Notes and Reviews 
A DESIGN FOR A WINDOW 
By Robert Reid 
Shown at the Architectural League Exhibition 
mountain 
is apparently indifferent to 
his danger. Yet it is whis¬ 
pered that he would as lief 
view the monument from the 
sidewalk,iftherewere enough 
sidewalk around the monu¬ 
ment to permit him to do so. 
W HEN the crews of the 
Japanese battleships 
purchased from Argentina 
arrived at Tokio on Febru¬ 
ary 19, they were formally 
received by the city authori¬ 
ties and entertained by an 
elaborate garden party. A 
garden party for twentieth 
century warriors setting out 
for their country’s defense! 
A strange godspeed to our 
prosaic Western thinking. 
Yet the Japanese sensibilities 
which are kindled by such 
scenes are those that have 
given their torpedo destroy¬ 
ers such elusive names as 
M orning Mist, Dawn, 
Lightning,Thunder, Eastern 
Morning Cloud, A Swift 
Bird. Sir Edwin Arnold has 
explained the significant titles 
of the cruisers and battleships 
which memorialize the nat¬ 
ural beauties of Japan. The 
name of the superb man-of- 
war Mikasa is that of a lofty 
mountain near Nara and 
means “The Ridge of the 
Three Hats.” Asahi, a ship 
of the same class, signifies 
“ The Morning Sun,” and 
the sister battleship Fuji is 
named after the celebrated 
which figures so prominently in 
Dodge, and, among others, 
the “ Sources of Wealth ” 
by Cox, the decorations for 
St. Regis Hotel by Sewell, 
a frieze by Genevieve Cowles, 
a ceiling by Blum, lunettes 
by Blashfield, an “Apotheo¬ 
sis of Washington” by Mora, 
that touches, perhaps, on the 
academic in conception if not 
in treatment, and some 
sketches by the same author 
for pendentives for the Lou¬ 
isiana Purchase Exhibition. 
Two burnt-wood panels, one 
of brilliantly gilded and sil¬ 
vered fish by W. F. Curtis, 
which was given a prize by 
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 
and the other “ The Ador¬ 
ation of the Kings” by Fos- 
dick, seem admirably adapt¬ 
ed, by the clearness and 
depth of color, to decorative 
purposes. There is a panel, 
“Water Nymph,” bv Nicola 
d’Ascenzo, that makes the 
most of the transparent tones 
of water and aquatic foliage, 
and an “ October,” by W. 
C. Rice, Jr., recalls somewhat 
by use of reds, the Holy Grail 
decorations of Abbey. To 
carry away a favorable im¬ 
pression of the exhibition 
one cannot do better than to 
look last at the two charcoal 
studies by Blashfield, 
“ Decorations for the Balti¬ 
more Court House.” 
W HO will dare to say 
that art is unappreci¬ 
ated in America ? Never did Greek or Italian 
do homage to a work of genius but for his 
own listless pleasure. But the citizen of 
New York jeopardizes his very life to gaze 
upon a work of sculpture with which his 
city has been adorned. He views the Sher¬ 
man monument from amid a stream of hur¬ 
rying cars, automobiles and carriages, which 
threaten every moment to strike him down. 
With eyes upon the golden figure above, he 
native pictorial art. The name of Hi -2 ei, a 
first-class cruiser, is that of a beloved hill 
near Kyoto, on which stood a far-renowned 
monastery. Another armored ship is styled 
Takumo , meaning “Great Hanging Clouds, 
and Idyumo recalls to every Japanese mind 
the sacred spot where Susanoo-no-Mikoto 
alighted when expelled from heaven for 
his sins. 
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