Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1906 (Heft 14))

incredulous silence. Half-way down the room, however, he was confronted
by an imposing figure. It was Rembrandt, snowy ruff at neck and flashing
eyes alight with indignation. But it was to require more than this to check
the intruder. Scarcely breaking his stride, he advanced his face till it almost
touched the Dutchman’s and fairly hissed a single word: “Copy-Cat!” he
said. And it was enough. The proud head bent; the swart cheek paled:
the figure shrank aside and the newcomer passed on.
As he reached the president's chair the young man, once more smiling
and assured, grasped Messire Michael Angelo by the shoulders, lifted him
firmly from his seat and set him down in the lap of Tintoretto, who sat at
Turner’s right. Then he sat down in his place.
For a moment there was neither sound nor motion in the room. Then,
far down the table, Holbein jumped to his feet. “Ach, Gott!” he cried.
“Dis vas Lese Machestee yet! Say! Who vas you anyhow?”
“Gentlemen,” said the new arrival, rapping for order, “allow me to
introduce rnyself. I am Eduard J. Steichen.” J. B.Kerfoot.

PHOTO-SECESSION NOTES.
THE LITTLE GALLERIES.
IT being impossible to review the continuous performance going on at
the Little Galleries, exhibitions succeeding each other at fortnightly
intervals, we must content ourselves at present with publishing a bare
statement of the nature of these exhibitions.
Exhibition I was devoted entirely to the work of members of
the Photo-Secession, one hundred prints being hung. Represented were
the New Yorkers, Alice Boughton, A. L. Coburn, Frank Eugene, Gertrude
Käsebier, Joseph T. Keiley, Marshall R. Kernochan, J. B. Kerfoot, Helen
Lohman, E. J. Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, J. F. Strauss, W. E. Wilmerding;
from Massachusetts, Mary Devens, Chester A. Lawrence, Jeanne E. Pea-
body, Fred. H. Pratt, Sarah C. Sears, W. Orison Underwood; from Penn-
sylvania, John G. Bullock, J. Mitchell Elliot, Wm. J. Mullins, W. P.
Stokes, Mary Vaux; from Ohio, Herbert G. French, F. D. Jamison,
Katharine A. Stanbery, Mary R. Stanbery, Clarence H. White; from Illinois,
W. B. Dyer, Eva Watson-Schütze, W. F. James, S. L. Willard; from Cali-
fornia, Annie W. Brigman; from Canada, Sydney R. Carter; from Colorado,
Harry C. Rubincam; from District of Columbia, Jeanne E. Bennett; from
Maine, W. B. Post; from Virginia, Landon Rives.
Exhibition II was devoted entirely to French workers. The collection,
although not embracing all the pictorial workers of France, was, notwith-
standing its small size — 50 prints—thoroughly representative of the work
done in France to-day. M. Robert Demachy, who at the request of the
Secession selected the prints shown, is himself not only considered the fore-
most photographer in France to-day, but was the first pictorialist to realize
the possibilities of the gum-bichromate process. In conjunction with M.
Puyo he has perfected this printing medium as it is at present used by French
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