Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 25, 1880, Page 18

ESE Ln iota dete ota tl semicemreae erie tens olin we en oc cen mc ns «Ann me a eh ee em a eeaaaaecer (5 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 235, 1880—TWENTY PAGES. — THE TURF. ‘What the American Horses in ' Empgland Did Last Week. Speculations and News Concern- ing the Two-Thousand- Guineas and Ches- ter Cup. A Well-Known Driver Engaged in Training Runners—Notes and Gossip of the Track and Stable. ENGLISH EVENTS. The past week has been a busy one at Epsom, a number of notable events having been decided, but in none of them were the American horses able even to make a fair showing, none of them haying run toa place in the two races in which they started. It was thought on this side of the water that some of the younger members of Mr. Loril- Jard’s team would be started for the Great Surrey Handicap last Tuesday, the distance being but five furlongs, Wallenstein and Nereid being in at Jight-welghts, leaving Parole and Falsetto to do battle with the En- glish cracks in the Prince of Wales Handi- cap, Wherea yery high class of handicap lhorses ‘was diiaaods The Americans did uot come to the post in either event, how- ever, Fashion winning the Great Surrey Jiandicap, and Cradle the Prince of Wales. in the nominations to the Great Metropolitan Stakes, run Wednesday, Falsetto was the only American representative, and as he did not start it is fair to presume that the son of Enquirer and Farfaletta has not shown the form in England that made him such a great horse in this country, last year. In the Hyde Pars Plate, for 2year-old colts and fillies, run the same day, Mr. Lorillard sturied Dakota and Passaic, a couple of colts sent across the water by him. ‘They finished fuurth and sixth, respectively, in 2 field of “fifwen. Both Falsetto and Parole were named in the City and Suburban, run Thurs- day, and the old horse started. He was un- able to repeat his victory of last year, how- ever, and Sly Dance, who made her maiden appearance this season, was not more fortunate. It looks now as if neither Falsetto nor Mistake was in form, or Brown would certainly have started them; since Mistake, frum the time when he rushed out of the crowd at the finish for the Criterion Stakes in this city last fall until he gave Sly Dance a beating in the memorable race for the Sanfgrd Stakes at Louisville, in September, n the mile was run in 1:43}4, showe¢ himself to be_the best Dyeir-old of the season; and Fulsetto was certainly too Speedy and stout for all the 3-year-olds. ‘The events of the present week are the Prince of Wales Stakes, to be run Tuesday 4 at Newmarket; the Two Thousand Guineas, to be run Wednesday; and the One Thou- sand Guineas, to be run Friday. The follow- ing Wednesday, at Chester, will occur the great race for the Chester Cup, in which Parole was defeated last year by Reefer, the Auerican gelding being a kot favorit previ- ous to thestart. The acceptances and weights for this event are as follows: Acceptances for the Chester Trades Cup of 500 sovercigus in specie, added to a Handicap of 25 sovercizns cach, 15 forfgit ; the second receives 100 eoverelgns, and the third 50 sovereigns from the stukes, the winner after Jan. 2, at 10a. m., of the One Thousand Guineas or Two Thousand Guineas Stakes at Newmarket in 180, or a undicap value 500 sovereigns 12 pounds, of 2 handicap value 3007 pounds extra; about one mule and three-quarters and 100 yards; 63 subs, 5 of hom declured forfeit: Age. Wt. wi Age. Wt 4 125) Advance... Hobbie Burns. 21! Phidorroch, ie Moorfoot.. 300 Maxamilia 108, Ynilammon 107) Reefer .. 105 Aduumite 104] Humbert, 1c Mistai 96] Mars .... 4 90 Calabria? Admiral Hiyng..lla ot Organist 95|Chocolute . “4 Bluckth v2| Herzewoving....-4 Glanmoar. 91) Othello. WaALLENS: 1|Calabar Rosalind. S Sirver. $6/Qunkeress Cylinder 85/Commbat - Sword Dance #2 Ttoulette Goody Two Shoes: John K1ox. Martivaile Sal Brown Bread 2013) Ti| Usk... 8 The day following the Chester Cup comes the Great Chester Handicap, in which several of the Americans are named. Parole won shis race last year, beating a large field with ease, in regard to the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby, “ Vigilant,” in the last number of the Sportsman, says: There was more speculation on tho Two ‘Thousand and Derby to-day thun has been the case for some time. For the Newmarket cou- Jest a bet of 215 to 100 was uppropriated to Mask, who is not at all unlikely to compete for tho‘ Column Stakes at the Newmarket Craven meet- ing, capecially 4s the task set him is apparently uu easy one, though we are accustomed to all Sorts of surprises ‘at each succeeding Craven. About Brotherhood a wager of four “ponies” tuund a taker, and after 1 to] had been noted to some money about Zealot, 10 to 1 became the taking odds in favor of Lod Bradford's son of Hermit and Zelle. The colt, it will be scen, is bulf-brother to that very disappointing horse. Zucchero, but he may not prove such an un- certain customer, as he is not sired by Lacydes. Zealot won only one race asa 2-year-old, for ‘he wus indulged with a walk-over in the Went- Worth Stakes at Doneaster. His victory was achieved in the Bretby Nureery,in which he defeated a big field of competitors, and his at- tendants home were Belfry and_ Castillon, the latter of whom has done pretty, well in France this spring, and might have played a protningnt part in ‘the Lincolnshire Handicap bad he Gompeted in it. He was sent to the Car- holme, but was taken away to France without foltilling his ¢ngayement in the fen countrs. ‘That Bend Or bas done well during the winter and s0 much of the spring as we have experi- enced there cannot be the smallest doubt, for the opportunities of supporting the unbeaten sun of Doncaster ure never neglected. To-day a bet of four “ monkeys" was appropriated about him, and mindful of the hand into which the wager went a shorter rather than a longer price ought very 5) ly to be chronicled, for the lend given £0 significantly is certain to be followed. Beaudesert is decidely second favor- it, for this afternoon 1.200 to 20 was written down to the name of the Middle Park Plate win- ner, while 20 to 1 was recorded to his stable-cum-, panion Draycott, whose advance to his present price has been very gradual, and doubtless it is truc that he is an improved colt, but possibly he will nut be seen out before the Derby day, as he was not included in the acceptances for the Newmarket International Handicap. TRACK TALK. The field will be free to the public Derby Day at Louisville. ‘The annual story that Observer is all right is going the rounds. - Ee Alden Goldsmith’s trotters reached Suffolk Park, Philadelphia; last Thursday. Al Brown will have Taylor, record 2:28, and Oaciana, record 2:2734, in his stable this year. 2 Stewart Maloney, Lizzie Keller, and Shep- pard Knapp—three old timers—are in one stable at Boston. Strawn’s Monarch, the sire of Monarch ANAASREASSeR Rule and Monarch Jr., died recently near Denver, Col., aged 29 years. , Thomas L. Young, record 2:19%, is to be trained this season, but it is doubtful if he can ever be got into condition to trot. The dam of Jewett {three-year old, record 2:2314) is a little old brown pony, 1434 hands high, said to be a son of ip. Glencoe. Donohue will probably have the mount on Volturno in the Louisville Cup, although the matter has not been definitly settted. Georgia Wood, the dam of Una, died near Lexington recently. March 6 she foaleda bay filly by Ten Broeck, which is doing well. Fred Haight will remain in Boston this season and handle the trotters belon ing to LL. C, Chase, the man who brought out Hope- ful. Mr. Charles Littlefield, who trained Mr. Sanford’s English stable for two seasons, isin Kentucky, the guest of Maj. B. G. ‘Thomas. ‘Trinidad and Wayfarer, who ran snecess- fuily on the flut last season, have been sent to Saratoga, and will be trained fur cross- country purposes. f aban hak wn mare Queechy was preecirone in 1876 by Charlie Green with a great fourish of trumpets and took the Bag | nearly every time she started, has been sole to Western parties, an Eastern paper states, for road use. She is fast but unreliable, an has a record of 2:25. The 3-year-old colt Cedric, by Alarm, 2 one time-the property. of Mr. parllard, has been purchased Strauss & Co., and his name changed to Wolf. i McCreary, full brother to McWhirter, die April 10 at Maryville, Miss. from. the bursting of a blood-vessel. He was a stock horse of more than usual meri St. Julien is to trot against his own record at Oakland, Cal., May 8, and on the same day Belle 1, Abbotsford, and Col. Lewis will indulge in a match race for $200a corner. . “ Jack” Batchelder, who has piloted John II., record 2:20, so many seasons, will appear this season behinda fast youn: Taare by Harold. Jack is now at Suffolk Park, Phil- adelphia. . nee The Fashion toe-weight, the latest device in the line which its name indicates, is being introduced among Chicago horsemen by Mr. B.A. Tyler, and & meetin; favor. Itis advertised elsewhere in this issue. ‘ The filly foaled by Maiden (ihe dam of Parole) just previous to her death has been adopted as a work mare on Mr. Loril- Jard’s farm, and is doing nicely. It is by Alamn, the sire of Himyar, Danger, etc. uitean important sale of trotters will tans lace at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, Monday of next week. Among the lot to be disposed of are Gray Chief, ea Tom Brit- ton, 2:26; Lew Ives, 2:25; PreSton, 2:25}{. Dispatch, the roan gelding that went ona “ringing” tour through the West under the name of Windsor, and wa wards reinstated, will be trotted this His owner recently refused an offer of $6,000 by New York parties for him. When Parnell was in Philadelphia during his recent visit to this country, he was given a ride behind the trotter Wildair, record 2:25. On his return to Europe the aitator sent the owner of the horse a jockey’s cap, which will be used by the driver of the animal thisseason; -* : Col. Stone, of Cincinnati, has finally con- eluded that he will trot Maud 8. through the Grand Central Cireuit for whatever he can get, instead of holding out fora stake for G-year-olds and under, $200 entrance, with $3,000 added, and a dispatch from him to that eftect will appear in the Spirit of the Times, which reaches here to-morrow. During Gen. Grant’s visit to New Orleans he visited the race track, and_was shown Capt. Cottrill’s 3-year-old colt Kimball, that ran so wellasa 2-year-old last. season, and. whose success at the recent New Orleans meeting showed him to have improved over his 1879 form, He is being backed quite well by followers of Capt, Cottrill’s stable for the Kentucky Derby. The following are the Jatest quotations at Fox & Co.’s Tivoli povl-room in_the Ken- tucky Derby: Three to 2 against Kimball; 7 to lagainst Luke Blackburn; 3 to 1 against Bowling Green and Fonso; 12 to 1 against ‘lias Lawrence, Pat Farrel, and Talisman; 15 tol against Duke of Kent, Boulevard, Amazon, Bancroft, Rambeau, Kinkead, and * Warper’s colt. Mr, Grinstead’s famous: race mare Janet, that has been conspicuous on the turf for the ast four years, has been retired from train- ing, and hus been bred to Ten Broeck.. Janet is credited with the fastest four miles ever run _by_a mare,—7:25,—and as ‘Ten Broeek’s 7:153f for the same distance has never been equaled, the produce of this union should be a stayer. Mr. E. Martin, of St. Louis, who formerly owned the fast team Janesville and Dread has purchased the bay gelding Duke, that at- tai a reputation in 1874 by winning the 2:33 race at the Cleveland meeting after the retirement of his original driver, Duke tak- es fifth heat in 222614. He was at once purghased by a Cleveland gentleman, and has singe been ‘used on the road. He will be trofted this season. he new trotting association, known as the Iron Circuit, comprising tracks in Western Pennsylvania and Ohio, has made all iar- rangements for the summer meetings, and it was agreed that entries should close on ‘Tuesd dunel. The first meeting of athe cireuit will open at Friendship Park, Pitts- burg, June, and continue until the lth; New Castle, Pa., from June 17 to 20; Akron, Q., June 2 to 27; Youngstown, O., July 1 to 3. Purses amount to $15,5 Bowling Green and Fonso are looked upon as the imost dangerous competitors in the Phoenix Hotel Stakes, to be run on the open- ing day of the Lexington meeting, which commences May 8. Both have grown a great deal since last fall, and are taking their work nicely. Luke Blackburn, a colt that ran well as a 2-vear-old last season, but was in almost every event overmatched, is also well thought of in this stake. The rumor that Bramble had gone amiss proves to have been unfounded, and the money is still being piled on the little horse for the Louisville Cup and other events in which he is engaged, ‘The Illinois colt Vol- turno is also being strongly supported in the Cup, and his odds are now only 3 to 1. It is generatly believed that this race lies between. Bramble, Volturno, and Irish King, but, al- though the last-named colt is reported to be doing well, but little money has been laid on. hin, his price being at the present time 7 to 1, nt which figures he is in company with Dave oore. John Croker, who will be remembered in connection with Gray Salem in much the game manner that Doble is with Géldsmith Maid, or Splan with Rarus,—he having de- veloped the wonderful jumping qualities of the East Buffalo gelding;—has abandoned the trotting turf, and is now at Nashville with a string of runners, or—as_John terms them— “leppers.” When Gray Salem was sent to Europe last fall, Croker saw that trotting was on the wane, and resolved to reti while his laurels were fresh. ‘The spec! of a race in which somebody is not contin- ually complaining that Croker cut him off at the turn will be a strange but at the same time refreshing one. John thinks that Gray Salem will prove a great suecess in England, but regrets that he was not entered in the Doncaster St. Leger or the Curragh Steeple- chase, in either of which events he would have been perfectly at home. Philadelphia seems to be getting all the trotters that are preparing for the campai, In addition to the stables of Turner, Craw ford, Goodin, and others, mentioned hereto- fore, the arrivals last week included the fly- ers being handled by Mace, Kelly, Dustin, and Rody Patterson. ‘The last named has Belle Brasfield, record 2:20. Kelly has Etta Jones, record 2:20, and a green mare. Mace has Hopeful, record, 2:143; Capt. Jack, rec- ord 2:26; the Western horse that Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt bought two years ago fora road- ster, Gov. Stanford, record 7; Judge Ful- lerton, record 2:18; and Hoy: George, rec- ord 2:25, Stanford is a California horse, and Was brought East last fall by Mr. E. S. Stokes, being sold at auction recently for $1,000. Jimmy Dustin has the horses belong- ing to Thomas H. Wallace, the lot including Darby, record og; Henry, record 2:2043 White Stockings, record 222i; Dan Bryant, record 2:24; and Triumph, record 225k. The only ones in this lot of any account are Darby and White Stockings, and_it is doubt- Tul if the latter will be any good in his elass. Mr. Wallace has been a liberal buyer of trot- ters, but the only winner he ever secured was Darby. The program for the regular race-days at Saratoga has been issued, and is as foliows: sll J! —Travers Stakes, 3-year-olds, 1%; miles; subs. July 1;—Sweepstakes, all ages, 1X miles; 14 5. sub: July 20—Alabama Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 13 miles; 38 subs. July Flash Stakes, 2-year-olds, 14 mile; 26 ate subs aul: 22-Saratoga Cup, all ages, 2% miles; 14 subs. duly 2—Cash Handicap, all ages, 134 miles; 28 subs. way 27—Saratoga Stakes, 2-year-olds, ¥ mile; subs. ~ July 29—Sequel Stakes, 3-year-olds, 13{ miles: subs, July 31—Summer Handicap, all ages, 14 miles; 35 subs. Aug. 5—Untted States Hotel Stakes, year olds, 13 miles; 25 subs. «Aug. 7—Grand Union Handicap, all ages, 1 miles; 43 subs. Pepa 7—Kentucky Stakes, 2-year-olds, % mile; 2 subs. Aug. 10—Clarendon Stakes, 3-year-olds, 14% miles; 21 subs. inthe 12—Kenner Stakes, 3-year-olds, 2 miles; subs. Aug. i4~Windsor Hotel Stakes, 2-year-olds, 5 furlongs; 40 subs. Aug. 1i—Congress Hall Stakes, all ages, % mile heats; 31 subs. 3 3. Aug. 1’—People’s Line Handicap, all ages, 2 miles; 40 subs. aug. 19—Day-Boat Line Stakes, 2-year-olds, ¥ mile; 36 subs. As evidence of how the best horsetlesh may sometimes be foole: toa racer,a gentleman of Lexi ton, Ky. relates thé following:, “In 1853, f think it was, Col. Wingate, former Superintendent of the Association Course, near this city, in- formed me thata friend of his, a well-known turfman of New Orleans, came to Kentucky for the purpose of buying a colt. He visited udges of in regard «The Meadows,’ then the home of Dr. War- fede where he made known his desire, Dr Warfield, pointing fe ai lob, reald Es mene vi in that lot, and yor have sre cote aa00.. Walkie out to the lot the colts (both yearlings) were carefully inspect- ed bythe intending purchaser. He threw sticks and shook his hat at them, in order to test their coltish spirit. One of them was as frisky as a lamb, and the gentleman was so well pleased that he purchased him. The other appeared to be a lazy, quiet fellow, car- ing little for either hat or sticks. The one urchased never made any mark on the turf, but the descendants of the latter. have a lead- ing reputation wherever_ racehorses are known. He was the great Lexington.” NOTES FROM ABROAD. The latesttip in English betting circles is to back Awerica for a place in the One Thou- sand Guineas and Oaks. 3 Wallenstein’s weight in the ‘Newmarket Handicap, which he won easily, was heavier than that ever carried by a 3-year-old in the race before. Px The judges who swindled Parole out of the race for the Liverpool Cup are writing let- ters to the English sporting journals denying that they had money bet on the event. At the expiration of its present lease in 1852 the French Jockey Club will leave their present premises in the Rue Scribe, and will probably occupy a handsome club-house to be specially erected in the west end of Paris, Old Daw, a _British-bred trotting mare that from 1856 to 1864 was considered the equal of anything on the other side of the water, died recently in England, aged 35. In 1859 she beat Jack Rossiter and Dreadnaught, both jiteriean-bred horses, a race of three-mile heats, During the recent Durham meeting West- minster, whilst facing for the lead in the Corporation Welter Handicap with Roodee | and Mayflower IL, ran ont of the course, tak- ing the other two with him. The three horses ran at a garden wall, capsizing their i jockeys, who, however, escaped with but. slight in- juries. Mayflower U1. was so badly injured that she had to be destroyed. Soon after Mr. Keene’s horses reached Jo- seph Dawson’s stables at Newmarket that trainer discovered the habit which Spend- thrift has always had of making a continuous guttural sound, and concluded that his wind must be affected, A veterinary was called, “the Yankee” galloped strongly fortwo miles, after which the vet decided that there was nothing the matter with him, Count Greppo, who made a wager of 10,000 francs with Prince Belmonte to drive four horses from Rome to Naples without changing in twenty-four hours, started at 11 p.m. on Saturday in the lightest possible trap, with a coachman. ‘Two vehicles, con- taining the holder of the stakes, a veterinary surgeon, and a coachmaker followed. At «Gaeta one of the horses began to limp, and at9p, m., when ten kilometres from Naples, it fell down exhausted. The bet was thus all but won. -As it is, the 10,000 francs is to go to the poor.—London Times. PRINCE NAPOLEON. His Letter on the Jesuit Decrees, Jsispatch to London Times. Panis, April 5.—Prince Napoleon has ad- dressed toafriend the subjoined letter on the Jesuit decrees, which is likely to lead to a definitive rupture between the clerical and anti-clerical Bonapartists. It is fatal, more- over, to any idea of a vote of censure on the Cabinet in the Senate; for even if the Con- servative Republicans were willing to join the Royalists in such a division, the Bona- partist Senators could not do so without openly rebelling against their chief: “You tell me that our friends are hesitat- Ing as to the conduct to be pursued in the impending struggle against the decrees is- sued by the Government on the ligious orders. You ask for my opinion. I feel in embarassment in expressing it. 1do not like concealtng myself in the silence of mysterious machinations, and I believe that frankness is the way to gain_the con- lidence of. 2 people like ours. A Napoleon cannot without belying his origin be the enemy either of religion or of the Revolution. ‘Religion,’ said my uncle at St. Helena, ‘is the mainstay of morality, of true principle.’ The destiny of ray. family In 1800, as in 2848, was to save the Revolution from the enter- prises of the Royalist reaction. Napoleon, by the Concordat, reconciled these two forces, equally indestructible, though of very dit- ferent nature and origin. In that immortal work he sketched with the sagacity of genius the respective domain of Church and Stat secured to society the most precious of al advantages, religious —_peact and to every .citizen the most sacred of rights, liberty of tonscience. Two kinds of assailants menace this charter of pacifica- tion,—the sectaries of Theocracy, who dream ofa return to an oppressive and intolerant State religion, and the seciaries of disorder, who aim at organizing a society without a God and without a morallaw. I have ever been, and shall ever be, the adversary of both these two extreme pretensions, When the abolition of the budget of worship or the closing of churches is demanded I shall op- Posc it. When any one of the principles of the Revolution is questioned I shalt defend it. The recent decrees are not persecution; they are only a return to an indisputable rule of public lay. The principle which sub- jects the existence of a religious or- der to the authorization and supervision of the political power discovered in all societies. ‘he Bourbons .them- selves acknowledged it. To abandon it would be to destroy the State and to place it at the feet of Theocracy. Why, then, should our friends attack these decrees? Because they are based on the laws of the Empire and re- new. the too long neglected. prescriptions of theConcordat? That would beastrange fash- ion of showing themselves Bonapartists. Be- cause they are the work of the Republic? Only opposition without principles and with- out morality deny the good through hatred of the hand which effects it. “From a fear of dissolving the Conservative union? That disastrous fiction has lasted too jong. There is nothing in common between the Legitimists, who conspire against ’89 and us who haye made it invinei- ble, between the men of the white flag and the adherents to the national flag. It is time for each to resume their colors, their tradi- tion, their principles, and for ambiguities to cease. Of all ways of not being ourselves the most pernicious would be that making us sharers in the eyes of the nation of the hopes of the old régime, leading us to renounce the legislation of which the Napoleons are the authors, and making us the auxilliries of the forever-condemned party, which abases re- ligion, to be the instrument of the passions and schemes of a retrograde policy, hostile to civilization, science, and true ‘liberty. Make what use you think good of my letter. Ishall be glad if it obtains the assent of our friends.” THE PRODIGAL’S RETURN. The night-dews were falling ou hillside and plain, When a wanderer, weary and poor, ‘With travel-worn feet, and in sickness and pain, “Returned to his own father's door. Forsaken and friendless, in sorrow and shame, Once more to the home of his childhood he came. He was ragged without, he was hungry within, And his sou! had gone widely astray : For, by living in luxury. riot, and sin He bad wasted his substance away. With torn, bleeding feet, and with uncovered ead, He came for a shelter and morsel of bread, ‘The father, beholding his penitent son, _Rejoiced that the lost one was found, Nor chided bim harshly for what he had dono, But lifted him up from the ground. Te saw him returning, no longer to roam, And joyfully, tenderly welcomed him home. Are you: csraating. the years of your manhood in vanity, folly, and sin? : ur friends will forsake you, your strength decay, mute Teaper will gather you in. Then haste to your home ere you die in despair; Your Father is waiting to welzome you there. Your seu may be weak, and your sin may be great. ‘Your Heavenly Father to-day ‘Will greet you again if you knock at the gate Nor turn you in anger away. Though far from His presence in folly you roam, in kindness and love He will welcome you home. LAWNDALE. Chicago, 1880. EtGeNE J. HALL. <a Adolphe Belot, the author of the new piece at the Porte Saint Martin, “Les Etrangleurs de Paris,” once wrote a book called “Chatiment.” He published it at his own expense, but It did not sell. Belot then started for the United States ona sailing ship. From New York he went to New Orleans, up the Mississippl, visited California and Noumea, and returned to Paris, where he found to his surprise that, thanks to a confusion of the title with Victor Hugo's “Chatiments,” all the copies of bis book ad been sold. Encouraged by this success he pro- ceeded to write his novels and plays, incuding the “ Drame dela Rue de Ia Paix,” “E'article 43," “Le Testament de Cesar Girodot,” " Miss Multon,” “In Femme de Feu,” “La Femme de Glace.” the, *Sultune Parislenne,” and the “Venus Noire,” - the re-- ART IN NEW YORK. Some Reflections on the Prevail- ing Fashionable Craze. The Annual Opening of the Na- tional Academy of Design. Some Striking Works of Merit by the Younger American Artists. What Beckwith, Volk, Shirlaw, and Other Chicagoans Have Done. Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, New York, April 18,—In all the Paris Ex- Position of 1878 there was no such surprise to the American Jong resident abroad as the exhibit of Tiffany & Co. Unfamiliar with the progress of affairs at home, he had ex- pected to find, in the section devoted to the United States, those things in which heknew we were preéminent; he had expected to see acres of agricultural implements, miracles of machinery, piles of pills, the light and graceful buggy of the period, gigantic cases of false teeth, cubic yards of ileshless jaws, grinning ghastly at the show,—all as he had seen at the Vienna Exposition five years be- fore. He saw all this, but he saw, too, an ex- hibit of silverware and jewelry, and all the curious products of the goldsmith’s craft, which in grace and originality of conception and in beauty and finish of workmanship surpassed all done by gorgeous England and by artistic France. It was a revelation to these countries,—a surprise and a delight to him,—to find ow¥ new world making such extraordinary progress in: any one branch of the fine arts,—a progress visible in many ways and in all branches to those who have watched it during the past ten years. That “culture” which was once the peculiar pos- session of the Braimins of Boston has spread to other castes throughout the land, and is especially sought for in the direction of “art” and “art-culture.” ART IAS BECOME FASHIONABLE here in New York;.it is the “correct card,” and all sorts of art-shrines are set up, and some very queer art idols are worshiped therein,—blindly and in bewilderment, it may well be, in most cases. These devotees might be imagined to say, by a malicious mind, in the words of the Indian worshiper to his stone idol: “We sce that thou art big and ugly, but we believe thee to be good and mighty!’ ‘The young New Yorker, says Mr. Salsbury in his pretty little play, “The Brook,” doesn’t understand anything he ad- mires, just as the Bostonian- won’t admire anything he can understand, while the young Philadelpian neither admires nor under- stands anything! Can this be true in art- matters of our much-assuming friends in all these cities? Let us hope not. Indeed, Ido not hesitate to say, Perish such a thought! And of the swarms of young Jadies all over the country who aim at being “artistic,” —tumor has it that Chicago is full of them,— how many of them really understand it, or eare for it, except as a fashionable craze? Does this amateur parlor art really come to anything beyond the paltry and ineffective results obtained by plastering utterly inap- plicable ornamentation on ludicrous and in- appropriate objects? How many of our fair young countrywomen, bent on “decorating” horseshoes and dinner-plates, shaving-mugs and clam-shells, ever raise their eyes to note the beauty all about them,—the myriad beau- ties of our superb American skies, of the landscape spread at their very teet, of the Jake or river rolling before them? Icom- mend to you, American maidens, these words of the wisest teacher of our day in these matters,—wisest, spite of all his willfulness and his waywardness. They are from John Ruskin’s “Seven Lamps of Architecture”; and they deserve to be written in letters o! gold, on a “decorated dado,” in each house- hold throughout the land, and so be ever present before the tyes of American women: “Wherever you can rest, there decorate. Where rest is forbidden, so is beauty. You must not mix ornament with business any more than you may mix play. Work first and then rest; work first and then gaze; but. do not use golden plowshares, nor EF n ind ledg- ers in enamel; do not thrash with sculptured dlails, nor put bas-reliefs on mill-stones.” And one fs sometimes tempted to go even farther than this, and when maddened be- yond endurance by the fashionable jargon of the day, the inane vapidities of art-slang, the senseless aping of foreign follies, to say with that simple and sensible Western editor, quoted with such relish by William Black, the English novelist: “It is with a still more sincere regret that the friends of a manly, vigorous, self-supporting, and self-dependent people, fitted for the exercise of political lib- erty, see that the branches of ‘culture’ called blacksmithing, corn-growirg, carpen- tering, millinery, breadmaking, ete., are not included in the course of study for the Chi- cago public schuols. Society is vastly more concerned in the induction of its youthful members into these branches of culture than it is’ in teaching them to baw! harmoniously, and to beat the hevw- gag melodiously,”—and tof decorate ? elam- shells and flatirons, he should have added. He goes on: “This city, and every other American city, is crowded with young per- sons of both sexes that (sic) have been *cult- ured? by a false and vicious system in music, drawing, and other fanciful and fash- ionable, but practically useless, arts, but that (sic) are actually incapable, by reason of thelr gross ignorance, of earning an honest jiving. But enough of the irate editor, and enough of this useless indignation over the folly and the feepleness we show in this direction. As tion, we are but beginning our artistic ning, and we must needs, as Incidental to that, training, slop over into ‘ush, affectation, and nonsense of all sorts. When we shail have arrived at perfection, at such a point, say, as the summit of Greek culture, whose splendor caused Michelet to name. Ther- mopyle the Black Friday of Civilization— then we may afford to be severe. In the neantime, let us take the gifts sent by the gods with due gratitude; let us not con- sider too curiously through whose hands they come. Whether or no Sir Gorgius Medas, of South Kensington, the newest rail- road-King of New York, the latest grain- Croesus of Chicago, the bonanza princes of San Francisco, really know anything about pictures is not worth worrying over. We nay quietly laugh at their ideas on these subjects, but all the same the fact remains that they spend their money for pictures, and that is the main thing, What though they have been content hitherto with the me- chanic perfection of Gérome and_the mathe- matically correct Frenclunen, with the com- Placent inanities of Toulinouche and Baug- niet, with the snug smoothness of Munich and of Brussels? ‘They are slowly learning. They even consent to buy the Matchless masses of Monticelli’s coloring now, first be- ing privately assured that they are not doing something absurd, and will not bé driven to hang hin in their bed-rooms!_ And, what is better, they have discovered that good pict- ures can be painted in this country, and have begun to buy works of our own artists, and thus, through them and those who follow in their lead, it is possible for our artists to live and our art to flourish, age The immediate occasion of this diatribe on top of the indiscriminate worship of the new god One of “Society,” which amuses the on- looker, is the fashionable furore over the re- cent installation of the Metropolitan Art Mu- seum in its new building,—for admission to the opening ceremomes of which there were over 8,000 applications for the 2,000 tickets to be issued,—and the fashionable crush at the evening reception customary on the yearly opening of the NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN. It has long been considered quite the correct thing to be present at this reception, and an “Academy crush” has become a proverbial phrase. This vear it was said to be greater than ever, rendering it diflicult to move, and impossible to see any pictures except those which were hung high on the walls, There Was consolation in this, however, to those who know the Academy Committee’s manner of hanging, for they were aware that the choice places on the line were sure to be oc- cupied by the works of the old and time-hon- ored Academicians, which it was little loss not to see, and that the best works were probably those hung —above,— even = “sky-ed,”—works of the out- siders and’ the younger men,—and so visible, even in the ‘crowd. Subsequent vis- its show this to be the case this year, as in all a previous years, and, whether through tradi- tion, force of habit, or what. covers in Wash- ington so many similarly unjust procedures, —‘the courtesy of the Senate,’—the line is monopolized by the “old wheel-horses” of American art. “All honor to these pioneers who have cleared the way and so made American art possible; but itis a pity that they, or their friends for them, should per- sist in obtruding their works on_ the public eye in such conspicuous positions. This thing. like Mark Twain’s mule persistently falling through Oliver’s roof, “is getting monotonous.” Some of these Academicians never could do genuine work, either of draw- ing or of coloring; others; honest workers once, have lost their grip and weakened into mannerism or feebleness. There are bright exceptions, but itis true that the list of these names ‘on the line” comprises many which make the judicious grieve to see there,—alist which I will not shock the souls of Philistia by giving, held in reverence as they have been in that world for so many years. By their works shallye know them,—none of them very bad, placid mediocrity being their cachet,—the only aggressively and gratuit- ously dreadful one being the so-called “* Tur- quoiseSea ” of Bierstadt, : It is pleasanter to turn to those which have DECIDED MERIT, and of these there are not afew. Prominent among them is Eastinan Johnson’s ‘Cran- berry Ficking.? a charming work, worthy pendant, in size, subject, and merit, to his famous “ Corn-Husking,” now in the Metro- politan Museum here. 1. Swain Gifford has a_large and noble tandscape, with a grand distance and atmospheric effect, There are ood specimens of Hubbard, Whithedge, McEntce, Winslow Homer, A. H. Wyant,— improving every year,—of Bellows, now do- ing figure pieces, “and not half bad,” as an English friend puts it; of Arthur Quartley, who devotes himself to our bay and river, therein setting a good example to those who haye no eyes for the good in their own Naza- reth; of Hennessey, who sends, from his sea- side home in Normandy, one of his pensive and picturesque coast scenes. But a Jarge. proportion of the canvases which attract and interest one here are THE WORK OF THE YOUNGER MEN, and it is of them, and of their other works in the exhibition. of the Society of American Artists, now also open, that I wish to speal more fully, The Society was formed, as many of your readers au courant with these matters are doubtless aware, over three years since, less in opposition to the National Academy than as a protest against it— against its undue conservatism, its cast-iron prejudices, and, above all, against its pecul- larities of hanging, to.which I have already referred. These youn men, returning from their studies abroad, full of ambition, and pluck, and new ideas, at once sent a shiver down the backbone of ail that is venerable, and respectable, and infirm in. the National Academy! It was only the other day that I heard one of the most aged and feeble ot these academicians express himself most vigorously as to the new Society and its hibition: “They are a set of the fingst specimens of blatant. lunaties extant, sir!” “And that girl-in red of Chase's, sir! A nymph ot hell, sir; nothing else!?? Perhaps our friend was a trifle enthusiastic; but I let him speak for himself, to show the drift. It was out of this feeling of holy horror, which he represents, that this Society sprung,—and for the more practical reason that these young men found a certain monotony in be- ing persistently rejected or—worse still— “sky-ed” by the Academy Committee. ‘The Society has grown and thriven, and now counts some strong men on its list; and to the yearly exhibitions others—even a stray lemican above petty predjudices—send th canvases. The present exhibition is their third, and is of great interest, albeit disappointment has been expressed ‘in cer- tain quarters, It is said—and not without justice—that the day of promise of perfected work for this new Society has gone, and that performance may now be expected, and that afew members lay themselves open to ad- verse criticism by sending in old studies, hastily-finished canyases, and even some unfinished ones. It is claimed that they are too ambitious,—an excellent fault, I should Say; that they are even bumptious, and seek to pose as “evangelists of art”; and. their detractors even object to the mutual admira- tion among the members, founded, it-must be owned, on a genuine and de served admiration of each other’s good qualities. What this Society has chiefly to guard against is the narrowness and bigotry of which they justly complain in the Acad- emy,—faults very dificult for any_organized society to keep free from. There isno such bigot as a liberal, it has been weil said in re- ligious matters, and this holds equally true inart. Let them beware of this extreme, and they will have all the success which we all wish them. ere is room for them and for the Academicians too; and their friendly rivalry will only benefit both, and the outside public, as well, in its results. ‘2 Certainly there is much to excite attention and admiration on their walls; certainty there is little that is trivial or commonplace. It is plain that these young men are in dead ear- nest; that they are not content with the tradi- tions of the moldy past, exceptin so far as they may seem to them to be good; that they are striking out into new paths, pushing steadily ahead, notafraid of paint or of using plenty of it; that, in Lincoln’s pet phrase, they mean to make a spoon or spoil a horn. ‘The public—that part capable of judging, those who speak with tongues of wisest cen- sure—have discovered all this, and now acknowledge that young American “ 0"? and originality, on a thorough foreign training, make a mighty good mélange. They may even in time conquer the forces of Philistia, and convince them that a young man_ may study for years in Paris and Munich and not become an abandoned Bo- hemian, and that there is no necessary con- nection between talent in art anda phocidng. hat and frowzy beard, Poor Philistines! Al- most in their last ditch of art, science, litera- ture, religion! With “the floodgates of society burst open, and the landmarks: ob- literated, and the whole framework crack- ing,” and all the train of horrors to follow, in poor Sir Leicester Dedlock’s pet phrases. THE MOS STRIKING FIGURE-PIECE AND PORTRAIT on their walls are by two of the youngest of our American artists, Mr. George D, Brush being but 24 years of age, and Mr. John S. Sargent a little older. “The latter’s portrait of his master, Monsieur Carolus Durand, is an extremely clever bit of work, striking and effective. 1¢ was much noticed at the Salon last year, where it first appeared, creating discussions favorable and the reverse as to its merits. It was of this portrait that Jucquet said, on being asked by an adverse critic whether he would be willing to sign all he had said in its favor,—for Jacquet was warm in praise of it; “Aye, with both my hands!” + Mr, Brush’s “Miggles” is 2 surprise and a delight even to those who have known his strong work, and watched his steady pro- gress during the six years he has studied with Gérome. Tlis works bears but few traces of the mechanical method, the per- nicious perfection, which so many students bring from this school; he has an individ- uality and strength which assert. themselves already. Miggles on his large canyas is a young woman who would delight her creator, Bret Harte,—even as she delights all of us,—by her grace, her beauty, her forlorn and friendless state; in a word. by her reality and truth to the original. She sleeps sitting on the bare board floor, before a vast country fireplace; her right hand out- stretched behind half supports her, her left arm twined about the nose of her bear, against whose side her fair head has drooped, as she fell asleep. The face in profile is the pretty face one would expect—and like—to see behind the bar of the “Aurora” or the “Eureka” saloon; it bears traces of its former life and its'present loneliness. The pose is graceful, the drawing admirable, the color fresh and sweet. In fine, it is a ‘real woman, this; no wooden fraine on which some scanty clothing has been thrown. “TIE GOOD SAMARITAN ” of Mr. J. Alden Weir is a Jarge and noble work,—large_ and lofty in conception, and nobly worked out. It wasa daring subject to attempt, and the artist has not avoided nor evaded any of its difficulties. The draw- ing and modeling of the naked body are especially fine; the scheme of color is good; and if the young artist has not achieved an entire success, he has, in the words of Ad- Son's Cato, done better,—he has “deserved i Ivis, at least, refreshing and encourag- ing to see these young men willing to wade in at the risk of getting occasionally beyond their depth, but deterinined to swim, after So many years of.American art content to paddle in its petty puddies of platitudes and convention: Mr. Weir is already widely known by h Tong portraiture. In figure piecesandin portraits, indeed, these young men are especially strong, their draw- ing being admirable and their Hlesh-tints true to life. Their portraits are by all odds the bestin the Academy, and beside them the Jyooden frames hung’ jwith garments, which. Huntingdon calls human odes, and the poor drawing, unnatural modelin; and fleshless tints ‘on Hicks? canvas, iook’ mors fantasmal and unreal than ever. On the opening evening I saw “Tom” Hicks—as he is always affectionately nicknamed—push his way through the crowd, guiding his hand- some wife toward his portrait of Miss e) zed long, talking earnestly at a while aire. Hicks, ‘though a woman of fine intelligence, is said to admire her hus- band’s painting; but I knew not whether it was for this purpose she was led thither, or because they sought the solitude before it for aprivate chat. Cham’s delicious little croquis tells the story: One artist, meeting his friend in the salon, begs fora few minutes of ri- yate conversation, to whont the other: “ Well, we'll go and stand in front of, your picture; we shan’t be disturbed there! 2 3 Whether the veteran Academicians, like the Bourbons, “learn nothing and forget nothing,” I know not, but I should really like to have their honest opinion on the por- traits by Fred P. Vinton and Frank D. Mil- lett, of Boston, and by our New York men, Messrs. Wyatt Eaton, Abbot Thayer, Doug- Jas Volk, J. Alden Weir, George Maynard, J. Carroll Beekwith, and 'C. M. Dewey. The work of all these gentlemen is so strong and genuine that itis difficult to avoid dwellin; on the peculiar excellences of each, and will speak only of ! THE CHICAGO MEN. Mr. Beckwith’s work is marked by the firm and brilliant touch of the accomplished workman, sure of what he wants to do, an of the surest way to doit. One never fears that he will make any mistakes in his execu- tion, Besides the handsome woman in rid- ing-habit, in the Academy, he has a irl’s head in the midst of lilacs, a “taking” thing, fine in drawing and color, and which was sold as soon as seen. Mr. Volk’s portrait of a charmnin irl, “In. the Studio,” cefully cain against its _ shab- By. old’ papered wall, is considered by many to be the best bit of portrait painting on the Academy walls. Whether he found his inspiration in’ his mood, or in his subject, the result is certainly in every way admirable, and far beyond anything he has hitherto achieyed. Mr, Volk has also an ex- cellent portrait of ‘‘A Fencing-Master” in the Society of American, Artists, with a clever ithe canyas,—a flirtation over a rden wall. oT do not know that Mfr. J. Francis Murphy can be said to belong to Chicago, for he went there as a boy, beginning as a type-setter, advancing to a scene-painter’s and then to a wood-engraver’s position; and only since he came to New York has he promoted himself to his present profession. I advise you to elain him, in any case, for he will—if he ful- fills his present promise—be worth claiming, and that soon, Ihad seen none of his work until, at the Water-Color Exhibition, I was eaught and held by alittle water-color of his, —justatree or two, with branches inter- lacing, a bit of grass and sky; in one ot those soft, moist, gray November days, so frequent in England, occasionally seen here. It was charmingly rendered. At the Academy Mr. Murphy has three or four small canvases, each of which contains a poem,—as much in what it suggests as_in what It says. For, with the true feeling for nature which‘he evidently has, ne does not attempt the brutal precision of some schools in portraying her beauties; he has a delicacy and grace and vagueness which has been compared to Corot’s style,—very unfairly, it seems to me, to so young a man as Mr. Murphy is; such a comparison necessarily handicaps him. 5a; Mr. Walter Shirlaw’s ‘Stone Quarry "at the S. A, A. shows decided ability in com- position and strength in handling, but, un- fortunately, it is unfinished. rr. Wyatt Eaton’s landscapes shows genuine out-of- door work,—sentiment, strength, simplicity, There is evidently the real artist behind these. So, too, all are impressed by Mr. Abbott Thayer's quaint landscapes; they prove the artist to be simple and sincere, see- ing nature with his own eyes, and not with those of a master ora school. Lis pictures have a calmandj quaint beauty, which—like that of a high-bred English girl—gladdens Sad tranquilizes the spirit it at once capti- yates. And the small canvases of Mr. A, P. Ry- der are wonderfully attractive in the same way. His fondness—which .in him is not any imitation—for the style of the old school would be an affectation in any one Jess original and less sincere,—say in an Englishman of the ‘Burne Jones type. But Mr. Ryder paints in this way because it is in him, and because it isa genuine expression of himself. One feels this in stu ig his pictures, And they are worth studying for their honesty, no less than for the exquisit coloring of which he isa master. _ for the quality of color, nothing finer can be imagined than the marine views of Mr. W. Gedney Bunce, which are to be seen at both exhibitions now. They are quite new the American public, none having been seen here before this winter, and pals of late years exposed in the Paris Salon: Indeed, Mr. Bunce seems to have been in no haste to exhibit; he has been content to pass patient- ly many years abroad in working out his own conceptions in his own way. Th sult is seen in his Venetian views,—for most.of his marines are of Venice,—views showing an_ artist, original, peculiar, full of force, and sentiment as well, and lit up by a subtle and sensitive feeling for color such as is seldom seen. Mr. Bunce gives us the poetry of the Venetian scene in its truest sense; as far removed from the feeble pretti- ness of Gifford as from the chromo-litho- graphic aecuracy of Coleman, or the clap- trap composition of Bunner,—to be contrast- ed on the same walls this year, He has been compared with Ziem and with Turner; but I: take no stock in these cheap comparisons. Hie has his own decided individuality, and there is a character in his work all his own. It is in color that he excels; his sky, and sea, and air are lighted up,—are flooded through and through with sunlight and with color. He brings back to us the Venice of poetry and romance; the Venice that we first saw with a thrill such as no other city and no other scene ever awakened; the Venice roseate and flushed with the “ light. that never was.on sea or land.” Yet there is not 2 suspicton of the theatrical or sensational in Mr. Bunce’s compositions; it is straightfor- ward, honest work. AND THIS, AFTER ALL, IS THE TEST. Mr, W. D. Howells told me once with what difficulty he had ried to impress on a sensa- tional young worker in the literary world that truth was at the bottom of all genuine good work and all success. “It is so in art, as itis in literature, as it is in life. Sincerity is the condition, the test, the talisman; by it we know the pretender ‘and the poseur, or recognize the worthy worker. And it is pre- cisely because of this quality in them that one is forced to “ take stock” in these young men, to respect their personalty as well as admire their work. There areso few poseurs among them! They have started out, most of them, with nothing but their manly self- reliance on their side; no institution to back them, no influence to push them, not even a “starter,” whieh witty George Gorham says is the very least requisit for the politician, even! They truckle to no traditions in their art, cower to no conventionalities; they are independent, simple, sincere, genuine all through. Let us wish them the success they are so ardently striving for; and a, godspeed. in the crusade they have unconsciously be- gan eainst the 4 Combined forces of the ds, the figure-heads, aud the Philistii of American art. * hilistines enti AN ENGLISH CRITERION. in this connection Jet me quote a passa; from the Academy of London, just at hand; it will serve to show what educated. English- men are thinking of our progress in art; and strange to say, although it isan En- glish judgment on ‘us, it is a correct one: “Americans are no longer content to buy old rubbish from Europe,—palmed off as the work of great Masters,—but seek to encour- age their own rising school of artists, many of whom will doubtless take rank some day as masters, even in Europe. It is to be re- gretted that we know so little of American painting in this country. The book illus- trations that come to us in magazines are so good as tomake us wish to be better ac- quainted with the artists, ‘They seem, how- ever, usually to prefer the French Salon to SuropelPtHons for ing iutroduetion to 7 meant, had spac i to speak of the admirable» *°° Permitted, ea DUES Ap BAS-TRELIEFS of Messrs. Hartléy, St. Gaudeus, and Oli Warner,—all three of whom Willman S ni ‘ tional reputation before many years, Iven- ture to predict. In Mr. Warner, T believe — and so. ‘0 many with me,—that we have found the genuine genius in sculpture for whom America has so long waited, | Hisbust ofMr, Weir in the S.A. Avis especially worth notice asa Wonderfully spirited aud noble Piece of Lhad meant, too, to speak of the acer NEW ART MUSEUM, “ and was in hope of being able to ith- out one allusion to South Renin swith Louvre, or any remarks about the part it is to play in the “elevation and culturd of the masses”; without one, and usually both, of Which points no speech or article on ‘the Atuseum has yet been considered complete. he culture of these masses has not yet gone palle: above, flooding tobacco spittle;" nor is 27g floges with and “ the female of his kind Tess offensive there than elsewhe: S OiTens! For -all that theo ene present writ ing. ie For ; t galleries are we =: fully interesting, filled with the finest loom collection of paintings ever brough ic It to; in, ails anew a anus Comm tee dines iu an in hangi without regard to the painter” ant or nationality, | but’ simply so each canvas sitall harmonize in color or ji tone with those about it. The result ig L mirable, and affords abundant proof.“ those who need it—of how well our nati; ‘3 artists can hold their own with the-famous foreigners. Here hang, cheek by jowh suck names—picked at random—as Kaulbach nd Winslow Homer, Meissonier and Eastman Johnson, George Boughton and Zamacois Bunee and Ziem, Shirlaw and Detaille oe? gent and Diaz, Swain Gifford and Dupré aL bot Thayer and Froyon, and they do n, swear at each other! Here, too, is the coll _ tion of works by the late William MM ‘nee the stndy of which gives one the ati Hunt with He Yersatility and his vai ing styles, was, like Mrs. Malaprop’: af three gentlemen in one.” POPS Cerberus, al ese paintings and of the Museum I will speak Fe ‘Trou ‘ letter, saying only now that there, as well ee in the grand Catholic Catnedral of this city. Americans at last have a refuge from theit surroundings, and a sudden transportation in fancy to distant scenes. Within their walls one breathes a new ‘atmosphere, as te removed from that of filthy, Noisy, tax- ‘i den, stock-gambling New York 2g in Museum of Nuremburg or the Chartres. And this is surel A Ward said of the Cathedral ot Tow ion eS sweet boon” tousall. © “enon, a ART NOTES, Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, Miss Dixwell of Cambridge wie pies for her artistic needlework, is now exnibiting at the shop of a picture-dealer in Boston some of her landscapes done with silk thread on silk panels. The most popular work of the Tate senIp- tor, Jackson, was his “Culprit Fay,” but hig own favorit was the life-size figure called “The Reading Girl.” ‘The orizinal cost 2,000, and the only duplicate is about to be presented to the Wellesley College for youn: wonien by the friends of the Sault. and the college, The characteristics of the Painters of America,” who are tor paneer subject of a series of papers in Scribner by Mr. W. C. Brownell, are thought by that writer to be, broadly, 1. Strength of tech- nique; 2. A genuine impulse to paint; and 3, A sense of picturesqueness. Over against these, as defects, are noted, 1. A lack of poetry; and2. A lack of style, The University of Rome, Italy, is to have & monument erected in its vestibule to the memory of Giordano Bruno, the Neapolitan friar who was seized by the Inquisition, tor. tured, and finally burnea, in the year 1600. Bruno traveled in France, England, and Ger. many, lectured at the universities, and ex. cited the learned world by his Dhilosophical innovations and the Church by his heresies; Descartes, Spinoza, and Schelling are sai to fave acknowledged obligations to his fertile rain. There is a great deal of movement i Roman studios,—the studios of ‘Roman pe ists. Most of them are very busy preparing for the spring exhibition at Turin. “Jacoyam © ei’s supert picture of “Michael Angelo and Vittoria Collonna,” Ferrari the painter’s “Battle of Metz,” Ricci’s “St. Bartholomew's Night” are spoken of most highly: also, Jori’s “ Outside the Porta del Popolo.> Fer rari the sculptor, who is one of the best of his date,—he is about_30,—has a very grand group in clay, the “Spartan Slave,” which Will be east in plaster and sent to Turin, “Cum Spartiatis pugnavit” is on the base, ‘The Academy says that Mr. Hamo Thorny- croft has completed a large work in sculpt. ure on which he has been occupied for some time past._ It is a figure, six feet high, ofthe huntress Diana; she pauses, as she moves through the forest, at the sight .of her quarry, and the right hand is bent over her shoulder to take an arrow from the quiverat her back, while the left pulls her hound, which has strayed on to her right side. The goddess is lightly draped in’a single gar- ment of thin material, which falls in severe folds over the bands that girdlé it, The work will be exhibited at the Royal Acad- emy. WORDS UPON DYING LIPS. How Some of the Great Men of Earth Met the King of Terrors. London Globe. F + Queer Elizabeth; at the end of a most posper ous reign, begun amid dangers and difficulties that were overcome by bold measuresand pru- dent councils, died exclaiming, “Ab, my poss- essions for a moment of time.” . Gcorge IV. met denth with almost a jest upon his lips. Purning to Sir. Waltern Waller, on whose arm he leaned, he said: “Whatty, what is this? Itisdeath, my boy and they have de ceived us,” The Danish sovereign, Frederick V., greatly beloved by his subjects, cried. “There is not a drop of blood on my hands,” as he passéd away. Henry VIIL., who had altered the whole course of monastic life in England, exclaims, “Monks! monks! monks!"” . Edward VI, the wan boy King, with his fast- fading eyes, commended his soul to God, “ Lon take my spirit”; and Cromwell, as he listened to tho discourse of those about him, said, “Then Tam safe,” and was silent forever. ‘The last word of Charles I. on the scaffoldto Arebishop Juxson was, ‘‘Remember,” referring to his desire that his son Charles shoul! for- give his father’s murderers. Anne Boleyn, in the same terrible situation, clasped her fair neck, saying, “It is small, very smull’”’; and Sir Thomas More, as he yielded him- self to the executioner, said, “For my coming down let me shift for myself.” Joun-of-Arc, at the stuke, ended her eventful, stormy life with our Savior’s name upon her lips. a8 brave a3 Gen. Wolfe, who, dying in tbe midst of victory on the battlefield, and heariag of the euemy’s retreat, cricd, * What! do they run falready? Then Idie happy”; or Sir Pbilip Sydney, after he had relinquished the draught. of water to an humbler comrade, though parch- ed with thirst, turned him round to die, sa] “Let me behold the end of this world with: its vanities.” : Mirabeau desired to die whilo delicious strains of music floated on the air, but his last utter ance was a demand for laudanum to drown and consciousness. Mozart's last words were, “Let me hear once more those notes so long my’ solace and delight’: but Haydn, forgetful of his art, cried, “God preserve my Emperor.”” Aifieri’s sympathetic nature displayed itself In. “Clasp my hand, dear friend, I die ad Gothe cries, “Light, more’ light”; Tasso, “In tuos manos, Domine"; Byron, “Come, come, no weakness; jee bo & mun to the Insti I must sleep now.” And those who saw_his em! body in 1924, when brought to England from Bissolonghi. in the Florida, and removed toSir Edward Knatchbull’s house in Great Geo Street, where the coftin was opencd, describe the faco a3 of marble whiteness, the expression that of stern quietude, lying wrapped in his blue cloth cloak, the throat and head uncovered, crisp, curling locks, slightly streaked with Lad clustering over the temples, the profile of ex eceding beauty. aed’ Boileau congratulated himself, a3 he cl 7 his eyes upon this world, upon the purity of 4 Works, saying, “It is a great consolation to 8 poet nbout to die that he has never written any thing injurious to virtue’; and Sir Walter Sco! rf Hele thinking his end so near, said, “I feel a3 were myself again.” Dr. Johnson, the rough, kind heart, who loved a good hater,’ died as he, suid to Miss Morris, “Gi less you, my dear.” Washington, ‘at Mt. Vornon, cried, “It is well. Franklin's last words were: “A dying man cat do nothing easily.”” reed Mme. de Stuel, whose trial was her enfor ST absence from her nutive land, died saying: aye loved my God, my father, and my libe Hannah More's Inst words were: Grotlus, “Be serious.” Haller, “The artery ceuses to beat; Adams, ‘Independence [oF ever"; Jetferson, “1 resign my soul to Gol my daughter to my country’; Locke, Epes Masham, who was reading’ the Psalms, “Ceas now"; and poor Lamb, after the most self-sucr icing existence, wrote his last words to® Pisa “My bedfellows are cramp and cough—we sleep in a bed.” anette Bishop Broughton’s last words were; “Tet he garth be filled with His glory”; Archblovr Sharps, “1 shall be happy;” Bishop oper, “God's will be done”;. Furr, Cranmor, H ort and George Herbert, “Lord, receive my $p! and these are but fewof muny such. ressiom ‘The Prince Consort confirmed the Imp! ened 3 that prevails that the dying have, some ‘such ftoretaste of coming happiness. “I bave Sweet thoughts,” were his last words. A THOUGHT FROM HEINE. When all is said, it is much the same, Whatever the cnuse in which we die. So life is yielded, in Love's dear name, For something we hold supremely big! Lid better to meet the faithful death at waits in the sucrificial strife, o ‘Than, with soul unwarmed by ennobling breaths Yo live through a cold and faithless life. SinWAUKEE, April 20. MAL MC <<< The tone property is what decides or character of our pianos, and in just ete’ ticular,—in voice-like sweetness like volume, the Hallet, Davis & Co. 1s with- outa rival, ————=>>_—_ Blemishes and diseases of the skin and rhew-* matic pains removed by Glenn's Sulphur Soaps -