thoroughly interesting
and novel address last evening by DR.
! j. {. Metcalf at the Wonan's Club.
| Or. Metcalf has an altogether quaint
and humorous manoer OF presenting
! his thoughts to his audience and his
/ lectures are made after a fashion OF
his own and with the greatest pleas
urc 10 his hearers.
| He opened his address with the def
milton that a letter Ia a written doc
! ument Some one has said that litera-
ture is personal use or exercise of
! language. and a good letter is bit
of personality put on paper. Letter
writing has been called the gentlest
art. and DR.. Metcalt said that in this
century the pen was fast becoming
rusticr than the sword. x letter, TO
chatty. reflection OF a mood-iu "A
chatty. 4 rcection of mood-in a
word, IL is species OF autobiography
in sections
The first letter. writer on record is
a woman the mother Of Nerxes, but
! the Greeks have loft us almost every
| thing but letters. the only ones tina,
! have survived being painfully prim
and proper.
| /, is among the Romans that oae
/ finds the drst real letters. Or. Met
calf said that Cicero wrote delight
/ FULLY charming cpistles that touched
all on the thousand and one things that
hlled the life OF this remarkable man.
! subtle bits from many old letters were
! AnnSinRlN
naive and personal they were, and
+ many of them are worth more than
pages OF photographers. There was
n letter written by Pliny. the Younger,
/ full Of delicious conceits and ret!ec-
tons OF the mind OF the man. az we'll
as others OF interest but few letters
! remain from the shifting panorama OF
/ the Middle Ages. The history OF mod
ern letter writing does not actually be
gin until the middle of the fifteenth
( century.
! An enormous mass of espondence
I survives the EliZabethan period, but
Few of them are OF especial interest.
I Courtiers and schoolmasters have not
! been the best of letter-writcrs, since
/ the first are too romantic and the last
| too pcdantic. The eighteenth century
was the best of all letter writing
! periods. IT was n social, gossipy, tea
! cup age. and in il was born the novel.
Z pr. Metcalf read bits about "the dear
o
/ full tattler, which give one a charm
/ ing acquaintance with the man and an
. intimate, closer knowledge of his na
;urc. Tho English novel owes an inn
E.ense debt to the letter since il was
/ III that form that the i,at novel, ia
riela." by Richardson. appeared
| The speaker made rncntiop OF the
use of the letter In Dickens and Thack
cray and the epistles of William Cowper
and DR. Samuel Johnson. that most dis
tinguished talker OF his time. He said
that the letter written by Dr. Johnson
to Lord Chesterfield concerning his de-
layed praise Of his dictionary was the
most famous letter I'm English ltora-
ture, but he called Charles Lamb the
! prince OF letter writer's. An immortal
child shaping imperishable pastcIs
from the pantomime Of human nature,
| Lambs letters are so human and al
most unfading. The last of the great
English letter-writers is Robert Louis
/ Stevenson, who wrote from tho far-off
| Island of Samoa, to the music of the
sounding sea.
DIR. N1ctcalf concluded his lecture by
reading letter written by Matthew
| Arnold from this city in 1888, which
was filled with bright pictures OF
| Richmond in that time. Lastly, he
said that the trouble with letter writ
| ing to-day is that it seems impossible
to keep it up.
In Alexandria.
Miss Julia Cone. of this city, is
spending some time in Alexandria as
the guest of Miss Eliza Douglas. Miss
Nellie Uhler. who has been visiting
Miss Cone at her homes in Richmond,
has returned to Alexandria,
/ Entertained in Newport News.
! Miss Louise Garrow entertained Mon
day night in honor of her guest, Mrs.
Charles Fauth. of Baltimore. The
rooms were decorated with potted
plants and flowers. carrying out a color
| scheme of green and white. Miss Gar
rows guests were Misses Beulah Gary,
| Frances Fitchett, Irene Fauth, Hilda
and Elizabeth Garrow and Harvey
| Wood. James Logan, Gray Garrow.
| Thomas Fox, A. Baumstein and Will
liam Taylor, of Richmond. and Mr. and
| Mrs. Frank Scudder. Mrs. Margaret
| Chambers. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fauth,
/ and Mr.. and Mrs. O. G.. Garrow.
Chesterfield Chapter Meeting.
7 The Chesterfield ChaDter limited