The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 14, 1901, Page 18

18 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1901. e e e RN A g - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL : - COURTNEY'S IDEA OF TRAGEDY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager Poor AcOUSTIC PROPERTIES ‘ A5 EXPRESSED IN THE SUNDAY wooerrommmoemnes A APEEL A s DuUE TO THE DRAPERIES ANCIENT AND MODERN DR‘AMA 4 Publication Office........ceveereecccentesincanncnnines @Markot and Third, S. F. OF MARY SEARI-ES GALLERY B8Y - L.:DU -PONT SYLE. " THE CHINESE INDEMNITY. BY BLANCHE PARTINGTON ! o= — — Tr L. COURTNEY has collected some lectures recently deliv- ered by him at the Royal In- stitution and has pub- ® lished them (Brentano) under the title of “The Ideal of Tragedy in An- clent and Modern Drama.” The first lec- ture deals with tragedy among the Greeks; the second with tragedy in Shakespeare; the third (and most valu- able) with tragedy in such modern writ- ers as Ibsen and Pinero. The author’s treatment of the first topic contains nothing unfamiliar to those who have even a moderate acquaintance with the literature of the subject. His sum- mary of the elements that enter into the tragic idea is, however, neatly turned and | may serve to correct some popular errors on the subject: “(Tragedy) is born of popular pessimism and melancholy. In the next place, it finds artistic voice when the people become conscious of them- selves and of an exalted, natural task. In the third place, if we analyze it, trag- edy is alwaye the clash of two powers— necessity without and freedom within; outside, = great, rigid, arbitrary law of fate; inside, the undefeated individual will, which can win its spiritual triumph even when all its material surroundings and environment have crumbled into hope- Jess ruin” * * * In interpreting the | famous Aristotlian Katharsis, Mr. | Courtney shows & common sense in re- | freshing contrast to the arid pedantry of many who have tried to read into Aris- totle the results of their own cut-and- | dried theorles of esthetics. The “pur- gation of such passions” (as pity and ter- ; yor) surely means, as Dr. Johnson, with wholesome directness, pointed out, that | these passions were, considered by Aristotle to be sources of weakness and | impurity in the body efhical, which must | be expelled 1f that body is to remain healthy. That this view of tragedy is nar- row and incomplete proves mnothing sguinst the explanation; it proves only that Aristotle made as bad a blunder in | this esthetic diagnosis as he did in that snatomical diagnosis wherein he declared that women have less teeth than men and that every men has an empty space in the back of his head. (He should have said some men.) The Shekespearian tragedy we find sur- | charged with two distinct elements—the | Gothic spirit and the spirit of positive | realism. The first phrase almost defines | itself—or, 1f it need illustration, it may be | dismissed by saying that Shakespeare is to Sophocles as the Cologne Cathedral is | to the Parthenon. The “spirit of positive | realism”? That means that Shakespeare, | being a child of the Renaissance, rejected | the authority, the tradition of medieval- ism—*“swallowed all formulas,” as Carlyle would say—and based his plays upon the facts of life as he saw them for himself, | not @s they were seen for him by some | Jearned doctor of the thirteenth century | or by some Patristic theologian of the third, To this he was compelled—and for | this let us give thanks—by the prac- | ticality of his intelligence; & prac-| ticality that restrained his idealism from running riot as did the idealism of Shel- ley; a practicality so positive that while, with Othello, he was hurtling to ship- wreck magnificent on the rocks of jealousy, while with Lear he was troub- ling vain heaven with bootless lamenta- tions o’er benefits forgot, he was at the same time bringing suit in the Justice's | Court of the town of Stratford to recover | from one Philip Rodgers the sum of 1| pound 15 shillings and 10 pence. With this intensely practical gaze Shakespeare looked out upon the life of his day and saw some of its bravest and | brightest spirits—Marlowe, Greene, Kyd, Peele—dashing themselves to death against the stone wall of that environ- ment whose composition he understood so well. Here are all the subjects for trag- in his portraits of the English Kings, he shows you how the weak crim- inal or the strong criminal or the weak good man or the merely sentimental man fafls, and fails tragically, to adjust him- self to his surroundings, to the facts and | laws of life as they press upon him, to | destiny. But destiny lies not only in the political or social environment; destiny is also | character, and character is destiny be- | cause the greater part of it is inherited | and is therefore inevitable. Hence the tragedy of weak will (“Hamlet”), of vault- ing ambition (“Macbetn”), of overweening self-confidence (“Coriolanus”), of wild and passionate love (“Romeo and Juliet”). Yet with all its depth and range the Shakespearean tragedy lacks one concep- tion, which gives an added and a poignant interest to modern tragedy—the concep- tion that soclety, as we find it to-day, is &n organism of inconcetvably slow growth, in the evolution of which fate, force, nature, the unknown—whatever you choose to call it—pays little or no atten- tion to the salvation of the unit, but ruth- lessly sacrifices him wherever necessary to the preservation of the whole. Are God and Nature then st strife That Nature sends such evil dreams; 80 careful of the type she seems, Bo careless of the single life. Bings Tennyson—but not Shakespeare, whose tragedy, like Carlyle’s, is the trag- edy of individuals. This thought may serve as the connect- ing link between the treatment of tragedy by the Elizabethans and by modern writ- ers. Among the anclents Euripides, ac- cording to Mr. Courtney, is the nearest akin to the moderns. Like them, he lived in an age when the human intelligence, j actively applying itself to the inspection | of antique dogmas in politics, in religion, in ethics, and finding that convention and not reason supports many of these dog- ! mas, knocks away the tottering supports | with sharp blows of the rationalistic ham- mer; down-tumbling comes the super- | structure of the temple of Gigism, and the | iconoclast finds himself sitting, a little be- | wildered, gazirg through its broken | arches at dreary vistas of. pessimism. Adown the darkest of these vistas he de- scries the stooping figure of Schopen- | hauer; by his side walks Thomas Hardy reading to the master from “Jude, the | Obscure”’—a perfect specimen of an art | work produced on the theory, that de- | spairs of human virtue and declares the { Will to live to Le the great primal cause | of humanity. Such a work, as Mr. Court- | ney justly points out, depresses vitality; | it therefore sins against humanity and is, |in the only true sense of the word, thor- oughly fmmoral. Were such a pessimism universal there could be little or no art work prodused in this age. But there is—to use a paradox— a better pessimism than this; a pessimism which recoghizes, indeed, that the strug- | gle for existence, the survival of the fit- test and development by unlimited com- petition are laws harsh, cruel and repug- nant to the moral sense; which recognizes that majorities generally prove their di- vine right to govern by governing wrong, and that. this world is and always has been alike the paradise of commonplaces and the purgatory of ideals; which recog- nizes all this, yet upon the very back- ground furnished by this dark misery paints the figures of human beings strug- | gling toward better things, ‘“transfigured and ennobled by contrast.”” This is the idea of modern tragedy; the artist who puts this conflict upon the mimic stage is but condensing and idealizing the noblest | doings in the history of our race in its slow and painful efforts to better dull and cruel nature. He finds his reward in the joy and sympathy with which we con- template his work—for we do get a Eui- plus of pleasure from witnessing a trag- edy, as Hume has admirably demon- strated. Mr. Courtney closes his third lecture with some timely and sensible criticism of Ibsen, thereby filling in a distressing gap in the dramatic philosophy of our ac- complished friends, Archer and Shaw, who seem to lose their heads and become incapable of anything but indiscriminate eulogy whenever the Norwegian Skald is mentioned. Now, Ibsen’s treatment of the woman question is novel only to those persons—apparently including himself— who are not well read in the French drama; there is hardly a topic of this kind treated by him which has not been treat- ed and better treated by Dumas pere or Dumas fils or Angier. As to construction and technical knowledge of stage effects, these French writers have nothing to learn from Ibsen, while, on the contrary, he has much to learn from them. “Fran- cillon” is a better play in every way than “A Doll’s House,” “Diane de Lys” than “Hedder Gabbler” and ‘*“Le Gendre de M. Foirfer” than the “Master Builder.” His incoherence, his confusion of thought and his provincialism have already been pointed out by Nordau and are indeed patent to any one who does not, like Ib- sen himself, mistake his own awakening to the large facts of life for a first dis- covery of the facts themselves. Mr, Courtney has high hopes for the future of English tragedy, for he seems to think that his countrymen are “living at present under a wave of indignant emo- tion, which is sweeping away class dis- tinctions, destroying the false notion that wealth is a form of nobility,” etc. There is nothing in the recent actions of the English people to justify this hope to a foreign observer; moreover, the late la- mented Grant Allen, a better trained soci- olcgist than Mr. Courtney, and, I fear, a better writer, too, holds a very different opinion. In an article published in this mcenth’s Cosmopolitan (page 662) he says: “The average British middle class.is the most debased, materialized and soulless bourgeoisie in the entire world. Of art, of literature, of poetry, of thought, of| pLilosophy, of movement, it knows and cares nothing. A baronet is more to it than Herbert Spencer or George Mere- dith. * * * Of the real betterness of life they are as innocent as a Central African negro.” * * * That doesn't look as if the “wave of indignant emotion” will sweep very far up the beach of Stupidity during this century, does it? P e e Mr. Courtney, I belleve, is the editor of a preminent English review. I wonder if he would allow a contributor to point such a vulgarism as this (page 9), “In Maeter- linck’s drames YOU HAVE GOT this strain,” or such an absurd locution as “Feminine Frailty” (page 71), or such a solecism as *‘quite other characters and dramas FROM THOSE with which we are at present conversant”? Such things might be excused to a poor re- porter, writing on space and in a hurry while the make-up man waits, but to an editor! And in a deliberately printed book! Noblesse oblige! For the honor of our craft, Mr. Courtney, I pray you get some one to revise you before you print again, lest a less kind reviewer fall upon you and rend you tooth and nail, PERSONAL MENTION. B. Solon Holl of Sacramento is at the Grand. F. C. Lusk, a lawyer of Chico, is at the Palace. W. H. Malkin and wife of Vancouver are at the Grand. E. N. Cox, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the California. L. W. Blinn, a capitalist of Los Ange- les, is at the Palace. V. W. Hartley, a viticulturist of Vaca- ville, is at the Grand. ; C. A. Downs, a mining man from Sutter Creek, 1s at the Occidental. Colonel A. K. Whitten of San Jose is registered at the California. O. H. P. Noyes, a merchant of Yoko- hama, Japan, is registered at the Palace. C. M. Coglin, secretary of the State Board of Bqualization, is registered at the Lick. A. C. Gebr, N. A Sagar, F. A. Schmitt, W. A. Vawter Jr. and R. I. Randolph, Chicago capitdlists, are registered at the Occidental. They are en route to Hono- lulu, where they will inspect a number of plantations in which they are interested. ————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, A 13.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—J. C. Comstock, at St. Cloud; Dr. Delamo and wife, J. F. Deeolaja, at Plaza; H. N. Stevens, at St. Nicholas. —_———— Choice candies, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel.* —_————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Burea: (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery streel. Telephone Main 1042 * Overheard at & Boston musicale: “Who is that trying to claw the ‘Oh, he's a lobster from the —Yonkers Stats lano?” Bay.” ANSWERS TO QUERIES, START CARD-S., City. in cribbage s the card pack by the dealer. DIMES OF 18%2-J. D., Colma, Cal. A dime of 1892 does not command a premium from dealers. Dimes of that date that have never been in circulation can be pur- chased from dealers for 25 cents apiece, ALUM POWDER—Subscriber, Cit; powder asked about is probably pov:de-l;:; alum, which when placed in a wide- mouthed bottle in which had been placed a wire cross or some other shaped wire will attach itself Ay to the same in the form CORTE MADERA CREEK-J. R. BE. City. Corte Madera Creek in Marin Goun. ty is designated by the Political Code as one of the navigable streams of Califor- nia. The laws of California &s to naviga. ble streams and tid 1n the Folitical Coda, | &58 to'bs founa “Start cara” turned up on the MUST PAY—P., City. If you have de- cided to join an assoclation that im- poses the payment of a certain . amount of money before you can be In good standing you will have to pay the amount o1 you will not be able to secure the po- sition you seek, which is continge; your membership in the fi-llodafl:nt. g COW HORNS—M. Dunsmulr, Cal. The query propounded is written in a very legible hand, éxcept as to one word, and that appears to be the gist of the query. As it is not possible 1o decipher-the wo. the information asked for cannot be given. Correspondents should carefully write ouf their questions so thcre can be no misun- derstanding of what they desire to know. A RUN IN CRIBBAGE—E. G. R., City. In the game of cribbage to form a se- quence, which cannot be less than three cards, it matters not which of the cards is plaved first, provided the sequence can be produced by a transposition of the order in which they fell. A of 7, 4 8, 5, 6 entitles the player of &':Ym card to a run of five, as by a transposition of the cards he has a sequence of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. ITH the cooling of passion and better information as to the facts, the public sen- timent of the Western nations is changing on the subject of the Chinese in- demnity. It is now known positively that in the Boxer revolution the lives of 242 Europeans and Americans Were sacrificed. Tt is known, too, that the lives of more than ten times that number of innocent Chinese have been taken by the Christian troops, and that to this must be added the ap- palling and unspeakable crimes against Chinese, which throw into the shade the cruelties of all the barbatous armies that ever marched. ; : Then, too, the theft of Chincse property runs far into the millions, and the most fruitful provinces of the empire have been laid waste and their people are by thousands perishing of famine. i On top of all this to demand an enormous indemnity, *hat will enslave a.poverty smiiten people for generations to come, is to pile up an exhibition of revenge and oppression of which his- tory has heretofore, happily, been barren. _The reasonable people of the United States are in cordial sympathy with every move of our administration to infuse the Chinese settlement with the principles of humanity and justice. It does not require a merely Christian sentiment to demand a reasonable and equitable settlement with China. The ethical sense of the people sees as plainly the necessity for it. The only way to deal with China is precisely the way in which a Christian nation would expect to be dealt with under the same circumstances. In one riot in this country, that in the coal mines of Wyoming, the Chinese murdered numbered more than half of the whites killed in China by the Boxers. Those Chinese were burned to death in their cabins. It requires only the most rudimentary sense of justice to see that, if China is to pay the Christian nations three htmdred millions, she should have exacted half that sum for the murder of her people on American soil. But she did not. She did not exact anything and took just what this Government chose to offer, which was not as many hundred thousands as the Christian nations want in millions from her. Our State Department has received from China an official statement of what the allied armies have inflicted upon China that is so horrifying that it will not be made public. It is not from Chinese sources, but it more than justifies the statements of Sir Robert Hart and Dr. Dillon and of the Japanese press. 2 5 Of course the Western nations have the power to do as they please. They can substitute cruelty for kindness, inhumanity for humanity, dishonor for honor, if they choose, and make any- thing stick by pinning it with bayonets. But if they do, let them cast off the mask of Christianity and justice and stand forth as naked barbarians, with no better rule than the old law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. i Even small governments like Holland and Belgium are marching in the wake of the larger, and though their losses were hardly appreciable, are demanding enormous sums to replenish their little exchequers and enrich their individual subjects. China is on fire and the mob rushes in to get drunk on stolen wine and to carry off all that it can steal. 3 Those who are the true custodians of the Christian idea should be warned by the spec- tacle, that if the policy of military murder, outrage and lust shall extend into the solemn official settlement with China, it is the death knell of all the Western pretensions to Christianity. As the white settlement extended westward in this country the pioneers found the name of William Penn known and revered among the wild Indian tribes who had never seen a white man. Penn’s exhibition of justice and humanity in dealing with the Indians in his province had long survived him and had hecome familiar to the Indians everywhere. The Sacs, Winnebagoes, Pottawattamies, Sioux, Crows and Blackfeet, all knew of Penn. His example was the still small voice which in all ages has appealed to the heart of man, no matter under what colored skin it beat. . / Is it not plain that cruel mastery of China now, on top of the horrifying blood atonement that has been exacted of the innocent, will negative all Christian professions in the lands we still call heathen? Is it not also plain that at the same time there is danger that the enlightened conscience’ of the Christian nations will more and fore reject the professions that pretend an origin in the simple, beautiful and humane precepts of Christianity? McKENZIE’S SICKNESS, S a part of the unwritten history of the career of Alexander McKenzie at Nome it is related that after he had made himself receiver of nearly all the valuable mines in that locality and had adjusted his plans to compel the owners to compromise and surrender upon his own terms, a good, deal of consternation was created in his camp by the action of the Judges of the United States Circuit Court in granting appeals from the decisions of Judge Noyes made in furtherance of this scheme of McKenzie; that a meeting of the gang took place at which some of its members exhibited a lack of courage to fly in the face of the Circuit Court of Appeals, whereupon McKenzie, after the manner of Satan when addressing his fallen archangels, proceeded to exhort his followers to stand by their guns, telling them of his past experience with courts, conventions, Legislatures and the like, in which he had never met defeat; what influences he had commanded; how railroad trains had been delayed to further his purposes; through what means the appointments for Alaska had been procured; the political power which was behind him, and his ability, through all these means, to carry them to final success; that the band was in- spired by this harangue to continue the fight, Judge Noyes even going so far as to attempt to thwart the process of the higher court by making orders in his own court after he had lost juris- diction on account of the appeals. As soon as McKenzie was arrested his attorneys rushed to the Supreme Court of the United States for relief, only to meet defeat. Then an effort was made through the press to defame the attorneys and their clients who were engaged in bringing him to justice. Perhaps the most de- testable feature of his defense was the attempt of one of his attorneys to clear him by testifying that McKenzie acted under legal advice when he disobeyed the orders of the court. At length the hand of justice was laid upon this offender and he was relegated to the jail of Alameda County. As the last act in this drama, an effort is now being made to procure a pardon of this culprit by the President of the United States, and as a preliminary step to this move his organ in this city has put out a pathetic article upon his physical condition. The health of McKenzie has become deplorable, his friends say, from the confinement of a few wec!cs. There is no disposition on the part of this community to treat any one with unnecessary harshness, but there is something extremely suspicious about the way in which this plea of sick- ness has been put in;. it looks like the last dodge of a shyster lawyer. There is no occasion to ap- peal to public opinion. The court having this matter in charge may be depended on to act justly. It should not be forgotten that when McKenzie thought he was master of the situation at Nome he was tyrannical and merciless toward those who stood in his way. Some of the most respon- sible and worthy citizens of this State were then threatened with the loss of their property and financial ruin; it was hinted that their attorneys might be locked up in Nome where the wind would blow upon them; an attempt was made in one instance to put this threat in force. There is no room for sentiment in the case. This attempted outrage upon the courts and the due administration of the law presents no extenuating circumstances. These proceedings for contempt ought not to stop with McKenzie, but should include “Judge” Noyes and the coterie of lawyers who aided and abetted his outrageous conduct. It would seem to be highly proper for these doctors of the law to take the consequences of the same medicine which they claim to have administered to McKenzie. I'{eports from Missouri announce that a rich lumberman in that State, convicted of cutting ?nd taking lumber fro'm Government land, was fined $18 and sentenced to jail for one minute. Is it any wonder the cutting goes on and the law is laughed at? ; ; _— : A (;onnechcut Judge recently decided that if a man’s cat be chased by a dog the mah has a right to kill the dog, no matter how valuable it may be, and now the cat and dog controversy that has arisen over the decision is worse than any monkey and parrot time Connecticut ever knew. Qh, yes, there will be “a hot time in the old town” now as if a good deal of the heat will bé due to friction, - have been mostly of the charity kind, and criticism is therefore de- barred its usual privileges. Thewe was little but good, however, to report of the charity concert held at the Hopkins Institute on Tuesday evening, save of the newly discovered acoustic sins of the Mary Searles gallery. Wheth- er by reason of the absorbent draperies of the dressing-rooms on either side of the i platform, or because of the lowness of the roof of the gallery, the music had a dulled unsonorous sound, that could cer- tainly not be laid at the artists’ door. But it is a charming hall otherwise for plctured walls adding largely to the pleas- ing effect. The programme was varied and worthy, and in particular the admirable singlig of the Bruch arla from ‘“‘Achilleus,” by Mrs. Gustavus Arnold, may be com- mended. She has a voice of excellen: quality, a sympathetic method and an ad- mirable school. Mrs. J. B. Casserly's harp solos were also much enjoyed, as were Miss Ames’ solos on the 'cello. Don- ald de V. Graham was well heard and L. Van Linghem's serviceable bass was enjoyed in the Brahms and D’'Hardelot numbers. In the Lehmann song cycle, Mrs. B. G. Lathrop showed a very pure and pleasing high soprano voice, and Miss Burgin a powerful contralto. Miss Hulda Anderson at the piano, B. G. Lath- rop with his violin, B. G. Somers (viola) and Miss Ames were pleasantly heard in a Schumann quartet, and Vail Bakewell substituted for Edgar Mills. .« . = I sincerely regret to announce that th: Ffrangcon-Davies engagement at the California Theater is off. Mr. Davies will not now come to the coast during his present American tour, which means’that it will be many years before we shall have an opportunity to hear the famous Welsh- man, as he will not visit America again for a considerable period. It is a matter of financial guarantee. The singer would not consent to take the risk of the long Journey from the East to this city with- out a substantial guarantee. The fund required was in actual existence—on papecr —at the time Mr. Ffrangcon-Davies’ visit to the coast was announced as a certain- ty, but the guarantors, with a laissez- faire peculiar to the climate, neglected to make good their promises of subscription, and the fortunate moment was gone. The singer could not await the' careless pleasure of the laggard subscriber and is ‘now delighting the less indolent music- lover of the East with a genius for song that has aroused an admiration that is almost worship. It is to be hoped that like our old friend Hans, we shall “do better next time.” . . 1—Sonate Characteristique (les I’Absence, et le Retour). Adteux, 2—(a)* Allemande, ) Novelette, Opus No. 21 tu Lilegiaque, 2 Schubert T .Sgambati Concert Etude, 3—(a) Etude, Opus N (b) Fantasie, Opus 4—(a) *“Cest la Jeunesse, qui Doreca” Opus No. 2 No. 7. Her b) “Si Olseau ¥itais, a_to - B o Cpus No. 2, No. 6...... Henselt (¢) “Erlkonig” - Schubert-Lisat The foregoing very good programme will be played by Mrs. Madeleine Peck Taylor. at a recital to be given in Hearst Hall, Berkeley, next Thursday afternoon. The affair is in the hands of Mrs. Benja- min Ide Wheeler, who has invited the students and faculty of the university to attend the recital, Admission may also be obtained by cards, that may be had at the co-operative store to-morrow morn- ing from 10 to 12:30, and from 2 to 4 in the | afterncon. Mrs. Taylor is the wife of Dr. A. E. Taylor, professor of pathology at the uni- versity, and is a Barth and Moszkowskl student, and also a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Dresden. i s Having a rudimentary sense of justice, and a consclousness of handwriting of my own, it is not my usual fashion to rail at the ingenious typesetter for'sins of ex- pression occasionally committed in my name. But, as in last Sunday’s Call, when I am made to evolve a ‘“quadrangular’” encore; to outrage all precedent in drag- ging to light a “sleepless” organ-blower; and to attribute to an apocryphal “Thorne” the authorship of Thome's “Simple Aveu”’ I must plead “not guilty.” And, by the way, a very amusing typo- graphical error has gone the rounds of the papers this week, its starting point one of the programmes of the industrial and allied arts exhibition. In this the clever Italian who composed *“‘La Giocon- da” is billed as “Punchinelli!”” “Pon- chielli” having evidently appealed to the god who ordains our etymology as a cor- rupt and vicious form of the classic jest- er’s honorable name. P The current number of the Musical Courler contains some admirable photo- graphs of the “state” funeral of Verdl, at Milan, February 27. It was the desire of the great Italian maestro that his body should be buried with utmost simplicity of ceremony, according to his will: “in the early morning or at evening after sunset, accompanied only by a priest and two candle-bearerdl” The first funeral was thus carried out, but the people of Italy claimed the privilege of showing their love for the honored dead, and a month after the first ceremony the body of Verdi was conveyed with almost royal pomp to the common cemetery at the Home for Aged Musicians, given by the master himself to his poor brethren. The body of his wife, Guiseppina Strep- ADVERTISEMENTS. e CHIN IN Tc keep the chin in means to ‘kaep it well drawn back horizontally. That causes, what physical culturists call, “a lifted chest.” A lifted chest Insures deep and full breathing, and hence pure blood and perfect circulation. TRY Kkeeping your chin in and see how your chest will stand out, giving to a woman a superb qgure and to a man a military bearing. 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The photographs fllustrate this and the impressive scenes in the streets of Milan as the funeral train passed through the mourning crowds. o e Some good, if rather (though, perhaps, | wisely) heterozeneous musical programmes are being given every afternoon and evening at the Industrial and Allied Arts Exhibition at the Mechanics' Pavilion. Many prominent musicians have already such affairs, the gracious proportions and . appeared, and the fortunate ladies of the California Club have still a large reserve force to draw upon for the programmes of this week. It is very good hearing that the club has decided to afford many workers an op- portunity of seeing what artistic Call- fornia can do, by keeping open the ex- hibition to-day. P A benefit concert to Miss Christine La Barraque, the talented biind singer, will be given on Tuesday evening next at Sherman-Clay Hall, when the following good programme will be rendered: I Suite, A major, In two Allegro_ vivace. its. . Goldmark Andante. Messrs, Wismer and Maurer, L “Without Thee™ . D Hardelot “When the Heart Sun: diey Buck Miss Christine La Barraque. I yond the Gates of Paradise.R. A. Kin “The Indifferent Mariner’. ‘...Bulh.r: Daniel Sheerin Jr. 1v. “Der Freischutz Miss Christine La Barraque. V. P, 18 ‘tsmer VL (@) ®) (2) ) Scena, Adaglo, E flat, Messts. “Fleur des Al “Ave Maria” .... Miss Christine La Barras s a mer, Professor Kelleher and Miss Dunn. . Drr H. J. Stewart’s programme for the half-hour organ recital at Trinity Church this afternoon will inciud: Suite Gothique ... Introduction choral. Priere a Notre Dame. Toe Priere, in D flat.. Intermezzo, in B Collaerts Grand Choeur Dialogus . Gigout In response to a request made through these columns for organ recital pro- grammes I have recerved a varied and curious collection, but none of the organ recital proper. It is not the usual church programme that is desired— that finding place m other departments than this—but programmes In which the musical rather than tne religious interest predominates. This, of course, does not preclude the announcement of a new or- gan classic—a Widor symphony or Guil mant sonata, for example, even in con- nection with the regular church pro- gramme, but it is the affair of interest to the organ-lover in particular of whieh information is desired. Those programmes that I have received contain, on the whole, a brilliantly unin- teresting repertoire. From banal arrange- ments of ‘Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Robin Hood” to the cheap religious fer- vors of Leybach, Bachman, Durand and company, together with a sorry list of cheerful experiments roon the instrument by a host of incompetent unknowns, tho sald programmes form but sad reading. This condition of things accords entire- Iy too well with a declaration made Lhe other day by one of the most promineat organists here that *‘the best literature of the instrument remams practically a dead letter to the average organist in San Francisco.” I find no Bach on the programmes; neither Handel, Widor, Best, Salome, Franck, Gigout, Guilmant, Saint-Saens, Harwood, Stainer and all the rare list that is avallable. Mendelssohn, Mozart, Dubois and Capoccl are scattered sparsely over the programmes and altogether they are distinctly discouraging reading. _— ADVERTISEMENTS. BUFFALD! Have you got it ? Got what ? Why yourticket to the Pan- American Exposi- tion, via the Michigan Central Railroad or Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. Direct routes. Fast time. Superb train ser- vice. Everything up to date. For rates and infor- mation, call or address CARLTON C. CRANE, Pacific Coast Agent New York Central Lines, 637 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. 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