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some idea of the science and development Among the latter we may number the pro- practice for such purposes, but are spoilt
of modern architecture, its feeling for form ductions of Stevens already cited (1, 21, 36), by their colour.
and structure, and the reason of its fre- of Ribot (46 and 48), and of Gustave Ricard Mr. Spencer Pryse's Poster for the Labour
quent lapses into exceptional ugliness. (52). Among the former
Among the former we recognize Party is dramatic and in the true spirit
Instead of æsthetics, we find a digest of Van Gogh's Zouave (27) as one of the most of lithography, and,
more, M.
“the respective positions of employer and reasonable works of the painter, the upper Louis Legrand's etchings (197 and 203)
employed ” which discusses their mutual part of the picture displaying, indeed, an celebrate with superb conviction the grace
obligations under various circumstances. " unusually sure hold on characteristic form. of the “half-world ” of Paris. It would be
Gauguin's Atelier de Shuffenecker (25), on interesting to know if Mr. Sargent was con-
the other hand, looks less well here than at sulted as to the exhibition of his poor
the Clifford Gallery where it was recently charcoal study of Lady Lewis (220).
shown. We are in these surroundings less
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF impressed by the sincerity of observation
SCULPTORS, PAINTERS, AND than by the conscious search for oddity of
GRAVERS.
silhouette. M. Maurice Denis's large design
SALES.
La Plage (113) suffers from the artist's
As is usually the case with the exhibitions pointless, but determined neglect of the old-
In Messrs. Sotheby's sale of engravings on the
1st and 2nd inst. an impression of Guillaume de
of the only society in which sculptors are fashioned principles of perspective, which
Brisacier by A. Masson, in the rare second state
nominally accorded the premier place, earlier painters took such laborious delight with the mistakes in spelling, realized 931.
there is virtually no sculpture shown at the in acquiring. The carelessness with which
Grafton Galleries. Mr. Havard Thomas is he adopts å scheme of lighting implying, coins and medals, including the collection of the
On the same dates Messrs. Sotheby also sold
an absentee, and his confrères are represented not the parallel rays of the sun, which late Mr. M. P. W. Boulton, the chief prices being
by the fragments of picturesque and lively would seem to vanish towards a point within the following : Paul I. , Medalon being made Grand
Master of the Knights of St. John, 1797, 181.
modelling to which we are accustomed. the picture, but divergent rays, as from a
Federal Half-Dollar, Dime, and Half-Dime, 1797,
M. Maillol's tiny group Wrestling Women lamp, destroys the serenity, and thus the
351. 108. St. Helena, Pattern Half - Crown,
(364) is, perhaps, the nearest approach to a sentiment, of a picture which appeals Shilling, and sixpence, 1833, sold in separate
well-considered plastic design such as we mainly to sentiment. To complete our lots, 341. 58. Lancashire Copper Token, 301. 108.
expect in sculptural work. It does not, notice
of foreign contributors better Davidson & Hawksley, Half-Crown, Shilling, and
indeed, possess the perfect surface and truth known on the other side of the Channel,
Sixpence, silver-plated copper tokens, 421. The
total of the sale was 1,2291. 198, 6d.
of line of which bronze is capable, and so, M. Anquetin's two contributions (65 and
technically, it falls short of definitive expres. 156) show an astonishing technical mastery
sion in terms of its material. But it is united with a degradation of design which
more like sculpture than is M. Rodin's marks the limit of decadence—when an artist
Group (101), in which the artist's great understands his craft completely and
Fine Art Gossip.
knowledge of the figure is lavished on a despises it.
design exciting enough in a superficial way, The Society having more fully than usual, THE April number of the Journal of the
but of little essential significance. We could if not more adequately, undertaken to display Imperial Arts League reports the third
imagine this latter to have originated in Continental art to the London public, there annual meeting. It was held at Leighton
the arbitrary casting together of two inde-
is proportionately less to review in the way House, the control of which the League may
pendently modelled plaster figures. Even of British painting. Mr. Nicholson's group possibly take over, as it needs a meeting:
the same artist's acrobatic Femme (103) has of John and Arthur Fitzgerald (7) is an place for its members. There is a note of
a more vigorous plastic unity, though it example of the ease with which a painter importance on the retrospective action of the
owes something of its combative look to the who has made a reputation by work dis-
cheap device of exhibiting a battered and tinguished from the general run of con-
new Copyright Act, while the letters and
mutilated cast. Mr. Glyn Philpot's deli: temporary portrait - painting may settle criticism are interesting The subject is
comments concerning, the abuse of art
cately modelled mask Dead Faun (152) down to produce commission-portraits just worth more discussion in detail
, especially
underlines by its success the absence of like those of every one else. His portrait of as the League contains artists of all sorts of
any exacting standards of craftsmanship
Barrister (42) is somewhat superior, views.
among this race of clay-modellers. Any though in execution rather than in concep-
capable painter with a fair knowledge of tion; and Mrs. Nicholson's Portrait Group
The annual competition for the scholar.
form and a good sense o surface values (106) is, if somewhat more heavy-handed, ships and prizes arising out of the Taylor
may make effective excursions in their
more interesting than either. Mr. Walter Bequest for the promotion of the fine arts
domain, and without fear of reprisals.
Greaves's portraits of his sisters (10 and 50) in Ireland was held in Dublin this week,
The desire to be catholic and a taste for
are of dignified pattern, though the former
the judges being Sir Walter Armstrong,
violent contrasts in the hanging have resulted is somewhat small in its detail, and the latter Mr. Dermod O'Brien, P. R. H. A. , and Mr.
in an exhibition of pictures which jerks the somewhat empty, the painter lacking the Nathaniel Hone. The scholarship of 501
.
beholder backwards and forwards through power of plastic design necessary to find
was awarded to Mr. Patrick Tuohy of the
the more superficial vagaries of artistic
a third alternative.
Dublin School of Art, and prizes of lesser
fashion of the past sixty years—more to
value to Miss Vida Garrett, Mr. Richard
his entertainment than to his edification.
Of works of not very sustained effort, Long, Miss Dobbyn, Mr. Michael Whelan,
In some instances this impression of futile agreeable within their limits, there are, as
is usual in this Society, a considerable Clarke.
Miss Dorothea Fitzgerald, and Mr. Barry
variety may be set down to the inferior
examples by which the masters are repro: though large, is but a sketch; and we
number. Mr. James Pryde's Casa Rossa (61),
sented. Courbet's Nu (62) might be men-
M. BÉRARD, Under-Secretary of State for
tioned, or Gauguin's landscapes (16 and 19), should mention Mr. Henry Bishop's
White Fine Arts, has opened the new rooms in the
or the Falaises à Pourville (49), which, were
Street, Tetuan (85); Mr. G. F. Kelly's Ma-ta Louvre devoted to the Far East. The
mé (93);
it not signed by Claude Monet, might hang water-colours of Mr. I. D. Turner (192 and haphazard in other departments—have been
Mr. J. Lavery's Calm Sea (94); the collections—till now scattered somewhat at
in an average
Suffolk Street show with
out attracting or, indeed, deserving special 314) and Mr. J. M. Livens (272 and 277); largely formed from the gifts of amateurs.
notice. Carrière's official portrait La Femme
the pastel of Mr. Clifford Addams (180);
On May 20th-24th, at Leipsic, Herr C. G.
et (le Chien (3) and the large-scale
painting the Interior (303) of M. E. Vuillard, generally Boorner will sell by auction the collections of
of Stevens, Pensive (36), both show the a charming, if never a great, artist; and Mr. copperplate engravings of Rudolph von
mannerisms rather than" the accomplish. Simon Bussy's
attractive Bouquet de Fleurs Seydlitz and of Heinrich Främbs of Neuwied
ment of their authors, and the policy of the (73). Mr: D. Y. Cameron's Badenoch (141) Both collections are restricted to prints
“ International ” in packing their walls is a variant from the rather mannered
of the highest quality, the latter consisting
with well-known names
results so largely paintings that he has shown recently, being almost entirely of examples from the fifteenth
in juxtapositions which bring into prominence inspired apparently by Cecil Lawson.
century to the seventeenth, while in the
accidental differences rather than funda- In the black-and-white section the prin. former the eighteenth century also is well
mental agreement that it is hardly, on the cipal exhibit consists of Mr. E. J. Sullivan's represented. The catalogue comprises 1,556
present occasion, justified.
illustrations to Carlyle's 'French Revolu- items. There are something over thirty
Manet's Still Life (6), an unassuming study tion,' which were discussed in these columns. works by English engravers, including four
of a dead rabbit hung outside a window, is They show a copious imagination, somewhat by Cousins from Lawrence Dixon's "The
80 delightfully healthy and normal a piece hampered by a rather inelastic idea of the Wisses Crewe from Reynolds; Hogarth's
of painting as to emphasize the elaborate human figure as a thing whose litoral pro- 'The Laughing Audience'; two examples
preoccupation with unessentials of most of portions are to be preserved in whatever each of J. Smith, J. R. Smith, and Y. Green ;
the earlier work, and the flimsiness of most of mood of fantasy. M. Léandre's designs and three examples of Hodges. Dürer:
the later work, by which it is surrounded. '(285–8) point to a wiser and more genial Rembrandt, Nanteuil, and G. F. Schmidt
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PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
Sex.
Concert, 3, Royal Albert Hall.
Runday League Concert, 7. Queen's Hall.
Mon.
TUES. José Gomez and Lorne Wallet's Violin and Vocal Recital, 8. 15.
Æolian Alall.
Winifred Purnell's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 30, Bechstein Hall.
Stock Kxchange Orchestral Society. 8. 30, Queen's Hall.
WED. Frederic de Lara's Recital, 8. 15, Steinway Hall.
Balfour Gardiner's Concert, 8. 30, Queen's Hall.
THORS. Miss Madeline Price's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall
London Choral Nociety, 8, Queen's Hall.
PRI. Germaine Schnitzer', Pianoforte Recital, 8. 15, Steinway Hall.
SAT.
Joan Manen's Orchestral Concert, 3. Queen's Hall.
Max Pauer', Pianoforte Recital, , Berhstein Hall.
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predominate as to number. Of Dürer there MADAME Kwast is preparing a biography striking of Desdemona will not be found;
is the
Nativity' which has St. Joseph of her father, Ferdinand Hiller, also his the Bianca scenes are transferred to the
drawing water from the well, an unusually correspondence with notable persons. last act and played in a street; and
fine and fresh copy; and an interesting She will be glad to receive any communica- Emilia's part is seriously curtailed.
Rembrandt is an Ecce Homo '--fifth state tions relating to the subject addressed to
out of nine. Even more noteworthy is the Charlottenburg, Schlütterstr. , 31.
To a certain degree the balance of the
Both
number of anonymous works and works by biography and letters ought to be very drama is affected by these modifications,
early little-known masters. We may also interesting, for Hiller, during a long and and pace, the achievement of which
mention two Bartolozzis and some fifty eventful life, was intimate with Mendelssohn, might have justified most of them, is
engravings by Chodowiecki.
Chopin, Liszt, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Rossini, not always secured because of the deli-
Heine, &c. There will surely also be some- berateness of the elocution and the delay
thing about Wagner, with whom in the caused by interpolated business. ". Thus
Musical Gossip.
Dresden days he was acquainted.
the lightning quickness of Othello's self-
The death is announced of Henry Trotter murder is spoilt by the Moor's being made
THE KING AND QUEEN have deposited on
loan at the Victoria and Albert Museum, He was the composer of songs, * The Death; | dagger ; the lieutenant's own (suppressed)
(or Trotère) last Wednesday at Fulham.
to sidle round till he can snatch at Cassio's
South Kensington, three musical instruments.
less Army,' Asthore,' 'Love can Wait,'
One is an upright grand made by R. Jones &c. , which, though written calamo currente,
words condemn that innovation. In
in 1808, apparently for George IV. when
soon achieved a popularity which in some
other respects, too, the sweep of the action,
Prince of Wales; and another an harmonium
cases they still retain.
which should gather momentum as it
made for travelling, formerly used on the
proceeds, is delayed by the slow delivery
royal yacht. But more interesting than
of Othello's verse and lago's leisurely
either of these is a two-manual harpsichord
methods.
made by Hans Ruckers the Elder, and dated
1612. The keyboards, keys, jacks, and stops
It was not to be expected that Sir
Miss Daker. Fletcher's Vocal Recital,
8. 15. Bechstein Hall.
are, however, of modern make. A. J.
Herbert Tree's handling of Salvini's great
Hipkins, in Grove's ‘Dictionary of Music
part would be more than a tour de force.
and Musicians,' new edition, in the article
Essentially an intellectual and intro-
Ruckers,' describes it, and says that it
spective actor, he can but simulate a
may have been the large harpsichord left
display of animal ferocity; he cannot give
by Handel to Smith, and given by the latter
to King George III. ” On a label, however,
passion full rein or carry the playgoer
Miss Alice Jones' Pianoforte Recital, 3, Steinway Hall.
the instrument is “said to be the original
away by the compelling power of his
harpsichord bequeathed by 'Handel to
emotions. There is little use, therefore,
George II. ” Neither in Handel's will
in complaining that his is a picturesque
in any of its four codicils is there,
rather than a tragic Othello. Rather
any mention of such
a bequest. Had
J. S. BACH.
should he be admired for doing so much
Hipkins seen that label, he would certainly
Mansel House, Oxford, March 16, 1912. with a character foreign to his tempera-
have mentioned it. Who wrote it ? and
when ! We were informed by the authorities
May I beg you to do me the favour of ment, for conveying so admirably his
that it must have come with the instrument allowing me to state that a “new edition
apprehension of the man's moods, and
from the Palace, and that is all the informa-
of a Life of Johann Sebastian Bach,' husbanding his resources so skilfully that
tion they could give.
published under my name by Messrs.
Charles Scribner's Sons at New York, has the play is never noticeably let down.
A SMALL Beethoven discovery has been been issued without my revision and without His is an uxorious and middle-aged Moor,
made at Prague. Dr. Arthur Chitz is said
my knowledge ? The original book was full of dignity in his white robes and look
to have found among the manuscripts of published in London by Messrs. Sampson of abstraction, quiet in the earlier acts,
Count Clam-Gallas an Andante, with varia- | Low thirty years ago ; what the character slow to kindle at the flame of jealousy,
tions for cembalo and mandoline, Dédié à of the reprint is I am unable to say, as the
Mlle. de Clary. It was to her that the com: publishers have not had the civility to send tion, violent--only self-consciously. This
and then passionate merely in declama-
poser dedicated his Recitative and Aria “Ah!
me a copy:
REGINALD L. POOLE.
perfido”; and on a leaf in the Berlin Library
is an Othello who, amid the turmoil of
are some sketches for it, also for an un.
the third act, has time to study his
known piece for piano and violin, while in
features in the glass. Far from being con-
the margin is written pour Mademoiselle la
sumed by rage, he seems to contemplate
Comtesse de Clari. " That unknown piece
DRAMA
the drama of his soul.
which he was sketching may possibly be the
discovered. Two short pieces for
Mr. Laurence Irving symbolizes his
mandoline and pianoforte by Beethoven aro
conception of Iago in a piece of prelimi-
known. They are both in the Supplement OTHELLO' AT HIS MAJESTY'S.
nary by-play : his Ancient catches a
of the Breitkopf & Härtel critical edition of
moth and burns it in a torch at his side.
Beethoven's works. The first one, in c minor,
is marked "about 1795," at which time provided at His Majesty's will render significant.
The setting rather than the acting His Mephistophelian make-up is also
He is impish, mercurial,
Beethoven was in Prague; the second, in
E flat, bears no date. The Countess Jose- Sir Herbert Tree's revival of Othello' Puck-like, his movements resembling those
phine Clary married Count Christian Clam. memorable. The fifteenth-century cos- of a cat, his gestures jerky, his general air
Gallas in 1797.
tumes, fabrics, and armour; the glimpses too eccentric, his villainy on too petty a
of Venetian waterways; the effects of scale, his manner extravagant to the
IN the current number of The Classical
Review Mr. Warde Fowler draws an interest-
storm and sunshine at sea in the first point of burlesque. Mr. Irving has,
ing parallel between early Roman poetry Cyprus scene; the gleam of stars as they however, his moments of inspiration,
and modern English music. Greece, in the show through the entrance to Desdemona's especially as the saddened friend of Cassio,
person of Ennius, a foreigner of genius, bedroom—these impress the spectator but so odd an Iago, one thinks, would
overwhelmed the old rude poetry of Rome, with a sense of their beauty and fitness. never have won the confidence of Othello
and the praise of sung to But his
or the smiles of Desdemona.
. Similarly, he suggests, Handel
his great German successors 'overwhelmed witnesses ; he looks on at a spectacle employed in speaking of the performance
our national music, and we had no really instead of being plunged into a welter of Miss Phyllis Neilson-Terry. " The Cassio
great English composer for a century after of passion.
of the revival may be too amateurish,
his death. Now English musicians have Perhaps there is rather too much the Brabantio undistinguished, but the
absorbed foreign influences sufficiently not pictorial illustration of the text, two charm and unaffected pathos of the
to be subservient to them, and we may
hope for the flowering of a native school
scenes being used at times where one Desdemona are undeniable, never more
which will correspond to the rise of Lucretius
would serve. This involves the sacrifice so than when she sings the Willow-Song. '
and Virgil
, who were free and able to of minor passages, and changes in the Experience has still much to teach this
assert their own poetical individuality in
their own way. "
sequence of events. , Cassio's lines are young actress, but already she is really
cut down; Othello's trance and his moving and sincere.
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Bramatic Gossip.
play lacks the vital emotional development -Keceived.
essential to fine drama. The “family E. C. D. -Not suitable for us
failing is a constitutional slothfulness No notice can be taken of anonymous communications.
* JELF'S,' produced at Wyndham's Theatre which gives rise to some amusing situations. We cannot undertake to reply to inquiries concerning the
on Wednesday evening, is a novelist's play, The play was well acted, special praise appearance of reviews of books.
and its theme is of a kind that might suit a being due to Mr. Sinclair and Miss Eileen We do not undertake to give the valuo of books, china
novel, but does not come out very well in O'Doherty.
pictures, &c.
the theatre. Love in a bank has a pretty
sound, and a sentimental banker is perhaps
The death of Mr. Edward Terry recalls
possibility, though he would, we suspect, to older playgoers many pleasant memories T H E A TI E N Æ U M,
be unlikely to make a success of his business of characters odd, grotesque, and gay.
PRICE THRBEPENCE,
In Mr. Vachell's piece, however, the bank. His best performance, perhaps, was that of 1: pablished every FRIDAY in time for the Afternoon Male Terms
ing and the love-interest get in each other's Dick Phenyl, the bibulous barrister in Sir Ihree Montho, sa. 10d. ; for siz Montho, 12.
stor volte Months
way, and the story drags on through four A. W. Pinero's 'Sweet Lavender," at the store for the continent and all placer vickin tho Postal Union.
Por six Months, ss. ; for Twelve Months, 180. , commencing from any
long acts, hesitating between the notes of theatre to which he gave his own name; and dato, payable in advance to
seriousness and frivolity, till it concludes, he played several other Pinero parts with
in Drury Lane manner, with a crash of
The Atheneum Otice, Broam'. Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, E. O.
sensationalism. The author provides an Born in London in 1844, he had consider-
agreeable enough mixture of melodrama able experience in provincial tours before
and comedy, sentiment and eugenics, un he made his reputation at the Strand Theatre,
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.
selfish love and rash finance, but he leaves 1869–76. In the latter year he began, in
a number of loose ends and unexplained association with Nellie Farren, Kate Vaughan,
details which in the medium more familiar and others, that career of burlesque which AUTHORS AGENTS
to him he would doubtless have managed made the fortune of Hollingshead and the BAGSTER & SONS
more skilfully.
Gaiety Theatre. The plays were things of BELL & Sons
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My Theatrical and Musical Recollections,' TYPE-WRITERS, &c.
1897.
YOST TYPEWRITER
One quaint feature of the piece deserves
notice. At a certain point Fenella's two
suitors are made to declare before her their
ideas of marriage. In Palliser's scheme of
life the possibility of children does not
figure; all he wants is a wife who can be
pal ” and help him to keep his place
JUST PUBLISHED. Domy 8vo, 108. Od not.
in the hunting set to which he belongs.
Jelf, on the other hand, talks, in the breezy
style of the heroes of 'Smith' and 'The
Walls of Jericho' and '98. 9,' of the blessings
of parentage and the charms of family lifo.
But this excursion into eugenics is merely
incidental, and does not affect the develop-
ment of the drama.
Essays and Letters.
By J. HOLLAND ROSE, Litt. D. ,
MR. GEORGE CAMERON, the author of
'Billy,' which was produced at the Play-
Reader in Modern History, University of Cambridge.
house last Saturday, makes a mistake In this volume Dr. Rose presents a series of essays, supplementary to his Life of William Pitt, and
in supposing it possible to occupy three dealing with the characters and careers of Pitt and Napoleon. It will also contain a valuable seleotion
whole acts with a jeune premier's pos- of important new letters by and concerning Pitt.
session and loss of four false teeth. Not
all the talent and accomplishment of Mr.
DR. ROSE'S LIFE OF PITT.
A. E. Matthews as the footballer hero, Miss
Florence Haydon as the heroine's mother,
VOL 1. -WILLIAM PITT AND NATIONAL REVIVAL
and Mr. Robert Averell as a “superior
VOL. II. -WILLIAM PITT AND THE GREAT WAR.
Oxford man
can maintain interest in a
Medium 8vo, with Photogravure Platos, 160. not cach.
dilemma that could be disposed of by any "Taken together the two books remove the reproach which Lord Rosebery has before now insisted upon-that there
rational person in three sentences,
is no adequate life of one of the greatest English statesmen. Now at last we have a work worthy of the subject. . . .
There is far more material in the one-act
Few living scholars are better equipped for the work. He has laid the foundation broad and
deep, and brings to the
study of British statesmanship an intimate and curious knowledge of the existing records. His style is an excellent
play 'Their Point of View,' by Wilfred T. one for an historian, being clear, picturesque, and spiced with just a flavour of epigram. "-Spectator.
Coleby, which preceded 'Billy. The argu-
ments by which a slightly disreputable
THE MOST COMPLETE “PEPY8. "
BOHN'S LIBRARIES.
widow attempts to secure for her good boy THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS,
NEW VOLUMES.
the advantages of a school for first offenders
touch real life at point after point. The
M. A. F. R. 8. Transcribed from the Shorthand MS.
in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cam- BEDE'S ECCLESIASTICAL HIS-
mother is admirably acted by Miss Beryl bridge, by the Rev. MYNORS BRIGHT, M. A.
TOBY OF ENGLAND. Bovised Translation.
Edited, with Additions, by HENRY B. WAKATLEY,
Mercer.
F. S. A. In 8 vols. post 8vo, bs. net each.
With Introduction, Life, and Notes by A. M. SELLAR,
lato Vice-Principal, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
MR. WILLIAM BOYLE's new play, 'Family Diary and the Notes and Index, as in the ten-volume
This reprint contains the whole of tho text of the
(Now ready.