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ClAzR9IIsIn this city, April 2, 1s15s Michael Carroll
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral at his late resi- deuces No. Highland avenue, on Monday, AprM B. at ssS0 al m, ana from St Augustfne's c7azrch at 10 a. m. Inter1nent at St AGicEaaePs ceme- tery. at JOHNSON I1l this city, April 8. 1915, Joseph R. Johnson, aged 5s years nncnths IS days
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the Newfield M- E. church corner of EtraAford and Central avenue on Monday. April Eth at 12e3e sm- Internent at New Britain. Conn. ATK SON-In this city, April 1, 1915, Levfna, wife of Jamas Afkinz son, aged 65 gears, ] 5 days.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral at the residence Of her son Charles R. Atk1nson 228 Smith street. on Monday afternoon, plot L4akeview Cemetery. as sDONOVAN---In tfais city, April I. 1915, Jeremiah J. Donovan.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral at his late res dence. No. 27s West a;vensae, on Monday, April Heart church at 2 a. m, with sol- en1n high mass. Internent St. Nf- cEael's cemetery Kindly omit flowers. u b. gNVADDTNGTONI this city. April 191ss Ellen, wife of Edgar wad- dfngton
 Friends are invited to attend tfs funeral at her late residence No. 1887 Boston avenue on Monday, April 5, at ss5o a. n-, and from St. Charles' church at g a. m. Inter- naent St. AIichaePs cemetery.
 U bs AGARROI6s-1n this city. April 9 1915. Michael Carroll of No. 4z Highland avenue.
 Notice of funeral thereafter as 1sWENB-In this city. April 2. 1915 Edward E. Owens
 Friends are Invited to attend the funeral at the residence of his sis ter, Mrs. Frank Chamberlain, No 2s6 Benham avenue, on Monday April 5, at s:30 a. m-, and from St Augustinesa church at 9 a. m Interment at Bt MicfaeHs cerne- tery. U bs
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sees with his own eyes and bOldl
Ind a way Of his own to express
what he sees. He has exhibited FREE
auently at the more important art
exhibitions in London and in the
provinces as well as at Venice and
Warsaw. His works are included IN
many private collections in Englsnd
and on the Continent. Brodzky per-
sonally, ii is said, is as unusual as his
work-a sort of character" OF yes-
terday with ideas of to-morrow.
The Rose Gallery IL a new one on
Fifth avenue. near Twenty-eighth
street. 1t opens with an exhibition of
paintings and drawings by Charles
Caryi Coleman. an American who has
resided for many years on the Island
of Capri and most Of whose paintings
are Italian in subject.
The artist has made "A whole series
OF Nesuvius pastels; "Vesuvius in Il
Rain and Snow Storm" "Vesuvfus In
Eruption. the Town Covered With
Ashes. as Seen From the Lava Stream
at Boeco Ire Case" "Vesuvius, Even
ing Effect and Ashes from Vesuvius
DloWH ioWdiu .Ndll'S' " SoiteT Siue
Of lovely Italy has been fully attended
TO. however. and there are plenty OF
moonlight serenades in romantic
c~ourtyards and sentimental encounters
IN old gardens. with the architectural
setting carefully put in.
The two largest and most ambitious
pictures are upon religious themes:
Jesus Walking on the Sea- and the
Return from the C~rucihXion." The
latter contains many figures of diverse
types. showing each after his hammer
traces of the emotion of the tragedy
they have been witnessing. The paint-
ing will come as a great surprise to
most OF our young artists, who forget
that such pictures may be demanded
Of them. and are certainly III fitted to
execute them.
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Dawn" Etching by Frank W.. Benson.
In the gallery of Kennedy & Co.

included tive minerals. viz, ncphrite
and jadcite. both OF which are meta
morphic rocks and So closely alike in
%colors, texture ana general appear
ance tina in many cases only micro
Scppit;l tests ny chemical analysis can
distinguish them. Both are very hard
and compact and exceedingly tough:
u are more or less translucent in
a variety of coIurs Specimens of ne
phritc have resisted a pressure of over
W 900 pounds h. the square inch and
have only yielded to a stress of over
$4,000 pounds after two hours pres
sure. \ German mineralOgist who
failed 10 shatter n block Of nephrite
with a sledge hammer sen II to the
krupp gun factory at Essen for
further experiment. to he crushed by
Il steam hammer. In this experiment
the anvil was ruined and the block of
nephritc was not injured. Thus Jade
Is more tenacious thar granite. steel
or east !run. This quality, combined
with It's hardness. makes it analogous
amor minerals To the temper and
hardness Of steel among metals. and
this explains the high estimation in
which Jade has been held Ivy prehis-
toriC ana savage man as "A material
for stone implements.
As contrasted with the scarcity and
extreme rarity f iade outside of
Chinese art. il has been here a well
known and constantly employed ma
terial since the dawn of Chinese his
tory, which begins to he authentic in
such particulars some three or four
l-n H sa
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NNE swift glance at the sculptures
Of Eli Nadelman. now exposed
in the gallery Of the photo-Se-

~NE swift glance at the sculptures
Of Eli Nadelman. now exposed
in the gallery Of the Photo-Se-
ccssion. reveals that their
author S a man Of talent. II is not a
talent that will be appreciated or even
understood by Mr.. Joseph Pencil. who
Jaws nc doesn't understand modern art
ard considers II indecent. 1t will be
readily apparent, however, to younger,
lcss ~prejudiced observers and to those
with a less keen scent for immora lily.
MIR. Nadclman Is himself a young
man, and 1t is almost too soon to
weigh his powers for uplift or DOWN
null in the world OF art, but 1t Is clear
ina, his faculties are the ort that in
auence others. What he does will he
looked at. His work. whether you like
n, or not. forces your consideration.
This is the essential faculty an artist
must have. II Mr.. Nadelman lives
and is permitted to work out his special
tasks in conditions that are fairly SYM
pathetic (Which is always a matter OF
luck, for the most sensitive artists are
the least fitted to combat n repcliant
environment) there is no question but
that he will be nj influence OF the flu
ture To No reckoned with.
As things are there IL more danger
tina, he will be overpraised by the
young contemporaries who bring gar
lands to those who succeed in express
ing the spirit Of the time, ! n quantities
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Is a Fifth Avenue" hut which Fifth
avenue or when is not stated. Prob
ably it's the Fifth avenue of the fu-
turc. when We poor New Workers. shall
have been shifted several miles still
further north. Mss Rogers makes II
quite plain that those who are to
take our places upon the avenue are
to come directly from Grand street. and
instead of trying to live UP to 1t they
are to reduce the once chic facades to
shabby uses. However. an American
Nag floats over the scene pinned to
n of the buildings. and ! suppose
we ought To he thankful for that.
This Fifth Avenue" Is Miss ilogers's
only imaginative plate. The others
are all rather straight essays in real
ism. This etcher does look with fresh
eyes upon the New York pageant. and
gets some novel aspects. The Fulton
street Ferry" with the horses Of a
team upon a ferryboat occupying the
foreground and s~kyscrapers looming
mp on shore. is a very good subject.
So, TOD. are the park scenes. One Of
them. The swans" il Miss Rogers's
hest. But all of the etchings have a
degree of fuZziness that will shock
Mr.. Parrish when he passes through
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of the past, that architects and artists
can scarcely afford 10 miss il.
Mr.. Harris and Good F'hrnitHrC have
been the forces back of the big indus
trial exhibition in the Avery Library Of
Columbia, and Mr.. Harris's ccoun OF
il in the December number Of the mag
a2inc will be found OF interest.
We have on exhibition, he writes.
something like 500 yards of valuable
textiles, me in furniture the men have
sent the best they have, to show the
of artistic achievement to
which our industries have advanced.
One of the most interesting OF all the
exhibits are the silk curtains. old gold
in color and of "A rich hrocade In pat
tern after IA Jacobean design. We all
may well be proud of the great glory
NJ silk weaving that is expressed in
the sumptuous folds of the window
curtains made expressly for our exhi-
billion. The lace curtains that lie Nat
upon the window panes were also care
fully selected and made tn AT their
several spaces. For We hold that IL
America u to have successful Indus
trial exhibitions they must be artis-
tically designed. and all the varied
arts must he arranged and correlated
10 architecture,
Without this proper correlation the
Allied Arts mo successfully develop
or thrive. For this reason the present
effort Is especially important as taxi
ing place under the protection of the
Columbia School OF Architecture and
as attempting to be so organized that
the whole scheme must seem an in
tegral portion Of the splendid building
that gives II shelter.
One of the most remarkable achieve
ments of tapestry workers with n
power loom has been cut and fitted to
the main doorway as IA portlere. This
splendid hanging with it's transverse
bars OF ornamentatlon appears to have
been woven for the place. To those
who are interested in such things the
original sketch and drawings for this
tapestry are most instructive and are
now on exhibition along with the An
ished product of the looms. Up to the
present M manufacturers have been
dependent on French designers and
now Is certainly the moment for some
Of our gifted artists To familiarize
themselves with this branch Of applied
designs.
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estimate Of Jade therefore requires
serious explanation and In the ac-
count Of its value for prehistoric i'm
PIGMENTS this has to some extent
been already given. when Chinese con-
servatism Ia considered. What was
undoubtedly the most useful. rare and
precious material In prehistoric Chi
nese use Is still the most highly es-
teemed material in China. Besides the
qualities Of extreme hardness and
toushness already described. the
beauty. variety and t~ranslucency Of
color were an additional stimulus to
Oriental admiration. In ancient days
Jade was always employed for the most
important religious vessels and shrine
ornaments, the less important only
being made Of bronze
The remarkable difficulties Of work.
ing Jade may be imagined from the de-
scription OF its qualities as a mineral.
The general difficulty attending the
various operations in the process Of
producing a delicate bowl or vase or
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CURRENT NEWS OF ART AND EXHIBIT

a billet of solid steel Of high temper
were used instead Of a block Of jade.
for Jade is tougher than steel. The
most important recent jade carvings
Of China have been executed in an
imperial workshop within the walls Of
the Emperor's palace at Pekin and
the most precious jades first came into
commerce through the looting Of this
palace by the French soldiers during
the Anglo-French occupation Of Pekin
in 1860.
India especially, and Persia In a
less degree. have also practised jade
carving. but neither country has re-
motely approached China In its de-
votion to the use OF this material.
Jade has. however. been frequently
employed in India and Persia for the
hil& OF swords n grips of daggers.
Occasionally use IL also made Of II in
these countries for ornaments and for
costly boxes and vessels. a Hindu
specially liz the %incrusting Of Jade
with iewels-rubies. turquoise, gar
nets. pearls and sapphlres. which are
sunk into the jade surface and held
in position by narrow bands Of beaten
gold. "Jeweiled jades' are thus al
most universally East Indian. hut the
method has been occasionally imi-
tated in China.
Aside from several other colors in
frequently found. Jade exhibits a re-
markblc variety Of shades in green
and in white. but these two colors are
also found in n remarkable variety
of combinations AS regards single
specimens. one type Of these combi-
nations is POLITICALLY described by the
Chinese as bits Of moss in melting
snow" White jade Is considerably
rarer han green and has the highest
place in Chinese estimation, but
within the limits Of the white fades
there are again the distinctions made
by Chinese experts which range them
into at least ten different qualities and
grades. Among these the pure white
known to the Chinese as resembling
the color of mutton fat or pork fat
holds the first rank. Color alone can
not. however, be made the standard
Of excellence In jade. for the dimen-
sions of the piece and the art OF the
carving have naturally also TO be con-
sidered.
The next lecture on art arranged
by the women's conference of the So
ciety for Ethical Culture will be deliv-
Grad by Andre Tridon, who is TO speak
on French art on December IL mt II
A.. NJ. at = West Sixty-fourth street.
The other speakers on art will be:
Alfred ". Martin. Italian art: Ed
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intricate piece of carving may ba
partially realized by rejecting that the
same work would he actually easier IL
'Conurnsd From Sirth PaocD

'N-f'
ing number will he ~Schuber,'s uuhn-
ished symphony.
The entire cycle My Country by
Smetana will he played at the next pair
of philharmonic concerts on Thursday
evening, December l6. and Friday after
noon, December II. This cycle. por-
tons of which nave been frequently
heard in America. notably the "Nitava,'
In considered by Bohemians generally
as the standard work of Czech national
music, Fritz kreisler. the assisting ar
fist at both of these concerts. viii play
the brahms concerto for violin aud or
chestra, The concluding number ON the
programme will he the 'Taunhaeuser'
overture.
This afternoon the philharmonic So
ciety, with Mr.. Strausky. will give The
second in its series OF sunday afternoon
concerts at the brooklyn Academy of
Music with Pablo Casals as the sololst.
The programme will include rschai-
kowsky's fourth symphony. Il il an
nounced that the philharmonic will not
be heard in New York after the concerts
on December - and - uutii sunday
afternoon. January ., when a pro-
sramme devoted entirely to Wagner will
be given
Negro Rhapsody" by Henry +. I'll
bert, For orchestra, viii he performed for
the FIRST time in New York At the con-
cert OF the orchestral Society, to take
place in the Harris Theatre this after
noon, MaN Jacobs conductor Gladys
AMMAN, an American soprano, will he
the sololsi.
At his first public recital OF the sea-
son in Carnegie Han this afternoon Fritz
kreisler, the Austrian violinist. Will
present the following programme (;
eonata in \ major, Handel grave IA
@ minor, Friedman Bach tugue IN \
major, Tartinl fantasy in c major. on.
i3i, Schumann; l~arehetto, IAmentozo
and l.acende, Godowsky impromptu.
schubert rondino, on a theme by
beethoven, kreis!rr; mazurka, \ minor
'p~osthumous), chopin variations, Tar-
TIM Indian lament, Dvorak-lire.sler ,
SoaniSn dance, iranaduS-,\rels,er \au-
nesc popular song. ar"nnpod 10y kreisler.
ana tamhour|ne chino. lt''isls',
Nine, Emmy Des,tnn, IN EN- nent
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Oni! only, lyricism has It's dangers.
Nature ordains that pure singers die
early. It's the law. Shelley went
quickly, and Chatterton quicker. But
VINO wouldn't be a Shelley?
Some Of this work Is artificial. AL
most as artificial as modern life. Pro-
found observers of humanity are
aware that the three little locks of
had that curl so gracefully upon the
smooth fOreheads of modern Parish
enncs IRE not entirely he work of
nature No, indeed. Curious. and |
am tod expensive, emollients are used
upon rebcllious tresses in order to
overcome the laws of gravity and the
eheci OF contrary winds.
Tit sculptor has taken almost AS
much pans TO emphasize these curls
d. oid the young person herself who
Suggested the motif. Nevertheless,
many people who wish t. govern art
Production with rules of steel Will say
such curls IN art are immoral. | find
thar they DO not worry me at all.
There are other essays Of art in the
sAhihlt,on. such rs drawings and re-
HtiS thar have so much strenGeness
mat they viii be at once seized upon
py the opponents of Elasticity as
luS'lt.rt.pn TOY charges Of lnsinccrity
ssain-' D. artist. II il n matter of
Nepa'" whether such things should be
hAPNH specially al a debut. They
ag" experiments in different lines, and
ZONE I these lines the artist will
abandon ,ater, II is scarcely neces-
SAY 10 take the public into absolute
e~oatd"n'" AZ a FIRST appearance. or
T. snow laboratory practice, one COM
p'rir bot u scif-eXpression is TO
the public Than a hundred half truths
or ought to be.
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CONCERTS AND RECITALS

Bohemian soprano, viii appear this evs-
ming, with Sousa ana his band. At the
N.ppodromc she viii sing arias from
Massenci '~Herodias' from ''Trova-
ore '"ro.ca' and Madame Butterfly"
This evening the Educational Chamber
Mus society, Modest Altschuler direc-
'ol, Will give the third concert Of this
seasons series IN the Straus Auditorium
~ the Educational Alliance. The pro-
cr"unme - ~ follows Quartet. on. ~,
No. &. T. HAT "Kreutzer sonata" quar-.
tet, op ~. r minor. Beethoven.
John Powell, pianist, vino has gwen
several New York ~rccitals and pho was
heard recently with the New York SYM
rhonN Orchestra, will give 4 rccItt
Aeoliau Han Monday afternoon. Deem
her lS. Mr.. Powell. who has become
well known both as n composer and ex-
ecutant, will devote his programme 20
works 81 Bach, beethoven. Rrahm. md
Chopin.
Francis MacMillcn at his second vio.
I'm recital In Aeol,an Han to-morros
evening viii play Brahms's u minor
sonata "iassaclglia" tnft~- Handrl
ny Cesar Thomson "Sercuad, a colum-
hine, h' Gabriel Picrne. and other
shorter pieces Richard i~iagonan wifi
play The accomplishments
Hans NCrN, lieder singer, VIII give
a recital OF war songs IN Carucpie Cham
her Music Hall tomorrow evening Thes,
lriess,iedeI. which have been conn os,d
during the present war. viii now have
their first public hearing IN America
Edward IIechlin will he at the piano
Al the FIRST concert this season of the
Musical Art Society. Frank Dam osch
director, NJ Carnegie Han, on Tuesday
"Nenihe, the chief novelty To he
offered Is u setting of tn, Lutheran
Christmas chOrale, "Nom Hinuncl hoch,
ia komm' lrh her lay karg-Eleri; I,
Is arranged for mixed chorus solo So
riauo, hoy soprano, boy choir, violin
solo aud Ors1N The boy choir from
the Cathedral Of - Ohm the Divine
Will he heard, and David Names will
RAY The violin solo part. Brahms's
"Neue l.ieheslieder," tNo Russian songs
lS cut, Welsh songs hS Bruch and old
tCnntinuod ~ 7rclJh pdac.)
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Relief in Bronze, by Eli Nadelman.
In Photo-Secession Gallery.

the corridor where they hang on the
way to see his oils.
The Folsom Galleries are showing
some Porto Rican landscapes by
Thomas Watson Ball until the 18th
and some portraits by s. Montgom-
cry Roosevelt until the 18th.
Mr.. Bah is more or less of an i'm
pressionist in his use Of color, but
he is practically an academician in
his respect for the actual facts of his
subject. He has painted one picture
in which q %dreuChing, celebrating
tropical rain was more TO him thar
the mountains that were beyond IT.,
but generally the topography has been
adhered 10, always, however. in "A
pleasing way. Mr.. Balls palette is
excellent, and the combination of rec
ogni,ahle mountains and ravines with
sparkling color ought TO insure him
some American appreciation.
Mr.. Roosevelt paints his portraits
| with a great deal Of eNpansiveness.
In some way that | Inc difficult to
explain both his men and his women
remind me Of fun blown roses. He
has had rather good luck in securing
%sitters. Antonio he Ia Gandara. him
self a portrait painter of renown. il
a sort of "A Saffron Tea Rose, and none
of his natural elegance has been AL
lowed to escape in The picture. Tho
Earl Of kintorc, Earl Stetson Craw-
ford and the late Oliver Belmont have
been painted. and furthermore Mr..
Roosevelt has painted himself What
kind Of n rose he is I do not know,
but certainly he * not u wild rose.
Decidedly he is a cultivated, dollhouse.
Fifth avenue, expensive variety.
\ London painter about To visit
New York IL Horace BrodZky, a
member Of the most advanced group
of painters in England, the well
known London Group" which in
cludes Augustus John, Sickert and
Meninsky.' Brodzky is Of Russo-Po-
lish origin, and on n trip rom Aus
tralia to England by way of New
York was for a short time al the
National Academy of Design here. He
is in every way an ardent n strongly
| individual disciple of hat school
whose faith Is design and vivid color.
II was in 1917 hat Brodzky visited
Italy and Sicily, and the result OF
rthis trip VAS his first zone man" show
In London, a show which proved =
conspicuous success. II resulted In
his being invited to exhibit in the
British section OF the Venice Inter-
national Art Exhibition. His paint
ings Of that period convey a good deal
inf the Intensity of light and cOlol
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Under the com.non term of jade are
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N'a all the painters In. town turn
lng themselves into etchers as fast as
t'"N .lu, Il remained for the Maison
Ah braun ct Gle. TO arrange an eN-
f7'..u of works by an etcher who
revui''d to oils.
stephen Parrish, the etcher in qnes-
Ion, ; Of course very well known,
ana 10 achieved one OF the foremost
post "E~ among the ranks of Ameri-
car ',cheTs before he turned his at
'en''"n 10 the brush the better 10 eX-
pres q 'atent feeling for color. In
''"s' .aSs, 1t was in the sos, re-
Sp'c,. e etchers thought any one
wiz he'd in color must he looney,
an 'r" Vas nothing left for those
"" ld "tcmperrramente,' as AM
'f' .' Npliard says cezanne always
j ed II, but to paint.
N viewer. al that is changed now,
p .',ur otchings II Miss Louise
g.. 'tHui.lHi Rogers, Whose prints are
'.'t''n" In me same gallery and who
''' ','NoH tcmperamentally. SUN :
'' testify.
Of Miss liogcrs's Tin .yai plates
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William Laurel Harris In well known
in New York as an artist and as an
enthusiastic worker In the cause of
municipal art, but none OF his sue
cesses Of the past has been so conspic-
uous as the change for the better that
he has made in the magazine Good
Furniture. which he IL now editing.
Although it IL what is called a trade
journal, he has managed, chiefly by
excellently selected illustrations, 10
place "A high standard of design before
the manufacturers and designers OF
America. who, all observers agree,
have lately been stirred by the circum-
stance OF the time to achieve the very
hest in the arts. GOod Furniture IN
80 replete with illustrations Of the good
designing that Is now being done, and
with Illustrations of the m~agnlhcences