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...from the same publication showing the historical and geographical curiosity of the century ushered in by Napoleon's conquests. Bonington, the English youth who spent the last half of the twenty-seven full years of his life in France, raised lithography to a new height, well illustrated by the "Rue du Gros Horloge, Rouen." Gericault's studies of horses form striking foils to the more dramatic lithographs of Delacroix, also represented by two water-colors...
...pencil. These precious fragments have been lent by Mr. Russel Allen, to whose generosity many of the most interesting exhibits are due. The kinship of these wood-engravings to Daumier's better-known lithographs is apparent from the row of prints placed above the case. The magnificent "Rue Transonian" is flanked by the "Souvenir de Saint-Pelagic," the prison where Daumier was confined for his political caricatures. This impression, one of seven known proofs, is also tent by Mr. Allen. Finally, an interesting comparison of Daumier and Gavarni is afforded by the juxtaposition of similar compositions. In this...
Your [March 19] story of M. Chiappe's garbled telephone conversation and the à la rue-dans la rue misunderstanding, which resulted in French troops opening fire upon Paris civilians, brings to my mind a curiously parallel story which was widely circulated after the coup d'état of Napoleon III. According to some historians the massacre of the boulevards resulted from a mistaken command. The official responsible for the fatal order (perhaps Napoleon himself-I forget the exact details) is said to have been suffering from a severe cold, and to have exclaimed "Ma sacré toux...
Only three things bring a Haitian President to the U. S.: 1) to borrow money; 2) to get the U. S. marines out of Haiti; 3) to have U. S. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs, Sidney De La Rue, withdrawn. Haiti is in no immediate need of a loan and her public debt has been reduced $9,684,536 in eight years. The last U. S. marine will be withdrawn from Haiti by Nov. 1 and the policing of the Caribbean republic by the U. S. trained Garde d'Haiti will have commenced 30 days before. That...
...Bonwhuizsen, president of the MacNeil Instrument Co. : "Mr. Switz was our representative in Europe, but he never made any sales." In Europe the Switzes traveled extensively and lived very quietly, registering at such eminently respectable institutions as the University Union in Paris. They had a small apartment in the Rue de la Chaussee 'd'Antin near the Opera. Into that apartment French detectives broke last December to find, so they said, a pile of strange documents hidden behind a bureau, 19,000 francs in cash, and a chronometer and two magnifying glasses bound together.* Crying loudly that they...