International studio (26.1905)

/W.y

1906." The standard chosen for the inclusion of
names is the exhibition of the artist's work in pub-
lic shows, in museums, institutes, clubs, etc., after
passing the scrutiny of recognized juries; or, in the
case of artists who do not make a practice of exhibit-
ing, the publication of their work in influential
periodicals. A convenient feature of the list is the
designation of the artist's specialty and his favorite
medium immediately following his name. The
book is well made, and so far as we have had oppor-
tunity to test it, accurate and adequate.


AL'S WALL PAPER DESIGNS FOR
THE CHILDREN'S ROOM
IT has been said that children have
only recenlty been discovered. Cer-
tainly they have probably never so thoroughly
inherited the earth from the moment of arrival as
they do in the present day of grace. Old-fashioned
people will be found, on the contrary, who hold, in
sorrow rather than in testiness, that the race of
children died out a few generations ago. Their
successors are thought to be too sophisticated to
be young, too undisciplined to be a comfort in the
thought that they are sometime to grow old. We
have also the bitter prophesyings and jeremiads
of critics of our social life. They give us to under-
stand that children so far from being made much
of, are, among people of wealth and position, put
aside and forgotten. Fiiw/r satirized this familiar
outcry lately with a supposed extract from the
diary of a leader of fashion. "Had the most

amusing experience to-day," it ran, "while walking
in the park. Came upon the sweetest little child
taking the air with her nurse. She was so delicious
a little body that I couldn't resist kissing her.
What was my amazement to discover that she was
Gladys, my youngest girl! Had no idea she was
such a charming child. Shall certainly visit the
nursery Thursday or Friday and see what my
other children are like."
It will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, we
shudder, and turn for distraction to the morning
news. And what do we find? Here is a city dis-
traught over the quarrelling of the whole body of
its educators as to whether the children of the day
shall be' given the hard tack and water of public
school training or the gingerbread and chocolate
of a later and more complex curriculum. Here we
find hardheaded, vigilant men hammering on the
machinery of legislation to keep children from
contributing too soon to the support of the family.
Here we find one of the potentates of the earth in-
sisting with vigour and acclaim that in the matter
of population there is, in the words of the omnibus
driver, always room for one more; or, relaxing
from his efforts at bringing two nations out of the
disorder of colossal war, we read of his devoting
the day to setting his own youngsters agog with
tales of the bear hunt. The newspaper, in at least
a partial sense, is all baby talk!
If we turn to literature it is the same: we find


I. LA PRESENTATION BY PAL


II. INVITATION A LA DANSE BY PAL


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