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NEW YORK, SATURDAY JUNE 2, 190a AMERICAN ART. Pictures Shown la the Paris Ear PARIS. May I at last possible to walk round th American picture section a the exposition and to Identify with comparative eaae the name on the canvases with the entries In the catalogue. Needless to aay, the Hanging Committee baa placed all Its own picture on the line, though, hold! there la one exception to thla rule. Mr.

John W. Alexander, whoae two v-ry Important canvases, La Mere and Au-tomne," are both hung high up. The artist, knvwor. la nnt the loser by hla generosity. Ills portrait of Rodin Is, as I predicted It would be, the moat aenaatlonal work from the nolnt of view of actuallU which the American section contains.

It represents Rodin, the aculptor, an atUtude familiar him linMIn a rlav model Mi wnv mvw w. ef a human face la hla hands and turning it ahnut. unnlnc Ita lines In those broad. sensitive fingers of his, Just as Guy de iiMinuunt described him In "Notre Coeur." The prevailing tone of the picture is a silvery gray, 1 hear that it is to be reproduced In a well-known Illustrated re view In New York. Mr.

Alexander's other two contributions those which are not hung on the line-are a very remarkable composition of a mother leaning anxiously over her baby, a work In which the ma- ternal Instinct Is very vividly expressed, and a avmbolle stoud of two young women ealllng through an autumnal sky on the wing Of their own buoyant For brilliant harmony of tone, solid coloring, suid faultless drawing, Mr. Alexander has done anything finer than this latter smpesWea, n-hkth a Uua. masierpmrft (Hardly to be classed as actuallte, for we fcava ail seen It before, but still fresh with interest and attractiveness on account of Ita avtramel brilliant workmanship. IS Mr. Sargent's portrait group of Mrs.

Meyer and kp rhUJren. It has lost nothing of Its marvelous quality, and Is on of the most Donular nlctures In th exposition. Mr. T. Dannat sends two small portraits both aomswhat eketcbily painted which show that bis recent purchases ot Lawrences are Influencing hla style.

was more sue-aaaaful in ths bull if he falls in tills new venture be does so In perfect earnestness and evidently wunoui snowing it Tha charanteristic beauty of Lawrence's portraits and of those of th early English school generally was their carrying quality. However far you got away from them. thev aiwava held their places and planes. Thla la nreciaelv what Is not the case with Dan net's two female heeds, and that Is th most fatal' fault about them, quits apart from weak drawing and waany Dec grounds. rha rraat refutation which Mr.

Inness en- Joys in th States la cordially confirmed by th opinion of French critic over her, hi Kill Pond has been very much admired, and his "Bunny Autumn Day," with lu rt-h ruaaat tones and dollcat sunlit at osphcr. 1 even better liked. Th two aa Mi-trait bv Whistler, on of himself and th other of lady In a black, low-cut Areas, are a UtU disappointing. Th painter a iwmmI with one hand nushsd forward In somewhat enigmatic attitude, which may be full of subU signincance, out is ot talnlv not dignified. There an air of "eolne- in to dinner" about th black Mis iiiv.

s. faint aroma of sous which In terferea with th otherwise distinguished aimosnhera of the Dlctur. A third Whistler, aof In th catalogue, has also been hung, In pit Of It being ODVIOUSiy ra um ynu aid. and therefor outside th limits Of aa exposition It represents a girl In white standing against a mantelpiece and holding a Japanese fan. It la a very strong and particularly pleasing lloa.

Oeorge Forrest Brush contributes three works. In an old Venetian manner, which with" universal admiration her. There are critics who hold that nrueh Is th strongest living American painter. However that may b. hi "Mother and Child." loaned by th Academy of Pennsylvania, 1 recognised to be a masterpiece, gs is also th family group In which he has portrayed himself, hla wife, and his cMl-dren.

With St. Oauden'S bone In th dls- Tha aolldltv of hi XCUtloa 1 la contrast with ths thin painting which th younger American school enacts ana car ries sometimes too isx. Three very strong portrait are contrib uted by Mis Beaux. easily tops to list of female artists in this ana pernaps in sny other of th foreign fin art sections. Her Mother and Bom la particularly striking, and I hav no space la which to enumerat all Its high qualities.

Another lady, Miss Abbot, send a Utile canvas, Anxiety "-a mother bending over hr airk child In a poverty-stricken mom wnivn IB nd composltlon-tha still life In psrUcularrl Thayer's Virgin' on a Tnrons," Tan- ner Daniel In th Lmns" Den strong 1 work by a colored artist; Vsn der Weydeit's "Hillside," suggesting Mnard. though atmnaer In technique: Fromuth'e fin pas- Ids of harbor life, lunger's Becky Cole's UIH. and th very striking soascapes by Winalow Homer, on representing two Wlnslow Homer, one representing two girls dancing In front of a woonswept see, the eth-r a great weight of wave dashing ea to the coast ot Melnu, hav al I attract-, ed much attention hert and high praise. Iii.r. I.

lltila SlMannnlnlinsp with i I. ni.li.atrtiuil While bodice holding Vp a yellow dog. While omr Cfmmom yviU Klowvra, Ur. Wllltara his other contribution, a Columbine i black sundlnf astraddle In What appears r.t ww tt caarUe Sortba-w's he the high street at an vll- s--. iwiv.

gt toga, dlspleasine- J. Noble ti.rlntf tlnmrdr nia Knruis vruin. umm moonlight scene-girls bathing In a lake- which is very fine, and a very successful effort is tbs early moon on the sea" Feche en Bade "by Lionel waiaen. ineim a good, breeiy quality in Frank W. Ben-son's The Sisters "two children play ing on a seagirt cliff.

Chime liassams Snowy Day to Fifth Avenua might bo mistaken for a Plssarro, and is a triumph of "atmospheric Charles-Davis's rosy clouds reflected in nine nw w. distinctly good, as are also Blsblngs cows and the woman in a wmw and the large copper bowl by VTUUam Chase, A very clever composition la by Mrs. MacMonnlea. tne wue 01 ue lor. It repreaenta a woman wheeling a child in" a perambulator along a garaea path with a background of white lilies.

Color, expression, pose are all excellent Harrison eon tributes one unu-ually large rlctnre slanting; aunligbt falling on a thicket or young pines oj i i fine work, but suffers from a badly ebosca frame, which is Just the same breadth and almost tne same coiur th. nt the trees. His two -other marines, formerly exhibited at the Salon des ueaux aits, ana familiar to the French public, are worthily characteristic of his best style. A special word of praise Is due to a newcomer, tax. tv rah.

who sends a portrait of a girl in red with a black hat. with pink and blue plumes, which is brimful of cleverness and originality. This picture attract ed great attention at the exniDition oi American art students, neia ai vurana Ruai'a in tha hee-lcnlne- of the year, and it loses nothing by its present association with works of a mucn nigner ciasa. nulla tha eontrarv! Its brilliance of utifn Is such that few painters would to have it as a neii-mmr Beignaor their awn nroductlona Mr. Marsh is.

wm b.pv vnnnr. and ha Would cer- itilv ainear to have a areat career bo- lOre mm. A Utuo jorvran nuiu a by Guy Maynard la also a very strong bit of naintlna-. and has been most unjustly skied. Mr.

Walter MacE wen's three con tributions are striking, but -surely in his Portrait the foremost leg ot the elderly lady In th group must be a good deal too short Walter Gay's Maternits Hnds many admirers, as does Mr. Edwin Abbey's dramatically conceived and solidly painted Hamlet." A very fine marine three fishermen manoeuvring a boat in tempest- by Max Bohm, and Droho's night scene, with tha a-rav-sreen of the trees in the faint moonlight, admirably given, merit careful study. Ridgaay Knight repeats bis suc cess of two Salons ago with "A July li ornlne-" a vouna clrl standing In a field of poppies with th wlndlnc Seine in th background. A water color, The River Pathway," by M. Louis Knight.

Is a bit of th same landscape, and a very care-fullv naintad axd successful work. In faet asgood a water color aa th section has to show, i.r Stewart's nudes" nympnes do Nlssa-ar clever in drawing, though a little coarse in surface, E. Lord Weeks sends some Interesting Oriental scenes, which seem to be tn- want of, sun, though of course tha technique Is Irreproachable. Mr. Vinton's portrait of the Hon.

A. W. neard is admitted lo be a strong perform ance Humnhrev Johnston's portrait of his mother represents his sombre but sensitive style very worthily, and before concluding a word of hearty praise is- due v. i. Darllns's "Helping Mother.

two small children round a woman who Is peeling potatoes. ROWLAND BTRONU. Mrs. Dioa's How to Know tte W34 Flowers." Mrs. Dana's How to Know th Wild Flowers" 1 too well known to need detailed description at thla late day.

First nuhilahad In tha Sarin- of 1803. th book had such immediate and great success that the present edition comprise th nrty-atth thauaand so issued. Mrs. Dana has thoroughly revised her work la the pres ent edition; quit a number or nowers not Included la previous editions being added, vKiia advantae-e has been taken ot th necessity for completely resetting the typ to mak many and Important alterations, nut tha nraaent edition is particularly note worthy for Its beautiful colored plates. about fifty in number, reproduced rrom faithful and accurst water color sketches mad for th edition by Mia Elsie Louis Ehaw.

So and carefully were these sketches mad that in many cases th actual flower seems starting from th page, and on can almost fancy th perfume, too, la la evidence. These color plates having la th present edition replaced many of Mis Marlon Bat-tarlee's carefully mad black end white Illustrations, to th interest of which It Is unnecessary to rerer at tais let aay, sn has added a number of new drawings, lather of flower before unlllustrated or frmmtt aanacts of those already While Mrs. Dana still Insists tnsi a book of this description to be entirely useful ha k.nt in small enough compass to conveniently carried on walks, and adapted tor use In th woods and fields, and at the same tlm so simply written as to appeal to and Interest th flower lover, who Is often not the botanist, yet since th en. giW vivw of th last revised edition ef certain through a peculiar charm or ''LporUnce, hive either forced Ja D0Uce or been urged (litv vl KNOW TflH WTLO Fl0w T-RS; A nnnn others, so that It has seemed expedient to include them in the present Issue. Tha first chanter of the book, as will be remembered, le.

devoted to minute instruc tions as to how tha volume is to be used. That Dana's work has been found of the greatest service and Interest to people generally, who, although anxious and glad to be able to recognise our common wild flowers, might have had neither the time nor the opportunity for the patient study which would give them such infor mation. The Importance of Mrs. Dana's book has beenr proved In two wsys: First, by' its large and steadily growing sale, which In part has ted to the appearance of this beautiful Illustrated edltion-m edition to gain her book new friends and make tnose wno have long cherished earlier editions teel that this, too, must be added to their shelves. But what la a still more striking proof of the need for such a book, ana tne rnnuatunt nooularitV STOWlng OUt Of the thorough manner of Its doing and the in terest of its general plan and charmingly written text is evidenced by the fact that the book has had many successors, such as Mrs.

Dana'a own "According to Season." which those who do not know the book will find to be a aeries of talka about flowers In the order of their appearance in the woods and fields, or her own charming "How, to Know the Ferns," in which Mrs. Dana says that the world of delight which opens -before us when we are admitted into some sort of Intimacy with our companions other than human is enlarged With each new society into which we win our way." Through Mrs. Dana's personal aid and by the force of her example, then, have not only been enabled to form much more than a bowing acquaintance with tne familiar, flower and femsof our own country, but her footsteps have been so successfully followed that othera have done for our native trees, and for our common birds, as well as for the song birds and water fowl of our country, the same careful descriptive work, thus, happily for us. Illustrating the old proverb that imitation la the alncerest form of flattery. Alfthese books being done with so great a measure ot success as to make it self-evident that he who remains In Ignorance of all that goea to make up the pleasure and profit of country living" does so because he will, and not because he must' Where all the Illustrations are so beautiful it is hard to particularise, but two of the most charming of all these color plates are those of the Trailing Arbutus and the Partridge Vine." Miss Satterlee'a illustrations are all worthy of th colored as well as 'of interpreting Mrs.

Dana's charming text. It Is a. well-known fact that the latter' tlowera are arranged according to colors, acting on a suggestion found in one of John Burroughs's essays, which greatly simplifies the use of the book for on who Is not a botanist One paragraph which more than any oth er shows just where our common wild flowers will be most readily found, may be given to show Mrs." Dana's style: Some of th flowers described are found along every country highway, and It I interesting to note that these wayside plants may usually be classed among th foreign population. They hav been brought to us from Europe in ballast and In loads of grain, and Invariably follow In th wake of civilisation. Many of our most beautiful native flowers hav been crowded out of th hospitable roadside by.

these aggressive. Irresistible, and mis chievous Invaders; for Burroughs points out that nearly all of oug troublesome weeds are emigrants from Europe! We must go to th mora remote wood and fields If we wish really to know our native Swamp especially offer an eagerly sought asylum to our shy and lovely wild The book will be found thoroughly Interesting In every detail, and it colored plates so charming as to mak th book on ot th great successes of th season. of the Roycroft Books. A previously unsold Roycroft Press book cam up for sale at the room ot John Anderson, in Thirtieth Street, Monday evening, together with a number ot other tin pooka. Thla Story ot Giynne'a Wife," by Julia D.

Toung. East Aurora, 1806, and one of twenty-five copies on Tokio vellum, beautifully decorated by the authoress. The sum of f2o was given by T. F. Hatfield for this volume, which probably th rarest ot th Roycroft publications.

Shaw's Ooing to Church," East Aurora, iaM, sold for S3, and Vernon Lee's Essay oa Art and Ufa." East Aurora, 1804, (on of 100 copies on Japan paper and hand Ulomtnatot,) fetched ST. Th Large Paper Cambridge Shakespeare, edited by W. Aid Is Wright, 180S-08, la forty volumes, sold for S08 to Frederick W. Morris, wall the same buyer secured for $67 aa extensive and choice collection ot LSOO prints gathered tS Illustrate th Cambridge 8hakspaar. A collection ot 450 print Intended to extra Ulustrat Moore's Letters and Journals of Byroa" want to Mr.

Morris for Cf. The volume of short stories by Norman Duncan, to be published to th early Fall by Mcdur. Phillip will include besides the tale which gives th title to the book, 'the Innermost Heart of Maa," the "Lamp Liberty," "la the Absence of Mrs. Ualloran," "For the Hand at Haleen," and The Under Shepherd." Th cane ot th atoriee are laid to th Syrian quarter ot New York City. Mr.

Duncan haa Just bet-a sent to Newfoundland by the McClur Magaatas to gather material for aoaie forthcoming stories of life among th nshenaea there, MORALITY IN BOOKS. How Mock Always Depends on trie Point of View And the Intention. Besides the recent futile. Illiterate, and depressing discussions of morality and the -reverse in literature, the drama, and art with which we have been afflloted in this country, certain gentlemen have been air- In their ignorance of the matter in tha British House of Commons. A more lam- -entably commonplace and useless debate.

It la safe to aay, never occurred even in that legislative body. The minute the or-dlnary maa or woman attempts to discuss this subject he or she seems to lose his or her reason. What la moral in art and literature Surely all that which Is good in art and literature. Why la that not a auffldent answer? Is the Bible Immoral! Is Shake-apearet la Dante because he tells of Fran- cesca and Paola? Is Tennyson because ha tells of Lancelot and Guinevere When your member of Parliament or your Alder- man or your School Inspector tackles the subject he Involves himself in Just such Insane themes for debate aa these. The subject has received very intelligent treatment lately in The London Standard.

The discussion In the House of Commons was the text of the article' from which we quote: The relations of art and ethics present an old-standing problem, and It happens that In the current number ot The Nineteenth Century we find an article by lord Iddeslelgh on Jane Austen novels, of which he Is a devoted admirer. Nor have we any wish to quarrel with his estimate of a delightful writer, though we may not quite agree with all that Lord Iddeslelgh ays about her various characters. Bne has always been considered as a model of purity and refinement. Yet how Is it that what Is allowed to pass without censure or surprise in her pages should be held offen- sons think her best, a girl elopes with a young man. whom she accompanies to London.

The lovers are found to be living together without any thought of marriage, and he Is only Induced to marry her at last by the present of a large sum of money. Of course her family are shocked that goes without saying decently and respectably shocked, but she herself shows no signs of penitence or shame. Bne IS brought back to associate with her un-married sisters as if nothing had happened, and no evil consequences of any kind are represented as the punishment of her frail- ty. She was Just an ordinary English glrL with the usual education and breeding or av lady, and she had not even the excuse of being violently In love with her companion. She was perfectly happy at home, and she seems to have acted aa she did Just for the fun of lu In another -of Mlsa Austen's stories a married lady Is carried off by her paramour without any more extenuating circumstances tban-Jielong tov the former escapade.

She represented as being miserablebut not from any con-. clousness of diegrace. In the case of Kffle Deans and Hetty Sorrel, en the other hand, we are most forcibly impressed with the lesson that mis con- duct -or this kind is likely to carry with It Ita own retribution in this world. This rnsy not always happen. But Scott and George Eliot would have said that the novelist should only choose for his purposes cases where It does happen.

Tet not a whisper of reproach has ever been breathed -fcgalnst' Jane Austen on this account If the story of Pride and Prejudice or Mansfield Park were produced on the stage exactly as it is told in the novel, would not Sirs. Grundy cry aloud What la the reason of this distinction? Can either Lord Iddeslelgh or any of tha critics whom be names, or any of those whom he does not name, explain It to usT It may be sold that vice upon the stag Is brought more closely home to us than It can be In the pages of a book; that the actual presence of the supposed offenders familiarises us with the idea of it more thoroughly than any description of it could do. Tet we doubt If this position Is capable of being maintained. A better theory seems to be that it1a not in any difference between the drama and the novel that the explanation la to be sought, but rather in the environment of the plot and tha various characters concerned. The atmosphere of Jane Austen's novels is so pure, so healthy, so totally free from anything either morbid or prurient, that the guilt -of a single character can hardly Infect It, or be chargeable with any of that sug-gestlveness which in some modern writers whom we could name Is unfortunately only too perceptible.

Much the same thing might truthfully be aid of the exact "imitation of life" In tha perfectly pure and decent novels of Anthony Trollops; his point of view is always that of virtu and respectability, and bis Intention is always perfectly moral Reminiscences of Ball Player. 'Joy untold will burst Into th hearts of thousands of lovers of the National game when they learn that Pop Anaoa haa written a book. Who knows more about baseball than bet Why, cot even Digby Bell or Wolf Hopper. Adrian Anaoa was on of th earliest of the players of th bow universal sport ot the country. Da ball is not nearly a eld aa some persooa Imagine.

It has not been played to America from time Immemorial, and the doings ot the late sixties may be classed as part of Its ancient history. Aason'a remlniacenoe extend back to the season ot 1873. when he -played third base oa th then famous Kockford team. The following season he Was engaged by the Athletics of Philadelphia, and his fame as a player may be said to date from 157Z He played ban for twea- ty-nve years, retlrfnajtrom hla position lath Chicago Club la 18DT. That a maa may win enviable distinction la svea such a calling as baseball playing is abundantly demonstrated by th career ot Aasoa.

Of his consummate knowledge oi the gam after a quarter of a century at professional study It would be Idle to speak. Us was a maa ot eholorlo tamper to the ball field, and hla speech was of the blunt- eat sort was conceded to be a rough diamond, yet be commanded respect to ail quarters. Why? Because the nam at ball n-ATTTra cawceb. rwn- the I hi! Htuattanoae aa RemlalaoMoae Sit--- a mmrnm, Ue afamaw and Oaatai at um caieaae nMian uua fie rwaiuOUaa Oaanpeay. 11.