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linen. This gives the material an obvious fitness
as a background.
There are but few stitches compared to what is
ordinarily known as embroidery, the breadth and
direction being more important than the number
of them.
The work, of which we show illustrations, was
designed by Mr. Samuel Howe for the Onondaga
Shops, Fayetteville, New York.
IN describing in the December number of the
magazine one of the Louis XV. art cases of the
Steinway pianos we referred to the painting under
the lid as "after a Watteau design." It would have
been more correct to have said that it was of Wat-
teauesque design, for it appears that the decoration
was the original work of a Mr. Arthur E.
Blackmore.
IN our February number we called attention to
some faience of the Grueby Co., of Boston, in the
house of Thomas W. Lawson, " Dreamwold,"
Cohasset, Mass. We omitted to state that the
original designs were by Coolidge & Carlson,
architects, of Boston, Mass. The faience mantle
made by the Grueby company for the Sears house,
Weston, Mass., was from an original design by the
architect of the house, Mr. Joseph Everett
Chandler. This mantle was not wholly of faience,
as the columns shown were in white marble, and
the Ionic capitals were in gilded bronze, executed
by John Evans. The work was of such exceptional
merit and beauty that we felt it would be of inter-
est to our readers to know the names of the
participants in the work.

CHOOLS AND INSTITUTIONS.
THE Metropolitan Museum of Art calls
^_/ attention to the Jacob H. Lazarus Scholar-
ship for the study of mural painting, which
is open to any unmarried male citizen of the United
States. The income of the fund is $3,000 a year,
payable in quarterly installments of $230 each, in
advance. Candidates are invited to notify Philip
C. Sirs at the National Academy of Design, and will
be required to pass preliminary examinations held
there during the week beginning Monday, October
23, in perspective, artistic anatomy and the painted
nude figure from life. Further examinations are to
be held for those who pass the preliminary test
satisfactorily. These will begin on October 30.
WE reproduce herewith two interesting examples
of the work of members of the Philadelphia Sketch

Club. The old organization has recently shown a
renewed activity. In its early days it embraced
such names as William Cresson, Ridgeway Knight,
A. B. Frost, the two Morans, and later on Joseph
Pennell, John Boyle, the sculptor, Colin Campbell
Cooper and the young architects, Wilson Eyre,
Walter Cope and John Stewardson. Two years ago
the Club withdrew from its old garret quarters at
Eleventh and Walnut Streets and entered a new
home at 233 South Carnac Street, where it has the
whole house at its disposal. Its 'members now
include a number of hard working young students
of the Academy of Fine Arts. Mr. Anshutz, an
instructor in the Academy, takes a prominent


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interest in the fortunes of the organization and has
painted a frieze of members' portraits, which
decorates the studio walls. The Club maintains a
branch house on Darby Creek, which gives its
members pleasant access to a landscape sketching
ground. Monday and Thursday nights are devoted
to life classes. For the past several years an exhibi-
tion has been kept upon the walls, with new exam-
ples from month to month. Among the interesting
exhibitions of the past year was that of F. Hutton
Schill, who showed a number of sketches in a broad
manner, which he made in a summer's outing at St.
Ives on the coast of Cornwall. Mr. E. L. Bryant
exhibited an interesting group of figure studies,
which he brought with him after a summer's work
in Paris. At other times during the year sketches
and studies have been shown by Messrs. Aymer,
Wagner, Pancoast, Martel and others. At a recent
monthly meeting, J. Wesley Little and George
Oberteuffer showed sketches in black and white and
in oils.

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