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special editors associated with him it will be of
interest to name Mr. Russell Sturgis, Editor of the
New Dictionary of Architecture; Dr. Ira Remsen,
Professor of Chemistry in Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity; Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, President of
Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute; G. K.
Gilbert, the Geologist of the U. S. Geological
Survey; Hon. D. J. Brewer, Associate Justice of
the U. S. Supreme Court; Gen. A. W. Greely, of
the U. S. Army, formerly Chief of the Weather
Bureau, as a few of those who furnished the
definitions in the various departments.

/—URRENT ART EVENTS.
H AN EXHIBITION of the work of any
^ society of small membersh'p has, in
comparison with that of a numeri-
cally larger organization, a distinct and valu-
able advantage: it is not likely to tax the mental
and physical energy of the visitors beyond the point
of normal human capacity. The exhibition of "the
Ten," with its total of twenty-five canvases,
emphasizes this advantage—particularly in the
eyes of those who attend exhibitions for the satis-
faction of their artistic sense, rather than of their
social responsibility. The Montross Gallery, lo-
cated as it is high above the disturbing vibrations of
Fifth Avenue's busy traffic, assures the visitor all
the quiet he desires, in bestowing undivided atten-
tion upon the pictures before him. Mr. J. Alden
Weir shows six paintings, all of them interesting
and of high merit, including an arresting portrait
and a very happy landscape called Early GMwE^A2,
which is a masterpiece of atmospheric rendering.
Mr. Willard L. Metcalf has three works—all out-
door pictures, and of which our favourite was Eaj2
BoofA&ay Har&or, dPawe, a magnificently composed
view, rich and true in colouring, and in every re-
spect of artistic sense, well chosen. Mr. Childe
Hassam's four canvases are all of them richly
suggestive, and have an individual fascination
which the artist seems generally to convey to his
work, no matter what his subject. TAo shows
a prettily posed nude figure seated before a mirror,
binding her hair—the idea of the colour scheme
cleverly carried out. Particularly beautiful in its
feeling and poetry seemed to us his 2Ae
Orc/Mfdf OHo/e, rich in its colouring and magical in
its atmospheric effect. The gem of the collection
seemed to us to be the wonderful little work by Mr.
T. W. Dewing, TAo EorLwo TeAor, a story pre-
sented with living attraction, and its treatment,
both from the standpoint of artist and of craftsman,

classic in its masterly restraint and superb execu-
tion. Mr. Edmund C. Tarbell has four pictures—
all full of idea and suggestion—all examples of the
artistic moment well-chosen. In Mr. Tarbell's
^4 Gfr/ CrocAofwg, we find revealed a talent which
we look for in vain except in the work of a master—
the power of portraying the actual mental or spirit-
ual activity of his subject. Here sits, in calm seclu-
sion of a morning roonr, a girl, with her head bent
over her piece of crochet. It is not the beautiful
and restful lines of the relaxed figure, nor the
expressive spot of life in the active fingers at their
nimble business that fetters us; but the mental
vision of her thought-world that we obtain, magi-
cally conveyed to ourselves by some hypnotic pro-
cess out of the eyMewMe of the work—our
insight into the ideas passing through the girlish
head, as she sits in the soothing influence of her
mechanical occupation, her spirit conjuring a
procession of fancies for the delectation of her
mental vision. It is a masterpiece, Mr. Tarbell's
Gfr/ CrocAeTiMg. Mr. Robert Reid shows a study
of the figure of Christ in TAe tw fAe AfoMTA,
—a forceful work. Mr. Frank W. Benson's three
pictures include a wonderfully refreshing scene,
depicting three children fishing from a small boat
off-shore, in the early shimmer of a summer morn-
ing—each one expressing in the task an individual-
ity of character admirably rendered by the artist's
clever touch. Finally Mr. Joseph De Camp shows
three pictures—two studies and a powerfully
finished portrait of Mr. Benjamin Kimball, full of
strength and character. The ninth living member
of "the Ten," Mr. Franklin Simmons, has been too
busily engaged abroad to exhibit this year.
We noticed also the exquisite taste shown in the
framing of the pictures, and learned that Mr.
Herman Dudley Murphy was responsible for
several of the most beautiful of them.
THE EXHIBITION of The American Water
Colour Society, held at the Art's Club, while main-
taining a high average standard, was generally
marked by a lack of individuality rather unusual.
For the most part excellent in technique, we found
but few real flashes of genius, and even then they
were usually so sparklike and local as to be dimmed
by the very ordinary qualities of the rest of the
picture. We admired A. T. Bricher's Low
for its composition; Irving E. Couse's
DHiAwg 2Ae EYccA, for its idyllic quality; Charles
C. Curran's Lfead, for the strongly suggestive
poetry of the study; George Wharton Edwards'
o/ TM, as a clever piece of genre paint-

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