House and Garden 
line, and to have pieces of the fir¬ 
mament coming together at an angle 
in the corner of the stage. It was 
strange that tradition stuck to the stage 
more than to any other form of art. 
Still, he would not destroy tradition in 
that direction. The present system for 
footlights was bad in every way, and 
very inartistic. There was a strange 
commotion when candles had to give 
way to lamps, for the actors,who were not 
always such swells as they are to-day, 
regarded the stumps of the candles as 
their perquisites. The proscenium in 
all theatres was much too high, and, for 
many scenes, far too wide. He proposed 
a contracting proscenium, which would 
adapt itself to the particular scene which 
was being portrayed. He claimed for 
scenic art a position not inferior to any 
form of pictorial art, and in this con¬ 
nection condemned the inconsistency of 
flashing a “moonbeam” upon an actor 
at all points of the stage. He had known 
a case in which two actors of equal 
prominence were on the stage at the 
same time, and each had a “ moon¬ 
beam .”—London Standard. 
DID PIUS IX. SELL THE PICTURES ? 
/CONSIDERABLE stir has been 
made in the Italian newspapers 
by telegrams from Germany saying that 
in the catalogue of a sale of pictures at 
the Castle of Tharandt, near Dresden, 
are “a great number of valuable pictures 
taken from the Vatican collections which 
Pius IX. sold to Count von Suminski 
when the Italian troops were on the point 
of entering Rome.” It seems that the 
picture-gallery of the Castle of Tharandt 
contains about four hundred works, 
among which are pictures by Bartolom¬ 
meo, Raphael, Correggio, Guido Reni, 
Salvator Rosa, Titian, Sebastiano del 
Piombo, and Leonardo da Vinci. It 
would be interesting to know if Pius 
IX. really sold these pictures, which did 
not belong to him, but were then the 
property of the Holy See, and would to¬ 
day be Italian national property.— 
London Post. 
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