f:ro Exhibitions of Work by Con-

temporary Artists.Paris. December 19.

\u0084,,. of winter exhibitions* has just been

here with one organized by the Interna-

Painters and Bc«IptOt« in the C.eorges-

f'°n^ alleT This la the twenty-fifth annual

*'Jr ot lh« B«4ety. of which M. Pierre Car-

SSSleoie is president. The ISO pieces °nu"

rateil in the catalogue are contributed by

****_ono artists, among whom there are threefOrt>H

men=. Hcnr> S. Hubbell. J. M. Avy andrfVC

°i'vvw Mr Hubbeß is an American.

r>*r<!estcrity and his originality as a coloristSSS

already given him a certain rank. His

iS£iaan Wearing an Orange Cloak" and his

1J picture of a girl in a black and white11*rpy needle in hand, hastily stitching the•"*

seam of a corsage, arc effective works

2* arc rneoting with cordial appreciation.

iflßKVaMai Wm is alsr. a good colorist. who

!rers charming symphonies: in tones of blue,\u25a0

and ycl'ow in his flower studies and otherM. La|1lI\u25a0 painter of the immense

tuT of "Tl'-e Pedestal." which made such a"^^.t™ rxhifcits some pleasing studies of

-Tledo to show that he has more than one"j~" t0 his bow. M. Zo is at his best In a

J rof iQjaiaous sketches of Fontarabla.f^jthe American exhibitors is Mr. Alex-"*apr Harrison, and it is to be noted that he has.

tMßOOran'-y at least, abandoned the ocean as

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WILLIAM MACBETH450 Fifth Avenua New York

Invite* inspection of his collection of highclass paintings of early English, French andDutch masters.

A WORTHY DESIRE.An ambitious young Chlcagoan recently called

npoo a publisher < f novels In that city, tohe imparted confidentially the information that he!,iidecided to "write a book." ana that he h ildbe pleased to aftura the publisher the chance tobring it out.

"May 1 venture to inquire as to the nature "Ithe book you propose to write?" asked the pu'o-lisi-'-r. very politely.

"Oh." came In an jffhand way from the aspirantf.>r fame "! thiMk ot doing something vn the lin«of "Lea MiseraJWes.' ouly livelier, you know!"—Ltppisoott'Sk

nties, has not yet passed the Senate Underthis law all antiquities found in i xcavattons be-long absolutely to tii<- stat«-, and land own. rahave no property or Interest in them whati v r.

Under the former nn-1 still existing law lan Iowners are entitled to a considerable share -nthe value of antiquities found. Unfortunately,the publicity given to Herculaaeum by the pro-

po al of Dr. Waldstein has raised most extrava-gant hopes among th>- owners of houses atReslna, who r>-f\ise now either to s< H th> ir lan \or to permit excavations, except under fiuit»preposterous conditions. T'ntil the stew law ispassed, therefore, nothing can be done, unl«:=. aaPr if.ssor de Petra suggests, a special law iJmade for Herculaneum, as has been done in thoca.se of the Zona Monumentale in Rome.

A pleasing note of open-air life is supplied

inthe Brittany scones ._• ;,i Raoul <Iv Gardier,

in the pictures of sheep \u25a0 .ad- last summer inAsirergne by M. Chialiva, and in the Egyptian

studies of M. Charles Hoarbauer. who paints

with equal skill the Nile by twilight or themarket place at Cairo flooded with sunshine.Fsv» Bculptors appear in this exhibition. M.

Caooaicu. shows a marvellous head of a child,

1L Landowski presents some pretty fauns in

t'rra cot: 2.. M. I><mFtamm is represented by

Eereral admirably modelled busts, and from

that acc-j.-i^Jiiiied craftsman M. Theodore

lus tfceme and returned to the painting of those

uafle dryads of forest and grove made familiarfa his canvases some years ago. Mr. FrederickFrieseke is represented by four charming open-

air pictures, painted at Giverny. The finest of

these is the portrait of a tall, graceful young

•woman Blinding beside a rippling stream

acidst autuir.r.al foliage, the green foreground

!*ins strewn with fallen leaves. ByMr.Robert

JlacCiEicron there is a painting containing the

vigorously modelled figures of ar. aged pair

drinking cider at a rustic table, while beside

then is their daintily attired daughter, come

lack to pass a day with her parents in their

satire villago. The young girl wears an ex-presses of profound disappointment and sor-row. Obviously, she lias discovered that her

Parisian experience has irrevocably separated.... life and tastes of her family. Mr.

Richard Miller sends a serifs of highly colored,

brilliantly brushed studies of Montmartre fes-tivities, and Mr. Lionel WaJden a marine.

•Saaaner Night.- In which a fun moon throws\u25a0aft. dfs-p blue light pan a calm roadstf-ad.The portrait of Pastor "Wagner, by M. Bouchor,

is finely conceived and boldly handled. M.

Artoiae Calbet, the clever illustrator of theprose j>oetry of M- Pierre Louys. has forsaken

his golden haired fairies for the genial features

of M. Fallleres. and has produced an excellentportrait of the President of the republic. There

£re some mundane portraits by M. AlbertLynch, which fill a iDel in fascinating and

cavity fashion, and Henri Rondel shows acorsckniious and interesting piece of work in

the portrait he has made, in grisaille, of M.

llaurice Barres. the Nationalist Deputy andcscmber of the Academy.

U7<y Excavation Is still Delayed.

Roman correspondence of The London Times.

The statement made by Professor de Petralast Saturday at Naples before the commissionfor the excavation oJ Herculanenm, over whichbe pr- sides, may give rise to some uiisunder-standing owing to the Incomplete report firstpublished. 1 have to-day made inquiries at theino-t authoritative source and learn that thepresent position is this: The Italian govern-

ment is perfectly willingto carry out the >\< a-

vations and has set aside, as 1 announced sometwo years ago, tu.-li'n tor the preliminary searchadvised bj archaeological authorities. Thenew law, however. Introduced by Si&nor Ravaf,,r determining the compensation to land own-era, though it has passed the Chamber of Dep-

HERCVLANEVM.

which sixty are in colors. Colin brings out

"Au Temps dcs Pharaohs," by M. A. Moret,

Assistant Director of Egyptology at the Ecole

dcs Ilautes Etudes, an assistant curator of the

Guimet Museum. This is a popular work, in

which the everyday life and pocial conditions ofthe ancient Egyptians are s_H forth in a clear,comprehensible way. C I.B.

tious narrative of a flying- trip to the Antilles,

Panama. Cuba, Jamaica, Costa Rica and M<"x-Ico, made by ML Maurice de Waleffe and bis :

wife. In it the Question is constantly asked. ',

"Will the United Stat.-s devour the whole of jSpunish America?" The author's conclusionsare that nothing can prevent the "Yankee

Boodtide" a.s Boon as it has swept over the j"Mexican dikes" from •'drowning Venezuela, jColombia, Equador and IVic." and it will not Istop in its victorious course until it encounters j

the barriers of the thr«- solid states of South iAmerica, Brazil, Argentina and Chili. M. de !WaUffe, moreover, predicts that in twenty

yars the United States will be more powerful

than al! the nations of Europe combined, anathat "Rome will be In the new world and Paris

will beeom- an Athens, fading away in themelancholy shades of the past: 1 This original

• Bdable book of travels. Issued by Fas-

is fujl of highly colored descriptions of

the men and women living in this "CentralAmerican Paradise," none of whom, however,

bear any striking similarity -to angels. Thechapters re-latins to Panama give an honest, im-

l^artial view of what Americans have accom-

plished in the work on the canal.

From Emile Paul comes •'Marie-Louise et la

Com* d'Autriche entre l<-s d> ax abdications(1814-1815)." by Baron de Mtneval. whose

grandfather was one of Napoleon's private sec-

retaries. YV.is Marie-Louise a frivolous, irre-sponsible little coquette, without political or

moral perceptions, as she has been lately i^aintedby French and Austrian writers? M de Mene-

val. by the searching light of fresh letters andfamily documents, finds that Marie-Louise hason the whole been maligned, and that after al!

she was a charming woman, handicapped by-

faults of her early education and a victim of

the bad taflnence of the bigoted Duchess ofParma, of Austrian court Intrigue, and of Neip-

perg, who is described as "an Instrument of

Prince M<ttrrrich." An amusfmc little illus-

trated book Is Issued by Mericant, compiled by

M. Gostscve Kahn. entitled "La Femme dans la

Caricature,*' oootatoing Bketcbea in black and

white and fa colors, by Abel Paivre. Leandre.WiHette, Steinlen, Gavarni, Hops, Daumler and

Huort. The book comprises 400 illustratiuus. of

NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1908.

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Riviere there come a few graceful polychromefigurines and a rollicking Bacchus in bronze.

Another portion of the Georges-Petit galleryis given over to the second annual exhibitionof "La Comedie Humainc," a society of paintersfounded by M. Ante Alexandrc, and includingthe foremost humorists and "human" artists ofthe day. Hero one finds captivating sketchesby Abel F.iivre, Joan Veber, Albert Guillaume.Wniette, Jacques Wely, Capiollo, Jeanniot, Sem.Isaac Israels. Andre Devambez and M. EdouardDetail!., whose piquant little pochades of stu-dents' balls and masquerades are keenly rel-ished. The groups sculptured In wax by M.Jacques Loysel, representing the various phasesof a boxing match, are proof not only of clever-ness, but of serious talent One of the mostamusing of the contributions is a group of doll3in ultra-Parisian "sheath gowns," by Mile.Leone Georges. The catalogue of this ex-hilarating and Rabelaisian exhibition com-prises upward of three hundred numbers. Itoffers an incomparable object lesson of thepopular manners and amusements, and thepicturesque traits generally, of contemporaryParis. c I.B.

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