The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-06


Yellow Buskin'' q4ady AIahibald Camp
belD, now in the Wils6ch collection
Philadelphia, were both being painted at
the same time. Both portraits We're be-
ing finished at 454 F'ulharn road. whence
in 1885 Whistler removed to Tite street,
and both appeared together at the Paris
salon of that year
M. Duret lent his portrait to the Whist
Ter Memorial exhibition at the new gall
lery, Regent street, in 1906 NJ. Duret is
represented il. conventional evening dress,
standing in front of a pale pink curtain;
he carries an opera hat in his right
hand and over his left a pink domino
falls in folds to the ground
The Metropolitan museum already pos
sesses the whole length portrait of The
Gold Girl Miss Connie Gilchrist, now
Lady Orkney-with skipping rope. paint
ed in 1876 and exhibited at the Grosvenor
gallery three years later.
Revelations keep coming one on top of
the other, showing the desperate charac-
ten of the militant suffrage organization.
Following tine recent attempt to burn
down the pavilion on Rochampton's fa-
nous golf course, clever Scotland Yard
detective shadowed a well known mill
tant' firebrand. Miss Olive Hocken, who
is a painter of pictures when she is not
smashing windows and heckling ministers
and the trail duly led to a remarkable
arsenal concealed in her art studio on
Noting HILL Here is an incomplete list
of the material discovered and removed
by the detective pending the trial of gentle
Olive, the artist:
Bundle of fire lighters.
Paraffin can.
Spoke shave for making wood shavings
Two dummy motor identification plates.
reading 96S one way and S96 when reversed
Hand wire cutter.
Three wire cutters and a number of
extension rods.
Pair of pole climbers.
Six hack saw blades.
Suffragist flags and a sash bearing the
words Votes for Women
Long cords with metal pipe joints at
tached.
Piece of copper telegraph wire.
American revolving drill, pair of pliers
q brace bit. screwdriver, file, gimlet
hammer, nails and screws.
Five bottles of corrosive fluid.
A quantity of large flints.
George Bernard Shaw has just made am
other of his remarkable discoveries He
says nobody likes to be called a member
CT the middle classes.
The discovery surprises and perplexes a
bOOu I1d1ly people, Dul nODOuy mas Idhet
it upon himself or herself to say ''pshaw,'
to Shaw. Because it is the truth. Eng
land has not gotten away from the Eng
land of Dickens and James Paine Every
body ignores the middle classes seek
ing the heaven" above 1t or the hell
below it. Where the British bourgeois
has any consciousness at all, he or she
affect to be other than they are. 80 il
Is all a world of make-believe, ,, says Shaw
a how d, aolr ft-r1t1 n
tread along in trooping travesties. "
The British museum and the Bodleian
library have purchased what is probably
the lost collection of the letters of Eras-
mus. All are in Latin and are written in
clear, elegant and flowing hand, with
out erasures corrections, on paper of
quarto or foolscap size. The letters were
addressed to E. Schets, the banker of
Erasmus, who lived at Antwerp. They
were written from various places and, al
though they deal mainly with business
matters, they refer in some cases to Eng
land, as Schets collected for Erasmus the
pensions which he drew from this country
and other debts. There are. indeed, few
OF the letters which do not refer to other
than business and financial matters, Thus
Luther, the monks, political affairs and
the empire. and English acquaintance
are occasionally touched upon, and in one
letter Erasmus complains of the hostility
OF q person who did him an i'll turn for
having dared to write to Luther.
This collection of letters formerly be-
longed to PIERRE Francois Xavier de Ram
QS04-65), rector of Louvain, and more re-
Gently to Louis Neve of Louvain, from
whom 1t was purchased by the British
Museum and the Bodlean library jointly,
the latter taking nine letters of the series.
With exception of the Libraries of Basel
and Copenhagen, - library contains so
large a collection of the letters of Eras-
mus as this.
). NJ Barrles new play, The Legend OF
Leonora, which will be acted by Miss
Maude Adams at the Empire theatre in
New York after her next Christmas sea-
son in Peter Pan, will be produced stimuli
taneously in London at the Duke of York S
theatre.
PRAYER to Omen RaSahaIl amos