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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1897.

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iSD THE MOSICIUNS

MRS. LOTUK \O%M-RASTIIKJ’S Rkcrr u. w mi nic k.

brettlstB. and H Is actwl «n«I sun* from tH>*iruling to und by ardntx who know wh«l th^y r«5 iloing and upparenlly lnk« » n enthusiastic interest therein. After ►ayin^ this anvisctUy. the great succumb

at the ilnwit Northern Theater can not be regarded*us at :t!l

Mandarin

w it«

wonderful

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'^Ktac Rene’s Daugrlitrr * To Be Cilvea at the Matinee Mnaleale— Ceaeert at Mnyflower Charrh —The Kvrelaa Arttota.

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The following attractive program has been arranged by the Lad es’ Aid Society of Mayflower church for a concert Tuesday evening, February S3: Overture—“Romeo and Juliet’’ Bellini MiM Beck, Mr*. Croeley. “Sr mish Gypsies’* Watson Miss Bremmerman. -Fantasle’ 1 ” Dc Beriot

Miss Sickels

Nocturne, in O flat ....Brassin b. Gavotte Dreyschock Miss Brigham. "Little Jack Horner” Caldicott Miss Bretnmerman. Miss Hyde, Mr. Cold well* Mr. Fowler. Character Bong Bblecte*! Mr. Hoenig and Boys’ Chtdr. a. Spanish Dance, Op. 12, No. 5. ......A MCtszkjwskl b. Galop Milltalre, Op. 218 Boh/n Miss Brigham, Miss Hyde. **“‘ng On" Denrza

Miss New.

rp Solo Seleoned. „ Miss Daggett. •“Boatman’s Good Night" 9c hi on Miss Bremmerman, Mias Hyde, Mr. Coldwell, Air. Fowler. The Philharmonic Club, of which Mr. Kdward Nell, of this efty, is dirtjetor, will give a concert at Plymouth church 'on Wednesday evening. February 2i. The

New York vs. Parle. The New York Musical Courier Is making a vigorous protest over the great dltferenco in prices demanded by foreign singers in this country and in Paris. In Hs lust Tssue it presents the following scale of comparison:

New York and Chicago.

Jean fteszke (per nlgnt..13,000 ad. R«y<*ko 1000 Meibi* 1,W

Pari i. 1200

80

2D 2J0 PM

Bayreuth.

100

Calv*v l.uOO Planfon 750 1411/ Lehmann L000

(E he demands 11,600 with the Metropoi-

Itsg.i company.)

Music Elsewhere.

Ajnong the manuscripts of the late Ftfmz von Suppe have been found some th*frty unpublished songs, as well as the n sarly completed score of a mass, the latter coming as a surprise to his still numerous admirers. These compositions

will soon be published.

The late Anton Bruckner bequeathed his autograph scores to the Imperial Li-

.brary of Vienna. They Include his eight ; . symphonies and three movements of a | J/ *

BOOKS. AUTHORS AND ART-

"Hours With Fatuous Parisians.** It is possible to get vivid impressions of many of the Frenchmen who have In recent years gained distinction from a volume called "Hours With Famous Parisians," written by Stuart Henry, the author of ‘ Paris Days and Evenings.” These little papers are written with a delightful vivacity. The author has caught something of the liveliness oi the clever work one finds In the ijesl French periodicals. He sketches slight but adequate portraits of the people about whom he writes, and then, as often as not, leaves them to talk for themselves. The first paper Is about Madame Adam, the editor of the Nouvelle Revue. Madame Adam is notably patriotic. She believes that we belong to an era, of international hostility and strife; that, therefore, it is ones duty U< fight chivalrously for one s country, by 1‘en and voice, day and night, to the last breath. Madame Adam does not believe In the decadence of French women There are still great French women—nor, perhaps, Just tb-day. but there were a decade ago, and there will be in a few years again. It was %>fadame Adam vho discovered Pierre Loti, and it is said that the list of her discoveries of talent is

nivth. a string quartet, the Mass in D

minor, the 150th Psalm, a mule chorus, ••(Helgoland," and the Te Deum. Johann Strauss has written a new operetta called “The Goddess of Reason,”

the book by Willner and Buchbinder. It

is to be produced next week In Vienna

at the Theater an der Wien. The title

role represents the Parisian woman, who.

at the time of the revolution, was carried through the streets to represent the god-

dess of reason.

The New York Tribune, In making a plea for a higher class of music In churches, prints a sensible letter from

correspondent, from which the following extract is. taken: “If you could only

program to be rendered will be selections

from the following composers: I»idrtng-I 1 v»^„. ..

«r, Van der Slacken. Macy. Chadwick, { J^ke people see that there is such a

Wagner. Buck. Sousa. The club will sing Jky**l*£*

h';'is„r^re w r l .M5 y Mi;r, r a a .'.

lighter numbers will be SousaNs "El Capttan" march and •'Kentucky JAatoe." arranged by Mr. Nell for the dob. Perhaps

the most popular songs of thte club are ’Evening, a nhorus with barytone solo jy Mr. Dochez, and “Laigs'jlag," botn by Abt. The principal soloist of the evening will be Miss Lou** Schrader, ; who has been preparing hwggelf for the

last two veam for thA fonrw.cf co Qk,„ . -Amen with a hoarse shout

Creed and the Confession were taken so fast no one could follow; the different parts of the service w;re strung togeth* er with foolish trillings and flutlngs; we went from key to key with futile modulations, sometimes without attempt at any. and when the Collect for Peace said, ‘that we may pass our time In peace and nilicil tNOOMa * 4 Vtrx rwcm vt fm * li s-.

in on the

Mr. Henry’s portrait of Zola shows the great realist to be "a business man. No emotion, no ideals, no imagination, no poetry, in his personal Intercourse. He does not try to win or tc entertain you. He takes no personal interest in you, and does net expect you to take any personal Interest In him. He talks freely and frankly about everything, but In a secular way. He makes life seem to you merely a commercial career. Fiction for him is^i^ditlons of 100,000, and 5«i.'JOO franc^Tk year.” Zola has a weak, cracked voice, and his nose “Is constructed to root up the ground and sniff out the filth of existence. He has a tired air, and sighs d<*enly when questioned about the immense field he bits rooted over and has yet to root over m his brutal fashion.” Daudet seems to Le a far more charming person. It vas Mendes who championed Wagner’s cause In France, when the French howled at the German's operas. A delightful account of the relations between the *wo makes this little sketch one of the most Interesting in the book. Mendes says of

BUSINESS IN 1879 AND 1897

POINTS

OF RESEMBLANCE IX THE TWO YEARS.

Early Doabt aad rneertalaty la the Reaamptioa Year — The Real Change la the Sltaatloa Xot YYltaessed Before Jaly. A

last two years for the concert stage. She will sing "Nymphs and Fa/Mgi,” by Bemberg; "Spring Song," by Rogers, and "Echo Song," by Helmtf nd. The other soloists will be Morris 'Meek, William Daggett, Louis Dochez and R. Byron

Overstreet

The cantata, “King Re/yj’s Daughter,” hy Henry Smart, will be, sung by mem-b-srs of the Matinee Musi^ie at the PropyIseunn to-morrow night, under the direction of Mrs. S. L. Mofrfaon. The MuslWill be assisted toy Miss Sohellschtnidt, harpist, and >[ r . D. E. Peck, cornetlst The accomrii ? .i 8 ts will be M1m Hysung and Mies Denuison. Besides the chorus those who wil mrtlclpate will be Mrs. Sop tag. Mrs. Drill,e, Mrs. Rice, Mrs. Carr, Mre H. H. Horvland. Mrs. Go tz. Ml- McSiugglfn.^ AqUllla J ° nes and Mrs. Perle Wilkinson has compiled In convenient form tlye patriotic songs of the great nations. Mrs. Wilkinson Is the supervisor of music In the city schools, and her collection Is designed for school use. In some ins'fcmces poems by American authors have been set to the national alia of other countries, but in

like a con- ! Wagner:

verted sailor at a Salvation Army meet Ing. And the worst was that no one seemed to be In the least disturbed." Mme. Nordica was engaged last sum-

"What an entertaining I have never seen

open, enthusiastic. Informal.

inlng host—Wagner'.: his equal—hospitable. Informal. He took

uS ail around Switzerland, and we could hardly succeed in spending fifty centimes.

—_ He paid everything. He had the best she was particularly anxious rooms In the hotels, engaged ahead, and there as Isolde or Brunhilde. all bills receipted In advance. We had

mer for the opera season at Covent Garden next spring," says the New York

Sun, "and

to appear __ In fact, she was engaged principally for the production of the Wagner operas. But now there has arisen a complication which may result in very severe disappointment for her. Jean de Resske has decided not to appear In any performance with Mme. Nordica. At present he is very emphatic on this point. This im

FOR BRIGHT WINTER DAYS.

writer. The author is a teacher, who

as a

mediately makes It impossible for her to his hand tied up. Wagner pretended that appear In either ‘Siegfried’ or ’Tristan the dog was mad, and that Vllliers was and Isolde.' De Reszke will probably be ! a victim of hydrophobia. Sometimes

the choice of everyth'.ng. Nothing was says that the story ia based ,im real extoo good for us. • * • Often, when he saw t^ho«a *Viot n «i.aa a>r- : tt**r> fnr

us coming, he would jump out of of the window of the first floor into the garden, in order to welcome us the quicker. Vil1’ers was playing ball with Wagner’s dog one day, and the dog accidentally bit him on the hand. Vllliers had to go about with

De Reszke will probably

called upon to repeat his Tristan to Mme. Albani’s Isolde If the opera Is sung at all. Who will sing Brunhilde does not appear. Mme. Nordica Is at present

hydrophobia. Sometimes

when Vllliers and I entered the garden. Wage or would run to the nearest tree and climb '* *- — —

the students In her charge with a hope of correcting certain habits of speech and manner which ihe had been unable to osrreet in other ways. It is a simple story, oimply told. (Buffalo: The Peter

Paul Book Company.)

"Henriette Davldls’s Practical Cook Book" Is said, in a preface to the Engl.sh version, Just Issued, to be the standard authority In Germany In all matters per-

body color, Instead of cautiously glaze. Some of his earlier works now in

Faria are already in ruins. Literary nail Art Notes.

A comprehensive collection of pictures by Thomas Moran is now being shown in

New York.

George D. M. Pelxotto, of Cleveland, is

Af^er

trying to reconcile herself to a selection

of roles til her taste.'

roles that are 1>y no means suited to

in the Union League Clubs of Chicago and New York and the Union Club, of Cleve-

Vllliers was'ttn^enraecd' creature'seekImr ^tn* to the culinary art. It has reached | . clrc , es are interested in a °A SrieSt tom* | etLtion, _and the imbllsher. [ yo®n “artist who^prSmlzS to^Sfke hl“

have b«m X^&h *Zr£L K

i be r

arranged to be eung In four parts, or as amelodir with jan accompaniment. The Sm. nd useful In any school-

Muncle papcrc "Sirs'

owing notice from a Lottie Adam-Rasch-

Sires* sss

trvelouslg^ strengthened in

ago, has mi

given to-morrow

f^ntie.1-avenue church for trfe tha Sunday-school. Those who

Sl l Llt ,U »J? art a ar f Elo, *«* Willard

S l Isl — Brown ’ M1 *» Hazel

Vleet. Sfessrs. J. Fremont Frey. Fred Grover, R. Byron Overstreet and EdJJhfu lljleman. In addition Miss Ida Virginia Smith will give several of her pelsarL • movements, with musical ac-

compagi iment.

A recital win be given to-morrow evening In. the piano rooms of Oar Ion & Len- ^ *«r.pupr.ls of Miss Shedd. Those who

A STATESMAN’S WAGES.

whom he might devour,

boy I”

The sketch of Verlaine, written long before the death of the poet, fails to correct the common Impression of his character. Verlaine seems to have had all the vices without the genius of Villon, whom, perhaps, he, imitated—as to vices at least. Other persons whose portraits are given are Mounet-SuUy, Bernhardt, Yvette Gilbert, Henner (whose redhaired women are known everywhere)

his pranks and many a and Massenet, the composer,

which Lord "Randy" fig- 1 Way & Williams (Chicago) have made a

pretty book of Mr. Henry’s interesting

sketches.

*!«S5Es®®!£

Crossed Westminster Bridge While

the Clock Struck Twelve.

The late Lord Randolph Churchill was scarcely less famous as a wit and Joker than as a statesman. H!s colleagues In the House of Commons were oftent.mes

the victims of good story In

ured as the hero, is still told in parlia-

mentary lobbies.

One night while Lord Randolph was conversing with several friends in the cafe attached to the House, a question arose as to the time It would take a pedestrian to cross Westminster bridge. Different opinions were expressed, but no two of the disputants were able to agree. At length Lord Randolph, who had been a silent auditor of the discussion, offered to wager that he could cross from the Middlesex to the Surrey side of the bridge while "Big Ben," the great bell in the clock tower of the Parliament buildings, was striking the four quarters and the hour of 12. The wager was accepted by one of the members of the company, and it was arranged that at the j hour named witnesses should be stationed i at each end of the bridge to watch the

I performance.

give assurances that the book they offer American housekeepers and cooks is a faithful translation of the original. (Mil-

waukee: H. H. Zahn & Co.;

"Ugly Idol: a Development,” by Claud Nicholson, is not worth while. There are flashes of clever work here and there, but as a whole ihe book Is tedious and depressing. The figure of an old man,

mark. Though only twenty-three years I old, and still a student, W. Krcis has won the 8Lo00 prize for the plan of a nai tional war monument, to be erected in Lelpsic. There were seventy-two cotn-

j petitors.

There is grief among the women artists of England, who are very numerous, at the refusal of the Royal Academicians to elect a representative of their sex to

given up to whims, shows the writer’s.:

capacity for the delineation of character; but the rest of the people introduced are as indistinct as faded proofs from the photographer’s. (Beaton: Roberts Broth-

ers.)

Manrice Thompson and Klpllag.

"Poems. Heart Songs and Ballads" is

- _ . the title of a bo$k of verses by Charles

Maurice Thompson, who Is always in- , Marine, of Indianapolis. It is -published cllned toward conservatism In literary by the author. Mr. Marine’s themes are matters, is not willing to give Kipling's \ many, and few forma of verse have es-

verse the high place to which much re- caped him.

cent criticism has lifted it The Inde- I . ^..777^^1 u pendent printed recently an article, which ' ’ Modern Fairyland, by Elcy Burnham, we took to be from Mr. Thompson's uen 8 a P re * t '-*l r bound and pleasingly illusin which he spoke appreciatively of Kip- ^ or crhil< l r l n ‘ T? 6 18 lings "Seven Seas." byt Mr. Thompson. fiS^comiiyf aC V ( ” : whose Americanism is pretty aggressive ! ***

bate pari are: Mri. Charke .Poriw*.

*g»y j csjic CJiiin

** Thomas, Miss Lottie Wands,’ Miss | A few minutes before midnight a select

isssr- - -• *• i rAi?

Crescendo next Wednesday after-

studied.

little door near the

Speaker’s quarters In the Parliament j buildings and stalk sedately across the bridge. At the further end the party J paused and was soon surrounded by a curious throng. Several other distinguished legislators soon afterward appeared and politely requested passers-by to keep to

the left.

__ _ _ _ . _ Just as “Big Ben” began to strike the M.Tdr. and Mrs. George L. first quarter the lithe figure of a man Josephine Rob'nson, Mlse i wearing a top hat, a frock suit and white etcham and Miss Claire | spats was seen to leap out of a little

A biographical sketch will be read and fiyjfejx s.is.sres; TRlmer ^ WUa B8n Y hiU Mlsa

Indianapolis people are atamrosch ooem in Cincinnati ri^W^rty Includes _Mr. and

for one who Is not a jingo, declared that Bret Harte first struck the chord which Kipling la now sounding in his poetry. The critic of Sherwood Place wrote that “Kipling is a poet unclassified, unless we set him with Bret Harte"; that he must be considered a poet, but one whose poetry Is not yet written. In the current Chap-Book, Mr. Thompson takes up Kipling again, and writes thus of “Seven

azxoo” •

in his youth ir have been a Rue

tng

nla'n poet originated what Kipling

Seas'

If Bret Harte had died in his yc there could never have been a Rudyard Kipling In song and story- Our Callfor

>r-

specialized and adapted to Indian and English conditions. Nor need we underrate Mr. Kipling's value in applying the measure of outright truth to his stories and ballad*- Mulvaney and Tommy Atkins have their own flat feet to stand on.

Arts and Crafts Exhibition. New York Mall and Kxpresa.

In April Boston U to have the first distinct arts and ora fa exhibition to be held j in this country. There has been no move- i ment for many years which haa promised greater good to art in general than these exhibitions. In which individual art and handicraft ere recognized. The effort is to turn the attention of the public to art, | which enters as an essential element into ^ every line of industry and manufacture. The first exhibition of this sort was held In London In 1888 by the Society of Arts and Crafts, of which the late Will- j lam Morris was president. Starting from a limited display In a small room, the j English exhtbitiona have grown to be the moat profitable and Important of the

: ..

The advanced pupils of Miss Jennie Thomeon gave a recital at her home In Cherry street Tuesday evening. J Mr. Newton E. Swift te spending a few v-Sie* Ind the * Ue,t ot fiends ln EvansMr. KcGibney, of the College of Music, haa returned from a short concert trip. Ml»e Orlopp’e Swoceso. Richard Oriopp, whose daughter, Jeannette Orlopp, is now studying the violin in London, England, nas received the fol lowing letter from her master: "London, February 3, ’97. "I feel I must write ana let you knmw how your daughter has made program during the three months she has studted with me. I am proud of the reault In so short a time, which deserves my highest commendation. Her bowing te admirable aad She plays with great Ryle. I congratulate you, and feel sure you will be a* proud of her as I am as her roaster. "AUGUST WILHELMJ." York’s Musical Calcadter, to make the mushy-lovers of New York envious to as the fallowing, musical events of one more important ones Opera Bouse. 8cl5 the direction of HaJl, 4 p. m., Brown on Jstrument"; & P. m., MaaHaU, 11 a. m., Hanchett on 8*80 p, m., of Frank Music Hall, hy Mr. and Mrs.

( * .v/, \IU xvir. r>ie«. nant?. uxoreover, as 1 2 a th . e ^ddtesex side. Some regards the ultimate value of Mr. Kip- * 1 rl f nd feised the cry of "Stop, lings poetry, it certainly lacks just the 1 thief, and In a J,ffy half a score of won- quality of lasting fascination. It is

| dering men and boys were fast on the j heels of tha doughty sprinter. A policeman, hearing the cry and observing the

fiee.ng man, started In pursuit. „ MB As “Big Ben" continued to clang, the hold the generations with pace grew hotter and hotter. One by one flame of thought and its n

the pursuers began to fall away, but the ary form, as the Idylls of Theocritus, the

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ITS

Opera

Glee Club Hall, by Miss Rachel re 0»ra*«. Hall. I A . .r 1 Lock * _ lc ; ^ockdy Cert

j* Olee Club Hall, 3

“ David Step-

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have tha beat that Chicago have ex- < doubt: of

then been running up an

hfe favor.

big policeman hung grimly to his task, lyrics of Shelley and the odes of Keats When tne center of the bridge was 1 ‘ * - — --

reached the quarters had been rung and the great bell had already begun to strike the hour. A cheer arose from the watchers on the Surrey side, and Lord Randolnh

who had until

Incline, now had the descent in

A few momenta later the panting policeman came upon his man, surrounded by

admiring friends.

"What’s up?" stuttered the breathless

and bewildered “bobby.”

“Two strokes to spare," puffed the vic-

torious Lord Randolph.

The officer stared, blushed, apologized, wiped his brow and went his way. t —o— He Sees No Signs On Mars.

hibition of this sari began in Paris, under

or sensational preach- limes admiLed examples of handicraft, cessfully used. Stretchers are numbered ong run. Is It likely to and In the annual exhibitions of the Ar- according to their length, and for each

the ! length throa different widths are made noit | and designated as figure, landscape and

i marine, respectively.

no RU

Htical debate,

ng; but, in the long

Its undimmed matchless llter-

ehlteetural League of New York crafts have had a place, although being fully open to applied art.

were candidates for the assocl&leship at the recent election, yet not one received a single vote! When Hubert Herkomer was elected he defeated Lady Butler, of "Roll-Call” fame, by the narrow margin

of two votes.

An interesting thing about Watts s "Wounded Heron,” now on exhibition in London, is that it was first exhibited at •he Royal Academy sixty years ago, in the year of the Queen's ascension. It is believed that no other living artist can say as much of any picture of his own His boyhood work was sold by Mr Watts years ago. lost sight of and then lepurehased by the painter for S25 from a

dealer.

The Angelus Magazine (Cincinnati) for February prints an article by Thomas O’Hogan on "Dialect Poets and Poetry,” which Is n pretty comprehensive review of the field. Ik>well leads all the rest, and Mr Riley follows m the list with Bret Harte, Will Carleton, John Hay and Eugene Field. 9im Walter Foes Is considered in this article, and also Frank L. Stanton, who appear,* so constantly in the newspapers. Mr. O'Hogan says: “The aifh in dialect poetry Is not novelty, but sincerity—lo get nearer the truth In spirit and form. A true dialect poet Is the least artificial of all poets. He is, indeed, the vicegerent of nature and man, and must be, as Browning says In 'The Ring and the Book,' 'human at the red-

ripe of the hear:.’

Frame-makers find frequent cause for complaint in the odd sizes chosen by artists for thrfr pictures, and artists themselves find cause for regret that the dimensions and proportions of their canvases are such that In the hurry of preparation fer exhibitions It Is imposs.ble to find ready-made frames whch will fit them. Sometmes they are obliged to forego exhib.ting their work for that reason. It would be a matter of great convenience both to artists and frame-makers, if some system could be Introduced which would reduoe the number of sizes and shapes of pictures. In France such a system Is suc-

have done? Have these ballads the haunting power ot YMllon’s? Will this

crude wine keep?

About a dozen years ago Mr. Thompson, In an address at Wabash Col)ego, stroke encouragingly of new work, and protested with his characteristic vigor against the tyranny of perspect-

A. B. Wensell’a Studio. New York Letter Chicago Post.

The studio of A. B. Wenzell, on the top floor ot the handsome new Presbyterian Building, In Fifth avenue, is roomy and pleasant, but not so rid: or elaborate In its decorations and furnishings as is (hat of Gibson. The "working daylight” was well

Ive. He pleaded for a recognition of his spent when Mr. Wenzell admitted his

contemporaries, and declared that many

New York Sun;

Don Jesus Ceballos Doramantes, of the Astronomical Observatory of. the City of Mexico, has found what he regards as satisfactory evidence that the planet Mars te Inhabited by beings of a high order of intelligence, and "furthermore that these beings are endeavoring to epen communication with the Inhabitants of this world by means of simple geometri-

cal figures.

Some months ago certain peculiar signs were observed !n the disk of Mars. These, the professor says, are arUficial and the work of Intelligent beings. Inasmuch as ! Is

new poets were as good as many old ones. He cited examples from the work of two Indiana poets In his lecture—MDs Mary H. Krout and Benjamin S. Parker. Has Mr. Thompson's attitude changed in recent years? Perhaps he is a jingo after all, for he closes his Chap-Book essay with a fling at the British: After all, however, we doubtless make up in numbers what we lack In slz*, meantime cheerfully substituting a wild clash of voices for that select choirharmony, once the pride of poets and forever the despair of those who realize what poetry at Its flood was. The grotesque line of the situation appears

caller and he was engaged in hanging

pictures and tapestries.

His fondness for the brush le as pronounced as is Gibson's preference for the pen, and practically all of his pictures are painted In gouache. Although born in Detroit, the entire formative period of hla life was spent in Germany and Paris. Between whiffs from his pipe he chatted pleasantly upon the superiority of the brush as a medium of illustrative expression, and of the old days when, as a boy, he was wont to haunt the studio of a

marine painter In De.rolt.

There Is something decidedly foreign In the appearance of this illustrator, whose drawings are almost as eagerly sought and

“a careful choice has been made of the most important figures in astronomical

science.”

"In the first place," he says, "the equilateral triangle symbolizes the three divisions of consciousness, that te, feeling or life, which is shared with all animate; the mind proper or the power of thought, and the soul. Furthermore, the

triam ■

ace©]

hi variably It is certain, therefore, that this triangle symbolises conscious life. “Again we observe a circle with its radius which te always the type of the world. Next we have an ellipse with Its major and minor axes, which by the laws of Kepler signify the orbits of gravltatUn. Finally we have a parabola over ht *' -

sirsxa;' kj&j' .tvte sciou* Hfe radiates through the unlvarse and gravitates In Infinity/" A Domestic DIAealty.

Washington 8tax.

i too mean.” pouted the yowng

•She is very disobHging."

husband.

whenever, fortnightly or oftener, a new „ as of Mr oTbsoT great poet always an Englishman, with He te thirSS^ ve^L of aae wei^a a pot of advertising money behind him, ™ Ullrt y ‘ wo . . a * e ' w ® a f 3 a i- v... i j close-cropped and po.nted beard of light

brown and has keen but pleasant blue eyes. His New York studio was opened

’discovered” by some London critic

It is unfortunate that the Chap-Book should be trying to carry water on both shoulders. It has greatly improved since Its recent chknge of form; but along with Its capital critlcipms it prints a good deal of matter which Is not consonant with the periodical's more serious purposes. For instance, it gives two columris to open letters In which one gentleman attacks another—a poet who haunts the Chap-Book’s columns with his rubbish— apd the poet replies. The smartnesses of these gentlemen are bf no Interest to the public. The Chap-Book erred first In printing such trash, and erred again in printing this correspondence. It is to be hoped that the Chap-Book will become a critical Journal of the first order, and spare those who are anxious to be Its friends the horror of Us own peculiar decadent poets. One of the poetical afflictions of the current number is a bit of doggerel called “At Dawn.” which accompanies an equally decadent full-page decorative drawing. The poet in this case is J. Russell Taylor. The “J. Russell" here is profanation.

with the tall of an eye on the American

book market.

It must be confessed that there is a lot of booming done in the literary business In these days, ahd our British cousins are certainly not lacking in the booming instincts. They can give their Yankee cousins many points as to the best way of getting a new novelist or poet before the public. Several years ago Francis Thompson was the name oftenest in the literary journals, but Thompson was only curious and whimsical, and we do not believe a book of his vetoes would run through many editions In this or any other country since that first queerly-bound volume wearied and disappointed a well-disposed and expectant public.

In '89 and his work has appeared fn al-

1 Rostrate

most all of the high-class 11

ax.nes and journals.

jstrated mag-

Books Received. Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor. Horace G. Wadlin, chief, Boston. Report of the Comptroller of the Currency. Vol. L The Comptroller, Washington.

New York Post

There are certain points in the prerent commercial and industrial situation which have suggested analogies with 1879. Among these points may be mentioned the fact that in 1896, as In 1878, the balance of foreign trade was enormously heavy in our favor; that the steady outflow cf gold has been succeeded by a rather continuous inflow; that the wheat crop has proved deficient In foreign states, while reasonably heavy In this country, and that the vote at the fall elections. In 1896 as in 1878, was strongly confirmatory of a sound-money standard

for our currency.

These analogies are sufficient to show that the situation does bear some strong points of resemblance. Eighteen hundred and seventy-nine was a memorable year In the financial and commercial history of this country. It Is remembered not only as the year of specie resumptiort. but as a period when prosperity returned in a flood to the United States, after five years of dull and stagnant trade. In the fact that the present ye®/ follows another such period of liquidation, the comparison of 1897 is interesting. The year 1897 has, however, opened so disappointingly In nearly all branches of trade that the mere comparison with 1879 haa been discouraging to business men. Most people suppose In a general way that the nation s commercial prosperity, eighteen years ago, began immediately on the 1st of January, when specie payments were by law resumed. ; Such people appear to have expected precisely such a return of tradeprosperity immediately after the soundmoney vote of fast November. Everybody knows how far such expectations have been disappointed as applied to 1897. It is not generally known, however, that the disappointment was equally great during the opening months of 1879.

A Baoyaat Opening,

the resumption of specie pay-

ments In January, 1579. the stock market opened with great buoyancy. The advance lasted about as long, and was about as great, as the advance In stocks based upon the November election last year. Meantime, there was no sign of a favorable movement In general trade. During January, 1879, complaints of unprofitable business and trade stagnation were genera!; London sold American securities to New York; money In New York was a drug because there was absolutely no demand for commercial purposes. At the close of the month. Ellison & Co.'s cotton circular described the condition of the cotton trade in this country and In Europe as so bud that lower wages for cotton operators were predicted as inevitable. During the early part of January the Banx of England's discount rate was high; It ruled at 6 j per cent, until the middle of the month, as a result of which sterling exchange stood almost at the gold-shipping point from New York. It will be observed that In this particular, also, the record duplicates the experience of 1897. The government revenues were very deficient, In the middle of February warnings appeared In many publications that unless Congress was careful a heavy and disastrous de-

ficit might be looked for.

It is well-known that the world’s wheat situation, at the opening of 1879, was similar to that of the present year, and that the later prosperity of 1879 was largely based on the enormous foreign demand for American grain. But It Is an entire mistake to suppose that this factor In the situation was operative from the year's opening. The wheat product of the world, at that time, was very much) below the present average. Argentine Republic, for Instance, was exporting hardly any grain; Australia cut no figure In the world's export market. Nevertheless, the price of wheat, No. 2 red, at the opening of January, was only 108(i cents per bushel In New York, and the January exports of bread-stuffs, as recorded by the Government authorities, were below the record for the month In 1878. In February and Marih the shipments of grain were heavy, and the price advaheed eight or nine cents a bushel. This was based upon rumors of a deficient Fren<*h crop, and reportz of bad

weather in England.

Similar To the Recent Movemeot. But even while these reports were coming In, the movement of the wheat market was exactly similar to the recent movement of this season's wheat market under somewhat similar conditions. After each advance in price, early in 1879, there was sudden speculative selling, and the price once more receded. By April, wheat was almost down to the January level. In June came the famous corner In Chicago wheat, when the New York price went up to $1.20 per bushel, and the news at this time favored such a movement, for on the 5th of July people were wearing winter overcodts in England, and heavy rains were almost destroying the prospect of a harvest. Notwithstanding this fact, the price of wheat declined at New York city, during the month of July, to a figure lower than Us price at the opening of January. To this fact the trade reports of that time are sufficient witness. It was not until the last days of September that the wheat market really seemed to take fire; ft then advanced something like 30 cents a bushel within three weeks, the export becoming simply enormous. The truth of the matter was that Europe had deferred as long as it possibly could Its orders from America In the vain hope that it might obtain Us grain at easy prices. When the consumers could hold off no longer, the export movement began In quantity, and the rush of rising cred.t was felt throughout this country. But It was not until this month of September, 1879, or until very near It, that the true change In the flnano.al situation was appreciated by trade and finance In general. As late in the yaar as June; sterling exchange advanced to [email protected] for demand, and half a million of gold was shipped to London. At that time the total export trade of the country, since the openelng of the year, made a smaller record than It did for the corresponding period In 1878. The situation of foreign exchange had meantime caused great uneasiness ad the Treasury. Secretary Sherman

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wrote to the Treasury's London agent to j inquire tf tt was not possible in some way { to arrange for the control of the sterling market by drawing on Europe through the establishment of a Loudon credit; an operation which, if it had been attempted, might have foreshadowed the experience of 1896. The real change In ths situation did not come until the middle of July. Up to that time, the same uncertainty was expressed by business men. As late as the opening of March, 1879, the Financial Chronicle (flmtuined the following editorial remarks: "We have now entered upon our third month since ihe resumption of specie payments. ‘Where is the prosperity promised with that event?* Is the question frequently coming to us. ‘Wheat is no h'.gher. Corn Is no higher. There is no money In any of the earth's products. Where Is the promised prosperity.’ ” Dtscoarnfrement Was General. In other words, as late as March, discouragement was general, and as late as June actual alarm Jvas fait over the situation. The stock tearket did, Indeed, improve from time to time; yet in February, London was a heavy selHer of American securities; In March, the stock market broke rep4atedly; In April, only professional bpeculators*^ere active, and they were putting up cheap and worthless stocks. ' In the middle of July, however, the heavy outward movement of grain began to be foreshadowed unmistakably. After a trifling gold shipment, the sterUng exchange market broke with considerable violence, and at the same time there was great activities* In securities in New York. The bank statements of that time showed continued increase of loans and deposits. In the open.ng week of August, sterling exchange fell to 483H fur demand, ana gold was engaged for import from the London market. Before the close of August, gold was coming in at the rate of two to three million dollars weekly. But what was of much more importance, the export trade suddenly expanded to enormous proportions. It was by no means confined to wheat and corn. Almost alt other products of ihe farm began to move out m unprecedented quantity. By the middle of tne year, the record oi exports since the l«t of January passed that ot 1878. In September came me memorable boom in stocas; dur.ng the same month came the upward movement in the iron market. The year Ciused with a general movement of pros-

perity.

It ia worth reviewing this*record in order to understand the real analogy between 1897 and 1879. Readers win draw their own .nferences from the record. The important fact to nodee is, that the famous "year of prosperity," 1879, was a year of doubt, d.scuurageihent, and trade stagnation, until nearly stx months after resumpt.on of spec.e payment.

—.T Mr. Gladstone's Marriage.

, Justin McCarthy in February Outlook. Without in the least degree Invading the sacred domain of a great man s private life, it may be said that no marriage could possibly have berii more happy than that of Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone. The pair were young together, became mature together, and grew old together. 1 do not merely mean to say

that they passed their lives fn the samo _ _ J B dwelling, but what I do mean to say Is j rheumatism. Their first prescrlu on‘helped that they were always thoroughly to- ! me. so that I continued to um their medigether in purpose and in spirt, in heart j bine and continued to improve until every and In soul. There never could have : symptom of the disease disappeared,, und I been a wife more absolutely do- haven't felt a rheumatic pain since."

voted to her husband and to hts cause than Mrs. Gladstone. There was something unspeakably touching, even to mere and casual observers like myself. In the tender care which she always lavished upon him, a care which advancing years seemed rather to increase than to diminish. One was reminded sometimes of the saying of Burke, that he never had an outside trouble in his life which did not vanish at the sight of his wile when he crossed the threshold of his home. Gladstone had several children. Two of his sons were at one tim* members of the House of Commons. William Henry, the eldest son. has long since passed out of life. Herbert Gladstone is. I hope and fully believe, destined to carry qn the renown of the name.

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