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RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1901.

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This column last week referred to the art of the cartoonist and to the work especially of Bowers, of tha "Indianapolis News' ' and in other issues of this paper it has been announced that Mr. Bowers will shortly appear in Richmond under the auspices of The Sketch Club in an illustrated talk on cartoons and cartoonists. The members of this club expect to have a large audience to greet 31 r. Bowers who is one of the best known men in his art in this country.

The Sketch Club which is one of .the oldest art organizations in the city and which had for its first President, Mr Edgar Forkner, now one of the best known water colorists in the "West, had for the waning season's program, monthly exhibits, which have been a great success. In October, an exhibit of Japanese art, including paintings, color prints, embroideries, objects in bronze, cloisonne, etc. For November, original drawings for magazine and book illustrations from The Century and Scribner's Magazines and the BobbsMerrill Company, these covering the very best in black and white art, the artists being some of 'the-most famous now living. In December drypoints and etchings by the famous Ilelleu and Otto Schneider and monotypes by lAivaron. In February a great collection of bookplates from both American and foreign designers. In March the club expected to have an exhibition of the paintings of Mr. Conner, but on account of his illness the past autumn and winter and his inability to use his brush during that time and the consequent lack of canvases, the club postponed this exhibit until some future time as all of Mr. Connor's best things that might have gone to make up a loan exhibit, have been sent to St. Louis to be hung at the Exposition. The exhibits have all been largely viewed and being placed in the Public Librae where they could be seen nt any hour, were accessible to the general public. The officers of this club are President, Mrs. Lewis I). Stubbs; Viee-Presi-chnt.s, Miss Elizabeth Foulke and Mrs Henry Sherman; Secretary, Miss Esther G. "White; Treasurer, Miss Carrie K. Lesh. This column saw an amusing thing the ther day in a comic paper. A young nan and woman were supposedly gazing at a picture in an art gallery when she said, "I wonder why they hung that picture." "Hanging was too good for it," responded her companion. "It should have been tarred and feathered." A sentiment which could be frequently echoed by many a one dragging a weary way through dreary acres of alleged, works of art. It is interesting to know that Mr. Otto Schneider, the young American drv point artist and etcher, well known in this cit3' where hi? work lias been frequently exhibited, is meet ing with great success in Ne;v York where he now lives, especially in portraits of fashionable women. "Mr. Schneider "says a contemporary, "can not be called the American Ilelleu because he is too original and has too much distinction of his own, a criticism passed upon him by this col

umn long since. "Schneider displays a I 11. 1 1 .,-? J? i-

wuriiun aim eAiiueiauct; oj. xaucy nuv seen in the famous Frenchman's work. There is no other object of, beauty more compelling, perhaps, in the whole world than a perfectly, beautiful woman and because this is' true the actress, Maxine Elliott, attracts great audiences. Miss Elliott, or Mrs. Goodwin, is without doubt a most beautiful and fascinating creature and a clever actress in her way but when that is said, all's said. She lacks fire, depth, virility and also, a certain imagination, and would not be regarded with any degree' of seriousness if it were not for. her .wonderful 'physical charm. It has been said that she is -the better actress of the two beautiful sisters, Gertrude and Maxine Elliott, but a large number of people cannot agree to this after seeing the former in "The Light That Failed," and "Hamlet" the two plays in which she has appeared in this country during the past season with that superlative actor, Forbes Robertson, who is also her husband. She shcws herself, especially .in the difficult role of Ophelia, possessed of surprising strength, and as she is rati eli younger than her perhaps more lxf'ufttiful sister, Maxine, she bids fair to become a greater exponent of the dramatic art than the latter. In a private letter to a resident of Indiana received this week, Mr. Robertson gives an interesting piece of information to the effect that he has been invited to present "Hamlet" at Harvard earljr in April on their "Elizabethan stage" as he terms it. This is a compliment to Mr. Robertson's scholarly interpretation of the "melancholy Dane" and will be a most felicitous occasion in every way. Mr. Robertson is having everything his own way in New York both with

jthe publicand the critics and is the

lion of the hour. Many people have expressed the ar-

jdent hone that the trees on the side

walk surrounding the projected Federal Building, will all be permitted to remain in place as they will add to the decorative aspect of the corner and will in no wise shut off any view of the structure. It is said that it is the intention of the authorities to permit these trees to remain and it is devoutly to be hoped that this is true. This column has several times called attention to the prononunced advance in the work of Mr. Nordyke, one of the best known of Richmond's landseapists, especially mentioning several pictures painted the past autumn and winter and on view in Morris's window at different times, namely a log cabin in a cornfield and two winter scenes, the former being one of the most delightful canvases both as to color, atmosphere and pictorial quality in general that Mr. Nordyke has produced. Mr. Nordyke is at his best in depicting snow, his two small canvases above referred to bits of woodland in the middle of winter-being delightfully treated. Mr. Nordyke has recently received a letter from , an artist friend in California speaking in a very complimentary fashion about his two mYfm-P5

reproduced in the Art Interchange I

for October, iu the article by the writer' devoted to the Richmond Group. This letter describes' interestingly this artist's visit to a book shop for an artist's materials before going out sketching and of idly turning over the pages of this magazine and suddenly coming upon the reproduction of the pictures by his old friends, and further of the impulse it gave him to go out and paint like mad. The article inthe Art Interchange has given the Richmond Group a wide spread public.

Tomorrow," Saturday the 2Gth, the twenty-eighth annual exhibition of the Society of American Artists opens in the Fine Arts Building, New York, this being one of the great annual picture shows in the metropolis and looked upon as one of the most important events during the art season. It will continue until May 1st. The annual exhibition of the American Water Color Society also opens shortly in New York as announced in this column several weeks ago. "Some years since several artists in New York " seceded "- altlio' it is vague as to exactly what they "seceded" from and have since given annual exhibitions of their own pictures. They call themselves "Ten American Artists" or "The Ten," and their present exhibit will continue in the Durand-Ruel Galleries until April 2nd. The display consists of thirty canvases. The' writer once read a rather funny little story about the great singer, Van Dyke, of the Metropolitan Company that season, who Avas heard to murmur as he issued forth from an exhibition of pictures by "The Ten" "imbecile ! imbecile!" Presumably referring to the pictures.,? This can readily be believed when it is known that Childe Hassam is one of "The Ten," for while he has done notable work he has also turned out wizzy looking things which masqueraded under the name of "pictures." Worse than some of the weird, mysterious daubs once seen here by Wendt, of Chicago. They say however, that Wendt, is really a wonderful technician. He thought, however that Richmond was down in the country and just sent any old canvas. This. was a mistake. Because we reek with culture. People in the country nowadays are far more sophisticated 'that the provincial denizens of the crowded commercial marts,, and sometimes even suffer from ' angwee. " Mr. Herrman, the art dealer of Indianapolis, is exhibiting some of the work of Mr. Girardin and Mr. $undy, including about thirty oils by Mr. Girardin and twenty-one water colors and several oils by Mr. Bundy. Mr. Bundy will send several water colors to be shown at the annual exhibition of water colors to be held at the Art Institute in Chicago in April. Mr. Bundy has also reconsidered his decision not to send any pictures for entry to the fine arts department at St. Louis and has forwarded two pictures to be passed upon by the jury, sd that Messrs. Bundy, Girardin and Conner will be represented in that department as well as in the Indiana building. This column is in receipt of circulars setting forth the details of Mr. Chase's summer class in England, which is to be limited to forty. Mr. Chase last summer took a class to Holland, and, with such success that many more than can be accepted will probably be applicants.

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LITERARY BOTES

The increased pages in "The Read

er" for April add to its usual attrac'tiveness and interest. As referred t in the Palladium when noticing the

March issue of this" masrazine, this publication has now been transferred from New York to Indianapolis where

i it is put out under the direct auspi

ces of its new publishers, the BobbsMerrill Company. The April issue presents ; an unusually attractivetable of contents, including 'Without Prejudice ' ' by I. Zangwill, this bud-g-et from the famous English writer to be one of the future features of the magazine. This department of literary gossip has been removed to the back of the magazine, and tlie new serial by that popular writer Harold Mc-Grath, which is begun in this number given the leading place. 'J here are some racy short stories, the usual book reviews, some excellent poetry and a variety of readable matter of one sort and another, all of weic-h goes to make up one of tl.e best issues ever 'put out. Such well known names as Madison Caweiu, Carolyn Wells, Josiah Flint, Richard Burton and Herman Knickerbocker Viele are on the list of contributors this month in addition to the names above mentioned and the editors should congratulate themselves upon the successful appearance of the April number. On the cover appears one oE the series of author's portraits nade by John Cecil Clay, this being of Joel Chandler Harris.

One of the literary sensations of the hour is the novel published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company by a new writer, Miss Elizabeth Miller, a young woman resident in Indianapolis the novel having for its setting a time long before the time of Christ. Says

a critic reviewing The Yoke in The Chicago Examiner :.,'.'Qne wishes that the author had been a little more of an Egyptologist, for she is wildly inaccurate on historical questions." I Of course a critic of sufficient standing and intelligence to command the columns of The Chicago Examiner could not be wildly inaccurate on historical, questions. In this particular instance however, the critic hap- ; pens to be at variance with Prof. G. S. Goodspeed of the University of I Chicago, Dr. W. C. Winslow, editor iof The American Antiquarian, and iDr. C. H. S. Davis, editor of Biblia,

the leading Egyptologist of the country, who have all testified to the minute and absolute historical fidelity of The Yoke. Where a wealth of archaeological

.material was utilized, it was natural

for the publishers to suspect the existence of errors in the manuscript. Accordingly they instituted a careful investigation, with the result that not a single point was found in conflict with historic fact.

The following interesting notice is clipped from The New York Times: "W. D. Foulke is preparing his "Slav or Saxon," which first appeared in 1SS7, for the press in a new edition which G. P. Putnam's Sons will issue. The book will be brought

up to date, and in the new chapters the author wil betray no little satisfaction in pointing out that history has confirmed the predictions he made in the first edition of his book concerning the international and expansion policy of Russia. Mr. Foulke will be remembered as the author of articles on history and other subjects that have appeared in the magazines from time to time. He is'..., president of the American Woman's Suffrage Association and a member of other societies." n-";v In the Saturday "Evening. Post for March 26th under the title of "The Case of Santo Domingo," appears an eloquent and striking dissertation from the pen of Mr. William Bayard Hale, formerly of this city. Mr. Hale is a well known writer, articles and stories by him having appeared in many of the leading publications of this country. Inflammatory Rheumatism Cured. William Shaffere, a brakeman of Dennison, Ohio, was confined to his bed for several weeks with inflammatory rheumatism. "I used many remedies," he says. "Finally I sent to McCaw's drug store for a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, at which time I was unable to use hand or foot, and in one week's time was able to go to work as happy as a clam." For sale by A. G. Luken & Co., and W. H. Sudhoff, corner fifth and Main. The Schneider Carriage company cordially invites all persons interested in fine road vehicles to visit thewarerooms, 47 north eighth street. 23-4t

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