Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1874, Page 12

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE COMPULSORY EDUCATION. Oatholic Objections Measure. to the A Denial of the Proposition that Edu- cation Diminishes Crime. Advocacy of Legislation Compelling Paronts to Mave Their Children Taught Some Employment. A Catholic View of the Question. To the Editor of The Chirago Tribuna: 8m: In viow of tho great intorcst and diverso spiniony entortained in rogard to education, the quostion of compulsory education becomos ono of oxtromo importance, . Catholics hold that oducation, to e complato In the fullest menso of tho torm, should bo Clristion ; that 1y, that it should comprise sound Catholio tonching as well as instruotion in the primary branched of knowledge Tho truo Catho- Jic maiutains that to ednoate tho mind only, and noglect tho soul, is worse than tho roverse; in thor words, that education without Clristinuty {8 worso than Christinnity without odueation j shat the preparation for tho world to como Iy of a8 LUCI HONE INTONTANCE Yaan tho proparation for this lifo only, as the in- finito is boyond the Gulte. "o this it will bo objeoted that the religious nducation should bo o home-duty, and ia not the duty of the Stato, This objootion lns boon a8 ofton mot na it hins boon ofton made. To tho frst point in tho objection I would answer: Very truo, where praclicable. The second is un- foninble. DBut, in regord to the practicability of the flrst, it is o well-known fact thnt tho far grontor majority of Catholics in this country be- Joug Lo the pooror, and consoquently tho lenst- educatod clagses, Now, even thongh theso un- cducated people thomsolves hold and maintain tho truo faith, they may bo—most of them e QUITE INCATADLE of giving inatruction in that faith ; all the more go whoro their pupile—that i, thoir childven— aro bettor educated then they are thomselves, which will usually bo tho case. ~ Childron mist Yo inatructed Ly persous whom thoy can look up to and respeck a8 their superiors; and the su- yperlor education of tho child, relntively to that of the purent, will weaken materinlly tho offect of 1ho Intter's roligious tonching; moro especially if tho education of the child bo derived from tho public schooly, ~where the large =~ - Jority of their companions will be auti-Catholie, and . where, il experience of Youuy Americn bo any indox, fllial rovorence js mob vory urgently improssed upon ihem. o toll the large majority of Ontholics, there- Yoro, that thoy must impart religious instruction 1o - their ohildten at home, is, as Mr. Gorrit Smith justly observed, to mock thom, As rogards Sunday-gchiool iustruction, I ave ouly to say that it is_ totally inudequato” to im- part to Catholic children o thoroughly roligious ‘education. Tt is, theroforo, cesontial to tho presorvation of the Catholic religion amoug us, that our childron bo educated at schools cstablishod and wnintuined S UNDER THE S8HADOW_OF TIE OUURCH. Tho bill which, on Tuesday, tho 20th ull., puseod ono braneh of the 1ilinoit' Legistature, Lo mnke eoducation compulsory, does not in sny way dobar Catbolic childfon from nttending Gatholic schools, or oveu from boing educatod ut ‘womo ; but il clearly refers the decigion uy to tho profleioney of children to the *School-Di- roctors, Board of Education, Trustecs, or other school-oflicers haviug control of any school;” while the Dbill itself gpecifies the branches of educatton in which the childron are to bo in- structed, namely: Reading, writing, English grammay, geography, and arithmetic. Now, this opens 2 very largo field to the oxorcisoe of arbitrary power and potty persecation, and adds ono moro to tho many proofs oxisting of tho ILPROFRIZTY OF BTATE INTLEFLRENOCH in matiers boyond its sphero, especially where the conecienca of mon,may .o uifocted. Suppose, for insiance, thal the Lond of n Catholic family, possossed of e littlo educa- tion, aud living within two miles of a public sehool, profers ; to impark to Lis children such education nsho himsell possesses, thun Lo oxposo ihem to the promiscuous ivflucuce (a8 ho might deem it) oftho public school, According to the provisions of the bill in queslion, upon & writton notico from nny taxpayer served upon auy two or more of tho officers or.school-nuthoritics nbove named, they shall, under pain of fine, in- stitute & suit sgainst such o porson for tho ro- covory.of thio pounlty imposed by the bill upon nuy person not complying with its terms, ‘‘un- tcxg such ponnlty ehall sooner bo neid without suit, or unless, upon investigation during that time, tltoy shall'bo satisflod thut 1o ponalty hus petually Been incurred.” ‘Fhig” then, gives tho rights to the school-au- . iboritios to INVESTIGATE THE DOMESTIC AFFAIRE of this supposed individunl's fumily, and leaves iliem to decide whother or not the oducation he imparts to hia children bo in accordance with tho provisions of the bill. Now, tlus individunl whilo compotent to teach reading, writing, an the rudiments of nrithmetic, may be incompo-~ teut to tench English grammar, geography, or fho higher branches of arithmetic = (in iteolf o very comprohongive study, and capable of “an oxtended lnturpx‘ctnflm\%; and yot ho has the right to profer thoy should Xkoow how to read and writo only, rathor than to Xnow 1nore, learncd at the Enhhc yehools, Still, undor the provisions of the bill, ho wonld un- doubledly bo lieblo to o flug,—snid flue to bo in t0 tho "Lrensurer “ for the use of tho dis- in which the original penalty wus ine curred,"—consequently for thu support of & school-syatem which the offondor (7) conecien- tiously beliaven to be pernicions. liven suppos- ing suth sn individual wero ca\:nble of impart- ing, and did impmt, to his childron instruction in all the Lranches reforrod to, theso sclool- nuthorities, themsolves interosted in the recovery of o penaity, would bo the solo judges os to whother his instruction wus strictly in compli- onee with the provisions of the bill. 1o all this it will be objected, to quoto thelan- guago of 'ne Trinuxe, thab ** The theory of nou-intorferouce must yield whenever it comes into coutliet with the doctrino of the greatest good of the greatest number.” Aud here wo ome to tho vory marrow of the bone of conten- tion. Admit this proposition, and all further arguments aro udolcss. ;I"lmhll insound toe certain extont, thoro can bo 10 doubt; but, unloss ndmitted with an important squalification, like mauy othor muxims generally \dmim;d becnuss thoy sound well, it bovomes tha basis of TUE PUREST CISATUS, and Orgarlsm in its worst form, roduced to the espolism of & mob, The important qualification to this apparent truism is this : . That tho emallor number have sertuin rights ‘which the groater numbor are bonnd to respoct. ‘Lhis limits thoe power of tho greator numbor in avery importaut respoct ; it hrovonts thoix boing invariably the judges of hicir own cage. ¥ At prosent, this majority-docirine is in some tasos carried out regardicst of tho rights of the winority, a6 in tho cuse of the public-school sys- \em, which taxes tho Catholies for the support of schools the advantages of which thoy cannot sonsciontionsly onjoy. 'The only rule whioh can bo Inid down i this regard is, that tho mujority never biave tho right to commit injuatice In re- gard to the mmority. Aud_the “only judge of s rulo which can ba allowad 18 the principlo of Litornal Justice ag set forth in the Christian re- ligion. Fcucation by the State {s proving ituclf, in all countrics, A PAILUNE,— tho stumbling-block of evory Govornment,—bo- causo it {8 » matter In whicll tho consciouco in iuterosted, and, although in n loss dogroo, the same argumonts which can ve jusily urged ngainst o Biate Chureh can bo with cqual justico nrgod ngaiuat & Stato oducation. One of tho strongest of these arguments is, that the Church becomes n_that cuso tho more tool of the Gov- ernmont, and so with education, As regards tho stntistics appenled to in Tue Trinuxe tho othor day, und vory flippantly ve- forred to ln n subsoquent issue by one * Iioh,"” it I8 cértainly an-utter violation of gaod seuso to 1y in the facoe of such statistics, smich a8 they aro based upon the ratio of crime lo a car- fain number of the populalion in the varlous Frovinces of Bavaria, Undoubtedly they ehow in'fayor of education ; why should they not? Suroly no ono disputos tho advantages of educa- tion from erery Imlut of view. What I would yrotost against is Biato_education,—n fortiori compulsory education, Lot Uuththu provide for tho education of tholr own clildren undor tho suponfaion of THEIR OWN CHUNOIL, e sro fully slivo to (o uccosnlty of oduon- ' | ton onr clergymon avon moro #o. Witnoss tho | numorous edueational cstablishmonts wo sup-. port, notwithstanding that we pay, undor du- ress, ntax for the support of schools which we do not like, nud talo ndvantage of only as n pis aller. ' Moroover, it in-onjoined on our clorgymon to oatablish nnd maintain a parlsh sehaol wherever it can,bo supported, undor pain of mortal gin, Y.ov othor Ohristiaug provido od- ucation Iu. tholr own way, and lot tha, non- Christinug tnintain thoelr own godloss scliools, But to return to statistica: “Tho wholo valuo of them Iy to bo mensured only whon all the con- comitant olroumstancen aro takeninto ncoount, Lot. it bo remombored, thorofore, thnt a large proportion of tho ; ORIMEH OF THE DETTER CLASHES, who are educated, aro not includad in tho tatls- {ies usunlly furnished us on this aubject, for the renson that many of thom are not punishable by Inw, nud that tho superior oducation of tho batter clnsses frequontly enables them to ovado the law, whore thoy aro. ‘Also, that theso crimes—guch as official: peculation, political dls- Lonosty, liberfinism, abortion, &o.—ore iudi- reotly a8 injurious to tho host Iutorasts. of tho community a8 tho acks of those grossor ofiminals recorded in our prison-statistics, That nowhore do theso samo unpunishod erimog abonud moro than in our own onlight- enod Amorica,—tho Lome, par .oxcollouce, of " publio schools, X . Turther, that, probably, tho Bavarlan schools reforred to in Tug TRIBUNE unito roligious with secunlar iraloing. . I'ho strong nrm of tho law may bring childron, 4r'el armis, to school ; but it cannot make thom imbibo Christian principles with thoir a b c's aud the rudiments of grammar, Nor will it rench farthor than, eyon if as far_as, tho por- sunsive invitations of N!U)ilflll and charity. Above all should Catuolics opposo compulsory cdneation, ag tho WEDGE FOR FURTHER LEGISLATION in thie enmo dircetion, 'Tho next stap will be ac- cording to Bismarokion ideas and will compol us to sond our children to tho public schoola. [ CrEDO. State Education Imperative to Dimin. oo ish Orime. To the Editor of The Chicago T'ribune Sm: I lavo been intorcsted in, the discussion of the Compnlsory Education bill in the columns of Tug ''rinuNE, editorially and by the pous of correspondents, aud, ag truth is genorally ronch- od by comparison of opposing views, I presume T Triouss will not object to hearing a word from tho othor side of the houso, from one who contends that tho onforcomont of the bill would be WIOLLY INOPERATIVE ‘. in productng what its ndvotates most loudly pro- claim,—tho diminution of crime, 1Tt is ndinitted that privato right, in communi- Lics, must, in cortain -dogree, bo surrendered to public good; hut tho- benefit should: ba very clearly defined that will enure to society bofore the Stato, or the majority,—interchangenble terms,—muy warrantably oncroach upon tho sn~ crcd‘ rvight of everyman to rogulato his family affuira, fhe proposition upon which is based all the arguments of those promoters of Slate intorforonce in fnmily-nffairs, that ig- noranco of wuch education as the State may wivo ia tho fruibful, almoat solo, canso of crimo, although oue of our pot national teuets, held as snerod nud high above contradiction’ us thie truthy from' the Mount, I hold to be not only untrue, but INCAPABLE OF ¥100T, excopt by fallncious statistics, whose unroliubili- ity 06 eritoria-by which to judge of tho impolling causes of erime will appear upon tho most cur- yory examination. It wiil not be denied, I presumo, that of all tho offonders against socicty, not more than Inlf uro evor convicted of their misdeeds.and named upoun court-records ns eriminala; and, of theso, probably two-thirds ure minor siunars, guil- ty of brenches of the penco, Inrconies, and othor offenses directly attributed to poverty or whia- ky, not to ignoranco. DBut Iwish more par- ticulnrly to spenk of tho greal moiety of uncou- vieted, unarrainged sinners against tho poace aud property of socioty,~—offendera whoso crimes PROCLAIM TILLIL EDUCATION, and which those adyocatos of the ignored theory exclnde from the Court. Docs auy gne doubt that tho sins sgainst purity committed annunlly in this city do not produco more lnsting misery, moro soul-hurowing torture, more rending of fuwily-ties, more social dogrodation of men and women,’ thon all the lnrcenics,. ssssults, and potiy erimes tlat_go on record in a. decado-? And yet theso offenscs ara committed by. our intelligent Americans to. such n degres that unchustity vies witk dishonesty, —in .tho clhim to bo cousiderd tho - nalionnl vico. . The very conditions under which this vice is indulged excludo its devotoes from pubish- ment, under Inws which havo no influencg to sty its courso; and it is only in the divorce- records—pustulary ovidencen upon tho bodly sooial of tho reeking corruption of its blood— that wo sco_the indioations of the. moustrous eviLit is doing. . ‘I'ho eing against honesty, not one. in a thou- sand of which over is recoraed sgninst the name of its perpetrator ina criminal court, are fruit- ful evidenco tunt . HOME UTIHER OAUSE TIIAN JONORANCE must be sought as the inciting causo of crime. 1t is truo Lhat the ignorant offendors agninst this virlue, boing unable to hedge thomsclves abont with tho ramparts from behind which - educatod villaloy oporates, suffer for their crimes, ara immured in prisons, and used to strengthon the thoory that viee and ignorance of tho threo R'a ure inseparablo. Bub tho maguificons offond- ors who steal or defraud othors of their thou- sands, appear in civil courts, 1f lield amenable at all, a8 dofendanta in suits for damages, nover appedring upon tho record s _oriminnla, Mike Jones, for stesling 2 fow hundred dollars in val- 1o from o woalthy corporation, goos to Joliat for ten yenxs : evidenco upon xocord that illiteracy is crimo, T'he eoducated Briggs, who * Dbor- rowed " from poor nowsboys, orphans, widows, and laborers $150,000, not only }musea nnrecord- ed and unpunishied, but is canonized in the henv- on of the *‘smart” who live on other folks' monoy. Not ignorance in any education which tho Stato can give producey crime, but the ' AUSENCE OF JMORAL OULTURE, the virtues of honesty, frugality, and tempor- anco, which _shino aa stondily in' tho ignorant man as _in the scholar ; whose presonce will en- noble & hod-carrier, end for whose absonce the education of u Colfax, of a Chandler, orof & Carpentor ean nover atono. Edueato our peoplo morally, and our liberty will never bo in dangor, But thts education must nccessorily, by tho guarauteod rights of our Constitution, bo given the guardians whom God hes put over childien, and whoso plnce no Governmont, bo it Majority, King, or Emporor, can ever justly nsu}‘nn. ©One Step Further, To the Editar of T'he Clicugo Tribune & S : Now that the Stato of Tllinois Lias nobly tatcon hor place in tho front rauk, on the march of civilization, by logislation to protect the righc of overy child to education, hna it not, in princi- ple, agreed to- A DO HOMETHING JORE than guarantoo to it an opportunity to learn to rond, writo, aud cipler ? Ifthe rightof every American-born citizon, of evory infaut brought to our shores, to threo monthe' tuition every year be so sncred that it is secured againet the carelessness or cupidity of parents or guardinng, is not its xight to such education as will it it to becomo useful mom- ber of socisty admittod by tho logislation which secures fo it the reading and writing qualitien- tion? It surclyis, Whon the State suys, dis- tinetly, ‘Ibis is my child; I um under oblige- tion to proteot and eduoate it," it only ucknowl- edges o fundamental truth ; but uoud{nu a child to sehool three months overy year is not oducat- ingit. Aftor tho child has learnod to rond, it wants o trado ; wants some -avoeation by which it ean win broad. Ir tho lnwnne may not provont its acquiroment of tho urt of ruudluq, why may n Trades-Union provent It learning tho earpentor Dusiness ? 1f o boy has & natural right to the Ley of knowlodge in the alphubet, has he not, slso A NATURAL MIGNT to protoction in lenrning to lay brick, if he wish to engago in that avocation ? One of the forms of Europorn tyranuics about which wo make sproad-esgle speeches i the ob- structions by which iudividunis are prevouted choosing their ocoupations. No boy can lenyn u trade withont pormission of his Governmont, sand, whilo wo donowsce this as opprossion, an bongt of tho inalienable right of any American to ongagoe fu auy ocoupation ho profors, we have pormitted Trades-Unions, for tho most solfish purposes, Lo dony and trample wundor fuot this snored right. No_Amorican boy or girl ean bo taught a trado without firat winning the consont of a'I'rados-Union; and, as this consent wilt only be aceordod to a vory limited numbor, each aspirant must ran tho gauntlet for ndmission to auy shop, to loarn any handieraft, with about as much ohanco of rojection s aspirants for oadotship, I havoe known instanco upon instanco {.r hoys, somo of them yous of widows, who have icon DENIED TRE MIANT to loarn the teado af oir vhuice,—lave hoen denied this right by the Union whioh ‘guarded tho portals of that Pnrtlunllr ocoupation. % ‘Wo complain of. the disproportionnte incronso of tho irading or merenntilo class, nnd of Lho moro than chntv of doctora and Inwyors, ‘It i8 ovon #nid that farming: hos boon “run juto the ground,” go ;that thoro is more corn than cons sumors; nnd we forget thnt thoso ocoupations aro open to all ; whilo no boy, bo he evor so anx- fous, may lenrn to bo n carpentor, n magon, & moldor, & printor, a mechania of any ind, withont fieat rocelving pormission from o T'rados-Union. Is {t any wondor - that house-ront i high whon # fow nion havo o monopoly of the sldil nocos- gnry to build comfortablo dwollings? Is it slrango that wo ‘pny n big price for cook-stoves, and coal to burn in'them, whon combinations of men provont falr compotition m tho businesy of moking ptoves and digging conl ? It tho Logislature of Illinols svould just go . ONE BTEP FURTHER in tho dircotion in which it has mnde such pratse- worthy Kro reas, and socuro Lo overy boy.and girlin tho Btate tho right to havos trnde, or oven compel parents and guardians to have thom taught somo omploymont by . which thoy could win honeat brond, it would have dons moro toward sottling financed "on & permanont bnsis thian will bo aceomplishod by all the plans pro- sented and lnwliy to be,in Cougross, this prosont yoar of fluancial plans, bosides securing o Inrgo prospoctivo cloarivg out of 'jails and :Poniton- tinrloy, JANE Griy BwISSUELM. — o THE STUDY OF THE MODERN LANGUAGES. DY TROF. WILLIAM MATIIEWS, OF THE UNIVERSITY or oNI0AGO, That tho study of foroignlanguages is o necos- snry patt of o liberal education, is & proposition which fow intolilgont porsons will at this day disputoe, Tho records of thought and knowl- odgo aro many-tonguod; and, theroford, as & manns of encyclopodic culture,—of that thorough Intollootunl equipment which is so imporionsly domanded of avery scholar, and ovon thiuker, at tho prosont day,—n lnowledge of foreign litor- nture, both auciont and modern, ... I8 ADBOLUTELY INDISPENSADLE, Familiarity with foreign langusgos liboralizes tho mind in tho same way s forolgn travel, The Empoeror Charles V. once eald that to lenrn a new language was to acquiro a new soul. - The man who i familiar only with ' the writers of his nativo tonguo is in dangor of confounding what is ncoidental with what is cssontial, and of sup- posing that manners and customs; tnstes and Linbits of thiought, which belong only to his own ago and country, are insoparable from tho nature of man, Acquainting himself with foreign litor- aiures, hofindsthatopinions which hohad thought to bo univorsa), and feelings which ho had sup- posed instinetive, have boon unknown to millions, Ho thus loses that ONINESE CAST OF MIND, that contompt for overything outsido of his own, narrow circlo, which was & ‘foo to all eolf- knowledge and to all self-improvemont. Ho: doubts where ho formorly . dogmatized; bho tolorntes whoro ho formorly oxecrated. Quali- fsing tho sontimonts of the. writers of his own ago nud country with tho thoughts and. sonti- ments of writors in other agos and other coun- trics, ho conscs to bow siavishly to the authosity of thoso who bronthe the snmo.atmosphiore with himeolf, and with whose idiosyneracies Lo is en rapport, Ho declines Loucoforth to sccept thelr opinions, to make their tastes his.tastes, and their projudices his prejudices ; and thus avoldls that mental slavery which is- buser than tho sluvery of tho body. Whilo wo thus apprecizte the valuo of lin- fuistic studios to tho fow who have the time and money ‘for thorough culture, wo yot doubb whother tho study of foreign languages, to the extont that fashion now oxacts, is WISE OR PROFITABLE. That an Englishman, Frenchman, or Gorman, oven though n business-mau, should deom o knowledgo of them notonly uscful, but even vital to his worldly -sucoess, wo can understand. ‘Thore i hardly n commercial houee of any note in Eugland that does not sell goods to Gormany, France, Switzérland, Sweden, or Tussio; hence every such houso: must have em- ployes to conduct its foroign corrospondence, and a knowledge of forelgn fonguos is, there- foro, ono of tho best recommondations ‘with which a young mau secking o olerkship can be armod. . The sume I8 true of Germany end Franco; but ‘WHO WILL FPRETEND that such s the fact in this country? If, in- stond of all speaking n common tongue, the Eastern, Northern, Southorn, Western, and Mid- dlo States of our couutry spoke 83 many lan- guages, the lingual nocessitics of our morchants aud munufacturers would bo similar to those of {hio great business-houses’ of Europo;gbut, as the facts are, no such nocossitien ex- jat. It i truo we havo o fow houses that do business with Europe; and it is true, also, that, in s fow of our largest cities, thero aro many foroigners who cannot apenk English; but, everywhero else, linguistio knowledge is of little practical use. The question is not whether a lnowledge of Trench and Gorman' iy desirablo” per se, but shether it isnot too dearly purchased. Is it _worth the honvy tax which our youth pay for it ? Caunot the weary days, weoks, months, and evon yours, which are spent in acquiring’ what, aftor all, is usually but the merest smattoring of those tongues, be 254 AORE PROFITAULY BPENT upon English litoraturo and tho sciences? Thera is hardly anysubject upon which so much illusion provails es upon the supposed case with which a modern langusge can be mastored. -Wo honr it daily remarked that Fronch and Italian aro very engy, and that German, though presenting some difiieulties, is by no moang hard to acquire. Now tho truth, to which soouor or later, every atu- dont s forcod to opon his oyes, is, that tho ac- quisition of any language, a8 Mr. Lincoln snid of tho crnshing of tho Robollion, is “a lig job.” Tho mastoring of o foreign tonguo, oven thio eastest, i tho work, not of a day, but of years and yoars of BTERY, UNREMITTING TOIL, Mr. Hameorton, the author of *Tho Intol- lectual Lifo,”—a most compotont judge,—Ilnys down tho following two propositions, tested by o Jarge oxperiouce, 88 unasgailable. 1, When- overa foroign language is perfectly acquired, thoro are peculiar family conditions. The per- gon bas elther married a person of the other nation, or is of mixed blood. 2. A language cannot bo lomrned by nn adult without five yeors' ronidonce ‘in tho country whore it is spoken ; and, without Linbits of. closo obsorve- tion, o residonce of twonty yoars is insuffictent, Mr. H. furthor adds that one of tho. most ac- complishod -of Euglish linguists remarked to Lim that, after much obsorvation of tho labora of others, hio had como to tho rather discourag- ing conclusion that it was NOT POSHIDLE TO LEARY A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, This is an oxtrome position ; but, if by * laarn- ing o Tanguage™ is moaut & thorough acquisition of it, #o that-ono can spesk and write it like a native, wo belleve that tho statoment is improg- nable. Of course, wo oxcept the fow prodigies of linguietio genius,—tho Maglinbecehia and the Mozzofantos, of whom but-ono appoarsin a contury,~meh who, as Da Quincey says, in tho act of dying, commit a robbory, abscou ding with & yaluable polyglot dictiouary, Will it b #nid, in reply, that 8 knowledge of & foreign langunge may fall- short of perfeot, yot bo of great practical andeven educational yalue ? Wo admit it; but we do - not bo- love that the smattoring whioch tho great mujority of our young men and women got,—and which i all'they ctn get in most cases, —can YOSSIDLY ENTIOI THEM INTELLEOTUALLY. As Mr, Hammorton justly urges, until you can roally feel the refinements of a language, you can got little help or furthorance from it of any kind,—nothing but an interminablo sorics of misundorstandings. **True onlture ought to strongthen tho fuculty of thiuking, and to pro- vide {he mntorial upon which that noble faculty mey operate, Au sccomplishmout which doos nolthor of thoso two things for us ls uscless for onr oulturs, though it may be of considorabla practical convonlonce In the uifaivs of ordinary life." valuo of nn acquisition withiout cotiiting™ tlio cost, If nyoung mon can bogin his studles early and continuo them till Lis 21st yoar, by all moans 1ot him study Fronoh and Gorman. But:in no cngo would wo have him study thoeo tonguea‘at tho - expenso of uttor ignoranco or tho mereat aurfaco-knowledgo of his own langungo and fts literaturo, and of the physical sclonces. That tho two Inttor branohes of knowledge are FAN MORE EHSENTIAL than the formor toboth hig suocess and happl- noss, wo cannot doubt, Unfortunately, tho ma- jority of our young men ara compelled to plungo 1nlo business 8o early that they aro compellod to cloct botwoon the two nequisitions ; they cannot lavo both., For euch porsons to ohooso tho Tronch and Gormnn, and noglect the -solonoey nnd their own noblo tonguo and its litorature, Is ad absurd a8 1t would be for a Inboror to stint hinigolf all tho yoar in mont or brond that ho muy enjoya fow baskats of strawborries in April, ‘Wo-ylold to no ono inour admiration of Mon- talgne, Pascal, AMollore, Couvier, nud Sainte- Bouve, or of - Gootho, Schiller, Lessing, Richtor, and Ioino; but wo do, novortholoss, colio most hoartily the words of Thomas De Quincoy,— himgoll consummate linguist,—when he de- olares that i ‘17 18 A PITIADLE SPECTAOLE tonman of sonso and féoling, who bappons to bo roally familiar with the goldon treasuros of his own aucestral literature, and = spectacle which moyes altornately soorn and sorrow, to seo youug peoplo squandering their time ond painful stndy upon’ writers not fit to unloode the shocs’ latchets of mauy amongst thowr own com« patriotsi making painful and remoto voysgos aftor tho drossy refuse, when the pure gold lies noglectod at thelr foot,” 4 ‘Wo aro fully convinced- that oven the litorary man, though hie cannot disponso with 4 familiar- ity with the modorn -langungos, pays & high prico for his knowledge, * Hero, a8 ovorywhoro oleo, the lnw of componsation holds, ' Familiari- ty “with foroign idloms almost invariably injuros an author's stylo. Wo' know tha tho TRomnug, in oxnct proportion to thoir study of Greck, paralyzod somo of the finest powors of tholr own ' language. Schiller tolls us that he was in the habit of ronding a8 lttle as ‘possible in foreign tonguos, becauso it was his business to writo Gormnn, and ho thought 'that, by read- ing othor Iangungos, ho should LOSE 18 NICER PERCEPTIONS of what belonged to hisown, Thomas Mooro, who was o fino classical soholnr, tolls us that the portact purity with which the Greeks wroto their own language was_justly attributed to thelr onlira abetinence from any other. ‘It ir noto- srlous that' Burke, after he took to roading the pamphlets of the TFronch terrorists, never wroto g0 pure English as ho did bofore. Gib- bon, who bonsted that his Essaisur I Elude de la lillerature was takon- by the Parisians for the prodnction of onoe of their own countrymen, paid for the idfomatic purity of his TFronch by the Gallicisms thnt doform tho * De- ohing and Fall.” Our young men might bo pardoned for making somo encrifices to ncquire n knowledgd of the modern langunges, if such & Imowledgo wore necessery as o koy to their litoraturea; TUT IT 18 NOT. Nearly all the masterpicces have Licon trans- Intod into English, We aro aware of tho objoc- tions to translations; they are, nt bost, a8 Cervantes snid, but *‘ the rovarsofgide of tapos- try;” but Low many of our young mon and women, who Liave not limo or monoy for a liboril education, aro likoly to enjoy tho orginnls botter than tho tranelations that are executod by accom- plishod linguists ? Notops in fifty. If o man of so exquisite a tasto as Mr. Emerson profers, 08 ho tolls us, to read foroign works in translations, is it at all likely that © Young Amorica,” with his almost utter ignorance of the nicoties and deli- cacios of the modorn langunges, will lose’ mueh Dy imitating his oxample? If you caunot enjoy Curlyle's Wilhelm Meister, Cotton's AMontaigne, . or Lougfellow’s Dante, you must be either a pro- digious scholar or o prodigious dunce. Wo say, then, in conclusion, if you are o man of leisure, or have time and mesns for & liberal education, by all monns study Fronch and Gorman, aud, if you onn, Spanish and Itelian; but, if you areto Liogin life at 18 or 20, LET BPIERS AND ADLER ALONE, When you have mastered tho giants who wrote in your mother-tongue,~when the great sworks of - Ghaucor, Shakspoare, Haokor, Bacon, Milton, Swvift, Wordsworth, Byron, Mill,’ Tonny- son, snd all onr other ropresoutative authors, have passed like the iron atoms of tho blood into your mental constitution, it will bo timo to g0 abroad aftor frosh flolds and pasturos new." But do not, we bog of you, indiulge the foolish ambition of becoming o *polyglobtist when you cannob writo -6 grammatical lotter in your mother-tonguo, and have never read & page in hialf of its bost writors. e A SAILOR'S YARN. Well, mate, yow'ye nsked mo to tpin you o yarn: T'm hot mrich af a hand, for X never conld larn, Like book-reading folks, to nolish a tale: T'm nearor to bomo when I shorton a sall, Or climl by {he ropes to tho gallant-crosstrees, Ay wo scud *fore tlio wind or roll in'tho soas, What motter's it, though? Each ono hag a trado; So I'll nover say no to sacial comrade, *Plg two-scoro years, Witli & year or two “Tlirown in, 50 that ‘twill como niearee trus (¥ou seo 1'In not seared like lubbers I'va known Who vould think it u crinia thelr ages to own), Sineo T slgued for a voyago to the African coutt, ‘The timo was year, ot two nt the most, T shipped as “ordinury,” T was then sixteen,— Tather young, but cinés ton ailor I'd been. Our slip was a new one, Juat launched on the wave; Our Captain an old salt, we hailed him as Davas Aud the crow that ho inuatered wero * old-thnors then, Txcopt £ pnd anothor young fellow called Ben, Now, mate, you know, whet two boys aro thrown Togethier imong o crowd of old tars, and alone, “TlGy’ro sure to be friondly, aud ulways will chum. Aud sbare with cach other their bacen undrum, * We wers ont from port Just threo months to a day, When we dropped tho auchor in s rock-bound bay, Aud lay in shore till it bappened davk, - - ‘Wheun wo shipped our cargo aboard tha bark, Threo hundred humana,—as wretehed w lob As over s slvor barterod or caught Not one of tho crowd but had grii despair Plain {n hia face; it waa written bhero, o wero salling agein beforo tho night 1nd ita voll uplifted by tho hand of light; Aud our cargo was siowed below in the Lold, Like hiogs n b pien, or shoep in o fold, *Tavan tuo Arst T saw of the devilish trado, And I tell you, mate, it made mo afrald Of God’s just vengoance. I was youny at tho timo, Aud Ty hoart was appalied by Lo illalgous crime) Wo saflod soven days with n favoring wind, And B left the laud mouy lesgties behind, Just aftor my watoh, i1 iy bummock I Iy, "Taking my comfort, while amoking a clny, When Boi camo In With s face as puly Aun ghaat, o a folon who'd Just broko Jall, ‘And, whisporing, sald In accenta low, 2o fever's broke ot 'mong the croied below " Ob, mate! my hosrt with fright gave a leap, And the blaod fn my volus with torror did ereep, T Lud hewrd nion bofore el with quiveriug lip Of the Lorrora that rolgn in a fover-struck sbip, I went on dock ¢ the Captain wne thero, And thio rest of the crew wors Hugeriug near, 110 approaclied us and puld, * You know low it eatches; Wo niust look to ourselvey,—so battou tho lintehies PV Somo murmured o liftle: but what could wo do? o wau the Captaiu, and wo wero the crew; Aud thoss land-lows, you know huw thoy tront us when “Eha Cuptusn $8 medlod with by suy of tho meu, Ho we battenod the istches, aud prisoned tho erow OF wretclien below—In o cofiinlow shraud, Gh) 11 never forget thoir flerca crics of doom, As wo shut thom up in thole Lorrible tomb, . Ero tho day wout by, thero wero threo of u elck, ‘And iwo biaforo mort,—it catches you quick, “hon tho Gaptain ho 8poko o tho Test, sud swore 1100 bo blowad if ho'd stick to thio ehip any more, Thay lowered the two Loats, and left us that duy, Tieljleas und raving, i our hanimocka wo luy : Not.u friond way by'to eonufort or clicor, And 1o plasks of tho waves was all we could Lear, ‘Wa drifted along for two wocks or mors, With never n sight of u frlondly shore, Nor over a glance of o passing bail, Nor ever a sonnd of 4 welconio hnll, Thoro wore three of us loft whun a abip went past Aund gaw the signal I hung to tho nust: Juat knved us i thae frow u terrible fute, Aundl thoy scuttled the ship with the Awman frefght, Oui0aa0, JANMES LAVALLIN, ———— , —Owing to the ullrpury coudition of the side- walks Danbury pooplo have fallen into the habit of serannyug * Good!1" with one o.—Amoug the convorsiona nocomplishied in the lato Iteading re- vival was that of & mau who hud boon & coal- 100 Iy & poor ogonomist who looks only af the | doulor for fitloon yoata.wLanbury Nows. "FRENCH ART 'AND ARTISTS. Dubufe and His . Contem- poraries. i The Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris ===Student-Life.” Dubnfc nnd Ein Contompornries. Edouard Dubufo,- whore * Prodijal Son” i now attracting 8o much attontion in dur- oity, 18 ono of the rard instances of tho ‘deacent” of o spocinl falont from father to son: Tho ** Adani and Evo " of tho oldér Dubufe was prolinbly ono of tho firat mastorploces of ‘tho modern French sohool ever brought to this country; nnd tho art-lovors of tho'preceding genoration aré ot yot wenry of dwelllng on the oxceeding lovell- noss of tho faco of ‘his Bve, and the ‘magnifl- cont offacts of light and color dlsplayed in her goldon'hair. As tho'piipil of Paul Délaroche, and tho roputed inhoritor of soms of iy ‘trails, Dubufo possosses an ndditional’ claim"to our tnterost, ' <R, On o first inspection of n work of art, nothing 18 moro natugal than tho_desire to discover liow for it {8 roproschintive'of s school ‘or a'nation; to dotormine tho ora of its author, and his rank among his contemporaries. Tu cortain rospects, 88 regards subjoct ‘and’ treatment, Dubufe's “Prodigal” is thoroughly reprosentativo; ' in others, it is as decidedly- either an anachronism or & rovival. The modern school of French painting divides ituolf roadily into’ TIREE DISTINGT ERAS, onch matked by strong individual traits. Tho art of & natlon, like its apoeck and manners, is a diropt outgrowth of ils lifo and provalling ideas. Tho art of those throo orns isno oxception to this rute. - The tirsb ora {8 that immediately fol- Towing the Rovolution. i 3 The Frouch TNovolution was- an up- honval of wmocloly 'from _its foundations, With : all its -oxXcosscs, its motive was grand. It waa tho attompk of the soul to throw off- the mountainous opprossions under which it 1ind so Jong boon buried, Tho mon who, nfier the destruction of the old order of things, found themselves dirccting the now state of affairs, desired, above overything, to start gocioty anow ; to go back to firat prlucip‘nu : to rostors primi- tive modes andl muuners, In the attompt to ronlizo this :idem, thoy went bacl, ocuriously anough, not to the simple ideas of God and Nu~ hlm.%.mb Lo ! JUPITER AND TIE GODDESS OF MEAEON not to tho simplicity of an idosl Republic, but to tho effcto traditions of tho Roman Common- wonlth, Tho tyrants of -tho Roign of Torror -af- focted tho air of Brutus, Lhe sustoritios of Unto, Tho robes of Tullis, of Cornelia, and of Aspnsin, aleo, were the models for thoso which fille Josophine's drnwing-rooms. Their first groa oxecutive officor took ;,tho titlo of Conmsul, The nntique becamo the mgo; overything mnst bo ‘classical” Art could not romain uninfluenced by the pre- vailing manin : it, also, must bo' classical. In point of subjects this was hardly & now_thing. In the reigns of Louis XIV. aud Louis XV., this whols Greok.and Roman mythology scomed to linvo beon pourod out upon canyay, displayed on the walls:and coilings-of palaces, potrifiedin the fountains of Veranilles.: But tho clnasical art of the Revolutionary poriod partook of the spirit of tho times,—it was serious, dignified, sovero, both in subjeot and troatment. It sought tho lioroie rather than the beautiful. The great art- ist of tho period was . DAVID. The lost of imitators who snocoeded bim,: ond who dragged his idens to the. extrome limits of ~conventionalily and absurdity, are, perhaps, responsible for tio sucoys which so ofton ‘accompany the men- iion of David’s works by madern critics ; but tho gonius of the Frouch pooplo and the spirit of - great epoch are surely 1u his mastorpioces. “The Rapo of the Sabinos,” *Tho Threc Io- ratii,” * Drutus,” and ** Holon and Paris,” are > DRAMAY UPON CANVAS. Thore is in each of thom ona figure or_group to which overything i subordinnto; ono ides which clnims . you:' one supremo momont which thrills yon with tho force of on_ electric whock. “'I'liis spirited, inpassioned, boautiful Babine, “who “ri“?s between husband and brother, and flinging out her arms, " with ono magnificont movement, says to the crossed swordn : * Pauso!"—thesa threo heraio, youthful figures, who touch simultancously tho point of the stern fathor’s sword, zud utter with one voice tho solemn: ** I swoar!”—aro+wonder- ful oxamples of his power. The *‘Helon”— unlike most of his pictures, which nim_at what is grand rathor than lovely—is exquisitoly beau- tiral. - Ronowned a8 is tho present school in tho roproduction of flesh-tints, Ido not think any one has surpagsed this rosy, almost translucent flash, the marvelousiy-moldad avms, the drapery liko that of tho autique sculptors. This 1§ JIOMER'S HELEN, bofore whose heauty tho chiofs bowed rover- ontly on the walls of Troy; and I'x}risy] thongh nudo except helmot nnd sandals, is, like Ml ton's Adam, *“*in native honor clad,” ns chastq and noble & figure as the bas-reliefs on the Lar- thonon, Aftor}David and his imitators eamo & now sehool,—~n great group of great men,—who, lonving bobind thom antiquity and clussic mod- els, attompted :to put upon canvas the actual lifo of the remarkablo period just elapsed ; tq illustrato tho near and * the far past of Frauce: | This is the MOST TRULY KATIONAT of all her schools or ercs. Gros and Hornco Vornot paintod ithe gront battic-flolds of Na- poleon, .with - that striking and charactoristic figuro concontrating all glancos on itsolf ; Dela- croix represonted ¢ The 28th of July, 1780—Lib~ orty Guiding the Nation,” Dolarocho produced his famous picture of * Mario Antoinotto Going to Exccution,” and tho colobrated * Nnpoleou and tho King of Tlome,”—now ono of tho chiof tronsuros of Toutainebleau.. Mora than any other paintor of liia own or lator time, Dolaroche, combined smoothnoss of oxecution with firnmlcm: of nubject, dignity with beauty. 1o tho grest ltnli‘sto\'ic paintings of this group balongs, also, 0 “30AY OF AnC” of Tngres. Tranco had o right to domand that hor urt should embalm: this beautiful flguro of Tor oarly day, which the Englislt Shakespearo. Monerad. aud Hio Tranch historious offis duy did not restoros ‘The Jonuue Dare of ‘Ingres hasn fair, heroio faco, with golden bair which falls down over her armor, Clad in complete mail, wlio bears tho whito " flag ‘of Fronce; hor calm, norious oyen aro,fillod with thought, of her work and not of self. L Tho great painters of this period did not, how- oyor, confine themselves to historic subjects. Tho Frenoh Exhibition- of 1856 was tho Field Day of the g{aiutom of this school and ors,— their Grent Roviow. Tho younger gencration of orilics nnd studouts, who know that colleation by report only, will not soon forget tho mournful poaus ‘chantod over it by the votoran critics of tho Exposition of 1867. One of tho most re- marlable paintings of this middle era is tho mastorpioca of ‘Couturo, SipiE DROADENCE OF THE NOMANS,” —now the chiof ornament of tho Luxembourg. Curtlg' * Potipliar-Papors™ contain an aduirablo description of this piclure,—n description with » moral for Americand ; as Conture intonded hig iotura to ombody one for tho French. streot ' Itome, in _ the " lattor days of the ltepublio, when luxury hed destroyod virtue, and vico manliness; o group of poy viotors, in-whoxe actions and attitudes is dis- playod'tho utter nbandon of dissipation and voluptuonsn eas,—oongtituto the principal ele- ments of tho picture. Near thom, two marble figures of their carly Lioroes look down on the group 3, to whose ealm, impassive_facos & mnd youth uplifts his goblat of wine, Bukb the facos of tho banquotors sro nob ltoman,—they ara Tarisian _types of the painter's duy, “ho pie- ture, at th timo of its completion, was un ovi- denco aud n propheoy : the flegrnduhun of Paris lad already begun, 'Who noxt Grost Toviow of tho Fronch palutors way § THE EXPOAITION OF 1807, hg Prodigul Son " of Dubulfo was painted in 1800, 'Chis Inst ern, therefors, is that of his voutomporarios, 'I'hoso three oras—all oras, in fact, of French art, however differont in some- rospects—havo corbnin tealty in sommon, Theso feuturcs may, therofore, bo considered s ohnrac- toristio of Freuch painting. Most prominont of thoso is tho groat proforonco of thelr paintors of mconed reprosenting mon and tholr “actions ovor thoso depioting Nature and hor attributes, *Tho pmpgr study of mankind is man,” is the creed of the majority of TFronoh avt- its, Wide strotches of woodlund, felds of waving graly, wedgy =~ morassos — with' thelr wyrisd fuhobltants,—like Vortuuni's ox- quisito studios of thio Pontino Marshes,—no ouo aoquuinted with the inborn contompt of the French for country-life could expect u young artist to risk his roputation on scones like thosd, . DATILE-PIKOES - have alwaya boon favorite subjeota of !‘ronohl SATURDAY, * FEBRUARY ' 7,° 1874--SUPPLEMENT. mnators | fhd fow or no atharnations paint thom R0 woll, * Tho Exhibition of 1807 and the 8alon of 1808 illustratod thoso fostures, and prosonted, in nddition, cortain notlconblo'and distinguishing’ marlts of tholrown, With rogard to the dearth of landsoapes, of all tho Yronoh pleturos of tho - Gront Exponltlun I raoall but one Iandacapo with ploasuro, ' Bhoot~ tng” In the Maralios of Berty,” 'Plio little bont [ding among;tho tall rootls { tho aportaman with M liftod ritlo ; and tho anipo aud wild duaks | flying up 'from their’ cool coverts, shaking tho drops from their glassy wings,—nll indleatod a genuino studont and lover of Naturo, but did not commond tho namo of tho paintor to publio notorioty. "lic battle-painter of the Exposition was YVON, Tho obiof morit ot hig picturen is the apirited nction of tho prominont figures, and the skill with which the attontion {8 coucentrated on ono central polnt of ‘intorost. 'Iheabsonco of these chntaatoriptica causos too many battle-sconce to predont olthor obscuro masses hurrying to o point not eloarlydofined, or & nutnber of soparate’ lgures In whoso action there is 1o unity, no in- portant moment,—without & porception of whioh, the apoatator is raraly Improssed. ' ‘These bottled nlro posscas that, lacking which o battlo~ seono lacks everything,—tho instantatibous por- coptlon’ by the spectator of the nationality of the combntants, InYvon's *Malakoff Tower,” tho offtaer who stands on tho higheat pointandsignala with Jils white-gloved linnd, has chiosen the vory estifto which his favorito nctor at ' the Theatro 'rancala would have omployod in liko circwm- stances ; and this vory trait onables tho Franch ropresontation of batties to ‘bo at onco moro spiritod sud moro nntural than that of less amatic nations, 3 Tho two grodt painters of _tho Exposition era aro Goromo and Cabanol, Proporly spesking, ¢ OADANEI does not doserve the ndjective *gront” which Imperisl ' tavor bostowed upon him. Ilis most nmbitious pioturos nre ‘ Paradlse Lost" and ' “A Nymph ' Coarrled Of by o Xaun." Tho * Poradise ” roprosonts Lve, ovorcomo by griof, woeping at tho feot of Adam. On tho loft crouches the Great Enemy of mankind ; and above, ; the COroator, surrotnded by Angols, is looking down' upon nll.’ ‘Tho' fignre of Evo is logs bonutiful than voluptuous, - Ioroe oxtrome fairness i rondered ‘moro striking by contrast with the swarthy tints of Adam, who, sullen nud angry, displaysnone of the dignity of manhood: Thero fs, howover, something of power in tho . posture, particulsrly in the figure of Satan ; and ' but l the snmo is truo of tho Nympl, whero ono can sco tho yiolding of tho “dolicato flesh to tho prossnre of ‘the rude fingors,—but it is powor repulsivo rathor than attractive, GEROME is unquestionably tho most romarkablo of the grodp of patntors to which ho bolongs, DBesido Cabanel's large canvas and crude colors, his wondarful finish and dolicnoy aro still .moro ntriking, Ills subjects aro chiofly olnsalm:.iu but lis types and treatment aro not only modern, t Parislan. His **Doath of Cmsar™ appoars somewhat faulty, in that it concentrates ation- tion on the whito-robod Senators, rathor thanon tho body of tho Dictator, His ‘Morituri To Salutant™ is much finor, A group of half- clotlied gladintors, whoso powerful nuacles soom in pitiful contrast to their haggard fatos, bend thelr haggard foatures to a show of revaerenco 88 they approach the soat whoro Augustuu sits, crowned and complacent, On tho left, the swooplng curves of tho magnificont nmphfrhon- tro,—tler nfter ‘tior of restless facos looking down indifforontly on, the attendants dragging out the'bodlos of what & foy momonts ago woro men lio these, Very striking, too, in his * Duel of, Piorrat," botweon masked combatanty in a dim wood, the atmosphora charged with snow, Theroe is nothing revolting in Gorome's rendering of doath, but something romarkable in tho pallor with which he juvests it,—n draining of overy tint and trait of life from the face, His clioico of subjects convoys an idoa of thoe N PEQULIARITY OF H18 GENIUS ¢ ¢ A Butcher-Boy of Jorusslom ;" *‘Tho Heads of the Beys Beforo a Gate in Constantinople ;" “The Prisonor;" ‘Ihryns Bofors the Tri- bunal.” To theso grim heads hesped up betore the Oriental gate ; in thoso limpid waves of the Bosplorus, over which floats_the boat bearing [ this wretchod captivo, bound hand sid foot ; in the satin skin of this famous boauty,—thoro is o marvolous fineness which loads some crit- ics to eall his Drush that of a copyist: He is more than that,—theroissomothing torribly thrill- ing in tho absolutoly-flondish exultationof theso Anvago captors ovor their prisoner ; but what worvico these remarkablo studies shall rondor, to Art and Morals, it is moro difficult to’detormine. If we spoak of Moissonnior, with his lliputian canvasos, and his dashing "litto Captains; and Rons Bonhour, whose Scottish hoaths, with thelr wild Highland ponies, givo ono o feeling of froedom aud froshuoss not ofton mot wlgl in Frotich gallerios,—wo have lofs throo variotios of tho X ; FRENCI PAINTING OF TO-DAY, Thoro are, for .nstance, the drawing-room studies of arlists like Toulmouche,—charming littlo follis in faultloss toilots; secondly, tho aspects of what Parisians consider rural li Millet aud Brotom,—such as “The urlce; Kooper, “Mthe Polatog:Plantor,” *Tho Tieapers,” “Tho Rakero,"—which tho lovers of the country will find it hard to ldealize, aud which soem nn attompt to immortalize medioc~ rity as froitless as Wordaworth's introduction of the wazh-tub into poetry. But, in the IFronch salons immodiatoly pre- cu\lil:F the war, the pictures before which the crowd was always densost, which occupied tho largest spaco in tha dally fouilletons, were al- ways somo scono from that life of tho theatres and the gas-light which, it Art caunot ignore, IT NEED NEVER PERPETUATE; - somo episodo in domestio life which, to an _ Anglo-Snxon, seomed ' too mearly allied to erimo to be painted in othor tints than those of tragedy; somothing to magnify the materinl plensnres of existence, to dopreciate the iufluenco of tho u{u‘ih Pictures like thoso of Victor Giraud—whoso * Slave-Mariot " re- coivod tho honors of the Luxembourg, sud whose “ Husband's Roturn ' received the madal of 1808—wore striking ond painful evidonco of that dogradation which the Gorman swords disclosed, but did not produco. this brings us to Dubufo, and his grodt plcture., These dashing’ military paintera; these roulists, suoh ns Gerome and Cabanol; these Guardians of Tirkoys and Sheep-Tondars ; for less theso exaltors of tho sonscs above spirit, of tho Lody above tha soul of Art,— ARE NOT HIS CONTEMPORADIES. He bolongs far moro to tho school of his mas- tor, to Delarocho, to Ary Seuoffor, to Couture, Tor tho subject of Lis picturc ia drawn, not from Aloxican battle-fields, nor yat from tho thoatres or drawing-rooms of the Paris of 1866, Dut Lo has gono to the old rnHosltory of Para. Dles written ** not for an ago, but for all time,” and rond thoneo to his countrymen a moral, like that of Coutura: ho has attompted to dopiot, with all tho resourcos of his art, tho bittornoss of the ending of & life d?‘olnd gololy. to tha ploasures of the sonsce, And yot hois not an anachronism, . Tho treatmont of his subject_is gr his own ago, snd uot of Delaroche's. Ilo 08 BPOILED THE PIILISTINES, The daring aflrontal of every.difilculty of fore- shortoning and Enrspncuvn displayed in bis varied attlbudes, the wealth of hig coloring, aud its charactoristics, are' part of the redcoming foatures of modorn French painting ; so also nre thio romnrkable individuality aud wonderful lifo of his soparate faces. Something, too, ho mny Do said to have taken from tho Ifalian age and mastors, whenco he borrawed his costumos. But wo wolcome it ns & Fovival of tho mim and misglon'of art, o long loat sight'of in Franco ; andns o ‘prophuc that tho riotous and do seadod gouius of Yrench Art, so long dwolling in re- zions forergn to truth and purity, may boforo ong return to that * SPINIT OF IDEAL DEAUTY againgt which it has so heavily siuned, and bring coneolation to the land which has boon Intoly & mournor among nations, OuARLES LANDOR. The Ecole des [Beaux Arts of Parises Stndont=Liice Correspondencs of The Chicayo Tridune, Panis, Jan, 15, 1874, Nenrly all in America havo honrd of the great Tcole des Benux Arts of Pavis; but very fow, probably, know tha onormous proportions this Axt- Propaganda (o to sponk) of tho modern Fronch achool bas sttained. 1t is by far thoe LALGEST AND BOST LIDERALLY-SUPPLIED gohool of tho world, and tho palutors, soulptors, arehitocts, and looturors who giva their timo to it, aro all of tho strongest and best known nsmos in Ark, Litorature, and Bolonoe, Buch men as Gerome, Oabanel, Dills, ‘Palno, Duyal, Zvon, &ud many moro of like ropu- tation, are not nomiually, but actlvely, counoct- od with the institution,—oach glving two half- days in the wook to his speoinl llolmnmout. Tho odifloes thomsalves, completed {u 1838, are so yast as to warrant the exolamation of a visitor, mado afow days sinco; Why | this is a villagol” One wanders from court to cowrt, sround charming _ little gardens, through vast halls, and from building to huilding, un- til_ho loses his .way, snd i falu to call In the uorvicos of the uttendant guardisn to whow him out, for which polite attontion ho dls- Dburses tho usual numbor of centimes. Lot us 508 how the studcuts PABS THLID DAY, Loaving tho Tullovios, we oross the Pont des l Bnint Pires, and, turning down tlio Qual’ to the o Bonapnarto, aro fairly within the sacred pre- olucty of tho Latin Quartor,. About hinlf a bloolk from the rlver, wo como upon nn immonso court, surrounded on all-- sides by works of art of difforent nsges. Thin Is traversed in - company’ with “many *othor’ studonts g for it is abont 8 o'clock n, m., and the models pose at that hour, o oritor hio gront bullding of thoe ** Musco,” somo 260 foot aquare, containing four Inrge halls, fitled with casts, studios, loo< titre-rooms, Illm\r{i utu. All thoso aro bonutle fullyorhamonted, Up the broad stairs to tho seo- ond atory, and, foliowing an archod corrldor to its oud, wo find oursolves in GELOME'S BTUDIO. This doos not moan the private studio of Gor- omo, which ia in auothor quarter of Paris; but ik menns & room in which about sixty youug mon worle from the nudo model, both ‘in drawing and pnmtlufg. and whoro the groat mastor comes twico o woolt, punctual as clockwork, examining and oriticlsing what onch hns done. ~ ITo sponds tlio ontiro morning thero, na tho students say, 3 (.ilvlug ug his_somi-weolkly blessing.” 1feia «quick, sovere, and impartinl.” During his stay the room is quict and orderly ; but, at vther timos, it is ofton o Pandemonium, to which n fow earthquakes would bo a swoet and bliseful onlm in compnrison, Suddenly tho door opons, and somo youth, armed with tho propor authority, sogks admittance. . ’ LUCKLES ‘ NOUVEAU ;" He is grooted with cries, "hisses, and groans, Loudor nnd_loudor. swll tho”orfos of ~+ Nou« voau!". intorsporsed with “snol plonsant, spicy romarks on his pordonal appearance a4 tho faney of tho students may suggost. ¢ Oh! how hand- somolio in!" ¢ What u moustache!” ¢ Look abhiphnt!" 1Mo squints!? “Ordor, gontler mon! - The Emporor of Russia -would like ta makous & specch!” &e. Tirst ho pays his **bienvenu " to tho studio, ‘This iy discrotion- ary in amount, but imperative,—usually 20f, Aftor which, a deputation conducts him to the noighboring street, where an Invostment is mada in two things, viz.: a baskaet of rolls (crolagants and somo botties of ** Dlolo-Onssis,"—this las! boing o vilo doooction of bluokborry-wine and brandy. ‘Q'heso aro run past the sloping gunr- dinu, and rocoived with wild mmutustalfimu of raptiro by tho studld. Aftor each ono hos b sorbed his allownuco of ** Molo-Cnssis,” and par- takon of a croissant (the French studentoats out of complimont to his stomach, whother he wants it or not), the * Nouveau * is mounted on the modol's stand, and obliged to sing. Tho worso tho music, tho botter thoy like it; soma scroaming, “Goon!” athors, * Buoughl " une til, at Iaat, the poor follow, his brain whirling, is allowed to descend, no louger an object for their mirth, but not yot free, for his is the pleas- ant duty of OING ON ERRANDS i buying two cents’ worth of black soap for washe ing brushos ; cnr?mu tho towels to tho laundry, &c. SBomotimos dignity robels ; but, sooner or lator, onch one takes his turn. ,Of courso, uoith- ‘or tho poying of tho “ bienvenu,” nor tho system of hazing, is supported by tho authorities; but -in this, a8 in noarly all other institutions of the sort, 4t scoma impozaiblo to provent them, and in #pito of all the turmoil, the amount of worl done in the weok le wondorful,—far, of course, thoso rowsaro only occasionnl. This degerip. tion ig of but ono studio; the snmo will answor, howaver, for all tho othors. s B MODELYORTANE, ara fair,—not 8o good, porhaps, on tho averago, 610 Tiome. - Hemalo modold aro. gouotally fue, but not plentiful. The * Foun "ab tho Beanx Arts is four hours and a halt,—that s, from § 5. m. uutil 1:30 p. m.—during which timo thero aro thirty minutos of rost, Botwoon half-past 12 aud 1 o’clock, bronkfast ncoui:ios our attention ontiroly,—~tho Amoricans and English im}\mnd\lg the same rostaurant ; _aftor which the loctures commenco, and we rush back to ANATOMY. | Thisisin & building on tho opposito side of the, court, where Prof. Duval keops us interested dur« ing no.hour, Nothing is wanting in the way of illustrations for these loctures. Skelotons, . auatomicnl figures, casts, and doad subjects, are in abnndance, At tho side of the lecturo-hall, and conugoting with it, is the dissocting-room, furnished with subjocts and open to the stus . deuts. From Anatomy to WISTORY 1 This branch belongs to M. Taine, with whosa works all Art-lovors aro familiar. We it in the cront lecturo-room of tho Boaux Arte, ack of wus is tho maaterpicco by Paul Delaroche, *'The Hemicycle,” on which the arlist worked. threo years, recoiving 80,000 francs for his labor. 3, Taine confines himself, duving this month, to Grooce and Gre- cian Ast. Othor days of tho weok have thoir courses of Porspectivo Archeology, &o, The splondid library, open all day, furnishes. fox those lectures plates of Architecturo, Costumes, and Anatomy. t At 4 o'clock commonces again tho classcs of Drawing and Modeling ; aud so, day after day, this vast macline moves, A few words as to 1TS WONKING. The Boaux Arts is undor tho immedinte con- trol of, and supportod entirely by, the French Govornment, liverything is~ provided on the most liberal scalo. Noarly oll tho artists and professors who direct it arc membors of the “ Tustitute.” Singular onougly, their remuneras - tion i moroly nomiunl,—scarcoly enougl to pay for a emringo to and from the Lalin Quarters but the honor of being couneoted with this ine stition in considrable ; it marks a ran g8 hold- ing o high position in his profossion. Then, too, tha paiator o soulptor. teaching hora founds a achool in his mothod, hnudingfi.down to the noxt genoration through his pupils, 1introduce hore BOSE STATISTICS obtained from the Scoretary., ‘Tho school was foundod about 1613, under Lonis XIV,—its com« moncoment being small, It contains now : Throo studlos of Drawing and Painting “Flyree studios of Sculpture. . Three studlos of Archilccture Ono studio of Qutting ou Cop Onu studio of Medale,seeus CONCOURS our word compotitions best expresses it) of Painting and Seulptura take place ovory six months, called *Concours do Plnces,” which sitply ontitle tho succossful student to n placa in other concours, Evory month thore are con- cours of motal-cuttors;” every throo months, concours of - composod wketches; overy six monthis, concours of tho whole figuro. In Archi- tectura, the conconra take place every nlternata month, At the end of these, modals are given of the firat, secoud, and third dogroes,—tho first being the Grand Prizo of Romo. ‘I'he Fronch Government DOES NOT STOF HERE, but completes its good work; for o who wina tho prize at tho ond of the year is sent to Romo, whoro his Government supports him Hberally for throo yonrs, that he may study.the Old Masters; aftor which it buys his firat picture, and ho starts in the world with tho kindly Lolp and hearty godupoed of its strong arm, _'Pho Bonux Arts is open and froo to all, TFor- eigners ara as welcomo as natives, and thoy are coming from all quartors of the globo,—the greater numboer being Americans and English, Wo who nro horo foel gratoful for the liberality and kind hospitality oxtended to ue. May tha duy soon cone whon America will roar aud nmur- turo o cavofully her young artists and strug= gling pupils, WALTER BLAGKAAN, J Tupll of Geromo e THOU.SAIDST | FORGET THEE. Thou saldst I forget tlise, my foolings would ehango, ‘When once separated, *mid others I'd range ; My love would grow cold ; that wmy hen&, bounding reo, Would boit but for ofhers whon distant from thos ; That auothior would pleaso mo, another I'd woo, MMy first love forsworn, forgotful of you ; ‘Tt my bosom would'chauga; bit It novor shall boys T'il no'or fiud onotlier lovod foudly o thioo ; il neor find anothior o prized or 8o dear, ‘Whera'er I may wander or fortune may sieor § Tl no'or find another, Low fair #ho msy b, My Losom shall prize or so worship aé thoo, 1 mot thooI loved as T no'er lovod bofore ; Wo mot—ya hinyo parted—but atill T cdore, I guzoon the foirest,—thuy’re nothing 1o nie,— X il charma I bood not; my thoughths nro with theaj Tho suuhine of beauty tay boam asl & will, ut dazzles not 1mo,—L1l o truo to thoo still, Taatnjaht, i my sluabers, Tt thoo, sweot mald, Tn all tho awoot graco of thy beauty arrayed, Aud wild to my lieatt, without care or aunoy, 1 cluspod theo ngaln with foud, rapturans joy. Wo strayod through tho valloy, tho dell, and the groves Al Natuiro was vooal with hupj'rioss aud lovo s T thought not of parting,—my Lliss was cowplote, With sunaliine nround mo, und flowers ot my feel Aud thon wallsing by mo, iy all, as thou art,— My lovod oue, my owa one, tho foy of my heart, Ty H‘d s in mllun, ulm‘, ,wl{. i toudoreat tou, Ty voleo whisporod rapturd;—thy oyo brightly & Wtk of th oy UL Torus Juce tn stord ) ome Wo pictured tho future & hoaveuly shoro, A dreamlund of raplure, o vislon of joy, No cloiid could d'crsladoyy, o care could destroy, Alas for our visions | thoy ehine to botray ; I woko from my slumbers, ail faded awny,— The munshina dapartod, thé fowers and theo, Leaving nought but tho tloudssnd the ehadows for mey "Phou'rt gono from my gz, but il meet A e el o0 DT donbe o el et 3 Tl clanp Hico In raptiro, 11t Joy, to iny hourt § Tu hiapp'acas wo'll ety snd wo nover siall m‘m