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ART NEWS AND COMMENT.
ANDRE SMITH really writes L

7 ANDRE SMITH really writes too
well. He writes as well as he
~ etches and sooner or later one OF
these talents will have tn give way TO
the other. We agree with Sir Joshua
Reynolds that IAN artist should sew up
his mouth" The quotation is rather
rough in it's application TO Mr. Smith,
but We do not mean to be rough, nor
did Sir Joshua. Sir Joshua implied
that every particle OF feeling that the
artist possessed was required for the
picture that was meant for eternity.
There are few lenient ltteratcurs who
hold that Dante Gabriel Rossetti was
an exception TO the rule, but We are
not quite sure IN our own minds but
that It would have proflted even Dante
Gabriel to stick to his palette. The one
and only exception We willingly allow
is that OF Blake. II we had to choos,
between his poems or his pictures we
should he perplexed, As there cannot
be an exception TO a rule. perhaps II
isn't rule. But al any rate We should
like to warn Mr. Smith that he really
writes too well FOR an eicher.
His show of etchngs In the Hahlo
Galleries Is a good one. The improve
three years work IL marked and his
evident willingness ITO go to It" Is an
encouraging syn lis great danger Is
| facility.
In Mr. smiths letter to Mr. Hahlo,
which We are permitted to read, he
objects to speaking of his work:
AS G rule nothing but sudden fame
or sudden death viii mako a public in
| terested In the how | did It. s. de of a
mans work. In this particular | am
| sure that ! am still young enough and
still sufficiently lacking In experience
to be able to look forward to years OF
silence,
"The italian plates hre the result Of
my past summers work in and near
| Florence and especially In Venice. In
n city like Florence, that has been so
much painted and pictured il is per-
haps natural for one to feel a certain
hesitation in visiting the place with the
deliberate intention of adding to the vol
ime OF pictures already made. Re-
uides. Florence has one fearful attrac-
tion-the Ponte VecCh!o-perhaps tho
most overworked subject In all of Italy
I cannot boast OF complete yIctorv
over this temptation, as you VIII note
by one or two pencil drawings which
am Including in the exhibition. Never.
theless ] have RETAINED from etchin,
II. But upon consideration, in view
Of the popularity Of the subject, 1 am
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The Renaissance Room with the Madonna Peon
IAN collection, Metropolitan Museum OF Art

any point OF view; the bringing OF so ex-
liaui H...ary AIT ss~niD.abe oi rarit.es
ana objects oil taste 10 tnis country .s
a WONDERFUL asset Tor US. II Is an
asset, a. yod w.I,, even from the COM
merc.al Standpoint. The reputation ior
national good TASTE helps business aiung.
N..n .he siuIsa.I cviIsct4un constantly
before our eyes not oniy wIIl our Upper
ten have standard to go by, but our
J, s.SnerS anu manufacturers have an
lued. TO strive Tor. Germany probably
,nN les US the collection even more than
Queen Alexandra ooes, tor I,ermany
rea.,<ss per.ecuy the value OF good
tas.e as app.ed to BUSINESS and Is
determined To wrest the supremacy from
France, II taking thought viii uo IL.
Inc collection is one OF great spe-
cialIzatlon and Is Tor the specialist.
1 he average amateur of the arts WIN
sees ii tor the III st time will carry away
a vague and Blended sense oi HAVING
seen beautiful things about which the
historian. DID he choose. could spin US
delightful tales by the hour. but no one
ab.oIng because deep impression Will
remain with him Tor the rest OF his lie.
The average amateur when he recalls
his gratitude to Mr.. Morgan will think
VI TIE Sitat pdlltiikrI VI TIC INdDUdti
Madonna OF the r..p.no Lippi, % the
Raeburns, Gainsboroughs and the room
fuli OF Fragonards, which. last in the
representative sense. stand almost At
the first OF the paintings.
THE water coors OF the American
society now exhibited IN the
knoedler Gallery ar. thoroughly
nsipid and present no possible point
upon which TO hang "A discussion. For
some reason the artists seem to be
thoroughly cowed, frightened and brow
beaten, and speak In sim small voices
that do not reach US.
How 100 water colors OF such low
staLuardlz,d, IIoglike vitality could
he collected together in one exhibition
Is mystery. We are willing to wager
our hat tnat some good ones have been
| rejected. The deadly level that has
been achieved hints at an adamant, | 6.
! flexible will located somewhere upon
that jury Of selection, which II applied
! In other directions. say to something
commercially syndicated. would bring It's
fortunate possessor fame and fortune In
| no time
The 5000 prize. generously given to
| the society by Alexander M. Hudnut,
| has been awarded for the first time to
Edward H. Potthast for his water color
called The Holiday" in which a group
OF mixed batheis disport rather photo
graphically In the breakers
Two little ones that have suggestion
OF something better In them are by
Raymond l.. Thayer and Florence Wy
man. Mr.. Thayer's landscape has some
good color in II, Of the Jewellike power
that the late John La Fargo was famous
for, hut he spoils his virginia Cloud
Design" by using too thick an lmpasto
upon those same Clouds. Mss Wyman 3
Spring shows blue and white flowers.
large In the foreground. through whl h
one sees the duh waters Of pool, while
| up In tho corner IVA 'Nr'eNs 9
nymphs who have lately stirred ~
waters are d.s,u ssins .ni...,. lad
little water color u nice and unprs-
tending.
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THE Galleries Bourgeois. At 66s
Fifth avenue, which opened their
new doors to the public this
week. brings Paris a little nearer to
us. Actually there is Cezanne upon
heir walls. fine one too. and more
than one Van Gogh. These are
shown as innocently as possible upon
lovely damask walls and surrounded
~ excellent Mo .tiCellis. Toulouse Lau-
'recs. Tiepolos Adrlaen Brouwers. FL
.;recos, Van Dycks and so on. But the
act remains. in spite OF the luxurious
surroundings, that Cezannes and Van
ioshs are now upon sale on Fifth ave-
rue.
The Cezanne is the self portrait.
wearing the blue black "bowler" In the
'now, that was exhibited in the armory
~h'hitipn lpst s~ri~P The avtraOr-
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HLFFORD ASHLEY. who IL one IL
to judge by the way he signs his
name Is an illustrator. shows
some paintings of pirates and other
orms Of life upon the ocean wave in
he Folsom Galleries. Curious the
'hanges In the fashions OF signing
lames to pictures. Time was when
Everybody did 1t very carefully In
Roman letters. Now every one Ii very
by and nervous over IL. Even Sargent
makes you hunt for il half the time
Soon they'll stop 1t altogether.
Mr.. Ashley's ambitious pirates sug-
gest illustrations too. From n distance
they seem to have all the detail that
Meissonier possesses. but on a nearer
approach 1t becomes apparent that the
Effect has been secured with much less
labor than Meissonier expended upon
his canvases. MISSIONER expended
"A very great deal OF effort upon his
pictures. But OF course In the rush of
magazine work such system would
scarcely be practical.
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Ivory disc. French XIV. century.

the sitter IL OF the artistic type.
and the style OF the painting has great
distinction. The portrait OF noble
man. by Hans Baldung, li75-l545, Is
drawn with "A Holbeinish tdelity. and
the colors, which were put on very
simply. have 10y the passage OF years
acquired n fine patine. IeIe back
ground was one fat stone OF deep tur-
auoise originally. but now IT has taken
on the quality OF enamel.
There Is also Manet. rather
skctch!ly painted, TO be seen. and two
fuYy spanlels by Monticello and n
Monet picture OF steep cliffs.
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binary air of having Just slipped into
the picture and being caught unaware
is an potent as ever. Van Gogh Is rep
resented by n street scene. a landscape
In his advanced manner. with carmine
outlines to the Towering fruit trees
and with some flower pieces.
The Toulouse-Iautr are serious
interesting portrait studies OF inter-
esting personalities. one Of them a
painter; the catalogue says n Russian
A little portrait by Hans Burgkmair.
who lived In 1473-lJ3l, is thought to be
of the artist who painted II. Certainly
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tiers Of intimate interest to the scribeF
and hence considerable record OF their
activities is obtainable. Bronze foun-
dries of the present where copies are
undertaken are NJ. ., we fear. so closely
written mp. Bronze foundrles OF the
present day, whore copies are under
taken we fear, do not deserve to be
written up for posterity.
We said that '..,cio and the other
Paduan workers In bronze we're largely
poets by accident. We mean that their
business was first to copy, and the lucky
accident for them was that the age they
lived In permitted n different interpre-
tation OF the word copy" from that at
present In use. To copy" then meant
to copy the idea. With the powerful
and glorious imaginative faculties that
every meuieval individual posses sed by
natural birthrlght and which endow-
ment is approao he'd among the moderns
only by the Irish peasants. to repeat an
idea was to enlarge upon 1t. In retell-
Ing the story they reacted II with a
fresh feeling OF Interpretation. In con-
sequence the halo OF poetry does de-
sccnd upon them.
There is the touch Of human expe-
rienCe here and there to which we re-
spond. At the same time they do not
take on quite the stature of the greatest
class In art. They did not In their own
time, they don't in this and they never
will. They are minor poetry" charm
ing to the cultivated taste: charming
partly because of the historical back
ground they suggest and charming,
since we must tell the truth. partly be-
cause in the very nature of things they
never can appeal 10 the "canaille."
# HE crystals, enamelled watches,
old pate, even the magnificent
tapestries and historic portrait
miniatures. partake OF this same gen.
eral character. appealing to the smaller
though upper class OF the community.
The more one tours the galleries the
more Is one impressed therefore with
the real generosity and modesty OF Mr.
Morgan as n collector. The millions
that were necessary for the gathering
OF this collection were spent In n work
OF great public utility and not, as is so
often the case. with the idea OF the
collectors personal glory.
The value OF il is undenlable from
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which is good. but not so good as
Monet's.
Now the friends Of any American
painter who Is an impress on.st and yet
not 80 good one as Monet may be grieved
AT our stating such a fact The compari-
son seems a severe one To them. The,
say why grumhle because a perfectly
good marine painter Is not So good a.
Winslow Homer OF because Augustus
Johns Is not up to Ghirian davo ut
George GRAY fSarrard not up to RodIn
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EVENTEEN landscapes by Samuel
Weiss form t..s present show in
- the Arlington Galleries. They are
in agreeable color and show a gain In
that respect over the work last ex-
h.b.ted ~ tbs artist. / hetv IS "A
greater command over the subject and
ne s-h'ec' -,atter seems more impor
tant than before.
There is not even yet however,
enough search for the theme. The
landscape has been accepted rather
pacidly in toto by the painter. whose
chief enthusiasm has been for the color,
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IT HE sophisticated. instructed audi
ence Of Tuesday evening looked
at everything and moved about
among the elegant objets de luxe with
ease. They felt. II not precisely at
home. al least tSat they were sur
rounded by objects that they would like
to have at home. There is no installing
that air Of preciousness which most OF
the tiny objects in the cases radiate.
II is not invariably the perfection OF
the art that gives this eject. The
little ivory tablets that the Roman
Consul distributed after his election TO
his henchmen do not thrill us so much
by mere workmanship, nor does the
oejewelled box that encloses the genuire
lock OF Marie Antolnstte's hair. But
these things to a less and the Renals-
ssnce bronzes to q greater degree would
reassure US greatly DID we possess them
ourselves. We vow We shar also
even we. in Queen AlexanGras envy
Such things about one make for spr.
ituai comfort. They suggest as Amos,
nothing else in art does "a long course
Of the respectable two per CENTS" Of
whose uplifting powers the admirable
Miss Becky Sharp was SO well aware
A<tttIs VI tHc
whose early history in the lie des
Pengouins" was so remarkable are the
moss priced Of ornaments, Anatole
France tells US in modern Partisan
boudoirs, aud VIC recall wildly the Car
pAcclan elegance of the row of slim little
6ronzes IN the library OF Mrs. Philip
Lydig last year and the frantic efforts
Of the auctioneer to make US realize the
seriousness OF an occasion upon which
We might have acquired them. We
know better now OF course. You will
know better t0o when YOU do the Nor
gan b. slZes more thoroughly.
AZ the same time 1t Is impossible &c
suppress vision OF the contrast in
volyed In the lives Of the humble arti.
sans who made the bronzes, for they
were artisans first and poets by ac-
cideht, and the immense ard fashion.
able prestige their work enjoys In the
present day is topic upon which sew
ersl rmons re,ating to the vanites o.
this world might be preao he'd.
Their production came about through
the Renaissance love for the antique
The great ancient bronzes were few anC
were possessed by prices. but small
replicas could be acquired even By sub
5ects. Padua and the other ell whor,
they were made were small in compar ri
son to our cities and the doings in the
Hourishing bronze foundries were mat
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WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD OF ART

Alexander c. Humphreys by John W
Alexander Is included, happy cr,.t
dence in connection with the HumpAr.
collection.
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T>HRoNGs Of pleased and inter-
ested people have Inspected the
Morgan collections. now at last
Installed In the Metropolitan
Museum OF Art. The polite world was
strongly In evidence at the open ng
reception upon Tuesday eve a!ng, and
the comments naturally were also polite.
We knew that kings and great poten-
tatss were frequently outbid and out
neutrality-suspicious. It's the same thing
lin the pursuit of these trea, res. and
Il v q historic faci that IT least two
Of the most admired OF modern queens
cslled to see the collection at Princes
Gate. London. ana COME ssed afterward
that their feelings ~ admiration were
mixed with amazement and envy. The
polite world OF tuesday evening shared
al three Of these feelings equally. How
could any one with the slightest preten-
sion Of knowledge Of form do other
wise?
The professional critics, who some-
times are not so polite as they might
be. were upon this occasion all that
covld be desired. They had been ad-
Ynitted several days In advance Of the
opening that they might commune with
these gems In privacy. The res ults of
this intense study. as so Ear pub shed
while not markedly profound are re-
spsetful.
And now comes TIRE turn Of the people
What they will think Of these art
wonders, mostly in miniature. would be
something to know. Ii VIII he difficult
to md Ii out, and we Will be slow in
nnding IL out, but In the end the
opinion OF the great world registers
itself. They will go to the museum
ignorant of the fact that, two queens
have admired this work. In spite OF our
valiant efforts to spread the ingratiat ng
circumstance: ignorant Of the fact that
Il 10 a rather shameful thing not to
know what a Renaissance bronze is
ignorant OF the differences between
Byzantine and Limoges enames: but
not ignorant Of life and the Inspirations
Of life by which al art is eventually
tested
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not quite certain whether 1t takes more
courage to do 1t or not to do II.
But IL was conscious OF a sense OF
restriction in Florence. 1t was nothing
to- what ] suffered in Venice. i shall
never forget the terrible feeling ! had
of coming too late. ii seemed to me
that every one who had ever drawn,
painted, etched, photographed or In any
other way had pictured the most ad-
vertised beauty Of The Pearl OF the
Adriatic had been there In advance OF
me. And most frightfuly In evidence
of them al; vas whistler. Whistler
was everywhere (harr!ng the LIDO, and
II one found anything at all worth the
doing, there he was screaming into
ones conscience a repeated protest
against the stealing of his pet SUBJ
jects. | assure you II took considerable
courage to Withstand the impulse
toward flight; but II took more than
lust considerable courage to tell them all
Hncludlng the Tantalizlng Spectre) to
20 hang, and then to settle down TO see
and work in ones own private way"
An exhibition OF the charcoal draw
ings Of the late Thomas S. Noble has
Dcpn arranged by SSCheI III
galleries at 81 East Twelfth street. The
subjects are landscape themes found In
this country. mostly In Indiana and
Kentucky. Mr.. Noble was born In
Kentucky in 1886 and had the good for
tune when he went to Paris In 1855 to
study under Thomas Couture. who was
then at the height of his fame. He ex-
hbited In New York and in the W.st
until the close Of his career In 1907.
THE funds OF the Metropolitan Mu-
scum Of Art" writes President Robert
". de Forest in his annual report, "in-
creased by the munificent gift Of Francis
l.. Leland and the bequest of Joseph
| Pulitzer, have yielded purchasing
power of over $4,000: its collec-
lions have been augmented through pur-
chase and gift by an unprecedented
number of objects, crowned by the
princely beauest Of the late BENJAMIN
| Altman and the gift OF William II.
Riggs. which by themselves constitute
a museum OF rarest quality: moreover.
] the loans received have been mum srous
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The third annual exhibition OF the
national Association OF Portrait Paint
ers, recently shown al the Knoedler
Galleries In New York, opened In Pitts
burg yesterday. The portrait Of DR..
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and notable In their Indication OF friend
!ints SIS on the part OF the lenders"
Prominent among the gifts in the de-
partment OF painting is King Lear"
by y. A. Abbey, which was the last OF
the many henefactions OF George A.
Hearn.
Among the uictures ACQUIRED nv pu--
chase were the Pieta, by Crivelli; a
triptych, by lsenbrandt. The Miracle
of the Loaves and Fishes" and the Two
Brothers" by Tintoretto: portrait by
Moroni proce ssional banner by Spin
clio Aretino and three predella panels
by Botticini.
Only one OF the modern works ,s
foreign, the "Colline des Pauvres." By
Cezanne, The others were portrait
OF Duret. by Whistler; landscape. by
Jervis NcEntee; Camp Meeting" by
Worth'ngton WhIttredge; "Moonrise,"
10y +. :. Church; Morning Vision" by
H. q. Walker: pink Sash" by l..
kronheTG Portrait OF a Lady,. by
W. NJ. Chase. and Fairy Tales" and
Magnolia both by J. J. Shannon.
Here Is Whistler yarn that Mr..
Bartlett believes has never been printed.
and II comes from his w,fn Mrs
Bartlett knew him we'll and was chatting
him one day about his treatment of
Ruskin.
You should have been ashamed" she
said to him, ito have been so rough
with him. He was such an old man
and already had one foot In the grave"
"Ah." rejoned Whistler. but YOU see
! wasn't after that foot"
Dr. Alfred ID. F. Hamlln. professor
OF architecture at Columbia Univer-
sity; Louis Weinberg OF the College
OF the City OF New York and Alexan-
der l. Van l.aer, who have been giving
courses OF lectures in art for tho adult q
OF the city under the auspices OF
the Board of Education during the past
TWO months VIII conclude their courses
th!s week. Plans are now being COM
pleted by the board for the new courses
to he offered during the next two
months, the last of the present lecture
season.
ON Friday evening next at Public
school 1882, 1921 street and Wadsworth
avenue, Prof. Hamlin viii lecture ON
the architecture OF Washington. and tho
same evening at Curtis High School.
Richmond, Alexander T. Van Laer will
conclude his course in tho history of
painting with n discussion OF the paint.
ines at the Museum OF Art. On Tues
DAY night at the Brooklyn Public Ii
nrary' FRANKLIN avenue opposite Han
COCK street, Brooklyn, Louis Wcinberc
VIII give the last Of the lectures In his
course on Art History With Special
reference to the Master Painters In the
Metropolitan Museum"
On Friday evening at Public School
II, 22S East Twenty-seventh street. DR.,
PUTNAM Cady will lecture on The Won
ders OF Egypt"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-05-29
THEN and NOW
(By Associated Press.)

Today the telegraph is one of the
most Important strands holding mod
ern civilization together. 1t is esti-
mated that something like half BILL
lion news messages, business commEni.
cations and official messages are trans
mitted every year over the six million
miles Of telegraph wire connecting
practically all Of the important settle
ments In the world, Nearly 100000
miles Of submarine telegraph also have
been laid. One invention after another
led to the reading of messages wholly
by sound, to the sending of as many az
a dozen messages simultaneously over
one circuit and in crude form the
sending of pictures over the wire by
internationally flashing beams Of light.
In it's most advanced form the tele-
graph has eliminated wires altogether
and from hundreds of stations ashore
and from the masts of almost every
large ocean going vessel the exchange
of messages through the air has lately
become almost as commonplace as Or
binary wire communication.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-05-29
few FULkS HAVE
GRAY HAIR NOW
DRUGGIST SAYS LADIES ARE U.s.
ING RECIPE OF SAGE TEA
AND SULPHUR.

Hair that loses it's color and lustre,
CT when it fades, turns gray, dull and
lifeless, is caused by lack of sulphur
in the hair. Our grandmother made
up a mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur
to keep her locks dark and beautiful,
and thousands of women and men who
value that even color, that beautiful
dark shade of hair which is so attrac-
tice, use only this old-t1me recipe.
Nowadays we get this famous mix
ture by asking at any drug store for
so cent bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Hair Remedy" which darkens
the hair so naturally, so evenly, that
nobody can possibly tell 1t has been
applied. Besides, it takes off dandruff,
stops scalp itching and falling hair
You just dampen sponge or, soft
brush with 1t and draw this through
your hair, taking one small strand at
time. By morning the gray hair dis
appears; but what delights the ladies
with Wyeths Sage and Sulphur is that,
besides beautifully darkening the hair
after few applications, it also brings
back the gloss and lustre and gives it
an appearance of abundance.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-05-29

1t was seventy years ago that the
telegraph was formally introduced.
Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor, who
worked for ~ years on electro mag
netic communication. and his associate,
Alfred Vail, had strung the first line
between washington and Baitimote.
On the morning OF May "a. 1874, Annie
G. Ellsworth. daughter Of the then
commissioner OF patents, burst into
the United States Supreme Court
chambers in Washington where Morse
and several distinguished men were
gathered around his telegraph instru-
ment, and brought the news that con-
gress had appropriated $4,000 for Of
fetal tests of the invention, after dis
heartening series of refusals. Morse
reached for the sending key and licked
off the historic message What hath
God Wrought" Vail in a station at
Baltimore, surrounded by another
group of distinguished men read the
message upon paper tape. Two days
later the telegraph gave out it's first
public news by announcing that Polk
had been nominated for the presidency
in the Baltimore convention.