Art Notes And Artists

Mr. Church' "Damaicut" hu been estroyed by flre. The "Salome" of M. Alfred 8tevens has een purchased for $6000 (rom the Rojal museum, Brussel. Mr. Whistler and some twenty of hls ollowers have MMded from the Royal oclety of Briti6h Artists. The Metropolitan museum ha purhased tbe portralt of Washington, ainted by Gilbert Stuart for Daniel Caroll. Mme. Edouard Andre- "Nelly Jacquemart"- has glven her jewels, some f2!0,000 wortu, to the 'Thüauthrophic ociety." The French goveniment has purchased rom the Salon of 1888 M. Henner's "Saint ?e astioa," the "Manda Laraetrie" of M. {olí, and M. Dotaille's noble and poweríul Le Revé." Notwithstanding the richcs of London n art asEoclatioiis a new National "Aeíoiation for the Advaneement of Art" ia iroposed, wlth Sir Fiedcrick Leighton as resident and Mr. Alma-Tadema presient of the 6ectiou of painting. The Royal Society of Briti6h Artists vídently regrets the loss of Mr. Whistler n the arrangement of lts pictures, for hls iew of nanking tended to produce a urious and uncommon show entirely free rom any suspicion of a commercial idea. Tooth & Sons of London have on eihibftlon a large water color by Meissonier, which is said to be a variatiou on the subect of the well-kuown "Friedland" of the ew York Metropolitan museum. The later cost Mr. A. T. Stewart about 6eventy nousand dollars, and was presented by udge Ililton after the Stewart 6ale to tha N'cw York musoum. The water color is arger and more broadly handled than the oil paintius, which was considered a canas of unusual size for this artist. The "New Gallery" which was recently opened In London had some good pictures y Mr. Arthur Leinon, who seems to have been making some new departures in ealistic treatment of landscape. There wu al80 a picture by Mr. Boughton enitled "Harve6t of the Dawn," with all he sentiment of his larger academy work, and Mr, Alma-Tadema had an example of lis "clever, workmaulike portraiture." o portraits by Frank Hall and Rtchmond'8 portrait of "Mies Gladstone," laiuted for Newnham college, Cambridge, also attracted much attention. J. Smetham Allen's mastery over his art is as wonderful as the means of expression he emuloys is singular. Mr. Allen has the curious faculty of conceiving a design in silhouette so strongly thathe is able, without hesitation, to cut it straight away out of a 6heet of drawing paper; nor does he flrst avail himself of any pencil sketch, or other preliminary help. These silhouettea Bometimes contain six or more flgure6, and irom tlieir imaginative qualities, design and beauty of contour, are, in certain ways, comparable to the outlines of Flaxman. They are, Indeed, illustrations in the best andonly adrnissible sense of the word; for not only, as in a series recently done from "A Midsummer Nlght's Uream," is every subject thoroughly realized, but each design, from lts imaginative rendering, becomei in its turn an original conception. May Morris has recently flnlshed two large curtain9, embroidered from her own designs, upon a rich brocaded silk of a grayish blue color. A scroll carried along the top of curtain bears this verse, written especially for her by Mr. Morris, which best gives the idea of the design: Lo, sllken my garden, and silken my sky, Silken tbe apple-boughs hanging on high, AUwronght by the worm in the peasantcarle's cot, On the mulberry leafage, when fiunmer wa not. And so in this garden of embroidery a largo scroll-like leaf, worked in pale green ainl white silks, mixed with other leaves and flowers, meanders over the blue background. On these are placed, In decorative masses, the bushes of the garden, or rather Giottesque clusters of boughs done in almost a vivid green, some bearing appies, others flowers, others fruit and flowers. Embroideries such as these, remarkable for the extreme beauty ol their design, color and execution, and important on account of their size, almost awake in us the hope that the days of the "Opus Aogllcam" may yet return to us. Many Fronch artists of high reputatlon do not ícruple to sell replicas oí their paiutingg without the consent oí the original huyere. Perusing the pages of M. Paul Eudel' annual volume reviewing the transaetious of the fïotel Drout last year, I notice, in illustration it would seem oí this point, that at the sale of paintings belonging to Goupil Sc Co., on the occasion of the reorganization of the firm under its present name of Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Boulanger's "Via Appia" brought $1330, and Dagnan-Bouveret's "Un Accident" brought 050. Both of these pictures- or rather pictures respectivply by these artists, and with these same tilles - were told years ago to Amerlcaus. Boulanger's "Via Appia" was bought by Mr. A. T. Stewart lor $3500, and at the dispersión of his collcction last year It brought $1000. Dagnan-Bouverct's "Un Accideut" was imported by Mr. Avery. lts present location I do not recall. It seems to me that American buyers oí important pictures sliould insist every time on a guaranteo from the artist that no duplicates or "colorable imitations" shall be made without their consent. Thelr purchases annually represent so large a sum oí money, and their payments are so liberal that they could aLford to take such i tand, and it does seom they shoult do so for their own protection.- The Art Amateur. There is but one truth in art, the beautiful; but one truth fn maJs, the good; but one truth in politics, the just. Bul the moraeut you seek to make each the frame from which you pretend to exclude all that which, according to you, 1 not just, good or beautiful, you end by so liiniting and deforrning the image of the ideal that you find yourseli most iortunately almost alone in your opinión. The limit of truth is more vast than any we can imagine. - [Sand. "Ucvotion Is an cxaltation of the mental faculties, as intoxicution ia an exaltation of our physical faculties. All wine intoxcates when oue tkaes too much, and it i