. Review of reviews and world's work. people, sokeen to appreciate the necessity for material,spiritual, and intellectual advancement, havebeen slow to perceive the urgency for a high-class municipal government. Pittsburg espe-cially needs more small parks and playgrounds,open all the year round to the children of itsthickly settled districts. It needs public freebaths in larger numbers than at present. Itneeds the cleaning out of the tenement districtand the erection of safe and sanitary buildingsin it. It needs a pure water-supply, the lack ofwhich has caused thousands of deaths by typhoidfe
. Review of reviews and world's work. people, sokeen to appreciate the necessity for material,spiritual, and intellectual advancement, havebeen slow to perceive the urgency for a high-class municipal government. Pittsburg espe-cially needs more small parks and playgrounds,open all the year round to the children of itsthickly settled districts. It needs public freebaths in larger numbers than at present. Itneeds the cleaning out of the tenement districtand the erection of safe and sanitary buildingsin it. It needs a pure water-supply, the lack ofwhich has caused thousands of deaths by typhoidfever, and the securing of which has been crim-inally delayed by petty politicians quarrelingover contracts. These things Pittsburg does notnow possess, but the progress which its people,as we have shown, are making toward the higherlife in other directions must inevitably, sooneror later, bring about their acquisition, and whenthis happens Pittsburg will indeed be in all re-spects a great city, of which its people may bejustly nil. (.ALU IIV \,-> (Homers marine:) nre fairly iHTiueated with sea artii-ulatinn ; ami iiis brusli inarlis the patii of the elements an though hehad the perieption of a seer.) Kind jH-rmission of tlie owner. Mr. .lohn Harsen Khfwdes. A COMPARATIVK KXIIIHITION OF AMERICANAND FOREIGN PAIXilNGS. HV KRNKsr KN.\L IFr. THE Contoniiial Kxliiliition. in 1S7»). indi-cated tliat tliere were a few American art-ists, but no .\inerican art. In 1891?. Chicagoproved tliat we at last had a native school. Atthe Pan-Ain(>ricun, in 191)0, and at St. Louis, in1904, we saw tliiit the younj^er men were pre-serving our best traditions, but no distinct prog-ress was marked. These exhibitions signified what our artistsliave accomplished ; they took little reckoningof public taste. Taste that manifested itself,prior to 1850, in the puirhase of copies of oldmasters, about 18G0 was shown in acquiring thework of the Diigseldorf school. A little late
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