The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07

months atlantic q selection from her
letters and notes arranged by her
niece. Mere sweepings from a poets
wurkroom. yet how precious, Such
an extraordinary power in the suEgcs-
ton Or words, as Mrs Stotesbury said
Of the Rev. Billy Sunday,
Shs sent these lines with dead
humblebee to her nephew a child in
kipdcrEartcn:
THE BUMBLEBEE'S RELIGION.
His little hearselike figure
into itself dirge,
To a de.usive lilac
The vanity dvulEr
or industry and morals
And every righteous thing
For the divine pcrdition
-; idleness and spring.
An liars shall have their part"
JONATHAN EpwAFps.
And let him that is sthirst come"
JESUS.
she furthered our childish love Of
mystery and innocent intrigue" TO
continue quoting the Atlantic. ION
every occasion. with box of maple
sugar purloined for us from the fam
lily supply, she sent these laconic in
structions. Omit to return box. Omit
80 SNOW you received roA. BROOKS OF
Sheffield
Again. under the same plratical
circumstances, How Inspiring to the
Clandestine mind those words Of
scripture We thank thee. Lord, that
thou hast hid these things!"'"
After reading even so short quo.
tation It would seem that almost any
one would be sufficiently liberated
, mentally by these brilliant trifles sent
10 children to appreciate abstract
beauty even when found by a Pascin
IN the immoral slums.
one more instance. We tried 70
pillory Hcarn as YOU know. The fas-
Cination Of everything heathenish and
mysterious led this author to pick zip
some curious friends and To venture
4 into strange studies. The resut-he
was not respectable: silly scanda. was
hruited about. Al this late date the
cattle over IIcarns creole and voodoo
Investigations seems so absurd that
! it is not worth the trouble OF refuta
ton. Many a time the pre- sent writer,
| than whom no greater Hcarn en-
lrhusiast lives, has been shocked al
| most to death in reading over the
well worn volume Of the letters at the
daring flights of this dreamer and
! realist combined. who was willing To
, face any kind OF thought or any pha So
J OF life, present or past.
The shock was chiefly pleasure
however. for. as he said to himself
/ THAT bad boy I.afcadio should be
. l. "A 1, 1
/ remark Of Thackeray's concerning the
! Rev Laurence Sterne he smiled. for
no one really could he angry long at
3 l.afcadio the letter writer BESIDES rs
/ the nimble wit plunged into fresh
matter upon the following page he was
| Just as likely as not to eNclaim
amazedly. What gentleman" for
| in fact nobility is always the conclud-
ing impression left upon you by this
artist.
Great names these are that have
been mentioned. 1t Is sad to think
that all OF them date from some time
back in our history. II is sad Ia
think that present day conditions do
not call forth successors to them
Pascin, himself, is but an individual
To crush him utterly would he inn
pOss HE, even should We take that
within, for he is already accepted
abroad. He who excludes, excludes
himself II We refuse to know him
we are simply denying ourselves some
very good art. by accepting all the
good art we can get we shall inCrea Sc
our consciousness Of life and so he
IN n position 10 produce more Hearns
Emily Dickinsons and great artists oil
all kinds
The work Of Jules PasCin is on view
until February 20 in the galleries oil
the Berlin Photographic Company
"By set Of curious chances" The
works Of Edith Woodman. Burroughs
the sculptor are exhibited in conjunc,
tOn with the works Of Pascln in thu
Berlin Photographic Company. Oceans
Of ink will not have to be spilled fol-
them in Precipitation OF the great
American public opinion, for they
have been accepted unreservedly thi,
long time back
Most Of the sculptures shown hav,
been seen before, but never to 81
; much advantage, for they are exceed
ingiy we'll presented in the gray gal
lerN, and II is quite true. as the writer
of the foreword Ia the catalogue says
that nothing is more instruo,ing thar
, the sight Of an adequate number of AT
q artists production grouped together
In unusual surroundings, and In n,
? other manner Is it possible to deter
mine with equal satisfaction III,
! place which should he assigned 10 ~
artist
; This foreword is compact littl
! pen portrait Of the sculptor ny
J wrsllr who signs the initials n. b.,