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Academy gold medal of honor, the Temple fund and medal established by Joseph E. Temple, the Walter Lippincott prize of $300, the Mary Smith prize of $100, the Jennie Sesman gold medal and the Carol H. Beck gold medal.

The Academy's jury of selection met yesterday at 71 Newbury street, and out of one hundred and fifty-three pictures submitted selected forty-two for exhibition at Philadelphia. The jury is composed of the following: W. Elmer Schofield, Thomas P. Anshutz, Joseph T. Pearson, Jr., Carroll S. Tyson, Jr., Robert Henri and Irving R. Wiles of Philadelphia; Frederic P Vinton and Frank W. Benson of Boston, and Emil Carlsen, Charles H. Davis and Charles W. Hawthorne of New York. All came to Boston except Messrs. Wiles, Henri and Davis.

After the meeting here the jury left. on the five o'clock train for New York, where they sat. The six cities in which collections are judged are Paris, New York, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis and Philadelphia. Chairman Schofield has just returned from Paris, where he acted as chairman of the Paris jury.

The Boston artists whose pictures were favorably passed upon and will be shown in Philadelphia are the following: E. A. Tarbell, Joseph DeCamp, Philip L. Hale, Philip Little, William M. Paxton, Elizabeth Paxton, Dwight Blaney, H. D. Murphy, Charles H. Woodbury, W. W. Churchill, Charles Hopkinson, Samuel B. Baker, F. A. Bosley, W. B. Burpee, Rosamond Coolidge, Joseph B. Davol, Margaret Fuller, Arthur C. Goodwin, Wilbur Dean Hamilton, Mary B. Hazelton, W. J.

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DETAIL FROM MALDEN SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT, TO BE UNVEILED ON MEMORIAL DAY

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Kaula, George H. Leonard, George L. Noyes, Marie Dunforth Page, Margaret Richardson, Rosamond Smith, Albert Felix Schmitt, Leslie P. Thompson, M. B. Titcomb and Elizabeth Taylor Wat son.-Boston Herald.

A visit to Mr. Bela Pratt's studio is always an inspiration. No busier workshop is to be found in Boston than the rooms in St. Botolph Studios, where Mr. Pratt and his assistants are occupied with a number of important commissions.

The clay model for the memorial to the Spanish war veterans of Harvard University is nearly completed. This is a large tablet, the feature of which is an eagle with wings extended. The emblematic bird is done with great spirit, and in a style of realism brought to decorative requirements in which Mr. Pratt excels, and with which he has most successfully and happily, in a number of instances, replaced the conventional heraldic or pseudo-heraldic forms. This piece is to be placed in the Harvard Union."

A medallion for Columbia University is also under way. There are two very interesting portrait busts ready for casting, and, in a more tentative stage, a clay sketch for the Daughters of Veterans' memorial to the nurses of the army and navy of the civil war. This represents a sweet-faced virgin holding the ministering cup to a wounded soldier, whose head she supports. The extreme youthfulness of both figures lends added pathos to this most ap-. pealing group.

Nearby is a sketch of the proposed Hawthorne memorial for Salem. In this conception Mr. Pratt has embodied elements of association and interpretation-such associations, for example, as cling to the old Georgian doorways of Salem, a motif form which is used as the canopy for the bronze figure of a Puritan maiden brooding, conscience-guided, but imaginatively awake to other things than are within the stern limitations of her bringing up. The background adds still more to the interpretative quality of the figure, for she stands barred by a rugged vall from a world of mystery, romance and shadowy evanishments of delight.

A New York lover of art is to be the fortunate possessor of a jolly little bronze child and dolphin modelled in a most sportive mood, and full of loveliness and charming abandon.

A Philadelphian, whose purse and taste are also on speaking terms, obtains a bronze replica of the female figure in Mr. Pratt's unique group, "The River," which is being exhibited and attracting marked attention in our leading art centres. It is a most imaginative piece. The female figure conveys a most rhythmical impression of the roll and slide of the downward current, while the male figure is instinct with the urge and push of upstream effort.

Of larger immediate interest to the public, perhaps, is the fact of the near completion of the Malden Soldiers' and Sailors' monument. This is a very heavy piece of monumental work. An illustration from the plaster mould was

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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

Scientists Meet in Boston

The meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and its affiliated societies in Boston during the holiday week was probably the most important gathering of scientists that has been held in the United States. Among the 2000 and more in attendance was to be found almost every prominent man of science in the country. The program, bewildering in its range, included papers and discussions of enduring interest to science, as well as of deep significance for the country at large.

This was the first visit of the association to Boston since that of its fiftieth anniversary in 1898.

The joint meeting of the association with national scientific societies, about twenty-five in number and covering every phase of scientific activity, constituting convocation week, was first carried out at Washington in 1902. Under this plan special papers are left to special societies, while subjects of more general interest are taken up by the association. Convocation week appeals, therefore, not only to the specialists, but to all laymen who are interested in the progress of science.

There is great need to-day of emphasizing the deeper meanings of scientific investigation. Something might be accomplished in this direction could the public press report the spirit as well as the programs of the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The eminent physicist, Albert A.

Michelson of the University of Chicago, was elected to succeed David Starr Jordan as president of the association for the ensuing year. The next annual meeting is to be held in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

THE BOSTON STEEL CASES

The collapse of the Suffolk County cases against certain steel construction companies, for illegal combination and conspiracy to make prices in certain dealings with the city of Boston, has excited such varied comment as to suggest that the acquittal has not been accepted by a very large element of the public as a true judgment of the merits of the case. This is always an unfortunate situation, and one that is very apt to work injustice.

We believe that the acquittal was legally correct, and the inference which the newspapers have allowed the public to draw-that the acquittal was the result of venal court practice or overadroit legal manipulation, is uncalled for and unjust.

The so-called "Boston Agreement" was, to our minds, contrary to the public interest, and of a type of business methods that, however unfortunately prevalent, needs to be sharply checked.

When personal injustice arises because human government does not seem to be wise enough to avoid it, we are apt to be quite content to let it remain.

The Suffolk County cases failed because there was no evidence of criminal conduct. The correct inference which the public and the press should draw is that no criminality existed.

Let business interests take warning from the fact of the indictment that the

in Symphony Hall. This was her first appearance with the orchestra in this city, her previous appearance having been with Dr. Ludwig Wullner. She was heard in the first part of the program in the Beethoven aria, "Ah! Perfido," which her large voice and artistic conception made most satisfactory. She was heard later in a group of three songs, including a most attractive one by Mr. Fiedler, entitled "The Tambourine Player," which was very effective. The orchestra played the Sibelius Symphony, No. 2, in D major. This is a thoroughly interesting and original composition. Sibelius is a Finn, and the spirit of half years of darkness and of faint clutches at political freedom, now futile, now intensely despairing and always in a halflight, was upon us. There is a note of rebellion, but it is never wild and yet never submissive. Rather, it is a reaching out for sympathy, which at times is colored with a dull-gray melancholy. As to the methods of Sibelius, technically, they are fluent and consequential, and even interesting and convincing. The caprice on Spanish themes, by Rimsky-Korsakow, was very interesting, and formed the last. number of a thoroughly attractive program.

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uation to be a stronger factor than, as yet, we feel that the heroine herself is. We know the deed before we really have any reason to feel the slightest sympathy with it. Our instinct in regard to artistic drama processes makes of us obedient, made-to-order sympathizers, and the awaiters of the explosion of an emotional bomb which will indorse the sympathy which we have loaned to Helena Richie without security in the first two acts. However, the assets of the third act are sufficient to cancel the debt.

If you have previously read the book, you may not subscribe to the above, for in that case Helena Richie is, in your mind, a thoroughly lovable creature, whose intent is sincere, though misfounded, at the time the curtain. rises. However, the incidents are consequentially worked out, and the cast presenting the play is of unusually uniform excellency. The scene between Dr. Lavendar and Helena Richie is the climax of intensity, and the untying of the knot we have known must be undone. In this scene we see Margaret Anglin at her best-emotional, but not excessively so; natural and true to the demands of the situation. On the whole, the play and its presentation is thoroughly consistent throughout, commendably so, and there is no aftertaste of unpleasantness. The situation. is one occurrent in all times—past and future-but perhaps the passing of ascetic and cruelly conventional decree has already been achieved.

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