The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-10

ia ndscapes was rejected by the Inter
national Jury at Pittsburg. This was
unfortunate also for the international
show, which is certainly weak tins
wear in works that have native ten
denotes II was probably this slight.
we are guessing again we confess, that
piuued Mr.. Mason into one man
show ut last. He is sure To gain few
friends by 1t. however, and with the
assurance that there are some who Will
at least look at his pictures may ac-
quire a boder utterance.
In the meantime he lis to be con-
graduated upon the territory in which
he has chosen to live. His Miles From
Anywhere" with its string of old build
ings upon a river bank. and his "Old
Cider Mill" portray touchingly beautiful
spots. The "Old Cider Milf is SO fine
a building. in fact. that we think So
ciety ought to he formed to prevent any
one but Mr.. Mason from painting II.
What shame 1t would be to picture II
In the Dutch, Barbzon. Claude Monetish
ar other foreign manners that our sue
cessful artists affect, Mr.. Mason's brush
work is monotonous and thin and his
color Is far from being rich. hut. thank
Heaven. his style is American ana
founded upon "a genuine love of nature.
n OBERT DE RUSTAFJAELL BEY,
+. X. :. :. whose discoveries
Of Coptic manuscripts In the
Thshaid have recently been widely dis
cusscd by European scholars. has just
brought to America his collection of
anthropolopical and Egyptian objects
which represent ten years of cNplora-
ton ana collecting In upper Egypt.
Ills collection covers the dynastic
ana ptolemuic periods In Egypt. one
81 his most notable finds j. what Ne he
ii.vos j. the earliest known painting on
canvas. This discovery he dates back
10 the Eighteenth Dynasty OF the Mid
de Kingdom period. II was found near
Thebcs in upper Egypt. This would
give the picture an age of something
over $500 years. The subject Is sym
holic and shows seven Egyptian fig
ures about to perform an act OF venera-
lion before representation of the
goddess ilathor in the form of cow
Among the other objects he has
brought together are loo cylinders.
button seals and scarabs. covering
practically all the dynasiics. beginning
with the first He has several rolls ~
languages in the Ptoemaic period and
= set of tunics or shirts, the oarlics riat-
ing from tn Eighteenth Dynasty, ;he
others OF the ptolemaic, Roman. BY
Zantinc. CupIC ana Arabic periods
Several pieces OF sculpture We're
found among them figure of a man
half sized and several uvur of women
b with raised arms in dancing posture
Il IL
faces. covering their ewes and cropped
! IN on a level with their shoulders
/ This sculpture work is estimated 20 bc
/ over 1000 years old. because as Mr..
Rustafjacll explains, remains Of races
have been found who wore the same
hcaddrc~s
To prove the old truism that there II
nothing new IN Egypt t.e explorer told
of an experience Of meeting an cd
woman VINO vividiy described the battles
fought 10y N. French under Napoleon
IN EEypi when she was a gif, Her
age wn., placed az l2o and sh, j. st.il
living near Thvhc@
"Nn,u called pu hny' said Mr..
Eu~tat5a-l. .'., VH~ .pp tor'.r 90 rise
To- her fr,, una.tcd uul with IN, aelp Of
two sticks and her @rnndsuns shc
greeted me in a hospitah'" way She
told me when she was pas, hundred
wears old she got = new set of teeth.
These were plainly Wis bic although sh"
was bald and Ter hands nothing more
than claws.
Every orc I'm Egypt asks Cor hack
shccsh or gift Instead of ncEr!rg ru'
this old woman insisted on giving M
Lackshccsr. she produced a dozen
fresh eggs in basket. the axe of which
/ later found 20 Ice 5000 vcars