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rv-'cad af'or s'a''r- r's p.s.t'N N
ms usual ,'oar ,l'. 'ois" f1rhi'u. Ne
rotm'sN throw l.4 ~s'rCnr'h' - th-
movement which e|-iUuurt,d William II
Eorr, TEN staItod a hcht which
tested al tho strength oc Mccormick
and \ Mitchell Palmer. ant rs 9 IN"
usual case VIII s''unS mon who s;icl;
"a 'hn nsut - the cui. they accom-
p'shod an object which WA possibly
of moro importance ~ 'lolr si-h' than
Guhcrnatorial Su"cees IN" wrestling of
control from the Guffcy crowd. who had
haUdiod -ho party for ycare.
Mccormick and raimrr defeated
Glffcy and his stalnarte. ~roorranizod
the party and have been its dominant
factors over since The, havo fought
.ts battles ceaNcloSS'v. h1N" won OIL
cial recognition from Washington FOR
what has become known as the Re-
organization faction
Two years ago MCCormlck and
Palmer entered the %.tiNfcst battle of
their curriers'. Both had already won
high places In national politics. for
they took n solid delegatlnN 70 tho
Baltimore convention for Wilson and
80 they stood well IN the State. Nc
Cormick MAS the Democratic nominee
for Governor. HIS nomination caused
tho Withdrawal Of William Draper
INwis and ho ACCORDINGLY won Pro-
Cressiva Endorsement and support.
His opponent. GOV. Prumhaugh, with
the united support Of the Republican
organization in a stronghold of Eepub-
l'canism. had as hard and gruell!nG a
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uncertainty the process OF
the artist.
The foundation was n pen ard INK
drawing on The prepared panel, AFTER
ward covered over WIN an dlnp"r
tnted stain. me c'Slred Color or each
part was gradually a~pii"a'l"i by
successive COATS or transparent or
semI-iralsparent pigment IN" Opaque
colorS sparlhs'N uSed NJ inc end' mus
the frst IS never lost siGht
or Tin u good ll-ht IL may y" seen
even under the rI1''S "hl'h nav" h'"ti
hnlsh"dl. n ther" IS loss ddhSef OF
losing control "f IN" md''rIiI among
the complicated mass or oeta'I tl''
the artist has SGT ont - depot I'I'S
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Of the FRAY, in the centre of the scrlm-
mage. which was reve too
for him.
So. low, looking hack 20 thai Nrst
meeting aud remembering subsequent
and more peaceful meetings. II ia not
difHcult n understand why Mccormick
mas been selected 10 lead another bat
tie which promises to mark an epoch
In tho life Of the nation. II Is not at
all difficult 10 understand why Wood
rqlV Wilson. who knows and has
written much abou men, should pick
this PENNSYLVANIA to direct his cam
paign against the Republican organiza-
ton as tho chairman Of tho Demo-
, cratic National Committee. Casting
aside all other motives which have
been suggested for the Presidents
selection. II may he said with some
surety Of accuracy that the President
picked Mccormick because he WAS
certain that II any man could direct
! and manage such an all important. ma
tionwide contest az 1t should he d.
reCted that man Ia h square tawed,
stocky veteran Of conflict who has
done a great deal without making a
noise about II.
1t has been said that Mccormick
PLAYS politics in much the Same man
ner as he played football. 1t has been
said that he IL ruthless. overpower-
ing, cruel at the game. The first
statement is true. The second 10 not.
his friends say. During n long cam
paign, when he was personally as
sailed, when his motives were miscon-
...,,,I aud nt,vnnCalO 90 UhAn aCan
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London. II IS chiefly In the absence OF
pictures from the foreign countries
that TINS influence is felt. IL is the
rinetieth annual exhibition of the
Royal scottish Academy. This year
the critics agree that the Interest IS
divided between the Landscapes and
the portraits.
Among The landscape painters there
Is evident a recrudescenCe % the
preference FOR Highland winch
v5S 0-co so characteristic Cf scottish
painting. l. y. Cameron has painted
"Irquhart Castle and Glen Nevis" on
small, ~cauVdscs with a IN" sense Of
design; James Paterson shows Morn
ing IN The Toolirs. Isle Of Skye." on a
erandiose scale. William Walls has
taken tor Us subject "Noonr'se on he
po-noch Firth" ard Campbell Mitchell!
depicts A winter effect n "Notth Gyle.'
\ *. Brown. N-a'te.aw Hamilton. r
W. Alan, James t~adcrN"4d and Arrhi.
bald Kay have as" contributed land
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"O meet q man FOR tho FIRST time
IN a taxlcab. when &. was I'M
possible 10 converse with him
because Of the humps and tars OF
the dilapldated machine: to ne sud
denly thrown into tho closest compan-
ionship with him, whom no was worn
and haegard ard husky Of voice BE-
cause Of the mental and physical
strain ~ a political hattie; 10 zee him
night after night IN so,led linen n
dusty clothes, now before an audience
Of miners In a Schuylkill county town
and again addressing n sleek. we'll fed.
well dressed gathering 81 business men
In a municipalities meet a man
under such trying circumstances and
then sit down and write about him,
his characteristics, his ability. his am
hitions and his accomplishments is no
easy task. AZ least 1t would not be
were he an ordinary man.
But Il was altogether different with
Vance Crtswell Mccormick. Tho meet
ing was a happy one. II was under
the hest Of circumstances, because 1t
was in the midst Of n fight, and Nc
Cormick was leading the fight. He
was in fighting humor. in fighting
clothes, and his handclasp Of greeting
was the hearty, honest grasp OF the
lighting a
His speech, crisp. short. whiplash
sentences. every word to the point,
every word carrying a definite, incon-
trovertible meaning. vas the speech
of q man who was SUR Of himself.
positive In his motive and confident
that the men who were with him-the
ends. tackles, guards and ~halfbacks. let
VI s~ay--knew that no was right and
trusted him to carry the ball over the
line. He was back in tho fighting
game, and thus II was not s'rnng-
him, an imaginative "a could easily
understand Why Mccormick was "A
hero al Yale. "a good student, u pro
sresslye councilman ana. A- has fr"an
said. tho man who ~ MaNor found
Harrisburg u city ur mud and tfah,-
futune-t II ;GtS 4 veil pa ed. will
lighted. we'll governed municipality
II Mas easily understood how ana
BY what methods he wa' able To- wiest
,ontroi or IN. D.nl"'Iati' party IA iiin
state from tho grip uf III, old lin-
bosses Who for years had Dictated
What should bs done and ia" manner
~ the performance. All this could hr
grasped In II moment, because coming
upon Mccormick In such circum-
sta noes nm" saw him as his team
mates saw him m the gridlron fran
tioally happy IN the zest and s'rcSs nj
battle. eager for the crush and fury
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THE Vale Of Clwyd. North Wales"
which is generally regarded as David
Cox's masterpiece in oils. It. too. APP
peared with the prestige OF q high rec
ord In tho matter Of price. for at the
Murrietta sale in 1892 II had brought
s22,5 500. on May II, starting at So, 900.
1t ultimately reached 500, 900. Cox
therefore more than held his own, "a
L.andseer almost did. which gave inter-
est to an occasion when a phase Of
British art that has revolved out OF
fashion was represented by two ex-
amples of it at It's best.
The fate of John Gibson's Tinted
Venus" was different. Gibson, vain
and obsessed by his work az the en-
bodiment Of his mistaken conceptions
Of Greek art. regarded his handiwork
as Pygmalion regarded Galatea and
could not bring himself to let the
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AZ individuals. hut az groups repre-
senting different hirh schools.
Seventeen teams Of five pupils each
entered the contest, the pupils IN each
team being students in tho fourth
term OF the high school course. j.
winthrop Andrews. director OF manual
arts Of the Yonkers public schools:
Lous Weinberg of tho College NJ the
City Of New York and Dr. Haney.
director OF art in the high schools,
acted as Judges.
The De Witt Clinton High School
won the trophy ny a total OF 1913
points. The BOYS High School Sc
cured second place with PANS points
and the Bushwick High School third
place with 2545 points.
ON this same day teams from ton
high schools contested for a similar
trophy offered by the School Art
League to advanced pupils. In This
contest tho De Wit clinton High
School again won first place. with the
Roys High school second and the
Julia Richman High School third. The
trophy offered 10y the School Art
League consists Of n bronze medallion
designed 10y John Flanagan. Nina
ture copies Of tho we trophies will he
distributed 10 tho winners NJ the
&C announcement exercises ~ Tho lie
Wit CLINTON High School. This school
will hold the two trophies for six
months. the mex competition being
scheduled for January. 1871.
The Corcoran GALLERY Of Art Vas an
nounced IT'S sixth exhibition % con
temporary American paintings 20 open
20 the public December - and con-
tinue until January 81. The last dag
for receiving in this city WI ho No
vemher 81. Circulars ard entry cards
will 10 obta.nahle on 90 before October
Is. Five thousand dollars, donated by
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There was a second Landseer, 1.-The
Twins" a picture OF two collie dogs
in Highland landscape, which
brought $1,000. Sir John Giloert's
Field Of the Cloth of Gold" fetched
$1,000. Fol an example Of J. F. Lewis.
And the Prayer Of Faith Shall Save
the Sick" Mr. Amor paid $500.
The ale was concluded on May IL.
All the most important works had been
c~atalogued for the previous day. so
there were no high figures to record
for the second session. Constable's
Avenue of Trees" brought only
sS97.Jo. over $4,000. however. was
added to the total, which was the re-
niarkable one of sl44,435.
Critics agree that the exhibition in
Edinburgh SHOWS the influence Of the
war less than the Royal Academy in
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vauia and vere prominent in agricu,-
,ural pursuits and tho Industrial and
professional liFc or that section " the
STATE. II" attended tho schools IN
Harrisburg and private schools. where
ne prepared for Yale, The value Of
his Scotch blood first displayed Itself
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playing hard. uuspcilcd nv wealth, hut
using it 70 the hest possible advantage.
To nation heard nothing Of him until
ORC rUw autumn dav. vhcr the
sportin- pages or III" nation told
how NcCnrmicE won III" game for
Yrle against Princeton by hootiuc the
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on the parapc;. E,yond The bridse thA
ca Stle. \ man carrying a pig and u,
with a lantern are entering the,
courtyard. And here tn. virgin Mary
and st. Joseph knee by the Chria1
child. whom shepherds also adore-
High above in the clouds %rere many
birds are flying liz the scarcely visibiet
figure OF God tho Father blessing. with
tiny rays Of light emanating from Ii;us
in the direction of the holy scene.
Outside thu castle wall "A huuterS
DOT a. Il heron in the noat: o.
woman washes clothes in the river, the
garments spread ont To dry on the
grass near her Then there is the viii.
lace sqlar" WIKI its neat houses anal
its inn where ia" woman and III" man
'is i MARY again and JosephD are
refused admittanCr. Many groups ar~-
in the squIi It is IN" day Of a fair
perhaps, Tn. road from the town
leads ont back ~ the church TO III.
farm cuuutry with It's laborers ana,
shepherds. and un to the distant mounA
'aiuS. The castle in the river has i'St
people, goo - The. lord welcomes the lady<
IA she passes over tn" draw bridge, nd
the household women are gossipinC at
he windows or at work. Hunters~
fishermen. travellers. shepherds with
their ilocks, crows picking dry. th0
bones ~ dead animals. cows grazing:
all the>" at" fuuui In likely AMI un-
likcl~ places. Each look discovers
something unexpected and charming.
There is no end to this delightful
picture.
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PTNs'n bITTOuknS dC'Oult VI l0e
American pictures recently acquired
by the Metropolitan Museum Of Arr
includes the modern American as well
az the specimen OF early landscape
painting.
Al the sale Of the pictures belonging
TO Nicholas Riabouchinsky on April
&c the museum bought an unfinished
landscape by a Flemish artist Of the
early sixteenth century. II IL OF the
type of n large number ~ paintings
attributed 20 Joachim Patiuir. and ron
~sequeutly II will be attributed to that
painter in our catalogue until such
time as the facts about these early
Flemish ldndscapists shall be more def
initcly known. Patinir's name Is justly
the most famous Of the group. as he
was the ~innovator IN painting land
sCape for Is own sake. All the fore
most Flemish artists of the early time
were skilful painters Of landscape. hut
until Pa'inir's appearance the land
scape was secondary to The figures.
our Imaginary Landscape. as Il
has been called. shows dssimilarities
with the four ind isputably authentic
productions of patiIir. which make II
seem unlikely that II could he by him.
|, Is more farciful. moro nervous In
execution and OF more varied color
than IN. greeuish blues. black greens
and hot browns characteristic "f his
signed paintings. The liye!!ness OF ef-
feet IN our picture is due sornewha, 70
tho contrast between tho darks NJ tho
finished parts and the blond patches
showing here n Their. where the
color g but s. ghtly Indicated. THIS
!ncomplcteness adds 20 the fantsst.c
aspect and gives the picture a strange
resemblance - some Oriental work
' |. also allows us to follow with r'
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Pushing fnr Rail" IL tile title S1vr
20 n picture nv Thomas Eakins. eiSned
end dated 1874. which has been lately
purchased out of the Arthur Hoppock
Hearn fund and is now shown in tho
room of recent accessiors. This tito
ia the name given ny eportHnen to .
method Of hunting rail. a kind Of water
bird. The hunter is puNted along tho
shallow waters Of marsh streams and
shoots A. the birds as they fly on being
disturbed. This is the subject OF the
picture. The water in which the boats
! nre floating is hidden from sight M
| the grasses and weeds. which indeed
bike almost all OF the boats theme
selves. the three hunters. zach with
hLs boafman. appearing q them.
II IL n small picture and tho fgureS
are at most three inches high. vet
no detail OF their appearance has been
sliehted: each p.cu!iaiity OF person or
costume has been scrupIuIslv e.
corded. The ana OF IN. painter IA
plain. lie has, SCI down each fact. Of
! t., seems II. ttie most certain way and
: MS success Is trmai liable. Onv~an~
FOOT fNl lu ha imroS-eI Nv Tho
, -ila!shtturwLr,inr.- ur A.S wurirnan>
~ ' Nlll III hNfilb'FN VI ar 'bN'I ~
'iur iii- !rt"Test las uut.st sy"ry~
th.uR. The 'uid9 ui the nlu'N woro
.ut!Hr~ = rect Hl.I White i"shs. shirt
- hAndtuu, hIndL-lri.rr ~ straw ~
',I hat tao pose %! = ni,n nrinr. inH
!ul"iinrs- on th~ .SadlA, VI. ms E!.iiA
u n Ius liza T.- u - VI Iho tAr awa1
lI--- anl 'a.lt.at- seen atrosS
mash ga = box daS tho loNS~ut-~VA0o
Me Teed- 10 th- tC.-tIu.nd--.n C~A~A'
-hi In.Ie 49, Las registered sl'S,sOGo
~ Wall Nhitn.at. fashion ~ Il pu<
Iur7 ~n.ch IN lis slNAeilty ara NAV
Ls~f.Jrdi't5 l., as =tLa,I. - tie IttIo
masters =. Holland u TLS Sc -i..o ei.t,l
,chfulS.
lisOutas iakin- a. DIX. IL tS+S
ana STUDDED ,gudri ,s-I.n,s> II.- ur->>
N'n Wti,!I his ,uiE has ra.-rn VA
evident -llly In l.s ,a!oG,' a!.i hs Sos
A-,rr urpaIf,t from II, ~ntoaGIrS
hN Mo ahirt.ut. s--ti.rtu' Tgshoa% .,lt
plrtigrs when ti"N az" shown In thS
e>h hltloh-, AT" mNdiA,hly promin"ns
ON ,C"un ~ their nIsn.In"ssGpt srNs
gle mindsi slrr-riiy. Tl- mass IN a.
ready owns ous picture Ivy him. "1h%
Chose rRycrs' paIn.od N !SIS~@Nrt
Of the artist In 1881 ,
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Landseer's famous The Monarch of
.hc Glen was recently sold At Chvistie's
n London. There had not been euch
a successful auction since the war
hc,ca and there was much ak ~ the
return of the good old times" Another
feature If the sale was the small price
brought by n Constable landscape.
The Monarch ~ the Glen" was re-
gardcd az tho crown W Landserr's lonE
scottish Highland series. which had
been begun some twenty-h,e years be-
fore. following The painters visit -
Sir Walter scott a. Abbotsford. II had
been Il commission FOR q decoratioC OF
tho refreshmeut Dom Of the House or
Lords. hut when the vote for its price,
1880, came before the House Of Com
mons L was rejected. Lord L.oudes-
horouSh acquired il after its exhibition
n the Academy II 1861 10Y $4,000. and
some twenty years later II left his
collection for "A Consideration OF S3l.-
coo. Al the same time rs Lord fond"s
horough's purchase NJ the picture the
Graves firm paid s. 300 for the copy
rignt. ami AiZ-tnuu GidNvs states
that his father lived "a sees = print Of
Il. originally pub. sled at $50. bring
$500 AZ auctluU. In 1872 ~ the sale
If Lord CheyleSnore's collection the
picture was sold for $4,000. Finally
nn May II. 1915. In the Rarratt sole,
! ito latest appearance a. Christ'e's. the
famous paintirS was knocked down to
Sir Thomas pewar for s25 non. In view
- the war times L is considered that
The WAS n sandstone price.
There was also in the Earratt sale
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sylvester Dcr.uS OF Utica tal even
10 the museum i've Of his family por.
irLts, which are now shown in tho
room OF recent acce~sions. These in
Clui" three pictures BY Blackburn. two.
OF which are in oil and one in pastel,
and two by Daniel Huntington. The
colonial works are especially imr"r~
'on' to our collection. "a the muscuuD
vac ~: hitherto owned any examples
Icy blackburn, though through thu
tI'dness of Richard e. Grecnlcaf We
utNc been ,Sdhied 20 show two of HIS
PAINTINGS for In" las three Yeats. Tho
nrig!nalA 81 ;ho Derlug B,ackhurns are
Margaret sylvester. VII. Of David
'A~osebrouEh, daughter of Rrin'cv Syl-
To-tor Of shelter Island. Mary Sylvcs-
'cr, wife Of Thomas Derjng. sister Of
Margaret sylvester Chesebrough:
Thomas neyinE Of Boston. husband IT
Mary sylvester Der.rC. whose por-
fr'lt was done N pastcia. All Of thcNs
portraits were painted in lG5t. The pic
lures by Daniel HI wilmington arc th4
portraits Of Ella Virginia Bristol. wife
&C sylvester Deri1g. daughteg OF Willis
Bristol OF New Haven. Conn. painted
In 1873, and OF Nicoll Havens DerinS,
son Of Sylvester and Ella V. Dering,
painted in 1870.
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W. A. Clark Will again bo distributed

W. A. Clark will again bc distributed
In prizes.
The president and council Of tho Art
Association Of Newport nnoun that
the nfth annual exhibition will he held
in the galleries of the association at
Belleview avenue ,Touro Park). New
port. from Tuesday. July II, to Tues
day. July %. inclusive. Entries must
be made before June Is. The fury OF
selection and award will be composed
of William Cotton. John Elliott. Robert
keid, Helena Sturtevant and Gertrude
'. Whitney. The Harrison S. Morris
prize of 800 will he awarded for the
best picture in the exhibition. Through
the generosity OF Mrs. Livingston
Hunt a peoples prize of s25 will be
awarded by popular vote. The object
OF this award Is TO the pub
lie to look at pictures with personal
interest and discrimination"
AZ thie tme. when the tercentenary
NJ S~hakespeare's death IL being cele-
hrated In many cities throughout the
United states. special interest will he
felt In the statue Of LADY Macbeth by
the late Elizabet Ncy. which has Just
Necn placed as n loan IN the National
Museum. 1t is fun size and in marble.
Elizabct Ney molde the statue In her
studio IN Austin. Tex. in 1900. and II
was cut IN marble in Italy n pos II
was tho sculptcr's wish that II mich,
he shown IN WashingtoN. where
people az all nations assemble" After
ller death in 1907 Il was placed in the
hands of n friend with the understands
ing that IL should he exhibited and
eventually sold. the proceeds 70 &c
oward establishing an art school n,
the University Of Texas In oi
Elizabet Ney.
The statue represents Lady Macbeth
:raElcally ~cndcavoring n rid her hand,
Of the spot Of crime: Il Ia distinctly
dramatic and n genuinely original con.
ception of the character.
Eli2ahet Nev was. II Will ne remem.
bcred. the sculptor OF the W. statues
Austin and Houston, representing the
state Of Texas in Statuary Hall a. the
Capitol.
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scapeS among the northern hills.
Other landscapes Of distinction IN me
collection are those of Messrs. Win
gate. Lorimer. Roche. Walton. Me-
Gregor. Hutchinson and George Smith
Apart from John s. Sargents two
contributions. the Mrs. Langman' and
the "F'. j. n. Jenkinson. ESQ.," perhaps
the chief honors in portraiture fall to
the president, Sir James Guthrie.
whose Frank J. Usher. Esq" in hunt
Ing costume il specially successful.
But Messrs. Glib. Walton, Fiddes Watt
and David Alison are also well repre-
sented. and among still younger artists
who show portrait work of promise are
Stanley Curslter. MARITIME donaldson
and William q. Hutchinson. In addi-
ton TO these pictures. most Of which
are now seen for the first time. there
are others that are new to the Edin-
bursh public. Mr.. Clausen has sent
his Renaissance Mr.. Jack his melo-
dramatic Homeless" Mr.. L.avery his
admira bly, studied London Hospital"
and his clever studio Of the Painter"
Mr.. Orpen two portraits. William
Nicholson an admirably painted still
life. and Oliver Hall "A Sussex Shore
Quarry" which IL me OF the best land
scapes In the exhibition.
II is not at all surprising 10 md that
the exhibition is less cosmopolitan in
character than usual. The war has
made tho obtaining Of works from the
continent difficult, and apart from a
few pictures. Of which two vivid little
paintings by Lucien Simon are the
most notable, and a number Of war
cartoons by ". Forain and NJ. Rae
hackers. the exhibition is entirely
made up Of British works.
Tho section OF sculpture IL wholly
Scottish. ~ tho series NJ works by
Scottish s~culptors. past and present. is
not really impressive. II is distinctly
interesting. and the Academy has been
successful In undertaking a special
feature OF this nature
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The civ high schools I'M We recently
held The tiara confess, for the Muniri-
pA Art Society Trophy for good
'rant&'sfnansnip. This contest Ia helA
Under the direction Of br. Haney, head
W h art department Of the high
sesocls. In II the pupils compete, not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-15

Gen. and Mrs. George Barnett enter
tanned at a dinner party of twenty -four
covers last evening at their home in
the marine barracks.