Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 27, 1875, Page 5

THE CHICAGO TRIBUN SUNDAY JUNE 27, 1875.-SIXTEEN .PAGES, veal vote, and that they were count- | Keely principle, will rune train of cars from a by the Council and announced as te result in these two wards. How ¥s it, then, that the swindlers and ballot-box st0ers in the First Ward were not indicted wilitheir associates in the Second and other ward? There is another point which noeds Some avestigation. Among those indicted in the Seond Ward ia Mr. H. M. Reep, who a short tire ago was forced upon the Board of Pablic Wrks by the Mayor as s Sidewalk- Inspector. In view of subsequent devclop- merts, it ite fair question to ask if the May- or forced th Board to make Rrep a Sidewalk- Inepector in ympensation for his services in Gefeating the yishes of the people of Chicazo by Hlegal meay, It looks so. One week frog to-dsy the glorious Fourth nf July, with itabird of freedom, star-span- gled banner, fre-rackers, patriotia orations, pop beer, denuncations of the effete Old- World ‘monarchies sky-rockets, ranaways, corficgrations, brokn noses and fingers, will be upon us, with its customary demand for velebration. As it wil come on Sunday, and as public opinion doesnot yet tolerate patri- otic demonstrations of fie conventional noisy description on Sanday, sme people will cel- ebrate on Saturday, but the great mass on Monday, and there may th some people of ardent patriotic impulses md strong physical constitution who will try to celebrate all three days. The situation, therefore, is simply epptlling. It cannot be expicted of average doman nature that it can endtre two days of pistola, popguns, fire-crackes, torpedoes, Bans, cannon, and blanderbmses, with all the cheerful oonsequences af fins, maimings, shootings, explosions, etc., etc, which are the harvest of gunpowder. The Mayor, therefore, hss a solemn duty in the premises. He cannot abolish Fourth of July altogether, neither can tho Courts enjoin it, but he oer- tainly can issue an eloquent proclamation designating either Saturday or Monday as the piicial day for burning gunpowder, making bd eagle scream, end lopping off arms snd ‘3. Germany has on African lion who bids fair foocenpy the place in public interest made vacant by the death of Dr. Livrxastone. His pame is Nacaricat, and he has just returned to Berlin after a six years’ absence in Africa, and after it was supposed ko had shared the fateof many other African explorers. In 1839, he was on the medical staff of the Bey of Tunis. and in 1870, left his position to carry presenis from the Emperor of Germany .to the Stltan of Bornon, He remained with the Bornous three years, when s war broke out between them and the Wadais, during which Nacuti@au was captured and sentenced to death; but by his knowledge of medicine be so impressed his captors with fear that they never enforced the penalty. He re- mained with them three years, and then suc- ceedecd in n:sking his escape, and he is now in Berlin recviving the congratulations af his countrymen. It is reported that he has added waterially to the general stock of knowledge poncerning Africa, and is about to publish the result of his discoveries in book-form, The power of super-tition and the religious smoticzs to varp ignorant minds has lately been Mustreied in New Orleans. The immediate oo- tagion die famons baned-alive case, the de- tau of which were pablished in Tox Tamuxe some {ime aco, The man said to have commit ted the mardcrous borial was kept in jai for Severzi weeke, without bail, and finally brought pp for trial Three witnesses appeared egainet bim—all negroes, superstations,excitable, tad densely ignorant. The first wituess saw the cogin containing the live nan driven to- Beads the camotery; according to his knowi- tdge, the o-cupant of the coffin raisad up his arms Ligh. ag if appealing for help. The sec- Dod Witcess eaw the man in the coffin raiee his logs, and heard him say, “ Don't bury me ative.” The third witness hoard the man groan, and ssw hin sit, opright. The natural inquiry will be, Why. if the man could tft nis arma, and lege, aud basd 60 freely, and speak ag he felt depow-c. 2:2 he pot rise up and ask the by- wtonders for assistance? There was absolutely pothiug in the accusation,—a reputable phyei- vion's certificate showing that the man in the softin was as doad as emall-pox could male him. of administering morphine hypo- flermicaily is still a disputed part of therapeu- tics. Tne controversy on thie score latol: waged in this city must be in the minds of most news- Paper resdere. A psralie] ease hes occarred in Bichmond, Va. The pbyeician involved there is Dr. Mactms, said to be one of the best snc- geonsin the city, who was Medical Director of Btonewall Jackson's Corps during the War. Tho petiont was a lady in au sdvanced stage of Pregupey threatened with a miscarriage. Dr. Macvine found her suffering great pain. Ho administered bypodermically 5 minima of Ma- Gendie's solation of morpbine, snd then left the Patient slove for several hours. Alarming symptoma being mavifested during bis absence, and be not being within call, other phvsi- cians were summoned, They, immediately on hhasring tho treatment, prescribed asafetide ; but the pationt sank rapidly and died. The phy- gicians last called in charge Dr. Macuran with malpractice ; and, ss be is a military doctor, the prospect of aduel is considered by friends of both partice quite promising. parla ta Sit ere The Rt. Hon, Worms E. Grapstorn, ex- Premier of Engiand, bss made some progress in Philosophy, and bas consequently arrived at a stage of imdifferertiam aa to moet human in teresis, But, with all his philosophy, we did not suppose be contd calmly contemplate the proe- pect of going to Heaven without first having geen America. Such appears to be hie intention. His repiy to the notification of his election to the Honorary Chancellorebip of Union Universi- ty coptains this positive relinguishmont of the highest European ambition: ‘+I Jament to say that I mnag make over toother—to younger and ‘to less oocupied—men the hope of crossing the Atlantio.” The highest compliment that can be Paid Mr. Gravstorm is to eny that America ‘Will miss more than be wil) by his perseverance i this intention. PERSOWAL Gilmore's success et Barnum’s Hippodrome is éoormons. An spricot tree grows against Senator Cam- ‘eron's house. ‘Max Muller has recovered bis health, and is gain st Oxford otman Hunt's “Shadow of the Cross” is on ‘tuilution in Dabhia ‘The “ Life and Letters of Lord Macavlay™ sre do be published snortly. Btonewall Jackson's statue by Foley is to be Brected in the Richmond Capital Square. The Heraid sags McGuire's minstrels did pot meet with the support they should have hsd. Swioburo's “Eseays and Studies," from the Review, are poblished in book form. The Des Moines Register longs for the time when malleable glass will be msde into ladies’ Greases. ‘Ths Jouracl ef Health sexys: “Bleep sf you €an,"and the Journal of Chicago obeys it to ‘the ister. Bowen says that if there iz a deadly feud be- tween him and Dr. Leonard Hascu, be has not Beard of it, 4 \ Ourtemperanee friends are inconsistent, Thay @eafenen slocho! ea a stroog dcink, and recom Tasad water indient. A ginse of water, on thd Philadelphia to New York. Hence they are ad- Vocating the strongest drink in the world. It must sound fanny when John Begod, ‘of Springfield, O., anawers the question, “What's yonr name?” 8. L. BE Barlow has been asked to write the treatise on poker for the “American Oyclopm- dis.” Has Schenck passed 7 ‘ President Orton, ofthe Western Union Tele- graph Company, has just celebrated his silver wedding. He's 8 wiry voteran. The female house-fly doss not bite, but her tendency to suicide by drowning in your tea-cup quite offsets thia admirable quality. Aconvict in an Indians Penitentiary has sent to the editor of the Indianapolis Herald s four- biaded tooth-pick invented by himeelf. The chief editor of the London Times ia Mr. Delane. Doesn't that sound like muzziin' the press ?~New York Commercial Advertiser. Maj. Michael P. Smailiaasaigaed toduty onthe staff of the Military Division of the Missouri as Purchasing Agent and Depot Commissary at Chicago. # The New York Mail grieves over tho early Geath of Mr. Bunker, and wiches he had been regent to see how far his hill haa got ahead of old Preed’s, William Sbakepeare ia exciting no little re- mark in London. Heiss young and rising ten- or, but at present, with all his efforta, he hasnot reached high C. The phylozera scare among French grape- growers to put up the price of wine has wub- sided. The promise is good for s crop larger than any wince 1843, Another inventor bas come to grief in the par- son of H. M. Pains, of New York, who ia con- atructing ® perpetual-motion machina to be run by hydraulic pressure. : Ouiéa (Mise De La Pours) and Braddon should repent and ger married.—particularly the Tatter,—for tho Bishcp of Manchester condemns their books as immoral Gon. George A. Forayth bas, upon the recom- mendation of Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan, been order~ ed by the War Departmest to Europe on busi- nese connected with the military sorvice. Boston, populous Boston, may proparly bs de- scribed a4 the town in which hundreds of thon- sands daily ‘lve and move snd have their be- ans."——New York Commercial Advertiser. 8t. Louieans are chafing the present Governor of Missouri becanse ex-Gov. Woodson has been presented with twins. They should be, say the Monnd citizens, Gubernatorial perquisites. St Lonis calls Chiesgo a wickea aity, while her amateurs and professionais play base-ball on Sunday and imperil their immortal souls in the hope of getting ahead of this city on the diamond field. An American Spiritusiist, Firman by name, haa been convicted of frandin Paris. His im- position was the spirit-photograph humbug, and his dupes are not as Firman the faith as they used to be, e ‘The day after the sononncement of the great failures in Engiand, two spple-stands near the Fulton Ferry suspended operations. The tica of commerce are perhaps too sympsthetic.— Brooklyn Argus. A skiff containing an old man came so vear going over s 2-foot mill-dam in Iowa the other day that “he was drawn back just as death bod resched out its brazen hand to elutch his wrinkled throat.” Little Warren Hancock Smith. a Boston boy, hasn’t been abie to sit down for two days, in con- sequence of having been detected in the act of converting his father’s razor into “The Sword of Banker Hull.”—Braoklyn Argus. ‘ Lieut, John G. Ballsnoa, U.$. A, jnst from ‘West Point, is stopping with his mother at No. 1338 Preirie avenue, where he will have his head- quarters until aesicnod to his regiment at the expiration of hig furlough in Octobor. Paul Boyton's invention dates back to the earliset ages. A bas-relief among the Nineveh maardles in the British Museum shows tbat the the Ninevitea croesed the water in swimmung- suite made of sking, with a mouthpiece to inflate them. s “A Peonsylvania paper,” says the Now York Tribune. “calls Alfred Tennyson ‘an old stockin’ bottle’ and requests bim to ' cork up.’™ Mz. Cuilda ie very upgeuerons, bet rival artists are always apt to eberigh unwholesome preju- dices, The Duke of Edinburg hss written several musical compositions, aud is going to publish them, Great Britain hea stood s great dea! from this young man, and pardoned his stingi- ess in the dispoeal of notes, sad this is the re- ward she gets. The London Bookseller, the mouthpiece of pfratical publishere, saya suthors onght to be plundered any way. The barelar who goes throngh the house of that editor shonld receive ». vote of thanks from the few buadred million peopis who write books nowadays, Avery poor woman io Paris has given birth toa baby which is clearly s reverdion to a Primordial type. The beast ia in every particn- Tar a monkey, with teil. hair, and teeth. The fother, a workman, is crazy with disappointment, and the mother almoat frautio with horror aud disgust. Senator Jones, eratwhile of Nevada, was reckon- ed aguileless and truthful man. He entered Politics; be went to the Senate; he mat Jay Gould, and vow he swears that the boss of Wall atreet did not gouge bim out of $700,000 at one slap. Perhaps it is se well for Washington that he died some years ago. : Among the fans rooently sold in Paris by M. Aloxender—whose collection was the moat cele- brated in arone—were the following: Fete in a park, painted by Baron, 1,520 france; Bali at the Opera, by Lami, 1,950 franca; Pierrott bo- fore the Tribunal, by Conture, 3,809 franca: View of Gecos, by Wyld, mounted on tortoise shell, 1,100 france. Jndge Reed, of Charleston (8. 0.), in sen- tencing two murderers, read their obituary poem to them in advance, the atanza being the fa- miliar ‘This world is al) a fleeting show.” The prisoners did not, as they might have done, pro- teet against going out before the show was over, probably satisfied thas they would be noar enough tothe drop. Prof. W. Stanley Jevona, in s treatise on sci- entific method, assorts that “If the whole popu- lation of the world, say ons bundred thousand millions of persons, were to deal cards day and night for & bundred million of years, thoy would not have exhansted the one hundred thonssndth part of the poasible deals of s pack of cards.” F ‘The following lines, sppropriate to the season, ave offerod the Philadetphis Ledger, to be used until the 6th of July, and then returned, pro- paid, inside out with eare: “ Little Johnny had a pistol, which to fire off was hia joy; but he fired it onoe too often; we have lout our too pa- triotio-and-over-eager - to-celebrate - the-Fourth- of-July-in-sdvance boy. Gone to meet Guy Fawkes."—St Louis Times. George Harding once had to)eaveSt. Lovis on acount of the amall-pox.— Courier-Journal. Then why did he select «dark midnight, when all the poliosman were aclesp, aa bis time for leaving ?— Milwaukee Sentinel, The gifted gentleman who doea the fect and ear business for the Milwaukes Sentinel also eft the Denvocrat office somowhat precipitately. Mr. Harding left on account of small-pox, but in the case of Mr. Kaine, sole- leather was the motive power-— George Harding. It waa only @ line or two in the daily paper—a few words to the effect that the Central Station had been newly whitewashed. Goodbesrt, of Sixth street, came home afters night’s absence with whitewash on hig back, and, as ha mat his wits, he aad: “Hang my lick! Got carried off on a Lake Shore train.” Shs picked up the paper, placed ber thumb on the word whitewash, and there were icicles in hoz voice as she replied: “Don't let that happer again, Wildam Good baaeh,"—Deirot Fries Pron, THE FINE ARTS. Pictures of Home Artists in the Acad- emy Gallery. What Murphy, Gooking, Earle, Volk, Etc., Have Been Doing, Hints to the Academicians Concerning Picture Sales. The Good Work Done by the Art School at St. Mary's, Michael Angelo’s House---The Blue Grotto, THE HOME ASTISTS- ‘THETR PICTORES AT THE ACADEXY. The now foreign pictures at the Academy 80 overpowered the productions of our own artists, in size, brilliancy, and importance, that they crowded the latter ont of notice altogether upon tho morping succeeding the receplion. The ex- hibition stil! continues, and it ie proper that some memorandum should be made of tha con- siderable number of pictures by Chicago artista which hang upon the walls of the gailory, and constitote the most important display of the fort which has thus far been made this year. Before procesding to these pictures it is worth while to notice a emall German landecape which arrived late and is uncatalogued, and which, heavily and rather oddly framed, hangs just be- neath Brown's ‘ Onve of the Winds.” The aub- ject is simply a lady ed govtleman in a boat ferried over a awiftly-ranning stream by a boat- map, a few trees, anda bit of sky. The mono- gram C, R. and something in the treatment in- dicate Carl Baupp, of Dusseldorr, as thé author, the same artist who painted “Coming Through the Bye,” and the large picture of “The Coming Storm” at the end of the gallery. Special note is made of this pio- ture, becszse tt much surpasses the others of the same artist, and is in fact, for breadth and eatikfact; a lities generally, one of the very best bite of landscape in the collection. This, and Villo’s Lady and Bird,” acd Leitz’s “ Good Steel,” sre perbaps the most desirable pictures in the exhibition to hang in a moderate-sized room in a private house, 4n reviewing the pictures of a local coilection, it is always unfair to measure them by the same standard which would bo applied to a general collection from well-koown artista, The policy is—and it is the proper poliov—to make the terms of admission extremely liberal, and some of the artists are oontessedly little more than be- ginnera. The consequence is that local exbibi- tions contain pictures that possese little or no artistic merit, and which, in one sense, bave no proper place in soy exbibition of art; but ad- mitting the policy of encouraging young artia's by allowing them to exhibit and sell their pictures under the patronage of the Academy, tho question — wit! all thia class of pictures 1s pot so much whether thev compare favorably with the mas- ters, as whether they ahow marks of promive and of hones$ work. ; ‘Tho following n-tes do not pnreue any classi- fication of our artists, but comment is made in guch order as they bappen to oovur, 2, J, F. MUBYHY exhibits helf-sdozon email landscapes, very quiet and unobtrusive in character, but regarded by the artists as possessing a good dea! of merit. The “ Old Mill " (No. 110) is especially low in tone sud doca not get light enbugh where it is hang, nor probably would any light make the aky, that most diflicult part of oil painting, any- thing but opaque. Thero ia, however, vature in thiy picture ag in the others. Oue of the best of them isthe “Storm Breaking Up” (No. 23), which couvevs an excellent impression of atmo- epnere, that is, of what the woather is, half iy, baif sunsbiny, along the winding coun- try rosd and grassy billa. Whether it is eafe for an artiat ea young as Murphy to generalize aa much as be does would be questioned by some au:horities, His geners| style is vot unliko that of George Inness, ove of whose pictures hangs near the entrance (No. 51). D. P. RIGRLOW exhibits three landscapes, about equally good, aud among the best of the home piciures (Nos. 1, 41, 44), These pictures bear evidence in trees, and rocks, and detail generally, of faithful study of Nature. Mr. Elkins is aureprosented, or so nearly go that an artis of his reputation bad better be altogether absent, J. F. GOORIN puta his came to severai pictures of widely dif- ferent charactor—two or three fairy pictures, two or three landscapes, and two or thrée genre pic~ tures. In bis “Fairy Wedding ” (No. {0), which it is fair to say is ona of his very.eariy picturer, there 18 an excessive uge of extremo black, per- haps some liability to what Mr. Roslin deaomi- nates one of the abuses of the rocont English school, ‘the trick of rabbing half the canvas over with black or brown that the rest may como out hsndsomer, or that the spectator may be properly, but at the same time economically, pre- }.arod for ite melancholy or sublime character.” Better ia William Hun:’s rale, ‘ Remember, only one point of black and one ‘point of white in each picture.” In Gookins’ picture of mountain acenery tnere is uousually good perspective and expression of loveliness ix the valley, and if the color 1s high, we prairie-dwellers mast ask the foreign tourists whether it is natural or not. The ‘Visit from Flower Feiries " (No. 163), ex- hibited in the artist's studio on the upper floor of the Academy, gives ap opportonity in the great vase of flowers which tie fairica are boist- ing into pixce with ropes and mechanical appii- ances, for vreat’r masses of color than the ckher picture of similar subject, and is the most satis- factory of the finished pictares; but still more satisfactory (as so often bappous) are some studies op the walls of the artist's studio—one a large crayon of s aot of Iodinn brigand with a rie, and o0e a brosd sketch ia color of a wo- man’s figure io red waist, and white slosyes, partly turued away, The “Stirrup Cap,” I, G. BARLE, (No, 2), has good things in it. butit is deficientin color. Lt looks too chilly for the cavalier’s light costume 20 the {ady’s short sleeves. Some wari colorsin the dresses of these figures instead o: thoir green and blue would do much to help it, Some puotares of fiying birds, snipe, eto, which Earle has lately painted, seam more in accord With tho taste and powore of the artists. PAUL BROWN in the ‘Cave of the Winds” (No. 39) hes st- tempted » difficult subject, the water breaking over the edge of Niagara, without enough of un- Gonoted saccase to excuse fully tho selection of 80 oft-repeated a subject. . A very skillful little portrait of s lady (on ivory) boars the name of Borgella. A similar one (No. 152), pot so:five in color, perhaps from ‘8 difference in the subject; 12 the work of $ 4. F. BROOKS, ‘Thia artist threw his studio open upon the night of the reception, and hia pictures, modeat in character, excited a grent deal of admiration. Abeactifui crayon of a ‘child, a lovely subject swoetly treated, was the tacet conspicuous, and would go well amoug Rouse’s photographs of children. A highly-finished water-color portrait of s professor jeaning on @ book, an indis-ink study from the Life School, a water-color aketch ofa partof Grace Church, all are admirable in their way, sod this artist has every right to expect good things of himself. The miacella- neous character of tha work in his studio at Ppa porealie in oil, crayon, and ‘india ink, e-size and miniature, on canvas, paper, and ivory, snd sketches from Nature in a similar yansty—illuatrate wall the situation of'a work- ing artist in Chicago, and the Ity of “pure suing a specialty. In Drary’s “ Hay-Making” (No. 117), white the figures are some of them pleasing, the maa. on the load is too iarge compared mth the horses, and the bay rather greeo.co get in. ENOCH Roo exhibits five or six pictures of scenes in Venice, oll of them giving evidence of study from na- tare."One of ‘tie larger onss (No. 20) good in drawing and color, comes out ea] iy strong under lamp-light, the group of piles in the foreground being noticeable for strength and care in painting in a matter of detail. Tho fault of the picturo, if it amounts to: that, is one that leans to virtue's side in aq: artist who has lifo mostly before bim, a certain hardnosa and sever- ity in drawing. A little picture, about 5 by 6 inches square, of “Fishing Boats, Venice” (No, 88), would be our choice, Tho artists all certify tothe correctness of the bright-ovlored sails ‘which occar in all Venetian views. % ture of s “Boy Feeding an Owl” (No. A pio $3), Alfred ry high that {¢ oannod pepe Ret al pnbona tg heed ecough af tae ture in it to be highly creditable to s student, as Mr. Payne is said tobe. _ Phillips has a aingle portrait, of Mr. Winslow, a strong likeness, ; 8D, VOLE'S Vase of Flowers” (No. 123) is an unpreten- tious but pleasing and faitaful study from still life. Several other studies of this young artist, who hax just returned from 8 four years’ ab- seace in Europe, were dieplaved in hie father’s studio (L. W. Yotk, the sculptor,) on the recep- tion evening. Tbe youoger Mr. Volk was one of abouttwenty fortunate American artista who were admitted to this year’s saion in Paris, snd ® photograph of his successful picture was smong those exhibited at the reception, but as the original was a Iandscape and largely green, the good qualities mostiy disappear in the pho- tograph. peers 3 In a collection 80 large it ia impracticable to speak of all the artiats. One other picture was 0 striking that it cannot well be passed over, but since it is unfinished itis not yet time to comment fully upon it—ir. J. Roy Robertson's - “COAST GUARDSAIAN (No. 118), exhibited by itself in the lifeechool room. Tbiviaa charactor” picture, a singlo figure of noarly lifo-size of an old Sshermen, or longehoreman in yellow oilcloth bat, long boots, and rough coat, making his way. among rocks and surf, and peering out, teloscove in hand, st some object of interest, perhaps a sbip in distress, io the distance., There is 80 much stody and character in it that it is not lightly to be spoken of, avd it would probably be hard to tell the artist anything about it that he does not know. The colorisias very high key, and no doubt intended to be toned down. — William Hunt's rnle is rathor more than carried ons, the ouly point approaching white boiog in the eye, snd not much larger than a pinhond. A certain wenther-beatan benevolence and intelligence shine from the rugged features of the old galt. The moro of such vigorous and thoughtfal ex- periments in coloring we have in our studios the better for the progress of art among us. Sa cipenee THE ‘ACADEMY OF DESICN. A BHORT SERMON. Brethren of the Academy: An honeat men is the noblest work of God. Great opportunities imply groat responsibilities, The application of thie wisdom is this: First~An honeat man, ete. Everybody who hag had anything to do with picture-sales, even looking on, is aware of the great opportunity for fraud which they present. The temptation is rarely resisted by private agents and dealera. The value of pictures is an uncertain quantity, dependent upon various elements of diverse kinds,—the actual merit of the pictures, the rep- utation of the artist, the atate of the market, ete..—of which few persons can hava the means of forming s correct judgment; and the few who possess the necessary discrimination fre- quently are not identical with the peraons who bave tlie money with which to bny. Conse- qnently picture-as'os are frequently = kind of lottery, in which both dealer and purchaser ran riska and wort in the dari. But, a8 ip al) lotteries, the advantage ie altogether on tho side of tho seiler, and, if he is not extraordivarily honest, he will seo to it that bo bimueift comes out whole. Not to go farther for illustrations, there was grave didgatisfaction with the late enles of East— ern dealers at the Expositioa Building, because pictures kmocked off at one dar’s sale at definite prices to particnlar names were openly put up at auction on subsequent days. It is possiblo, of course, that they were tarued in by parchasers to be resold, bus no one believed this to be true, and the general opinion was that noone who par- chased pictures there could be sura be was not bid~ ding against bimeelf, The simple and childhke explanation given by a gentleman long familiar with suoh sales was, that “he supposed it waa the only way they could make sales.” Let the sales be made though the heavens fall! reat opportunities, etc. An azeo- ciation or scademy hay great advaotages in the market,—better means of collecting pictures, betrox advantages for wang them known, and more weight with the public. An honorable and uniform method of condncting sales is as feasible as it in desirable. Sup- pose the Academy of Design, for instance, wore to appoint a Committee of Appraisal, whore duty it should be on the approach of wvery sale to seta price npon all the pictures. “Lot thie valuation be understood to be the opinion of the Academy of what each picture is, at any rate, fsirly worth in the market. At the sale the picture might be started at any price at which the artist or owner was willing to part with ic and if compstition carried it far above the Academy price go much the batter, there would be no injustice done. The rich sud ignorant public would have a guide to the value of a pio- tara, aud it is clear that after a few sales the Academy would at-ract to its auctions a large oleae of buvers who want pictures, but distrast their own judgment, Such customers would wait for tne sales of the Academy, and buy no- where else, They would be sure of making no serious blundera, and would bave the seal of the Acodemy on all sheir purchases. Whatevor dissatisfaction was occasioved to particolar astists wonld have the redress of sppeal to the “Academy. It is wel} worth the while of tho ‘Academy to take an early and judicious stand in the matter of conducting sales, and maintain it rigidly through. the numerous sales that will be beld ic coming years. Such is the advice of Tax Tamoxm.. No extra charge. —_—~— SCHOOLS OF ART IN THE WEST. A VISIT TO ST. MARY'S. Prom Our Special Corres] Sr, Mazr’s, Norn Dawe, Ind, Jane 26.— Goethe, in one of his art raptures, soya that msny young painters would never havo taken their peuoils in their hand if they could have felt, known, and understood early enough what Prodaced 8 wasterhke Raphael. The West is now entering upon xreviral of interest in art witb an enthusissm which promises permanent re- sults; but two considerations enter largely into the contemplation of this interest. There are two clanges of art. people: they who practice art, and they who patronize it. One of these con- siderations i4, have the people who propose to patronize art s correct atendard of taste? The other is still’ more important. There cannot bo any correct taste for art in community io which there is no correct art. There cannot be correct srt, in thé producing seose, without art schools ; aad theas.echools must be conducted upon legit- imato principies, If they aro mere glittering advortisemeuts—schools of artifice, instead of schools of art—they will do more than vards of tawdry canvas or milea of false drawing to demorslize and delay the prog ross of art cnJture, and to maintain a kind of ridicu- Jous and pretentious conucissourship which would bo worthy only of the hearty laaghtor it inspires, if its dogmatism were not so misobieay- ons. It igas true inour timeas it was in Goetho's, that many srtists would never touch a palette had they apprecinted, in the first fover Of their smbition, tho painfal, Patient, labor, the dreary years of waiting, the disappointments and chagrin which checker and siadow this profession more than ail others: but taey would bave e8- caped those had the doors of properly-conducted echoola been opened to them. Thoro they wonld have seen clearly the magnitude of thoir aspirations, There tho besutiful pictaros de- soend from the walls, and tay their naked pro- portions under the dismayed and astonished eves, like cadayera on the dissecting tablo. There the exquisite whole separates itself into isolated parte, and the hard work which mast be expended, in 9 sprit of downright dradgery, upon each of the innumerable detaila, be- comes practical before the stadent’s mind. The delightful synthesis of art is trauaformsd into its slavieh unalyais; and the youth who would become a Rapnael conceives clearly that he must first become a slave. 5 THE MUMDEE OY BUCH SCHOOLA fo the United Btates is increaning, and ths ex- eellence of our Chicago school should eommand for its much reore extended patronage. It is not apprecisted even as well as the art school at St, Mary's, of which I have been making » lew- urely “and = doll! examination, =o. do, “not conceive thst the obief sim of such _institations is. to produce Papbaels by aa artificial or educations! process, Thera are no exotica in the garden of art Genius ig born only in unconiined nature, and the ruder the climate the lustier tne plant. It was so sonstous & critic as the elder Damas who declares that “ art needs solitude, or missry, oF passion, Lukewarm zevphyrs wilt it. It is s Tock-flower, flourishing by stormy blasts and in stony soil,” Popalar art-schools do not under- take to croste ganius, but to identify and train it, Art edocntion makes oftenest amateurs or mechanics," simply because mediocrity ia the average of bumsn facnities; but it docs something far better. It detera from attempt- ing acareer of art those persons who tistake art-taste, an eye for form and color—for art-tal- ent, and who, im: the exuberant bappioess of the natural emotions resultiog from this, con- found ed berger with ability, Art educstion palls agide the will-of the boantifal, and exposes to the observer's attention the {guoble and to- ‘Gtotia wokk frate wblok tke basisis tne oraleed, meer sneer an me Bat if art-achools deter the in tent, aro the only sure and padsmaiead TRUSTWORTHY AND HELPFUL MRANG OF BNCOUE- a .,,, SOUBAGING TRE GAPADLE. While itis trne thst talent, as Hogarth main- tains, does what it can, and genius what it must, it is quite as truo that both require aida to de- velopment, and nowhere is this truer than in art. Compare, for instance, the drawing in what few Pictures we know anything aboot which were inted befora ‘the discovery of perspective by eonardo da Vinci, with the best of thosa which have followed, and it is found that one of the chief merits of all of the latter con- siats in the rigid enbjection of light and lines by tho iron ralea formulated from that which is Dow considered 4 natural principle. It was, too, mmnsic. There were gongs and a sort of har- mony before the monk Gnido of Arezzo aiscoy- ered thas certain intervals had been fixed by nature; ‘ond all modorn cousterpoint doparte from and returns to what we have come to call the common chord. Tt wocld be as reasonable to attempt musical art or musical culture without the science of music, as art practice or art culture without tho ecienca of art. Tue one is n6 clearly dofined, aa legitimato, and a8 firmly established as the other. Probably tne highest benefit, because the most general nod the eadur- ing, which wo csn anticipate from art-schools in tho West, is the formation of casta and culture, aud that tho firstfsball be pure and the second thorongh and genuine, instead of the sickening affectation which it is too often unw, depands largely upon the character and honcsty of the art-schools. Years age I was one of a class whose demure investigation of Homer and Cicero was varied, three timea'a woek, by the visits of a French gentleman who taught us “art,” Ho was a punter, whethor of fiotds and skies, and bouses, or of houses only, we never ascertzined, for we saw none of his work except in our dramng- books; but we know he was an artist by HIS WONDERFUL MUSTACHE, and any donbts that lingered in the minds of the akeptical wore daily dambfounded by tae depos- its ander his finger-nnils, He taught us “art ™ by eriticising, in gallicized soglish. the manner io which we copied certain stuovid picteres on one side of the drswing-book upon the opposite page. These drawing-books were hke the con- ventional copy-book, except that they contained. no proverbs; and tha pictnres which we were expected to reproduce io fac smile, with four Pencils of diiferent. blackneases, often lay in ‘uneaay, tilted, curved, or oblique attitudes, znd we looked st thom askanco, from many angles. We copied then: mechanicaliy upon a page of roughish paper held at fixed angle, and candor compels me to add that no conrt would have sus- tained a claim to the trees, the castles, and the riparian righta of one picture by any alleged resemblance to the oaks, the towers, or the river in the other. We were srstematically abandoned to the copying of flatness,—to the imitation of unitations. BUT THE TEACHING OF ABT IN 6. 2aRY’s is very different. Here there is no copying of flatness. I did pot ave asingle imitation of an imitation. The drawing and the coloring are taken, in every instance, from life, and somo extremely beautiful work 1s shown which could not bave been achioved in any {oss intelligent way. No copying, except from life, is tolerated orthonght of. Every line which the pupils draw is drawn from life; every atom of color is s mimic of tha same atom in whatever object the pupil is using as a model, There is {ust enough of our Simian grandfathers left in us to make us all a little monteyish ; the average child can imitate com- mon sounds, and reprodace a simple pict far as the lines are concerne2. Give & chi picture of » cheiz, and it will, in a moment, give you the picture of a chair, The child’s chair would not be ante, porbaps, to gt on; it may not rest securety on the floor, and its legs may have no settled relation to ita sent or ita back, but it will be the picture of a chair, tha ‘features ” being as recognizable as those of some.of our lesding citizens in certain ex- hibited portraits. But askthe eames child to draw on paper the cheir which stsnds apon the floor, and he cannot doit. He will give up the attempt in disgust aftera moment's effort. It is there that the sciance of art comes in; it is thera one gees the difference between sadying art by similatine inuations, and learning art by drawing from life. . ‘Attar learning to draw only from life, ‘THE NEXT ESSKNTUL TO SUCCESS is that the pupil snall be kept faithfully upon the fondamentals of art until the principles shali be thoroughly mastered. In na direction does ambition sc hasten as tawara the composi- tion of colors. Every young artist yearns to leap, spurrea, tpoa # flying Pegasus, which sbait diamouvt bim ina month. before a vast canvas, which he may daub according to the sublime sport of his fancy. There were no “yonng landecapes” on the walls of St. Mary's art department; and it was a grest re- lief aot to be tortured by Lhe eight of even one. A “young poem™ is bad enough; but * May Heaven protect us from young landscapes !* should not have beon forgotten in the htanies, The drawings I saw were simple and woodorfally exact; the best of them—as woll the most diffi- cult, a8 every artist knows—baing uncompro- mising blocks, which must be drawn correctly, for errors in such mathematical work will so outrage the tme eye as almost to set one crazy. The models, of which there are many varieties, are placed before the girls, the priuciples of simple linear drawing expoanded.—the heat-tescher, I onght to have said long ago, is ‘diss Eliza Allen Starr, well and affectionately ramembored in Chica: sod the girls go on with their study of the model and the experiment of reproducing it, until the fac simile looma upon the paper. Thisis very hard work. It is persisted in, and, after a while, if the stadent have talent, it becomes delightful work, bocause she begins to feel its value. To attempt diverse drawing witaout learning to reproduce accurately from life, would ba hke undertaking to play s fague of Sebastian Bach's without learning the scales. Elementary drawing from lifo is to progreas in art what practice on the scaios is to progress in music. Miss Starr is ably supported by Sistere whoxe talents sre reimforced by devohon, —tor art, soove srervthing elae in the world, ia devotional, fiods within religion the climax of its ecstasy as well us the highest distinolion of ita tod, The noblest achievements of art are notonously the inapire- tion of religion ; and tho charches are the great paiatera’ immortal monuments. If art has honored religion, raligion has certainly rewarded art. It is less devotional now than at any time since the rensissauce, but, af least, it is still reverent. Ruskin is of inion that, in old times, men used ir powers of painting to show the objects of their faith, while in later timos tiey use the objocts of faith thac they may show their powers of painting. Happily, bowover, the best art stali thinks lese of itaelf than of that which it strives to represent, and tho greatest painters of the future will value their fame as did those of the past, according to the dignity of their eubjocts. Art will preserve religion and renow tts legends jong after philosophy abail havo made the last emit upon it, THE PRETTIEST ATTEMPTS IN WATER-COLORS which I sew in St. Alary’s were buuckes of flowers, drawn and colored invariably from hfe, Soveral times I laid the real flower beside the copy, sad the trathfalness of tho reproduction was, in moro than one instance, absolutely with- out's blomish, as far as s fairly oye is capable of discerning. These water- colors were all tha work of young ladica, whose ages run from il to 20, and several of them would fitly match those beautifal pictares of ‘Teresa Hegg. of Nico, which altracted so much attention at the recent ex- hibitfon of pictares in the Art Hall of the Chi- cago Exposition building. Mer. Ronoetti, the Papel legate, said that he saw nothing in Kurope that compared with St. Mary‘s, and he waa de- lighted particulaz! iy with ie -astachool. ee ODDS AND ENDS, A portrait of Raphacl at the age ef 20, sup- posed to be by himself, was recently found in Rome. A commemorative group, modeled by M. Bo- quin, representing France receiving ® soldier mortally wou nded, is about to be erected in ths champs Elysees. No medals cf honor have bean awarded by the jury to avy of the painters who exhibit at this yoar’s Salon, but they have awarded one to M. Chaper for his sculpture, ‘La Jeunesse,” form- ing partof a monument fo Kegnanit and the pupils of the Schoal of Art killed during the war. Betver than Mz, 1. O. Earle's picture at the Academy are two piotures of his at Jansen & Mo- Clarg’s, one a brace of anipe on the wing, the otber some children ailing a little boat on 8 brook, both good and pleasing pictures. A tiny marine view of Moran’s bangs just ever Earle’s picture, good, almost of course. ‘illiam Page is preparing an introduc! am tides his Stakepeareen iBeouligaitone whieh ho completed last summer by a visit to the Ger- man mask, from which he took sccnrate mess- urementa that afterward, applied to the Strat- ford bust, carrespoaded in overy esssutisl par- ticatst. He has finished « bust made from his asaly of the Garman mask which is to be rele: ao Duss bead 2 ndareaali fo ‘ so} blue silk, and wherever the water waa stir size, and is finished withont the details which marked the accurate copy of the death mask, while it brings out the likeness to the Droeshout end Chandos portraits, especially in the clear, full eyes. ‘The correspondent at Athens of the Kolntsche Zeitung has anaounced that the buildiogs which azo to form the focus of the great works of ex- ploration there were to be ready for use by tho midd!o of May, when the German directors of tho undertaking invended to enter upon their new quarters. It is snticipaated that the work of excavation may be systematically organized as s00n ad the summer heats are over. MICHAEL ANGELO’S HOUSE. Private Letter from ftaly. There was very tittle that was interesting to me except the house. They show his cratches and slippers, which latter I have my doubta about. Then there are some autograph letters sud various articles of furniture, and one or two sketches (rapid models) in wax, besides some original drawings, sovera{ portraits of himself (not by bimeeif), and a lot of things thet have no particular connection with anything. The house is ins crowded part of the eity (Fior- ence), snd is not wonderfal in any way. I was Pleased to gee at the * Belle Arti,” the other day, the wax modela of Michael Angelo’s * Night. Day, aod Evening.” They are perhaps a foot long, and most csrefulty finished in every re- spect, all the detsils being wrought with the greatest delicacy. Thoy are said to hava been found walled op in his honse, and disprove the popular idea that the grent artist choppéd his statues Out of the marble sithout a guide. Par from it. These small models are finizhed with s care and nicoty thai the little fotowa” am the sculptors would do well to follow. Our artistic fmend saya be bas often wondered how ‘ho should have finished the head of the “ Day,” which vou remember 1s merely blocked out. He saw exactly when he saw the model. Here is a good atudy in ultramarine: On a caim morning we tried the Blue Grotto ios Capri). As I havo said, the entrance is from the sea, Our party—two gentlemen, two ladies, and our boatman—got into the little bost for the Purpose, and were told to get our heads below tho sides of the eraft,so that we should not have them scraped off ae we passed through. ‘The entrance is about 5 feet wide and just high enough to admit the boat. The boat was pad- died to the base of the cliff under which tha cave is, and the boatman, seizing the rocks over the opening, waited for 4 favorable wave to car- ryusin. [tcame, tbe boat rocked and grated Against the rocks, then plunged into the dark- ness.’ As somebody said about the railway as Mt. Holyoke, “It was the Devil's own inyen~ tion," but we passed through safely, and were well repaid for our feara, For some reason, not explained so far as I know, the water reflects &® Btroug~ vive light upon the roof of the pista and, in fact, upon everything. The dies (upon whom, of course, my eyes naturally fail) lost all thejr color under ita influence, and looked like ghosts of their former selves. The cave is, we thought, about 100 feat actoes, and, perhaps, 30 or 40 igh, and most gloriously bine. What added to the picturesqueness, or rather wierdneas of the place, waa x fellow who Is ia the haLit of diving into the water for the edifi- cation of visitors, and who, when we entered, stood nearly naked at the entrance of one of the galleries leading trom the main grotto. He Jooked like the genius of the place. After con- siderable bargaining, which took away from the poetry of the scene, this man consented to go into the water for us. The effect was quite sur- { Prising. Ho 100ked as if clothed in tig] Pr Aitiog into foam it was of the same color. Altogether it was very remarkable, and well worth seeing. After passing ont by the same perilous way we set sail for Sorrento and drove home, with our three borses abreast, to Castellamare. Pacem dS PE Pradently break up your cold by the timely use of Dr. Jsyne's Expectorant, an old remedy for sore Jungs and throatu, anda certain curative far soughs. DRY GOODs. SWEEPING | REDUCTIONS AT THE New York Store Ladies Grass Cloth Suits reduced from $3 to Ladies’ Grass Cloth Suits, 3 pteces, reduced from $4.50 to $2.25. Ladies’ Limen Suita, 3 pisces, reduced from to $8. Ladies’ Linen Suits, braided, reduced trom $13 to 4: Ladies’ Linen Suits, embroidered, reduced from $18 to $12. Ladies’ Linen Suits, embroidered, reduced ‘from $25 to $15. sce Shawls reduced from $1.50 to 750. 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