New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-06
IN PHTH|S|S WAR
Former New Yorker Heads
British Fight on Tuberculosis.
LAST SALE ERASMUS MSS.
George Bernard Shaw Discovers
Nobody Likes To Be Grouped
in the Middle Glasses.

London March 29-While the people OF
the United States are weighing in the bal
ance the claims of pr +. T. friedman
the German bactcriologist that consump-
ton can he cured by his turtle serum. IN"
people OF Great Britain arc giving thanks
to Waldorf Astor for his great work IN
combating the ravages of the white
plague" in this country. Mir Astor. VINO
has given personally and secured among
his wealthy American friends large sums
to help benevolent institutions for the
care Of consumptves. has planned the
system OF national and local committees
through which funds applied from the
working OF the insurance act viii be used
10 lessen the SufcIiugs Of the poor ma
jorty Of British consumptivcs. The son
of tho American multi-millionairca and au-
thor was chosen a. chairman of the Par
iamentary committee despite the fact that
he sits on the opposition side of the House
of Commons Precedent was broken be-
cause political opponents and friends alike
for the Job" and the work Of relieving
pain was put above party considerations.
I'm addition to immediate steps 10 care
for patients incapable OF providing proper
medical and hospital care for themselves
Waldorf Astor's plan includes an exhaus-
tive system Of government aided research
work and tho provision of special schol-
arships. II has been found that the pres
ent appropriation from the state funds is
Inadequate To meet the cost. but II Is not
thought that there will be any difficulty in
securing further Parliamentary grants.
The Earliest Whistlerite.
The passing To the Metropolitan Mu-
scum. OF New York. OF Whistler's portrait
Of his friend Theodore Duret. is regarded
by British artists as but fitting and prop
or. II is appropriate. they think. that this
painting should find place in the great
est OF all American art galleries. because
NJ. Duret was one of tho first OF the
French critics h. recognize Whisitr's
genius. and ne has lived to witness all the
world come around 10 his way Of think
ing. He contributed an article on the
artist To- the Gazette dcs BeauX Arts OF
April 1851. and this paper. with others.
is reprinted in his collected essays. Crit
iquc 'Nvant-Gardc" GSSJp. Whistler's
portrait OF VI. Duret together with the
more famous one OF The yellow Bus
kin" Lady Archibald CampbelD. now IN
the Vls,ach collection. Philadelphia. were
both being painted at the same time. Both
portraits were finished al No. 4ji Full
ham Road whence IN 1855. Whistler re-
moved 10 Tito street. and both appeared
together 1T the Paris Salon Of that year.
NJ Duret lent hts portrait TO the Whist
Ter memorial exhibition. at tho New CAL
lcry. Regent street. I'm 1905. VI Duret is
represented I'm conventional evening dress.
standing IN front OF a pale pink curtain
he carries an opera hat in his right hand
and over his left pink domino falls in
folds to the ground.
The Metropolitan Museum already pos
seSses the whole length portrait OF THE
Gold Girl" (Aliss Connie Gilchrist. now
Lady Orkney. with a skipping rope
painted in 1876. and exhibited at the
Grosvcnor Gallery three years later
Middle Class Ignored.
George Bernard Shaw has just made
another OF mis- remarkable discoveries.
He says nobody likes To oe called
member OF the middle classes The dis
covery surprises and perpleXes a good
many people but nobody has taken II
upon himself or herself 20 say 'pshaw'
to Shaw. Because 1t Is he truth Eng
land has got away from the England ~
Dickens and James Payn. Everybody
ignores the middle class" seeking the
heaven" above II OF Cilating upon the
hell" below H. Where the British bour-
geois has any consciousness at all he and
she affect TO be better than they are.
so II is all a world Of make-believe.'
says Shaw. I'VE have turned our backs
upon the truth and tread alons in troop
ing trayestles.'
The British Museum and the Bodlean
Library have purchased what Is probably
the last collection of the letters of Eras-
mus which will come into the market 1t
consists OF al letters, of which thirty-two
arc holograph letters Of Erasmus. All
are I'm Latin and are written I'm clear,
elegant and flowing hand, without eras-
ures or corrections. on paper OF quarto
or foolscap size. The letters were adj
dressed To r. Schcts. the banker of Eras-
mus. who lived at Antwerp. They were
written from various places. and, al |
though they deal mainly with business
matters. they refer an some cases To Eng |
land as Schets collected for Erasmus the
pensions which ne drew from tins country |
and other debts There are, Indeed. few |
of the letters which do not refer To other !
than business and financial subjects. /
Thus Luther, the monks, political at /
fairs and the empire ana English &C
auaintances are occasionally touched on, |
and i'm one letter Erasmus complains Oh |
the hostility of a person who did nm an |
i'll turn for having dared 10 reply To !
Luther.
This collection of letters formerly be- !
longed to Pierre FRANCOIS Xavier de Ram
OS0i-'6J). rector OF I,ouvain, and more
.ecently to Louis NcVa, ct Louvdin, from
whom it was purchas ID 10y the BRUSH
Museum and the Bodleian Library JOINT
ly, the latter taking nine letters OF the
series. With the exception of the hbra-
rics of Basic and CopenhlSe1, II" library
contains so large collection oil the let
ters Of Erasmus as this
Tn Ann Tn AERIAL FORCE