The Detroit Museum of Art never having had a fund for the purchase of pictures, has relied solely upon gifts and loans of the people; consequently the collection of modern pictures has not grown very rapidly, and is not represented by examples of all the important men that we wish it to be. With a purchasing fund which is now being secured we will be able to buy worthy pictures by worthy artists and will thus add to our limited number considerably in a few years, from this source alone.

In the L. T. Ives room are collected the better pictures acquired through gifts and purchase by popular subscription.

"The Vespers," by Gari Melchers, in this room, depicting an old man seated with clasped hands and a devout look, listening to the reading of the scriptures by his daughter, is one of the most noteworthy examples of this artist's work. It was awarded the Potter Palmer Prize at the Chicago Exposition in 1892, and was purchased for the Museum by the Wittanagamote Club.

Samuel Richards' "Evangeline," in this

room attracts much attention because of the artist's excellent treatment of a worldwide romance. For the emotional moment-the crisis, one might say, he has chosen the death chamber of Gabriel in a hospital, where after years of search and despair Evangeline finds her long lost lover as he is dying. These lines of Longfellow's poem embody the conception:

"Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her motionless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and forgotten the flowers dropped from her fingers,

And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning.

Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish

That the dying heard it and started up from their pillows." Samuel Richards was born in Indiana in 1853. He studied in Munich. This painting was given by Mr. Bela Hubbard in 1892.

"Reading of the Story of Oenone" is one of the first pictures owned by the museum. It was purchased with part of the profits of the Art Loan in 1883 and was painted by one of our best known American artists, Francis Davis Millet. It shows four maidens in Greek costumes and in various attitudes of ease, one reading, the others listening. The picture is remarkable for its classical dignity and for its simplicity.

Childe Hassam is represented by several temporary loans of pictures done in the impressionistic style.

"The Young Artist," by Ellen Baker, is full of that childish innocence and delight which pleases and makes the whole world kin. It was purchased and presented by sixty-six subscribers.

The ever popular painter of street boys, J. G. Brown, has one of his pleasing subjects, "Jack in the Box," in this room.

F. K. M. Rehn, the marine painter, is well represented in his remarkably fine example, "The Missing Vessel," which was purchased with the profits of the exhibition of 1886. Henriette Ronner's "Kittens" are pleasing to children and

grown people alike. This picture was purchased from the artist in 1903.

Charles P. Gruppe, painter of Holland landscapes, has some very fine examples of his work here, both in oil and water-color.

In the same room will be found "The Lily Pond," by Charles Harry Eaton. This picture attracts special attention because Mr. Eaton was at one time a Detroit man, and the scene which it represents was painted not far from Detroit. This was purchased by popular subscription.

"The Girl in Pink," by Joseph W. Gies, is a large pastel

the great German portrait painter, are represented by examples lent from Mr. E. C. Walker's collection.

In the main gallery are others, among them F. Le Quesne's historic picture showing Louis XIV. delivering to Chevalier Cadillac the ordinance and grant for founding the City of Detroit. This was presented to the city by his excellency M. Jules Cambon, ambassador of France to the United States, in the name of the French republic, November, 1902.

H. H. Gallison has two landscapes, one of them now in the Art Building at the World's Fair.

R. Hinton Perry is represented by "The Dead Sigurd."
L. P. Dessar's "Scene in Normandy," showing the rural

of exquisite coloring that no visitor passes hastily. This was purchased and presented by the Artists' Association.

The visitor is always attracted to the dreamy water color, "Memories of Japan," by Hiroshi Yoshida, the Japanese artist. This picture was also purchased by popular subscription at the time of the Japanese exhibition.

"Twilight," by G. Glen Newell, well represents this New York artist.

O. D. Grover's "Venetian Street Scene" will appeal to all who have seen the water city as being full of the color of Venice.

Detroit's veteran artist is exhibited in "The Gipsy Camp" and "Setting the Range Lights," given by Mr. W. C. Weber. "The Indian Telegraph," by James M. Stanley, was also purchased by popular subscription.

H. Hermann, the painter of Holland life, Ad. Shreyer, who painted the arab and his horses so effectively, and F. Lenbach,

life of that country and the peasantry, is full of sentiment and truth.

R. Way Smith in an "Autumn Scene" presents a very fine atmospheric effect.

Myron Barlow, in "The Fisherman's Daughter," gives a picture of the sea followers which pleases, and Percy Ives, treating the same subject, has a picture which receives much attention.

Miss L. Crapo Smith's "Needlewoman" is a Salon picture and is much admired by all visitors.

A large pastel entitled "Italia," by Mario Borgoni, of Naples, and which was exhibited at the Exposition of the Institute Della Bella Arti, held in that city during March, April and May of this year, is now on exhibition in the East Gallery. It was loaned by Mr. Frederick Stearns. The picture represents a charming young girl gracefully posed, under peculiar lighting that is very attractive.

Museum Notes.

The Museum will be closed Thanksgiving day.

The sale of handbooks, souvenir postal cards and catalogues amounted to $17.75 during the last three months.

The attendance for the last quarter was as follows: July, one week, 2,319; August, 7,529; September, 7,404, making a total of 17,252 visitors.

A copy or copies of the BULLETIN may be had by applying at the Library, and they will be sent regularly as published to any address sent to the Editor.

Application to copy or photograph any object in the Museum must be made and filed in the Director's office. Easels and space to keep materials will be provided for students.

The Museum Library is extensive and is accessible to students wishing assistance in any art line. No books are lent from the Museum, but reading may be done in the building.

In the new building will be an elegant library room, where visitors may study and make notes undisturbed.

The Annual Reports for the years 1902, 1903 and 1904 and the municipal and legislative acts relating to the museum since its establishment will be sent to those requesting a copy.

The twelfth annual series of Sunday talks will begin on Sunday, October 16, at 3 p. m. The subjects will be of a general character and not in any sequence until the new auditorium is ready, after which time a regular line will be instituted.

The annual series of exhibitions of paintings have not as yet all been scheduled and arranged, but the outlook for a showing of creditable men is very promising. The endowment together with the picture fund which is now being raised will be an incentive for good men to exhibit their pictures here, and with this in view the management will endeavor to bring better exhibitions than ever before. C. Myles Collier and Parker Mann will probably be among those who offer individual exhibitions this year. Both are New York men, of national standing. Mr. Hugh R. Breckinridge, of the Darby School of Painting, will also be an exhibitor, but we are unable at this time to assign dates. The exhibitions will be led off by the Arts Crafts Exhibit, which opens December 6. Among the contributions to the Museum collections during the quarter just ended the following are worthy of note: Miss Estelle De Clair lent nine miniature volumes of Shakespeare, published in 1825. Miss Parsons lent a pair of old silver shoe buckles. Mrs. Walter H. Coots bequeathed a painting, "Judas Betraying Christ," in the name of her beloved husband. Adolph Ereaux lent a small steatite Chinese carving. Mr. G. F. Mehling placed at the disposal of the Museum six Florentine (imitation) marble pedestals. Mrs. Kate Cleveland lent a hand-embroidered tapestry representing the signing of Magna Charta by King John and his barons. Mr. Cheri Mandelbaum gave a piece of molave, a petrified wood used as foundations for buildings in the Philippine Islands. Mr. E. Rosenfield gave a small Hebrew prayer-book. Mr. Stearns added several pieces of silver, buckles, brooches, earrings and other jewelry from Mexico and from Norway and Sweden. Arthur Steele lent a curious whip made of a piece of lace wood.

An exhibition of original designs for decoration and examples of Art Crafts, as shown in metal work, basketry, pottery and ceramics, embroidery and beadwork, wood carving, artistic jewelry, burnt wood, weaving, laces, printing, illuminating and bookbinding, artistic furniture, ornamental plaster work, and in fact any object not the result of mechanical process, will open December 6 for a period of two weeks. Entry blanks and circulars giving full particulars of works eligible and the terms of entry may be had by writing for them. The members of the committee are: Miss Clara E. Dyar, chairman; Mrs. Charles B. Lothrop, Mrs. Walter Russell, Mrs. Gourlay Armstrong, Mrs. Frank C. Baldwin, Miss Mary Chase Perry, Miss Amelia Van Buren, Miss Katherine McEwen, Mr. George G. Booth, Mr. William Aikman, Jr., Mr. Albert Kahn, Mr. A. H. Griffith.

The new addition to the present Museum building when completed will not only provide a splendid auditorium, but will add nearly 14,000 square feet of floor space to the present museum departments and picture galleries.

Another painting that will be found in the same room, is of a much more oriental character, "The Flower Girl of the Alhambra," is a graceful figure of a young girl draped in luxuriant fabrics of rich colors that go well with the roses that seem to be falling from the overladen basket she holds above her head. The artist, A. Romes, of New York, will perhaps be remembered by the "Bathers," another oriental picture which he exhibited at the museum three years ago.

New Pictures in the Galleries

The contributions to the Detroit Museum of Art the past three months have been greater in number than during the rest of the entire year, and as to their importance, we are pleased to note the artistic significance in the material offered.

To the Fine Arts Department has been added two very important loans which are worthy of special mention. Mr. E. C. Walker added to his very beautiful examples of Schreyer, Hermanns, and Lenbach, an exquisite example of T. Blinks hunting scenes, and one entitled "The Wine Cellar" by V. Chevilliard. Both these pictures are as representative pieces of the artists' work as could be found in this country. They are hung with his other pictures in the McMillan Gallery.

In the Mary W. Roby room, just next to the McMillan Gallery, is a collection of some of the prize pictures from the World's Fair at St. Louis, secured and loaned by Mr. Ambrose Petry, of Detroit.

The art display at the St. Louis Exposition was in many ways the most remarkable one ever held in this country. In the Cosmopolitan for September, 1904, John Brisben Walker in his criticism of the Fair wrote of the art display in a spirit of censure, as he did of every other department there represented. Grant that Mr. Brisben Walker is a very versatile and broad-minded man and capable of grasping all the arts and sciences and passing upon them his approval or disapproval, his criticism is unfair for the reason that he did not consider details but condemned all without considering its parts. A thing is good to the extent that, it fulfills the purpose for which it is created. In considering the Fine Arts of the St. Louis Exposition, we know its purpose was to make a representative display of the movements of modern art, and in criticising it each movement must be considered separately to find out in what degree it fulfilled its purpose. Doing this with the movements of some of the foreign schools, e. g., the French and German, we do not find them as representative (Continued on Page 3.)

The exhibitions to be shown between January 1st and April 1st are as follows:

Until March 10th. Paintings by ten American artistsabout seventy-five pictures in all-will be shown in the Main Gallery. The men represented are: John W. Alexander, Colin Campbell Cooper, Frank V. Du Mond, J. Frank Currier, Charles H. Davis, George Inness, Jr., Edward J. Redfield, Charles H. Woodbury, Robert Henri, and Walter Shirlaw. These men are all well known as representative American artists, and all have taken medals or prizes and won other distinctions.

Jan. 12th to Feb. 1st. Mr. Hugh H. Breckinridge will have on exhibition in the Main Gallery, immediately following the Ten American Artists' exhibition, about fifty American landscapes. Mr. Breckinridge is one of the instructors and proprietors of the well-known Darby School of Painting. He is conceded by many contemporaries to be America's greatest colorist. Be that as it may his color sense has brought him many prizes and medals at American exhibitions.

Contributions

The following contributions to the Museum collections have been made during the last three months:

Japanese Department-W. D. Stearns gave a bronze ornament and sixteen Japanese school books.

Coin Collection: M. Benj. F. Guiney gave a silver coin, 1 lira of the Papal States, of Pope Pius IX, 1867.

Old Book Collection: Stanley B. Smith lent an old English law book. Miss Tillie Novak gave a Bohemian Bible printed in 1857.

Ethnological Department: Cheri Mandelbaum gave a pair of Filipino shoes. B. W. Randall lent a case of Indian stone implements and weapons, etc. (Select specimens). Mr. R. D. Ross lent three Indian fire bags made of heavy bead work, and an Indian buck's garter.

Historical Department: Mr. W. H. Henderson lent a wrought iron hinge and two wrought iron nails from the Cadillac House. Miss R. Novak gave a large pewter porrige bowl and plate. Mr. A. M. Campau lent many original documents relating to transactions which involved Old Detroit (Continued on Page 4.)