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THE NEW-YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW SUPPLEMENT. OCTOBER 10.1800. iRT AliD ARTISTS In Mr. George Da Maurier's romance The Martian," as It Is appearing la Har-'pet's first chapter, beginning with tbe October number, the aotbor and 'artist refers to bis young hero aa capable 'of drawing caricature that we boys thought Inimitable, much funnier than Oum'i, or, Bcrtall's, cr 0unl'i." Why 'did Mr. Du Maurler lare oat Daumler, wbo 'waa famous ae a caricaturist just at the time described, which was In 1848-60? 'Perhaps of all tho contributors to Phlllp-on albums, and to tho Charivari, Cham' 'work was tbe most amusing.

Queerly enough, tho reason why this caricaturist took the nam of "Chira" was because he was tbe Count Amadee de No, and "the sens ef ths eacurslonist were jlain and Japhet-end Cham is tbe French 1 for the. first Gavarnl or, rather, Paul Chevalier can hardly be called caricaturist. Ills work occupied a higher plane. Tharo was certain elegance In Cavarni's work which rsve It Us peculiar charm. He 'could too, the beggar of Paris just a strikingly as did, a' cemury or more before him, Jacques Callot French caricature bas retrograded flurlnf the last forty and Is generally hoarse and nasty.

There Sever were more Impressive pictures, serlo comJ than those which accompanied the adventures of Robert Macaire. -In the recent report of the Trustees of the English National Portrait Gallery, after Lord Lelghton died, who was the President, his announced successor was Sir John- MUIaU, and now too, has 'passed away. In IK Mr. Gladstone, who had been one of Iht Trustees ever since 1800, 'eot In his resignation. He had been ap 'pointed to replace ttseaulay.

This year 'Mr. William Henry Alexander, to wboae 'munificence England owes tbe building, on account of his Infirm health resigned his -Trusteeship, Mr. Leslie Stephen and Mr; 'a. Watts are the new Trustees. The ofllcers of the National Gallery call attention to the fact that all the possible space "Is new occupied with the portraits, and "that more room Is necessary.

It may be some care before the question- of an front, but there Is tho want for just such -a collection aa England possesses. Mr. George D. Peterson has sent to the Chicago Art Institute a portrait bust of Al-tphonae Daudet That shaggy, mane the author of rraxtarta" delights In would alone render such a bust remarkable. Mr.

'Peterson has the advantages of having '-worked hard In Paris under Intelligent mas-ten, and most conspicuous, for strength 'and vigor Is his bust of Mr. MeKlnley. Tbe Academy of tho Fine Arts of Phtla 1 deJphla will be opened on the 10th of Decern tier. In the collection will be shown the 'Carnegie Art Gallery of Pittsburg, with the loading pictures coming from the St Louis i Exposition and the Chicago Art Institute. -Mr.

E. D. Jordan win show at bis gallery tn-Boston, to be opened on the 6th of October, many examples of the French school' There will be pictures by Purls de Cha-vannes, Dnpre, Vollon, TlemsV Labtre, Bouguereau, Glrardet, Bulaad, Grandjean, Mme. Guyot, Madeline Lemaire, Ferrler, Vauthlor, Coutourlere, Jaeque, Rauftr Blnet, Bclleuse, and others. -There hi a story, wanting somewhat In dpnnlteness Just at present, that a grandly Illustrated Bible is to be forthcoming, to which Burne-Jonea, Mwat, Aim TAdema, Gerbme, Walter Crane, Benjamin Constant, Laurens, Joseph Israels.

Sargent. IX A. Abbey, and Munkacsy are to eon tribute Among these picture makers all creeds are represented; so, if to Munkacsy some of the New Testament illustrations were glveu, to' Joseph Israels would be allotted the episodes from the Old. The Idea Is a grandiose one, for it. would repre- eVUL aiiUallXmXlTS-iw-.

111 isa wJ American art at the close of the nineteenth -MIjw Amelia Kussneri whose work as a miniature painter was commenced In Chi-cato, has met with much success in Lon. Son, It Is all nonsense to think that miniature painting waa a lust art It was not practiced, since there was- little. If any, lemand for It; and photography apparently tilled it Though to-day there may be many who paint miniatures, the real ex. jcrts are but few. The Us to for mini-iturcs has, however, revived.

-The Cleveland Art School Is now at turn unuer the charge of Messrs Edmonton, Rohrhelmer, and De Klys. Mr. Jlohr-olmer's reputation as an originator of In-rrlor decorations Is among the best- To Jr. Edmonson waa awarded the Topman rise In Philadelphia, and with it the means study la Europe. Idea of Illuminating picture galleries uust be crude when aro lights are used.

Such a tremendous light ruins the eyes, i the pictures, and now in California It es beca found out that such glaring; lights ave spoiled the pictures exposed In tho rarotnlo Gallery. Then coal stoves were red for htatlng, with the necessary ac-tii inylng fumes of euiphurettia hydro- and io the' frescoes were all black-1 1. Ur tlvcu a pigment having lead In It-c 1 vUh sulj hurous gas present, the result Frits Trltbtl has Just sent to Peoria 8 a skoit of one of the groups 1 i 1 im a part of the memorial to I In iVorU. commemorative of i n'i! urloc 1 their lives In battle. i tj le hl-r.

sur- I en-'e In Lronxs. I the defense of the standard, and from the sketch shown In The Chicago Chronicle it la conceived In a moat spirited manner. We may expect an unlimited number of statues andlMuts to be erected In Canada In honor of Queen Victoria's accomplishment, which is of having reigned longer than any other English sovereign. But there are other end better reasons why her Msjesty Is deserting of a lasting remembrance. The John Witt Randall collection deposited In tbe Museum of Fine Arts of Harvard College ia an immense one.

It contains not less than 10,710 line engravings and etchings, and the total objects are 21.911. Among the etchings are many valuable examples. Kttnr rprrone. who occupied a conspicuous in art. died at Serrento on the 19th of September.

Crcone had been a Captain In the Italian Navy, and his sketches of foreign countries, and particularly of the Orient were many. His best known-works are The Pyramids "The Dance," and "Arab Prayer." Cer-rane's pictures were much admired by German critics, and his best work. "Prayer on Board," was at the recent exhibition In Berlin. Piece au dames." but when she Is a lady of quality, a conspicuous place must be given her. The Guelphs are musical, the Calury cress rave that but thev also cheer with brush and pencil- Her Royal Highness the Princess LouUe, an amateur artist of considerable abilitr.

hu vnLi drawings and water colors at the exhibition of the Society of Scottish-Artists In Edln. wirg. me. Princess's work was given a place of honor by the Hanging Committee. If the Princess would only send over here some of her examples the eallerr Ing them would be packed.

-A bust of Mosart la to be the principal Prise awarded to the alnrinar amv city at the forthcoming National Saengerfest, to be held in June next in rnuaaeiphle. The competition for the butt Is open to all. and th whose work Is approved is to receive $800. Messrs. Manger and August Mueller of Priladelphia have charge of this award.

The critic of The Boston Globe, In de-scribing the pictures Art Gallery, calls- attention to this which consists of over 200 works of art and representative of the Parla Salon of this year, Amonr the notd Mim. Joseph Bell's Dog Fight" Henri Gervex's nrsi oieps," vollon's Vase and Fruits," Henners "Woman's Head." Tiems's "A Boene of Venice," Pavla de Chavanners "Spring," Lafon's "BaxeUles, 1870," and Billotte's two pictures" A Rainbow, and Evenlnr at th inn a. mola" The PitUburr Art KthihiiiAi. i. held at the Caraeerla nalim 4ii k.

vt The opening Is to take place on Nov. 2. Our native art it k. sented by Alexander, Brush. Blum, Wine-low, Homer, Church, Has Bam, La Farge Vedder, Murphy, Picknell.

Keld, Tarbell! Shirlaw, Thayer, Tyron. Twachtman, Dan-net Gay. Uarlaon, MacEwen. Cox. Weeks, Melohera, WhisUer, Broughton, Mowbray.

Mosler, Clarke, Duveneck. Currier, and. many others. French art of tolay will be handsomely represented, and there will be the works of the past, as shown by pictures of Melssonler and NeuvUle. The English section will Include tbe paintings of Watts, Fildes, Lorlmer.

Orchardson, Swan. Tuke, and Burna-Joaee. There will be man German pictures, and what is" fairly new to us In the United States, good examples of tbe rising Scotch school, as represented by Park, Stevenson. Thomas, McGregor, Spence, Hornel, Peterson, CrawhUI. Henry Kennedy, Hamilton, and, Melville, -The art school of Hartford.

wUl be open on the 12th of October. The Director of the painting class is Mr. Charles C. Curran. The revival 'of miniature painting bas been noted, and -the miniature Is a protest against the photograph.

If the features of the man, w'th Its accentuations, take well" by means of the camera, the more delicate and finer tralta of the woman do not, and, as far as photography Is concerned, a really handsome woman never can be well, satisfied with her "exact" likeness. Then, how Impossible it Is to mount a mere bit of cardboard in gold, beset with gems! PerhapsTas far as miniature work goes. Petltot and Cosway were such masters of the art that after them there were no successors, in the ebatter of to-day, indulged In by those who actually practice art, there a tendency to enlarge on the theme of the, present grand and broad manner," just as if we had outstripped the ancients, The prattle Is, that a miniature Is finicky. Insignificant, because "It mast be stippled." and to stipple la to be mechanical. The great artists In miniatures did stipple, for you may not be broad or slashing within a minute apace, say to 4 inches, long by 2i to 8 Inches In width, but tbe miniature painters of the last century knew by art alone how to get outside of their narrow limitations, England there Is a flourishing society of miniature painters, and It Is under the auspices of Jbe at Itr present exhibition It shows over loo pictures, 'Why should Charles Dickens have made fun of the nice Miss La -The Ban Francisco Call gives aa interesting sketch of Josef Israels, with an account of a visit paid the artist at The nsgue.

There has been long entertained aa Idea that a Jewish pslnter was either a rhytcal cr a mental Impossibility. Notwithstanding Wagner, It has been generally CfinoHed that trure had been ome Jew-Ms In crior to prove the case rvcr i 1 le j'-'-tuj. ar gument waa used that, with their Oriental-Ism; It waa net permissible for the Jew to copy any of God's creatures, It being considered a sin even to dare to imitate the work of tho Creator. Psychologically, however. In most men's brains music and art live as twin sisters.

The writer In The San Francisco Call tells of Josef Israels' origin, of his privations, the- many obstacles In his path, and how he made his way to the front by sheer talent and that genius which is the taking of Infinite pains." It is the appeal to one's finer sentiments, entirely apart from his wonderful technical work, which is Josef Israels's salient quality. He Is the painter of sentiment and of the most delicate sentiment, and that is not exactly Dutch and so Israels belongs to all the world, and his Individuality is not pent-up within dikes. Josef Israels must now be nearing his seventieth year, and is still Indefatigable, though be is so conscientious that a picture remains a. long time on his easel. John C.

Merlne, an artist, who died at Kansas City last was a portrait painter, and has left behind bim a llfe-sixed portrait of Henry Clay, of Attorney General Harlan, and of the Rev. Alexander Campbell, the founder of the CampbeUite Church. Mr. Merlne Is believed to have painted not lees than 2X00 portraits in his time. Coming to Kansas City In 18C9, The Kansas vClty World writes that he took great interest In tbe fortunes of the then nascent city, and that Merlne Avenue was named In his honor.

The Philadelphia Ledger gives a print of Gilbert Stuart's studio, at Germantown. It Is situated opposite St Stephen's Church." Originally the building was a barn, and Stuart lived In a house near it. Jan Stuart, in an article to be found In Bcrlbner'B Monthly, (July, 1876.) tells how her father, having been annoyed by too many visitors when at work Philadelphia, sought his country home In Germantown," where he transformed a barn Into a painting room. Here Washington sat for the portrait note at the Athenaeum, Boston. It Is a legend that when-the Father of his Country became tired of his sittings for Stuart was a slow and methodical worker tbe General would saunter Into the garden which surrounded tbe studio, pick spples and eat them, and, strange to relate, that Identical apple tree still blossoms.

A picture purporting to be a Mlllala has been recently put In place in the Louvre Gallery, This picture, one of the late M. Millet's relatives declares, la a forgery and a very bad one at that For- tbe Louvre experts to be deceived Is a rather remarkable occurrence. As to Millet's works, the relatives of the artist know every picture he ever made. As to the paintings of Corot. Courbet, and more particularly Dies, their histories are not so well known; hence there are some forgeries.

The criticism passed on Sir John Mlllala In 1857, then plain John Mlltals, shows bow appreciation grows. Sir John had then Just pslnted a strange picture, Sir Isumbras." and somebody in The Illustrated Times attacked it with pyster-knife criticism; "That aspiring youth Is gasping barefoot like a stranded Hop 0' My Thumb! This picture makes you doubt whether to charge the artist with Imbecility or Impertinence. It would be thought bad on a public-house sign." It might as well be mentioned, however, that Ruskin had no great Uklnjr fr thisJ Sir Isumbras." and the reasonwas that it was a departure from the pre-Raphaellte standards; There is to be an architectural exhibition, arranged by the Baltimore Architectural Club. All the leading Boston and New-York architects will send drawings, and the hope Is entertained that some of the best of the French artists will also for-ward their designs. THE WORK OF MR.

A. B. DAVIES. In the early Spring of this year there was shown at Mr. William Macbeth's gallery, on Fifth Avenue, forty-two pictures, all the work of Mr.

Arthur B. Davies. Notwithstanding the variety of the subjects treated, and the number of the canvases, the effect produced waa remarkable. The difficulty seemed to be on the part of the public to clasa the artist. There were, with prodigality of ideas la the selection of topics, tho happiest effects of.

color and a technique. There are now on exhibition at Mr. Macbeth's five of Mr. Device's pictures which wlll flnd A place in the Carnegie Gallery at the coming show in Pitts burg. The titles are, The Vision ot Glory," "In the Old Rath." "The Two Step." and Taking a small work, 10 by IS Inches, The Vision of Glory" shows a young knight clad In armor leaning against one of.

the trees In a forest The picture, small as It Is, abounds with a wealth of color, which runs Into the russet browns, but Is warmed with, a sun-low. It has that precise, poetlo feeling which Is Tennystfnlan. It Is the youth of a Sir Galahad. In The Two Impression is strange but hot startling," lor It Is nor fir the province ot good art to atartle. Two little girls in white are dancing under a tree, and back of -them a female figure holds aloft a naked child.

Tou might think It were old Italian, from the composition and the coloring. It Is wonderfully; suave, and the application of the colors Is very much more old in method than belongs to to-dayr The charm of thla ork wonderful; Here' Is am artist who has convictions, who Is original without being b'xarr-, and who follows no tcatcn trsck. Tim Arrttni th-K'rl KAtfd ly te t'I 'J strange fish desportlng la the water. By. her side are two children satyrs.

Here, again, are tbe boldest of effects. The sky shows a bank 'of white cloud, with the blue above It The drawing of the girt purity Itself, and she has aa bright hair aa Tintoretto would have dared to paint To show Mr. Davles's facility, there is a night scene, where the harvest moon shines through the clouds, and there are glints of light reflected from a cabin window. Mr. Davies Is of Welsh descent and was born In this State.

With the exception of a short trip made by him this Summer to Europe, he has not studied abroad. To such -European galleries as he went all he did was to look, for he had no inclination to enter any Paris atelier, la may be questionable whether Mr. Davies ever can paint to please the multitude. His work so far rather appeals to those who have seen many pictures and are capable of making comparisons. As to the artists whose dicta are not to be Ignored, Mr.

Davies Is to them a painter of wonderful merit a man who belongs to no academy, say one who versifies wlthencU and brush all within the bounds of perfect decorum. What an 'admirer of this artist's work would wish would be that Mr. Davies should devote his talente to a purely religious subject, for In The Two Step the method of It, the handling, with Its singular sweetness, is suggestive of the childhood of the Saviour. r-, -A 4 ABOUT THE ANCIENTS. Mr.

Solomon Relnach, In a paper recently read before the French. Academy of In- scriptlons, rather takes away from the grandeur of the Homeric helmet The headpieces worn by the dcml-gods, he believes, were made of wickerwork and ornamented with nails and disks of metaL The basis for M. Keinach's argument 1 derived from what remains of the Mycenaean and the Illytian helmet. If we only could date what waa the Homeric period we could bettee determine what were metallurglc conditions. -A helmet would be precisely that kind of an object requiring the greatest skill on the part of the artificer, because strength of material, with lightness and convenience, would have to be considered.

In the history of defense, the first protection for the body waa devised from bringing together rushes, reeds, and plant sticks. It Is, then, by no means Impossible that basketry was of early use for a helmet. In cudgel play such a wickerwork protection for the head serve its purpose to-day, The perpetual stupidity was revived when the announcement waa made that the Pbpu-ligtic candidate who took the leading place at the Chicago) Convention owed his nomination to the fact that he carried a rabbit's foot Exactly In -the same way the little boy escapes cramps while bathing, providing he has tied an eel'a skin around his leg. For certain kinds of cramps, being as knitting together of the muscular ganglia, cures are many. Prominent is a ring, which) must bo made out of coffin screws.

The wearer of such a ring never can have a stomach ache. If there Is anything reliable in history, former Kings of England hallowed such rings, and by touching them made them more efficacious. The use of magnetic bracelets," comprised of two metals, was a popular return to these absurd beliefs. Some forty years ago rings of two metals, as a variation from thev original cramp ring were much in use. Mr.

Joseph D. McGulre, In the last number of The American Anthropologist, again agttatea the vexed question of how the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods are to be consiaereu. ne expuung wnac are me uir- Acuities when an attempt Is made to study them chronologically. If the difference Is one ot a mechanical character, are there ufflrlnt evidences to sustain this theorv? Mr. McGulre writes that the matter has been discussed, with but little reference to.

the technological view. What Mr. McGulre has done Is to fashion tools of stones, imitative of most of the forma in use by primitive races, and In; so making up arrowheads, knives, axes, he has not used modern tools, as ot Iron or steel, but keot rlsrorously to the old ways, cutting stone with stone, or In drilling by the mas nmnlAvsul Kv a. si Ka1 awl mm It msm can understand Mr. McGulre, confusion arises between what are classed as paleolithic and neolithic, when the characters of the prime material, the stones, are not understood.

If man of the very earliest period had found the stone which the later man sought for, the tools of the earlier period would have been Just as well finished as those of the later times. He confesses that the task of discriminating between tha two periods by the tools alone is a difficult one. ana occasions n.usi rest nuner on geological conditions. Major Powell thoroughly comprehended the subject when he wrote: Tho mind of men Is everywhere the same, the differences of its products are evidences of differences of growth or different conditions of environment" To-day Is as nothing when compared with the limitless time which has gone before It considering only the world on which man has existed. Civilisation, as we eee it today, must be, then, the most modern of Inventions, and occupies, as a writer in Tho National Review expresses It but a very small portion of the history of the human race." Man's original range may have been limited geographically, and be subsisted as he could, but mainly on the products of the chase.

In a certain restricted manner ho had to cover tbe ground, however, as the game moved In accordance with the seasons. The nomadic habit became then a part of his nature. He did not have any We that change benefited bU health, lis moved for subsistence sake alone. That 1 habit of change of place would be likely to leave a lasting impress on every cell and fibre of his body." But primitive man could not always change his oaae. Sometimes he waa restricted in his movements when, for Instance, he lived on an Island of no great Site, or at other times was hemmed In by tils 'enemies.

Anthropoio-1 gists with biologists, think, then, that this fixation of certain people or diminution accounts tor the death of certain native races who do not btar There are two conditions, both of which tend to the disintegration of the savage races. One la when the nmn-id dies because p-nni up. anJ tho otKr tnn tmwee who, to one tvr- I f..