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THE iBUGOKLYN EXai.E SUlSrBAT; MAEGH 22, 1890. 21 11 .1 ii. i i GALLERY AND STUDIO. QUESTIONS ANSWERED. States by a woman, irrespective of age you'd better believe no inquiry would be made on that score and the Lotos club fund of $1,000 subscribed by Its members for the purchase ir f.

ir TEL Brest sggs sr of paintings at the annual exhibitions at the academy. The awards hereafter will really bo made, as ways out of the former delays, in 1 differences and jealousies have been discovered. The practice of art In this city is not con fined wholly to professing artists. There are. several so called amateurs who have gifts that entitle them to rank above a good many of.

tho painters who assume to make a I living by painting. Among those in Brooklyn who do not exhibit, but who do work that entitles them to credit, Is Professor Rufus Sheldon of the Polytechnic Institute. He has i recently been making a number of monotypes naiiitlnL's in ink on conDer. from which a i single impression is taken that are praised by critical people who have seen tnem tor their beauty of tone and finerfess of sentiment. A small collection of hypothetical old masters 13 on exhibition at the gallery of Clausen in West Twenty eighth street, New York.

Thev oarne from a chateau in Belgium. and are undoubtedly old. Some of them are I Interesting, some are good and a lew wouia rank with able modern work. This is the week for the opening not only of the academy, but of the show of the So ciety of American Artists. Some interesting immature paintings oy Augustus Vincent Tack are exhibited by Mr.

Kraushaar at his cal eries in Broadway, jit. Tack studied with Mr. Mowbray, who is a colorist and a reliable draftsman, as well a painter of unusual nicety of imagination. The pupil has a few of his master's traits, and he has promise and originality as well. He Inclines to breadth in nis worn, auu is usually agreeable in his color.

The Hentnrv club is enioylng an exhibition of paintings, studies and sketches by the Japanese artist, Hokusal. There is a collection of kakemonos made during the six years' residence in Japan of Charles D. Weldon, the art ist who made the Illustrations tor juiiau Ralph's stories in Harper's. Mr. Weldon has Chase's old studio and he nas many rents and art treasures of Interest.

The American Art association has decided to replace the pictures of Rouen cathedral by Monet that aroused so mucn interest a ween, or so ago. They may be seen free of charge for a few rlavs. Sundavs excepted. These can vases show the west front of the vast building under different lights and atmospheric conditions. They are as far removed from reality by the painter's style as possible, but they are suggestive of the imposing and aspiring and the color is sometimes beautiful.

At the same galleries may be seen a collection of over two hundred works of various ages and Donditions of merit oil paintings, water colors and engravings that were owned by Dr. Charles Bernacki of New York. At the Klackner eallery a little group of five Danish pictures may be examined. rney are hardly or tne oi ne paiuien, for the Scandinavians showed in the world fair that they had been imbued by a new and resolute spirit and were doing forcible and original work. The first annual exhibition of art for schools, under the direction of the Brooklyn institute, is to open free to the public tomorrow.

It will be on view for a fortnight in the Montague street art galleries. Burne Jones' "Marriage of Psyche," the most Important of that artist's works that have reached this country, is at Boussod. Valadon Company's, Now York. It presents the Greek myth with Mr. Jones" usual refinement and assumption of medievalism In composition a thing he caught from Rossetti.and Is too old to outgrow, even if It was desirable that he should.

The painting is thus described: "In the pallid gleam of dying day Psyche is being led to her nuptials with Cupid. The procession, worthy of a master of antique art, moves gracefully along, heralded by a maiden who uprears the nuptial torch. The four bridesmaids follow, strewing the path of the bride of the disguised deity with flowers, and behind her come her minstrels, thrumming the lyre and drawing melody from the violin; with old age, the symbol of the inevitable end of youth and gayety, and flowers and song, typified by a grand old man, supporting his steps by his staff. Each figure is a type, lovely in itself and tenderly rendered, and the background. In its large and subdued majesty, Is a Bt setting for the story." Charles M.

Kurtz has beeen appointed manager of the art department of the St. Louis exhibition, which is to continue from September 9 to October 25 of this year. Intending exhibitors are requested to send to Mr. Kurtz at 100 West Seventy eighth street, New York, before April 10. Nothing can be shipped from New York later than August 15.

The Max Williams company is making an exhibition of etchings, pen drawings and water colors by Walter Stearns Hale, associate of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers, Next Friday night sixty eight paintings will be sold at Chlckering hall. In the meantime they can be seen at the Fifth avenue art galleries. They are owned by Godfrey Mann heimer, who had a taste for story pictures, but who for all that was no patron of poor art. His pictures are small, most of them, but ften good in color, and he likes well defined, not to say edgy forms. There are some names fa his list that do not now stand for that kind of art, but their pictures represent them at an earlier stage in their development.

The artists represented in his catalogue include Alma Adam, Diaz, Dupre, Dletz, Bonheur, Breton, Bellecour, Benliure, Boughton, Casanova, Cordt, Courbet, Calame, Chevilliard, Chintreuil, Chlerici, Daubigny, Detaille, Decamps, Defregger, Kaulbach, Knaus, Kem endy, Leloir (Louis), Lambert, Leader. Max, Madraze, Madou, Munier, Nicol (Erskine), Perrault, Pettenkoffen, Frere, Gerome, Gallegos, Guillemin, Harpignies, Hebert, Hartmann, Isabey, Jimenez Aranda, Jacque, Jourdan, Jutz, Pasini, Plimpton, Rosenthal, Seitz, Schleich, Vilegas, Vibert, Vautier, Vollon, Van Marcke, Worms, Zamacois. G. Tyler, whose pictures were sold at auction last week, and who expects to sail for Europe in May, paints most of his pictures in the studio, after long observation out of doors. Ho seldom works directly from nature.

The yacht Defender, that he painted with such spirit, was seen by him, in the position that he represents it, through a glass for about half a second and at a distance of six miles. It was long enough to leave a vivid impress on his mind and eye, and he copied his impression on his canvas. He believes in color and in rder to keep his eye fresh for it, he has amassed quite a collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelains, art forms, which he believes to be unexampled, in so far as color value and beauty is concerned. His own collection includes two peachblow water bottles, a rare deep red, almost purple, a turquoise from the Bing collection, a small Persian turquoise, that is finer than any of the Chinese, reds, pinks, blue and whites, celadons, and, indeed, all of the principal colors that one is likely to come upon, as well as a few rare historic pieces of uncommon interest and worth. C.

M. S. THE MOXTAUK SOCIAL CLUB. The members of the Montauk Social club gave a house party on Tuesday evening at the club house, 19 Talman street. A large crowd of members and friends were present.

The march to the supper table was led by Thomas McEwan and Miss Maggie Maher. The parlors were decorated with bunting and potted plants. Games were indulged in during the evening. Among those present were: Charles Virture, Mrs. Annie Nelson, Michael F.

Miss Mary Richardson. James' J. Morton. Miss Katie Cannon. I 'runk Richardson.

Miss Nellie Garrity, Daniel MoConnell, Miss Martha Warld. John Molloy. Miss Rosie Uilcy, John Oraham, Miss Gertie McNalley, Wlllicm Campbell, Miss Mary Burns. John Cannon, Miss Annie Garrity, John J. Delury, Miss Sadie McGowan, Francis Riley, Miss Katie Finn, William Lvnch, Miss Mamie Stows.

Owen Tassart, Miss Mary Harklns, Harry Wilson. Miss Uzzie McEwan, William Manning. Miss Katie Riley. The oltieers of the club are: President. Thomas McEwan: lirst vice president.

Miss Magpie Maher; second vice president, Charles Vlrtuiv: recording secretarv, Michael F. Keegan: financial secretary, James j. Morton: corresponding secretary, Nellie Garrity, treasurer. Frank Richardson; sertteant at arm's, Daniel McConnell: assistant sergeant at arms, John Molloy; librarian. Annie Garrity.

MISS PARCE'S RECITAL. Monday evening Miss Bertha Mario Parce gave a most delightful recital at the Pierre pont assembly rooms. Prominent soloists from N'cw York assisted in making the programme one of complete enjoyment. J. Julius Schreuch sang two Gorman songs, "Am Meer," by Schubert, and "Ich Grollo Nicht," Schumann, and was encored.

Miss Mai Cox interpreted ouo of Grieg's charming songs, "A Dream of Love" and Mascheronl's "For All Eternity." Miss Bertha Parce is a reciter of much natural ability and versatility. "A Set of Turquoise" was a difficult selection and most satisfactorily rendered. "St. Peter's Verdict" and a double number were all heartily received. Miss Parce is an earnest worker and since her concert last year shows a marked nrogression iu her art.

George i Leon Moore sang a "Song of Love" and "I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby." and cheerfully responded to we'l deserved encores. Miss Heleue M. Baker was a very efficient Corrvfiponcznnts should not feel atsappointtA their (juostlnns ore not anstnpred tmmeCLQ atply, as the Information frequently requires conslrleralitp research fur which ampl ttmf should be altorrvfi. The name and address of the writer, should accomvauy evo Question. R.

What a woman may da at f1 home to earn a IHtlo spending is proWem which must ba solved by circumstances aud fertility of resources. "Enquirer" A sketch of tho life of Justin Mc Carthy was published in the Eale of Sunday, December 1, lSfy. 'H, J. Anent query of pinochle, the me lA is 110 SO kings and GO ns. L.

Homer and Hesiort notice constellations, but the fir.st definite record Ib that of Claudius Ptolemaeos. a.hou: 140 a. D. Rijparchu (about H7 B. made a list of forty eight con stul arions; others were added by Tycho Urahe.

Uevelius, etc. W. word swap may be used polite society. It ia both expressive and proper. "Inquirer" "Brown's Is applicable to of 210.000 acres, or eiicht townftfvijxs.

Which, extend across Herkimer county and include a small portion of Lewis aud Hcumilton. H. Louis Atnedee Kut 'ne Achard, th French novelist, was born in 181 and died March. 25, 1875. He was a contributor to the Courier da Paris In 1S45, and, after the revolution of 1S4S, became a political writer in the camp of the royalists.

He wrote, among other works, "Belle Rose" US47), "Histolre 'un Homme" (1S63), "Souvenirs IVrdonnels d'Kmeutes et de Revolution (1872), "Histolre da Mes Amis" (1S74). M. Montague street was not always aa called. It was named Constable street by H. Pierrepont, in to his wife's maiden name.

It led up to the site of the proposed city hall, and wa 3 supposed by the public as intended to commemorate Uie otllce of constable. Mr. Fierrepont, therefore, at the suggestion of his son. II. EX Pierrepont, changed its name to Montague street, in honor of his daughter, Mary Montague Pierre pout.

Anent the answer concerning the list off men on Long Island who participated in the war of 1776 we have received the following interesting note from Mr. William Wallace Tpokcr of Sag Harbor: A list of the minute men of 177G can be found In Munsell's "History of Suffolk County," Southampton Town, piies 1 and S2; Howell's "History of Southampton." second edition, pages 70, 71 and 72, also has another Hat; that on page 72 of th Second regiment, KIghth company, was from 'Sag Harbor, as the nanius of the ofllcers bear witness. Ensign Daniel Fordham was an ancestor of mind on my mother's aide. During the occupation of Lonpr Island by the British he with others of company became refugees in Connecticut. I "havo also seen other lists, but cannot now recall them.

J. S' For Otero murder In City park, se Brooklyn Easle Library, vol 2, No. "Questions Answered." Copies may be had In the publication office at cents each. A. We do not know of any classes for free education or lectures la law In this city or In New York.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Can you tell me the author and poem title oJ the following verse? The year's departing beauty hides Of wintry storms ithe sullen threat; in thy sLernest frown abides A look of kindly promise yet. RICARDO. Answer The verse; quoted Is from a short poez by William Cullen Bryant, entitled "March." To the Editor of Brooklyn Eagle: Wlil you kindly saj in what age lived Strada, the author qutte.J by Addison in Spectator (241), as telling the scory of tli two friends who could cominunicRfi with each other by means of a magnetic dml? Also, 1f not too much trouble, tell, me who Nam a Pompllfus was7 H. McK. Answer Famine trad a was an Italian Jesuit and historian, born at Rome in 1572.

He 'was professor of rhetoric in the Gregorian college In that city. He wrote Latin essays entitled "Proluslones" (1617), being commentaries on th classics and ancient literature. He died In 1649. Xuma Pampilius was the second king of Rome, celebrated In Roman legends or fables as tha author of the reltgious ceremonies of the Romans. According to these legends Numa was a Sabitwi and was elected king as successor to To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Is it true 'that Dr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes: himself an educated physician, any time publicly cast a reproach upon the use of medicine? S. N. X. Answer It Is recorded of Dr. Oliver Wendeli Holmes, that, addressing a medical class in 1 S61, ha Ba3d: "The disgrace of medicine has colossal system of self deception, in obedience to which mines have been emptied of their cankering minerals, the vegetable kingdom robbed of all itg growth, the entrails of animals taxed for their Impurities, poison bags of reptiles drained of their venom and all the conceivable abomination: thus obtained thrust down the throats of human baiings suffeaTtng firom txwne fault of organization, nourishment or vital stimulation." To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Do 'not mourners, in some countries, wear white and other colors instead of the black, which is our custom IXD'EX.

Answer MMourning for departed friends has assumed various aspects at different times in certain countries. The time of mourning tor friend among the Israelites lasted seven days, and for public dignitaries a month. During thos periods the mourners neither washed nor anoint ed themselves, rather a fllthy state of things. The Greeks and Roonans fasted. White was usel in mourning' for any deceased member of the Imperial family at Constantinople In 323.

The ordinary color for mourning in Europe Is blacfarj in China, white; in Turkey, violet; in Ethiopia, brown; it was white in Spain until 1498. Anna of Brittany, the queen of two successive kings of France, mourned In black. Instead of wearing wrhite, as was fchen the custom, on the death of. her first husband, Charles VIII, April 7, 149S. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Who is the author of a poem beginning with th line "Out of the woods my Master I think there are six or eight verses, each on ending with the line quoted.

I heard them recited by Father Huntington in a sermon. L. M. B. Answer The poem referred to is by Sidney Lanier and is entitled "A Ballad of Trees and tho Master." The poem entire is as follows: Into 'the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent.

Into the woods my Master came Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to HltA, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn tree had a mind to Him. When in the woods He came. Out of the woods my Master went, And He was well content. Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame.

When Death and Shame would woo Him laa. From under the trees they drew Him last: Twas on a tree they slew Htm last When out of the woods He came. To tlie Editor of tJhe Brooklyn Eagle: Will you kindly tell me what the Codex of Aristophanes Is? I can find no mention of it In any book of reference at hand. In a newspaper I lind the following: "Harvard university has proioed to the municipality of Ravenna to hav photographed the famous Codox of Aristophanes, whioh is in the library there. The university desires to pay expenses and keep only ten coplea for tlvemselves and to give the negative to tha town of Ravenna to show that dhere Is no specu latlon in the matter." M.

W. Answer President F.Iiot of Harvard kindly fur nishes a response to the foregoing query. Ha says chat one of the professors of Greek, Pro fessor John Williams Whke, desired to get photograph of one play out of the oldest and best manuscript of Aristophanes, Which lit the Codex of Aristophanes ut Ravenna. Througbi a friend in Italy he a negotiation, with the municipality, but some Ravenna notables objected to the making of a phorographlc copy of any part of The Codex and the negotiations had to be abandoned. This was a private undertaking by Professor White, who wanted a fac simile of the manuscript for his own use in preparing an edition of the play and also to illustrate the instruction given to one of his classes.

The university, it appears, took no action in Clio matter. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: If you will give a short sketch of St. Bernard of Clairvaux you will confer a great favor upon a circle of your renders who deeply appreciate "Questions Answered." J. and S. F.

Answer St. Bernard of Clairvaux is the nama of a man whose character Is healthy for study. He was one. of the most Influential theologians of the middle ages. He was born at Fontaine, near Diion In HerKumly, Wt became a monk of Citeaux in founded a new branch of that order at Clairvaux.

in Champagm'. and himself" become its llrst abhot in died August 20, and was canon izod by Alexander 11 In' 1174. His ascetic life, solitary studies and stirring eloquence made during his lifetimo, the oracle of Christendom. He was honored with the title of the "mellifluous doctor," and his writings were termed "a river of paradise." lie rejected the doctrine of the immaculate conception, which had been introduced into the French church, and rose above the cruel prejudices ot his age in repressing the monkish persecutions of the Jews in Germany. Luther said of him, "If there ever lived on the earth a God fearing and holy monk it was St.

Bernard of Clairvaux. In the course or his ltf. he founded monasteries. There are extant of his epistles, 340 sermons and 12 theological treatises, all instinct with genius. S.RT IN PLENTY AND VARIETY IN THESE DAYS.

Mr. Rice's Collection of American Pic turesA Show the Manhattan Club. Chartran's Portraits The Liberal League Coming Sales. James Rice, of this city, has In his John street office in New York a neat little gallery where he has on exhibition the work of several American artists, Including two Brooklyn men, Wiggins and Bogert. Mr.

Wiggins, who is now abroad, has left several important canvases here, including his Normandy mussel diggers at work in the wet beach at low tide, a cliff rising behind them with a row of houses on its crest, the whole pervaded by a gray, damp, sea air; a row of trees, with a sunset shining through their branches; an exquisite little moonlight, with sheep at pasture a picture that contains to a striking degree the quality of night air, stillness and faint illumination; a peasant and his herd; cattle going home along a misty road; a strongly painted cattle piece in which the animals stand knee deep in the lush grass of a marsh, while gray clouds blow overhead, and a larger picture representing a late afternoon effect at Manomet, with a wide range or distance, a picture that gives one a refreshing sense of being in the open and of breathing pure air and a plenty of it. In the fore view sheep are grazing on a succulent sward that clothes long rolls of land which recede toward the fa7 "orizon. Most of this land is bare of trees, and it is this freedom of outlook that conveys the agreeable sense of space. The sun is sinking behind the spectator, but its warm glow is thrown upon the unordered masses of cloud in the east, one of them, breaking into a fringe of rain at its edge, being especially luminous. Mr.

Bo gert's pictures are small panels, one of them, a street in a French village, with sun shining strong on white walled cottages, being an esecially successful work. A sea piece, with a single distant sail, is" also worthy of notice. William M. Chase Is represented in a seated figure of a young woman in a pearl white dress, with hands clasped In her lap, the work lacking the Juiciness and depth of color that we admire in the English portraitist, but showing the artist's individuality and nerv ous force. There are some landscapes by Merritt Post that have a nice sentiment, but which as yet lack power and confidence, especially in color, but which are excellently and full of truth.

Warren C. Brlggs has two pictures that commend themselves for their harmonious color, the air being suffused with evening glow. Mr. Briggs occasionally paints on too low a key, for he occasionally represents landscapes in almost twilight, while his sun is yet half an hour high. This matter is easily corrected by leaving the sun out of sight.

A vivid work by Childe Hassam was secured at the recent sale of that painter's canvases. It represents a fire in a city on a rainy night. Great sheets of red flame are shooting into view, above the roofs, and against them is silhouetted a church spire. In the street below an engine is tearing away to the scene of tbe conflagration, sparks spattering from its chimney, and the wet pavement catches both the reflection of the fire, the sparks and the house lights and the shadow of a moving multitude. It is painted in the strong, almost coarse fashion of this impressionist, but is a picture that commands the eye.

A marine oy uehn. a stranded steamer by Tyler and a couple of dogs by Poore are among the other contents of the gallery. An admirable show has been made at the gallery of the Manhattan club the old Stewart mansion by members of that organization, who lent their pictures for the purpose It is the first one ever made by the club, bu: has been successful beyond the average of such exhibitions. The lesson of it to the oh servant visitor is that Americans are painting as well as anybody, albeit this was principally a collection of foreign work. There are landscapes by Wyant, Tryon, Inness, Davis and Bolton Jones that hold their own with the Corots, Dupres and Daubignys: figures by ueorge i uiier, Mowbray, Jarvls, Dixon.

Moel ler, Bridgman, Brown and Turner that in no wise lose countenance because of the Rovbets Jacquets, Bouguereaus, Detailles, Knauses and Rosen thals and in all the gallery there is notning nner than the two pictures bv Wins. low Homer, with storming seas for back ground. The man is rightly named: there is an old Homeric quality of strength in his painting. Mr. Mowbray's color in "The Last Favorite" is sweet and soft, and in the landscapes referred to, as well aa in Mr.

Wiggins cattle piece, there is a noble sentiment and fine feeling. Some of the Corots are beautiful and there are exploits of bad drawing and fine color in a pair of pictures with classical subjects by Delacroix. The darkening picture of a Venetian moonrise by W. Gedney Bunce instructive, as showing the danger of painting on too low a key, for the natural darkening of a canvas will merge all the lower tones into one dull spread of dark. Fine and Interesting pictures are likewise shown from the easels of Ulrich, Quartley, Miller, Kavanagh Clays, Isabey, Couture, Fuller, Troyon Con' an? Kappef Came' Detti Chartran's portraits at Knoedler's are an engaging lot, for they have a sense of vivaciw and happiness that it is not always easy to put upon canvas.

One imagines that he likes to paint, and is not always thinking how much he is going to get for his work. His hLdling Kl1 Sound' hl8 color esh, and he can be earthy, as in some of his portraits of men, or spiritual, as in the way he flatters some of the women who have boulht their counterfeit presentments from him. There are portraits of Mr. Carnegie and of Mr. that are excellent interpretations of ch7racter aS factfV1 PainSs, and Sarah Bern! hardt is somewhat idealized in her persona tion of Gismonda.

A child's portrait Zc thing of a Reynolds quality in pose and pression plus a Gallic daintiness and desire to comphment Occasionally one feels the lack ofa reserve, but the work is clever, ad tak The Liberal Art league is said to be a body nearly identical with the "refused who once exhibited in New York after their pictures had been rejected by the hanAng 5r uh 8 lSe PrinciPal artistic societies It is holding what may develop into a nerl manent show in the Grand Central paliace a building near the railroads that not t7 Vhe mlSt invitins in the wSi M. The idea is for each person who exhibits to rent his space, and he can then put up for sX there anything he pleases. Some of the It tures are good, many are indifferent. Some of the artists are well known and have no! sent such pictures as they might have Pafnted The experiment may develop as a commercial success, however. wu.men.ui The April Magazine of Art is virtually a i nuitber sinc contains nventy P'ures by or relating to the late president of the Royal academy.

They are copied and Phototype, with good as.es', the Andromeda in the frontispiece is least successful of all as a reproduction, since the shadows and reds Iu ei defpened so that the anatomy is slightly falsified, a thing that Leighton himself never did. The power and beautv iu the man's work will be better appreciated as the years go by, and he will in time rank nearly at the head of the later British painters Another man of whom one learns some thincs of interest In this number is Feliclcn Rops a Belgian who has Just a little in common wit), that other Belgian, Wie'rtz, but whose technic is more fluent and artistic. He is a man of grotesquerie and even gloom, and is fond of painted parables, "Death on the Pavement" being one of the strongest. In tho face and form of the Cyprian who stands audaciously smiling in the decrway one sees the skeleton Other pictures In the number are a' Reynolds' a Watteau and a Hclbein in Burlington house' some delightful English work In the Humphrey Roberts collection, a bold study of an Italian head by E. R.

Hughes, a few sketches of animals by J. G. Millals, who made them in South Africa, some illustrations of falconry, architectural themes and views along the river ways of the English lake district. Tho private view of the seventy first annual exhibition of the Acadenvy of Design will occur next Thursday afternooD. The prizes to be awarded this year Include the Thomas B.

Clarke prize of $300 for the best figure composition painted by any American citizen in the United States; the Hallgarten prizes of 5100, $200 and $300 for the three best pictures in oil painted by American citizens under the ago of 35; the Norman W. Dodge prize of $300 for the best picture painted in the United' ILIHAM H. CRANE is Wmm wavs welcome in Brooklvn'. and he will be especially so this week because he brings with him. his new American comedy, "The Governor of Kentucky." 1 The politician in love has Tjpen a favorite character with American playwrights for some years now, notwithstanding the fact that most wives and families long before they reach any such eminence as would attract the attention of a dramatist.

Franklin Fyles, the author of this' play, "is no exception to the rule and Governor Lee, his hero, divides his interest in affalrs of state with his interest in the daugh ter' of his old and faithful private secretary. There is a plot in which the enmity of a lobbyist whose railroad grab the governor has refused to sign is made to interfere with the smoothness of his love story, though every thing comes out' right in the end. There has been a commendable effort to get the local color right and the scenes are said to be exact reproductions of the state capitol at "and of other things in the blue grass city. There is a Kentucky moonshiner who assists in unraveling the plot, a part played by big and burly Burr Macintosh, who is said to have gone to Kentucky to study character for 'the part, and there are New York twine, with one of whom the moonshiner falls in love. The two look muchalike that their lovers are thrown into several ridiculous complications which add to the amusement of the audience.

Mr. Crane's Governdr Lee is said to be one of the best parts he has played for. some time. have another comedy the; time In Brooklyn to morrow night. This is "The.

Two Escutcheons," translated by Sidney Rosenfeld from the German of Oscar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadel berg, is not American, but it has somewhat an American flavor, because several." of its characters are' Americans. The chief of these is Thomas Foster, a milMon aire pork packer of Chicago, who travels in Germany with his pretty daughter. In Berlin a young nobleman falls in love with and marries Mary Foster. His father, lie Baron does not kindly to pork lApIcing as a business, and the elder Foster of the fortune he has ade and of the mean's by which he made it. The conflicts between the 'two fathers furnish most of the humor of the play and the situation is one.

3cope for true comedy, if it has jaot been vulgarized in the treatment. A cli is reached when the pork packer pro poises to establish a branch of his famous Chicago establishment in Berlin, but he finally. desists from this disturbing project and retires to Ms own country, leaving the young people to enjoy their titled position in peace. Tbe 'father from Chicago will be played by Charles Bowser, the German aristocrat by R. F.

an American widow. In charge of. Miss Foster, by Made'line Bouton, and others 1n the cast will be Miss Louise Muldener, George Backus, Vincent Serrano, Grace Rut ter and Edward McLaughlin. The piece comes with the indorsement of a success at Daly's, where Ada Rehan played, though she cou'ld not look, the. young heiress, and at the Garden theater, where it has run since Its withdrawal from Daly's.

Before it was trans lated the original was given by the excellent German' company at the Irving place theater, where success led to its prompt use by these American companies. The settings are said to be those used at the Garden theater. long legged fun maker, De Wolf Hopper, will be at the Columbia this week. A few weeks ago Mr. Hopp revived that merry old favorite "Wang" to alternate with his latest work.

To his surprise, and that of. people who thought the opera was sung out it proved the most popular thing In his list and the demand for seats on the "Wang" nights grew until he has decided to this entire week at the Columbia to the old favorite. It would be futile to try to say anything new about "Wang," and fortunately it is necessary to say little anyway. 1 No recent comic opera has proved more popular and its catchy tunes are known from one end of the country to the other. "Baby" and "The Elephant on His Hands" have dropped out of the hand organ repertory at last, but if Hopper should use the old work for any length of time they would no doubt return and delight the chil dren on the streets as much as their stage rendering pleases audiences.

That, however, is impossible, as the comedian iss soon to produce Sousa's new opera, "El Capltan" in Boston. His next visit to Brooklyn will doubtless be in the new work of the popular Manhattan composer. These are announced as his last performances of "Wang" in Brooklyn and with the new opera so imminent, the announcement is probably correct. Aside from its tunefulness it is one of the most gorgeously spectacular comic operas and Mr. Hopper carries a large company to give its handsome stage pictures proper effect.

The principals are many of them excellent, among them Edna Wallace Hopper. Bertha Walziqger, Alice Hosmer, Ida Lester, Ed mund Stanley, Alfred Klein, John Parr, T. S. Guise, Harry P. Stone, Augustus Colletti and Louis Shrader.

During holy week the Columbia will remain closed. If one needs light as to the nature of the fun In Hoyt's most successful farce, "A Trip to Chinatown," ho will get It in abundance at the Amphlon this week. That merry trifle will be at the. eastern dlstrict.house with the samp company which has many times commended It to the favot of the Brooklyn public. Harry Conor will play his old part.

Welland Strong; Geraldlne McConn will be the widow, and others in the cast will be Myra Morella, Madge Dean, Sadie Klrby, Josie Shalders, Richard Karl, Harry Gllfoil, George Richards, Julius Witmark and Fanny Miaco. There is no need of commending the fun of this piece. The public knows oil about it, and the more it knows the better it likes It, as was proved by the run of 65B nights in New York and frequent and profitable engagements. In Brooklyn. i The songs and dances are renewed as they be come top familiar and, as in all Hoyt's shows, I the performers are kept sharply up to their.

work, there being no perfunctorlness or drag gitig in their performances. Andrew Mack Is a modern example of the minstrel of Irish and Scotch legend. He writes liis own songs and ho sings them so sweetly as to charm the popular ear and draw about hira as eager and delighted orowds as ever followed a legendary singer on his pilgrimage This was evident when he appeared as a memher of other men's companies, but this year his own starring tour In "Myles Aroou" has established his popularity beyond question. Myles Aroon is an excellent specimen of the romantic Irish play, but it is Mack and bis own songs that the people go to hear! He will come to the Grand Opera 'house tuls week for the second visit this sea Ka this play and will' sing these original vocal cords in action to see if they really are different from those of other women. The Wagner inspiration is still working.

A German composer named Bungert has gone to Berlin from Rome with the nearly completed score of a tetralogy called "The Homeric World," in his trunks. The divisions are called "Circe," Odysseus," "Nausikaa" and "The Return of Odysseus." The pupils of the Empire dramatic school, over which Nelson Wheatcroft presides, will give its third exhibition matinee at the New York Empire theater Thursday afternoon. Three one act plays will be given, each for the first time, and scenes from Gilbert's "Pygmalion and Galatea." The opening play will be "The Facts of the Case," a farce, by Julie M. Lippmann of Brooklyn. Joseph Hoffman, who was a boy wonder a few years since, will be with us dn the fall, having a date for a concert at the Metropolitan Opera house on November 10.

Ohami nade, who is a concert pianist as Well as a woman composer, is also talking of making a tour of this country in the fall. With Jo sefty and Rosenthal shall not want for pianists. Manager Rosenquest has started active rehearsals of "The Village Postmaster," a New England comedy drama, by Jerome H. Eddy and Alice E. Ives, and expects to have the play ready for production at the Fourteenth street theater, New York, during the first or second week in April.

The cast includes Forrest Robinson, Edward J. Morgan, James R'. Smith, Harry Welch, Bertha Creigh ton, Queenie Vassar, Harriet Ford, Sadie Strlngham, Amelia Bingham, Blanche Weaver and others. Two opera favorites are likely to return to America next season, Emma Eames and Lilll Lehmann. The only reason for mentioning the American woman's name first is.

that Lehmann, who has recently been appearing in opera in Vienna, is said by the German correspondents to show conclusively that she cannot stand the strain of a difficult part, though she sings for the first part of the evening with her old power and art. Eames on tho other hand, has been studying dramatic operas, including "Aida," and expects to appear as a dramatic soprano. She has been singing in "Othello" at Monte Carlo, as she did here, and winning a good deal of praise. Just now she is In Paris, studying a new opera by Caesar Franck, in which she is soon to create the chief part. Here is a Chicago view of the Thomas concerts in New York, which is a fair return for some of the fun poked alt the rushing Western city by newspaper men who cared more for point than they did for It comes from the Chicago Evening Post: Chriticl.im of Theodore Thomas is always hazard out, yet at the risk incurring that choleric een tlemaa's displeasure we must contend that he has made a mistake in the arrangement of his first programme for his New York season.

Mr. Thomas has been away from Now York for majiy years, and during that time the town has been given over to the inspiring marches evolved by Mr. Sousa and to Che enli ting pot pourris vhich impart a measure of gaiety to Manhattan beach. That Mr. Thomas should swoop down on Yorkers with a trunk full of Beetlioven symphonies and Wagnerian motifs is as injudicious as it is darinp, and it is wronp to argue that because Chicago has a I'lmuic tinu Kevu appreciation or tne 1 hlKhest forms In music New York wll: understand and accept them.

If Mr. Thomas will take our humble atlvjee he will pick up New Yorkers where he left them, beginning with "Amaryllis." "Traeum erel," "Fvet and Peasant." "The ijirllfs Fml and a Strauss waltz, working up by easy stages to the Western standard. He should also provide that, as of old, beer shall be freely dispensed, with sandwiches of ham or leberwurst on the side. We are deep.y interested in the success of the Chicago orchestra, and implore Mr. Thomas to leave nothing undone that will add to the glory of his New York seaaion, but let Ms motto be "Festina lent which may be freely interpreted, Don't be too restive in Lent.

Henry James, who knew and admired Dumas fils better than any other American man of letter, lhas written a long and loving essay about the art and temperament of the French dramatist. 'La Dame aux Camelias' emphasizes," he says, "Dumas' bloom of youth. Written alt 25, it remaiin in its combination of freshness and form, of 'the feeling of the springlilme of life and the sense of the conditions of the theater, a curious and astonishing production. The author has had no time to part with his illusions, but he has had all the time to master the most difficult of the arts. Consecrated as he was to Litis mastery, he never afterward showed greater adroitness than he did here In keeping his naivete and his knowledge from spoiling each other.

The play has been blawn around the world at a fearful irate, but has never lost its happy juvenSlity, a charm that nothing can vulgarize. It is all champagne and tears fresh perversity, fresh credulity, fresh passijn, fresh pain. We have each seen it both well dene and ill done, and perhaps more particularly the latter in strange places, in barbarous tongues, with Canaille fat and Ar mand did. I remember, years ago in Boston, a verstou in which 'this young lady and this young gentleman were represented as 'engaged'; that, indeed, for all I know, may still be the form In which the piece still finds most favor wKh the Anglo Saxon public." Various people have been stirred up by the announcement that Walter Damrosch's "Scar let Letter" was the first American opera. What seems to be an authentic list of American operas gives these: "William Tell," wrlt ten and produced by Benjamin Carr In 1796; "The Pilgrim of Love," by Charles' E.

Horn, 1S3S or 1S39; "Prince De Leon," by James Maeder, played at the old Broadway theater, New York; "Leonora," by William H. Fry, one of tho pioneers of musical criticism, produced at Philadelphia, in 1844; "Esmeralda, by Fry, Philadelphia, 1S64; "The Spy," by Lulgl Arditi, given in Italian in 1S36, at the Astor place opera house; "Cas ilda." by William K. Bassford, orchestral score played by Theodore Thomas in the 70s; "Sleepy Hollow," by Max Maretzek, sung at the New York Academy of Music before 1SS0; "Rip Van Winkle." by George F. nris tow, in 1865, at Nlb'lo's garden, and "Zenobia," by Silas G. Pratt, sung at what is now Proc I tor's Twenty third street theater within a dozen years.

The only ones among these works which seem to have given promise of more than ephemeral interest are the two founded on Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Maretzek's work was sung in many cities and Brlstow's was all ready for an elaborato revival by thfe Clara Louise Kellogg opera company when the old Academy of Music burned In 1S65. This latter work is said by musicians to bo worth reviving if there were a serious English opera company or a public for such a venture. I songs: "Maggie, My Own," a love song with a waltz movement; "The Art of Making Love," a descriptive gem, with dance accompaniment; "I'm Proud I'm Irish," a rollicking ditty, with a patriotic chorus that would cheer the heart of any Irishman; "Dooley's Wedding," a humorous bit, with a patter movement; "An Irish Lad's Wooing," with a chorus and scenic accompaniment, and the "Swing Song" is a number that has become popular. Hanlon's fairy spectacle, "Fantasma," which comes to the Bijou this week, is a familiar piece, but the managers announce that it has been made over since its last appearance In the city, so that it is "completely new." That Is a pretty strong statement to make of any play or spectacle whatever, and doubtless the maJin outlines of the show remain as they have been, but a good deal of new scenery is promised, including three handsome transformation scenes. George H.

Adams, 'the clown who has pleased the little folk in "Fantasma" for mapy seasons, remains and is no doubt as funny as ever, and there will be elaborate electric and calcium effects. Rose Newn'ham will be the fairy queen, and there ivlll be a large company. Loie Fuller is one of the few Americans who have ever created a sensation in Paris, and been abla to hold the interest of tlhe fickle, capital for any considerable length of time. This is due to the foot that she has struck out a new line for herself, and was able to give the Parisians something new, something which had not already been don better in their own theaters. When rumors of Miss Fuller's success first came over the ocean they were received with incredulity, as she had never been regarded as a genius in her own country.

Now, however, there Is no question about TRIP TO CHINiA TOWN." the genuineness of her success, and since she returned to New York a few weeks ago there has been no doubt that she deserved all the honors she has won. The fact is the Parisians were quicker than we to recognize the novel and artistic qualities of La Dole's so called damces, and the fact that' she rose from the American variety stage did not prejudice them against her work or hinder their acknowledgment Its artistic quality, as it would have done had she offered the same entertainment here without the indorsement of Paris. Miss Fuller will appear at Che Academy of Music to morrow night for one performance only of her four dances, which she has been giving in New York. People who see her then will realize tihat the Parisian praise has not been overdone, and that nothing so novel and beautiful as the light effects which are shown iu these posings has ever been seen here. The dances are called "The Firmament," In which the effect; of sun, moon and stars and clouds, and even I of vivid flashes of lightning are represented; the White dance, In which her billowy draperies are seen without the illusion of the brilliant colors; "the Fire danco," In which a garish green is thrown upon draporles so as to produce the illusion of falling water, and "The Nile Lily," in which Miss Fuller handles her so as to produce the effect of the calyx of a mammoth callo.

No description can give one who has not seen the exhibition any definite Idea of its beauty or its wonder and novelty, but It Is emphairtcally the sort of thing which appeals most strongly to people who do not "patronize the music halls, In which so far Miss Fuller has been seen. The cultivated people of Brooklyn are fortunate in getting tlho first chance at tho performance amid surroundings in which they will not he uncomfortable. The names of t'ho people who appear with Miss havo not at 'this writing been divulged. It is said that the rest of the programme will he given by high class vaudeville performers, and it Is to be expected that the managers out of common business prudence will refrain from introducing any elenientB which will repel the very patronage which Miss Fuller's own exhibition is calculated to attract. A new name among theatrical people during the last 'two or three years Is that of Lincoln J.

Carter. Hip lias sen out several successful (melodrama, one of which, "The Tor nado," will be given at' the American theater, in the eastern district, this week. "The Tornado" was in the city last season, and while there may be melodramas with a more varied assortment of thrills it never fell to the lot of this writer to witness one. The scene on which specra) emphasis was then thrown was in a morgue. A Aiusband was a hospital surgeon in charge of a class of students whom he was to 'take through a dissection.

When the preparations had all been completed in a businesslike way and the face of the subject was exposed the physician recognized his missing wife. The claim of novelty was made for that scene, and no one ever disputed it 'with any show of success. The audiences who saw it here last year liked it, and doubtless those at the American Uhis week will dilate with horror at the ghastly climax. "The Trolley Party," which comes to the Gaydty theater this week is a farce comedy designed to introduce specialties by members of one of the variety show companies managed by Weber Field. The chief parts will be taken by Bob and Dick Garnoll members of the Acme four.

Bob Garnella has the part of a man who has invented a new trolley car. Dick will play a mischievous boy, and John Ince will present a capitalist with daughters. Gilbert Sarony will play an old mttld, who helps on the comic complications of the plot. A moving day. a wind mill and a real trolley car are some of the mechanical devices introduced.

Lottie Gilson will sing and there will no doubt be pleased audiences to witness the new effort. "The London Gaiety Girls' Big Company of Burlesquers" is the name of the organisation which will occupy the Star theater this week and though there is no particular indication that the managers of the company ever saw the London Gaiety, there is no doubt that thoy are burlesquers and that they will give the sort of show for which the Star has established a reputation iu the brief season since its reopening under its present management. The show will open with a farce called "A Century Club Reception," which will serve to introduce the girls in bloomers. It will close with a burlesque called "The Tramp Astronomers," in which no clothes in particular are specified for the chorus. Several variety performers will appear, Including the Furguesons, Irish sketch artists; Dot Lathrop, with topical songs; Eddie Odell, as an acrobatic tramp; Hilton, Keating and Alexander and the Chapelle sisters.

Weber and Field's own company will furnish the bill at Hyde Behman's Adams street house this week. Among the performers are Lottie Gilson, Mclntyre and Heath, James F. Hoey. Sherman and the Acme four, Drummond Staley, Belle Bir beck, Lavender and Thompson and Charles McDonald. There is hard'iy a name in that list which will not be recognized by patrons of variety shows as a guarantee of excellence In the kind of specialty In which the performer appears.

The Brooklyn music haU, at Fulton street and Alabama avenue, has not abandoned Its Sunday concerts, but gives two each Sunday, one at 3 o'clock and one at 8. Among the performers this week will be Peltorello and Glissando, musical the Pant zers, contortionists; Gould and Burt, sketch artists; the "one and a half Harrigans," for their second week; Alonzo Hatch, in Illustrated songs; Myrtle Tressirter. ballad singer; Elsie Eastman, serlo comic; Tcddle Simons, and Alida Perrault, soubrette. The Stage All About the World, Susanne Adams, the last American girl to win a success at the Paris Opera, has caused a good deal of comment by singlug Marguerite as a substitute for a sick soprano without any rehearsal. Gluck's "Orpheus," wnich has not been well rning in tii'is country since the days of the American Opera company and Helen Has troitcr, has just been revived at the Opera Comlque, Paris, after an albsenco of ncTly forty years.

Iarie Van IZandt is still singing "Mlgnon" about Europe, the last city from which her sucfes has been heralded being Brussels. MePba will sing Ophelia in Ambroilse Thomaf' "Hanvlet" when she goes back to the Paws Grand Opera this spring. They Jailk Patti coming over again, but not uPQ after 1S97, as she has a London enfeagenicr11 ror that year. Why doesn't Bomobody Strjr. the Roentgen rays ion Patti'a.