The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-15

TN the spring the young New Yorks
er's fancy lightly turns to thoughts
OF foreign shores. and the julius
Rolshoven paintings in the Rein.
hardt Galleries. 6G5 Fifth avenue aid
and abet these unpatrio,ic desires Mr.
Rolshoven lives in Florence and he not
only tantalzes us with Florentine pal.
aces and gardens. but n whole sequence
OF sketches IN Tunisian market places
and baZaars that are most disturbing.
What American can look upon any
Moor without being engulfed in whole
oceans OF regret and envy for the sume-
thing the Moor possesses that we do
. not? The great white way" with It's
young ladies wirklng electric eyes at
US over tho roof tops. and all the
myriads of other symbols that wriGgle
and writhe In emerald aud aubergine
lights to advertise, is very charming;
and OF course We have the highest pride
In the Wooiworth Building. which puts
every tower In Tunis to the blush by at
least five hundred feet but even so there
are things in Tunls we DO not have, and
that we yearn for, .spe, ALLY about this
time Of the year
Tun!s has several kinds OF "souks," for
instance, and yelled women-aren't you,
too. just n little weary OF the hobbleti
skfrt?-and s!estas and merchants like
those in "Sumurun' and captivating
coffee houses. We don't pretend to
know exactly what a SIOUX" is but II Is
a nice place II Mr.. Roishovens picture
Is To be believed. We imagine the silk
Sioux to be the silk district, and il u
located upon narrow street covered
with awnings that admit but Sits Of
light. and under whitewashed alcovs
the gorgeous merchants colorful cos.
tunes CLEAN through the shadows
while they drink their coffee and con.
summate their bargains. Anything
more unlike the Fourth avenue silk dis.
trict mere. 1t is impossible to imagine.
We have not explored the new silk
buildings upon Fourth avenue COM
pletely. but we should like the proprietor
OF the admittedly most up to date silk
emporium in New York TO take q look at
Mr.. Rolshoven's SILK SIOUX" and then
tell US, with HIS hand upon his heart. II
Fourth avenue really has anything on
Tunis.
Then there "a the S!dl-Bon.Said coffee
house Wouldn't We just go there every
afternoon Jar at 4 y. NJ. to write our
art criticisms, If It We're in New York?
criticisms in that event? Rather. You
only see the outside OF 1t in the picture.
but any one WIN half an eye for coffee
houses can see it is all right 1t is two
Stories high. but the cafe part with
veranda is in the upper region, with
wide white steps leading up to it,
From the top we enjoy an exquisite
sVlEW," says Baedeker. which Is finest
BY morning light. of the sight Of Car.
thage. AS II any one cared NJ for
any morning view whatever in Sidi- Bon.
Said. Mr.. Rolshoven went there like q
sensible person for his slesta and the
moment he finished his capital sketch
he hurried right in to enjoy his we'll
earned dominoes and coffee.
The second group OF pictures are the
Florentine ones Some ladies' and q
little girl inspected them eagerly, az we
did, and the ladies found as much TO an.
prove OF in the paiazzi interiors as We
had in Tun!slan ones. One OF them de.
cided that she could not continue living
unless she lived In one OF those palaces
that had no carpets and very little fur
niture and yet looked sufficiently fur
n!shed. The others egged the enthusiast
on and promised that they would come
20 her for week ends. Suddenly a child
tsh voice piped up and pervaded the gal
lery:
Mamma, Is that man going to buy
the picture?
Hush, darling"
Mamma. why does the man look 80
ct the picture?"
Because. my dear. II 10 very beaut.
ful, and these pictures show a new way
OF painting and that trellised window
with roses, ." but by that time
the little darling had been sternly
dragged into the Tuns room and out Of
earshot.
Never heess. she started new train
OF thought. DO critics ever buy pic
lures? II not, why not7 We unused and
unused upon the subject hut could come
10 no definite conclusion.
THE Durand-Ruel exhibition OF tho
works Of Claude Monet contains
hut twenty pictures. yet they
cover the whole range OF the great i'm
pressionsts career, and 10 those who
recall his revolutionary exhibitions in
the past each picture is like turning IA
separate PAGE OF history.
There II just one OF the "Cathedrale
de Rouen' series the "k,ffet de Soleil,
1894 which still carries with 1t the
power TO provoke discussion; one Of
the water lily series; one OF the sunsets
OF 1891, with very little of subject upon
which to hang the refracted. scintillat-
ing color harmonles, and some Interest,"
10 very early examples.
OF these lie Havrc tcrrasse au Bord
de la MGR. 1866" has the earliest date.
II shows garden with flower beds and
brick walls To protect IL from the too
brusque breezes which sweep across tho
waters OF the bay, ana there are steamer
chShs and quartet OF people taking
ths Nj N comfortable fashion, the two