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to For Tug Evgsixe Stan. Daisies. ‘Wee. modest, crimson-t: ig’ Sower.—_Burna, One starvelins flower in Marctys dim, bleak air, that she browrht to me; taf, 1a thowrht on me to spare, -snd, Wien she gave them,sialied mst graciously, ta, im May-t! gi:ts of hues and odors rare: Harriet, to my garden, com plants long for your eyes’ warm light, i> Snowy rays with crimson tips 2 spread, and speak of you, though dumd— ©: your pur*spir t, the unspottad white; whe March 8, 182. ARE POLICEMEN OFFICERS! jor, of your Foseate cheeks and lips, W. L. SnorMaKeR, An Interesting Opinion by Controler Lawrence. THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS NOT AUTHORIZED TO PAY INSANE OR DISABLED MEMBERS OF THE FORCE. A communication sent by Controller Law- rence to Commissioner Dent, under date of Feb- ruary 23, 1882, regarding pay allowed by the District Commissioners to insane police officers, is interesting as defining the official status of members he police force as viewed by the Controller. After reviewin: briefly the cases of two officers who been paid for services ren- dered wh.le actually inmates of institutions for the insane. the Controller s The officers of the police force were, prior to June 11, 1873, ap- ¢ board of po’ nd since that by the Commis- sf yluubia. They are rs in the sense in which the term | officer .s popularly used; but that they are not officers of the United States in legal sense is plain.” ‘The controler refers to a statement by the | vrounds on | aws and regu- lations governing the pe artment to pur- sue any oth ure, and savs “it is proper to Inquire what 2 shoul He then quo’ 355 of the ed Stal i as to the District of ¢ . the latter of whieh enacts: “No per Il be removed from the pt upon written preferred against him to the board of police, aud after an opportunity shall have been | afforded to him of bei his defeace.” The rule in the police manual is aiso quoted, | that “any member of the force ab- | for & longer period than | year, except by special | authority irom the beard of police, shail forfeit | all pay during the period of such’ excess,” and also ‘one of the causes of removal is ineffi- ciency by reason of physical disability or otherwise or nezlect of duty.” The controller | states that the inanual of the police force was | Hot modified by the Commissioners after the oiition of the police board and the transfer of powers and duties of said board to them, but remained iu force and was formally adopted by the Commissioners, and so far as they are consistent with the laws and constitution of the United States have the force of law, and by those rules 1t appears that each person perm: nently appointed upon the police force shall | hold his office ouly during such time as he shall | faithfully o ‘and execute all the rules and regulat police, the laws of the Unite ws and ordinauces existing at _any member at for more than fifteen days on Auess, except by special authority, during the period of suéli member becoies physically | * ys: “It thus ap- pears that tli , were clearly eu- Powered to withhold payments on account of | fervices of these men. In case of permanent insanity charzes way be preferred and men so y disabled be removed. The mem- ceare not like officers of . Appointed for life or during re recularly Lhorities does not nmissioned subject make them so. They are e: to the provisions of law; and we have beiure seen that one of these provisions is lability to removal by reason of pirysical disability,” &c. See. 355 of the Revised Statutes, D. C.,’must be constr: so as to give some meaning to the { clause in section 341, which enacts that each | a person appointed a member of the police torce | shall hold office only so long as |‘ he shall faitifully execute ail the woard. the laws of the United States, ty to perform the ser ruction was siven it by the bo: i enced by making “inedic Y Teason of disability or otherwise, acause of re- moval.” After quoting from the records a num- ber of cases of removals bythe police board, on aceount of physical disability. the controller says: “It would se that the ninissioners were mistaken in statin, letter that ‘under these resuiations it was the custom of the board allow the names of disabled offi on the rolls and draw their salaries.” Inreply to the statement of the Commissioners that it would be as well as contrary to established custom to remove an officer on ac- count of disability incurred in the performance of duty. it may be said that it would be no more inhuman to refuse to pay a member of the po- lice foree who rendered no service than not to pay a laboring man who should become sick or | gin is left for the shippers while the wholesale | to come in which old potatoes will be used on | season there has been a great demand for them. | has been rather dull and inactive the past week, | though not much deviation from last week's THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, THE CITY ARKETS. A DECLINE IN POTATOES SUPPOSED TO BE TEM- PORARY—HEAVY IMPORTATIONS FROM EUROPE— OTHER FEATURES OF THE WEEK. The eneral topic of conversation among the produce dealers is the decline in potatoes the past week, andthe prevailing opinion is ex- pressed that ithas been caused by the extraor- dinary large importations and the consequent overstocked eastern markets. This state of affairs, however, is regarded as merely tempo- the demand for them in the western states 4 great and continued. Car loads, and fre- quently whole trains, are sent from New York to the larger cities of the west, to be scattered broadcast over that country. The re- ceipts in New York and other large importing cities continue to pour in. but it is believed that the buik of the surplus European potato crop has been already shipped and there will bea halt called. The receipts last week of foreign potatoes in New York were 240,000 sacks, con- taining three bushels each, and the imports for six days ending March 10, were 95,204 sacks. One steamer arrived in Baltimore last week with 64.000 bushels, and other smaller arrivals there during the week swell the figures to 70,000 bushels in that city in one week. The otch and Irish champions are becoming more in demand, as they are improving in quality. Some of them are of excellent quality, and for baking are held by many to be superior to the native potatoes. A RISE EXPECTED. The decline in these foreign potatoes is 15a20 cents per bushel, but the dealers in this city are inclined to the belief that this decline is only temporary, and that when the imported potatoes now in large bulks become scattered the price will go upazain. This view is also strengthened by the belief that the importations will soon cease. as those engaged will countermand or- ders and eyade the loss _now sustained by them. The duty is 15 cents per bushel of 60 pounds ; add to this the first cost of the potatoes. the freight, price of sacks and wharfage. and not much mar- price in New York is 75 cents per bushel tor | the best. The wholesale price for our native potatoes in the markets of this District is $1.40 a%1.50 per bushel for the Early Rose, Burbanks and Peerless and other varieties, and 90c.a81 for the imported. There are neariy three months our tables. Very few new potatoes come into use before the first of Jun. A few Bermudas generally reach this market before that time, then from Florida, Charleston and Norfolk, in the order named. The trade in potatoes has been brisk the past week, and all through the Messrs. Schafer & Cleary, among the heaviest de have sold 64 car-loads, of 500 bushel to ach car, this season—I15 car-loads more than last year’s sales, and others have added to last year’s operations. FRUITS AND GARDEN PRODUCE. There have been no arrivals of Florida toma- toes or cabbage since the last report. Southern radishes, spinach, kale, and asparagus are com- ing in slowly. Oranges and lemons are about the same In price as last week. The receipts have not been large. but fully equal tothe demand. The th bing prices are $3.25a34 per box. A vessel ioad sold in Baltimore Wednesday for $3.25 for the best oranzes. OnionS are plentiful, and of good | quality, but still the sales are dull.’ Good white ps have taken a rise; they command 75 cts. bushel. Sweet potatoes are scarce and stiff, at $5 per barrel. There is not mach doing inapples, and prices are the same. The russets may soon be expect- ed to take the place ot red and white fruit,and it is said they will be of better quality than the last named. Domestic dried fruit is in demand, and sales are brisk. especially for evaporated applea and peaches, the sun dried not being so much in demand. Appies evaporated are 13al5e. per 1b. jobbing rates, and 10al2c. for lower grades of sundried.” Beans are still very high, the Ger- man importations not being much in demand. The native productions are preferred. THE FLOUR MARKET prices. No large purchases have been made in the Jobbing line, and no falling off in prices. The wholesale prices for Minnesota patent pro- cess stands: 39; baker's brand, #7a$7.25; fam- extra, 4; flne,34a34.50;mid- 5.50; buckwheat, 3 50 per ewt ; Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, $2.50a83 ‘per ewt.; corn meal, bolted white, T7a78e. per bushel; unbolted yel- low, 70a72e. per bushel. There isa slizht up- ward tendency in wheat, owing to a visible falling off in the supply. and is regarded as in- dicating an advance inthe near future. It is said the New York exporters do not receive such offerings as they want, and the firm prices tend to limit the outward movement. Specu- lation is not so active. and spring grades are held at an advance, with a demand. These symptoms somewhat govern the market here. HIGH PRICES FOR BUTTER. The butter market has been a little quiet the | past week, and prices are ruling high for good stocks, which’ are searce. The recent cold | weather has had a tendency to stiffen up the prices of good butter. The late warm winter weather caused some apprehension among holders and induced premature movements at moderate prices. There is a more conservative feeling among dealers, especially those holding disabled while working for the District. But if | and readily taken up. as the best season for members of the police force could not be re- moved when insane, (a3 they be), still it would seem clear that | when rendering no service they could not be | era dairies. Should there be a failure in the entitled to the usual compensation. The ques- tion before the controller is not a question of | will rule high for some time to come. humanity. but a question of la law it se plain that the Commissioners had »rity to make payments to these men as for services when no service was rendered.” He concludes by saying: “I am therefore compelled by force of Inw to decide that payments as for service of these men while insane must be dis- allowed in the settlement of the accounts of the Commissioue WINE AT THE WAITE HOUSE. Uneasiness of the Temperance People. ‘New York Cor. Phila. Ledger. ‘The temperance brethren are exhibiting not a little sensitiveness about the way they say things are going on at the White House, in culation has made its appearance, stating that there has been a serious reaction in the great cause since the administration of President Hayes, and they think, therefor hat the time is approaching when its friends will have to put forth new efforts to stem the tide of ‘bad ex- ample in hich places. What seems to have es- ly alarmed them is an announcement in a recent dispatch from Washington to the Times mM here that, at a recent state dinner, “the President had no fewer than six different kinds of wine on the table.” If these things are continued they are apprehensive that all the Moral influence of the Hayes administration on behalf of teetotalism will be undone. At the approaching annual meeting of the National Temperance Society it is intimated the subject Will be brought prominently before that body, and. in the meanwhile, it is deemed the duty of the churches to see what can be done to stir up could } and winter are the best seasons for western nd under the | dairy lots are now arriving moderately, with | ‘The jobbing prices for fancy creamery and prime proot of which « printed circular for private cir- i ood grades. The best creamery lots are scarce western dairies is drawing to aclose. The fall ; dairies, and the spring season the best for east- latter, good grades of butter, it is predicted, Good increased demand, and present prices, it is an- ticipated, will be well sustained. The white and pale colors are of uncertain sale and price. The recent decision of our courts in relation to the sale of oleomargarine has had the effect of opening up this business again, but its use is strongly condemned by the respectable dealers, who state that the law officers should now pro- ceed to indict the dealers who sell it for butter. is 40a45 cents; fair to good, 35a37; New York tubs, new, 42243; good, 33236; best firkin, 34236; good, S2a34; best western dairy, 34036; good, 30a33; fair, 28a30; best western , 34038; good, 28430; Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania choice, 28a30; good to prime, 24227; poor to fair, 15al8. There is no change of moment in the price of cheese, and good fancy lots are held firmly but with a slow trade. New York state fancy fac- tory is worth 14al6 cts. at jobbing lots, fine ALLEGED ADULTERATED CHEESE. There has been a great deal of poor cheese sold in our markets and by street hawkers at very low prices, which has given rise to the rumors that it is adulterated; bunt the fact is that it is of poor quality or damaged. Adulterations have been made by an infusion of flour of potatoes, and wheat flour, but not much in this country. It is also true that poor skimmed-milk cheese is made to appear soft and rich by an infusion of lard, and a tinge of yellow given to the curd by coloring in the process of manufacture. The lard is as valuable as the cheese, aud it is only used forthe purpose stated. Neither of these Public opinion afresh in tavor of the cause, not @aly at Washington but everywhere else. Dr. J. Milner Fothergili denounces evening dresses as a violation of the laws of health. Let it be granted, he says, that they do not en- tail much harm in the heated atmosphere of raps? The lappel of the coat covers the tip of the tung just where the low dress Jeayes it exposed, as if inviting disease to settle there. The shirt front is exposed in a v liberal manner in man: but @ linen shjrt front is no bad protection against a rude biast, provided the exposure be not too longed. Even when there the upper portion of the chest in women fs often far too thinly clad. Above the corset there is nothing but the dress-body over the tender adulterations are regarded as injurious to health. In Europe it is practiced somewhat ex- tensively. Egys are quoted at 16 for good fresh. Many are being shipped to New York. pask site oatialals Capt. Ends Laying for Next Winter. From the Philadelphia Press. Eads is not fool enough to think that the big ship railway scheme is going to be shoved through Congress 10w. No Representative is usual host of defeated members will be ready to vote for anything. a Pretection of Theaters from Fire. A German paper says that Professor Obernien proposes the following ingenious for theaters: Cords ape of the entire space above the stage. They are- fixedsat one side, and on the other they pass over pulleys, and are kept tight by means of which are surrounded with cases, Per- under the weights at the bottom of & button, which, if pressed down- | produces the statue or picture by virtue of a | perfected the language of art. AET EDUCATION. [The subjotned paper, by Mr. Clarence E. Mec- Ser, Was read at a meeting of the Litera ry Societys held at the residence of Dr. S. M. Burnett, several weeks since. The attention turned to its subject by the presence of Mr. Oscar Wilde In the city about that time seemed to give a timely pertinence to the essay; but there Is enough in it to Justify a careful reading and a thoughtful consideration of the matter at any time and under almost any cir- cumstances.—Ep. STAR.}, THE TENDENCIES OF THE TIMES. If one were to judge by superficial indications, it might be concluded that we are in the midst of avery millennium of art. There has been awakened, largely, no doubt, by the exhibitions of the centennial year, what seems at first thought to be a genuine interest in art matters. The word Art has become a household word. It is prominently displayed fn the columns of news- Papers and periodicals. There are journals es- pecially devoted to art interests. There are art galleries in country hamlets. There are art hangings, and art furniture, and embroideries and notions of every kind, luxurious and other- wise, on every hand. A new picture in a win- dow attracts a crowd. ‘The gallery of paintings is the popular resort. The painter's pallet and the easel, as symbols, I suppose, of this univer- sal art agitation, have become a part of a deco- rative scheme in innumerable homes. Art is, in short, a fashion. How much more than that it may be I cannot so readily decide. Fashion im- plies a more or less blind following. I think a general curiosity has been aroused, and that this feverish agitation of-the art idea or notion aire ultimately r@@alt in a genuine interest in THE AMERICAN IN ART. In my opinion the American temperament is an artistic one. The American art student holds his own with the best. Whether he can hold out with the best is in the main yet to be proven. He is quick to apprehend, mastering the open secrets of his profession with great readiness; but the best, the truest secrets that art holds are not such as those who run may read. The master in any calling is patient, persistent, un- tiring. Genius may illuminate the path his feet must tread, making it an easier and a safer way, but it cannot absolve him from the necessity of walking therein. GIFT AND LABOR. According to a very common nction, the artist gift of the cradle,—a sort of birth-endowment that makes his finger-tips tingle with the capacity to draw or to model. A natural apti- tude is as necessary in the case of an artist asin that of the lawyer, scientist or engineer. No more, no less. 4 man’s mind may be narrowed down to a close range of ideas in art, eXactly as it may be in law, science, or mechanics. A suf- ficiently wide range of faculties would enable one mind to comprehend all. With art a fashion, superficial acquirements will receive the favor that would not be granted them under better conaitions. Cleverness and audacity may eastly satisfy the demands of fashion, but when the art notion gives place to the art idea, when the fancy becomes convic- tion. when art, indeed, receives a real and honest GOOD EVEN OUT OF FASHION AND FOLLY. Let us even welcome this fashionable craze, with its iridescent plumes of the pea-fowl, the flaunting discs of its suu-flowers, its cranes, its flags, its entomologicai idiosyncrasies, its thou- sand inanities; let us accept even this, and be glad, for it is opening the way. People begin to think of art, and art, like all other matters of serious import, will be set right if people are once disposed to give it a prominent place in their thoughts. The household that breaks out in embroideries and ceramic decorationsis likely, after atime, to feel a higher need. The em- broideries and decorations may become more ‘and more indicative of the artistic spirit; may express after awhile a real regard for the beau- tiful Instead of an aimless caprice of fashion. When the public really desires to know some- thing of the sécre.s of true art it will be re- vealed In a thousand ways. But without that humility that is begot of longing, art must, to a considerable degree, at least, remain a sealed book to the general mind. It is so apparently a matter of the senses that the average person resents the Imputation that he may not know its secrets aa well as the artist or connoisseur. THE REAL AIM OF ART is misapprehended; its limitations are not re- cognized ; consequently, it is tried by false standards. Good painting, for instance, ts not what it is so commonly believed to be, an at- tempt at the direct imitation of natare,—it's mir- rored reflection. It is a language, by which the painter essays to express nature's thought. You cannot translate a ‘poem from one language into another in an absolutely literal way, word for word, without ‘losing the real charm of its thought, A true poet seeks in a translation to produce in our minds thoughts or impressions similar to thosé¢ which were in the mind of the original poet, whose speech is not at all likely to run parallel to ours. Art is an inadequate language, full of com- promises, of compensations, and a knowledge of its limitations is essential to an understanding of its aims and acts. Where the sumptuous academy building is the expression of a real love of ‘art and a longing for its ministrations, ‘we may confidently dedicate it to the service for which it is created. We may take pride In these splendid structures that have sprang up in so short a time throughout the land. In a worldly sense they give importance in the general mind to the art idea. But we must keep in mind the fact that as educational institutions their value will consist rather in the influences that will so out from their working rooms or galleries than from any possible external splendor. A building bare as a count! models, and intelligent instructors, is better than a palace with a corps of inert and incapable professors. It is sometimes the case that the fine building exhausts available resources, and the magnificently equipped school languishes for the lack of able professional direction and in- struction. A LURKING DANGER. Tlack the time to discuss the details of this question at any length. I wish, however, to call your attention briefly to certain tendencies in art study that seem tome pernicious and dan- gerous. I have spoken of the American as an apt art student. We exhibit a great amount of cleverness in this direction up to the point to which the first flash of enthusiasm carries us. I recognition, the art worker must master his profession to gain the plaudits of an apprecia- tive and discriminative public. There are abun- dant reasons for assuming that the American public is neither very appreciative nor very dis- criminating. Of course there are individual exceptions. I might, indeed, in a limited sense except certain communities; but at the best there is much tq learn. SLOW AND SURE. The art education of a nation or of a com- munity, as of any individual, must of necessity be slow, Art gulleries, if judiciously filled, ex- ercise a beneficial influence on the general mind, and excite in the art student that spirit of emulation which is so strong an incentive to human action. There must be first the desire, or still better, the conviction—the “I. too, am a painter” of an awakened mind. The creative impulse must be aroused. It is contact with other minds that gives impetus to our own. But culture, like the century plant, is of slow growth and late bloom. Frem tle crude exsays ofa primitive people to the splendid triumphs of the great masters there is a long period of gradual development. If each generation stood on the verge of a forgotten past, the record of its deeds would be of little worth. It must take up the uncompleted task of the generations it suceceds and complete it if it can, or carry it at least a little farther on. Art to-day is dual- faced, looking both to the future with its mirage of possibilities; to the past with its wealth of experience. THE ART ERAS OF THE WORLD. Art has culminated or attained to its perfect bloom at two great periods, to which we now turn for instruction and inspiration—the perfect white flower of Greece, the rich and varied bloom of Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands, To- day in the schools of the world the student sits at the feet of the old Greeks, and in the studios of the great art centers the painter’s most dar- ing aspiration is to emulate the old masters of the Dutch, Spanish or Italian schools. These old painters mastered the painters’ craft. They Ideas, creeds and philosophies have changed; the current of thought has set in other ways. Our aspirations, our faiths, the few we have, are not theirs. But the old speech serves us still, and we stu the erammar of our art of these men. Tam in- clined to think the art of our fature is to be more influenced by that of the Netherlands and Spain, than by that of the Italian school, that it will be based less upon creeds and philoso- phies that are transitory and more upon that humanity which is universal and enduring. We may turn to Florence or Rome to learn the amenities of art—if I may be allowed the ex- pression—its fine manners; but we look upon man and nature more as did the low-land paint- ers and the masters of Spain. FALSE LIGHTS, At any rate that seems to be the tendency now In the schools that are making the most impression upon American students, namely, those of Munichand of Paris. There is one thing concerning the impress of these two schools upon American art that \ves something of disquiet in my mind. It wou'd seem as if the American student were apt to take things too easily for granted.’ The clever technique ot the studios fascinates him, and, being of a quick and imitative turn of mind, he is apt to catch the tricks of the brush and the slang of the studios with equal facility and want of thought. He is constantly In danser of considering the means as the end. This \s especially true of the student who spends a limited time abr No one questions the magnificent advantages of the foreign schools; but I do venture to question the wisdom of abrief uso of them. Unless a student can complcte a course of study abroad, or at least remain there long enough to over- come the glamour of new and dazzling condi- tions, long enough for his mina to become ac- customed to surface scintillations that are liable to blind his vision and bewilder his i & ment. he would better make use of such ad- vantages as may be commanded in his own land. until with a more maturemind and a surer hand he can seek abroad that which is essential to his artistic advancement, and not be over- powered by innumerable influences that are for- eign to his personal needs—that will not ad- vance his aims. THE DUTY OF WEALTH. Thave said the American publicis neither very appreciative nor very discriminating. It ia per- haps more appreciative than discriminating; but it must be both, to a considerable degree, to in- sure the best efforts of the art worker. It is not enough to educate the artist. There must pea public seeking and needing the products of his skill, It is essential that this public shall dis- criminate between honest works and shams; be- tween that which is sincere, honest and intelli- gent, and that which is meretricious and pre- sumptious or ignorant. If the public flock to the salesrooms of the trade auctioneer, the man who les the products ot the shop, or worse, the direct plagiarisms that, by di of adroit | advertising and well-appointed rooms, are | foisted upon an un! ing public, here as well as in other places throughout the land,—if such works as these find their way to the walls pof the most luxurlous homes: if good prices are paid for such luctions while: works gather cob-t ud miidew in the studios of home painters, what evcouragement can there be for a man to paint in accordance with his real convictions? Can he be seriously blamed for pandering, more or less, to what he knows to be a vitiated taste? Palnters, of real ability, ham- by such conditions. are forced into mere- we Cue aeage see tae be geteryo cannot hoy him for need or desire. The public with their gold, but they can make it ‘him to. Genius cannot be: bewens.Let-us be am not so sure we possess in an eminent degree what [ Suppose the turf men would call *‘staying qualities.” Like the lion who misses his prey at the first spring, we lose heart and turn back to await other opportunities. To be sure, under certain influences when enthusiasin is elimi- nated by slow mechanical methods, we may plod with a reasonable degree of persistence through tedious and unfruitful processes of training. But a short road to success is the dream of the aver- age American; to get rich or famous without waiting for the slow ebb and flow of the tides,— to strike a bonanza of wealth or reputation. We are impatient of processes. As I have indi- cated, true culture is of slow growth. A weak or inissing link in a man’s training ineapacitates him to a greater or less extent. THE NEED OF STUDY. The art student who puts the pallet on his thumb before that thumb is grimed by the dust of charcoal, who evades the beginnings of his art because of the superior attractions of later processes, is building his hopes on the sand. I do not affirm that the academy routine, the rigid formula of the sehools, is a vital necessity to the man of genius; but methods and systems are for the average man. Genius transcends law, or, rather, is governed by higher laws than we can readily understand or formulate. THE TRUE SYSTEM. A system of art’ education should not, how- ever, be too rigid. Put men of brain at the head of your art schools and academies; men who may be trusted, with a reasonably flexible,adap- tive system. All students should not be forced into a common mold—the dull with the brilliant, the swift with the slow. Some things we may consider pretty well settled by the gen- eral art experience, and no latitude should be allowed that wouid infringe upon a universally recognized law. There is no royal road to su cess in art. The artist must draw. He must learn the grammar of his art. Methods differ, but principles remain the same. and Paris, Mu- nich, and London agree that the student must study form before color. Just now in America we are in a stage of unrest as regards our practice of art. We lack convictions—we ex- periment. To be sure, there are ardent disciples of this art creed or that, but we lack the se- renity of red aims. In indicating the danger the student is in, of falling into loose and insufficient ways of study, I do not lose sight of the danger that lurks in the opposite extreme,—the pedantic, dry-as- dust, geometry-ridden, methods that I have already referred to. They filla student with a certain torpor or inertia, with a sort of dry-rot of passiveness. Such methods have been and still are in vogue in certain places. But they are rapidly giving way to different and better ways of study. Sometimes the re-action is over- violent. In setting aside old laws we may ex- pect license to rale for awhile, but the better law will finally prevail, and we must patiently await its gradual development. TOO MUCH COPYING. There Is also a large class of art students who cannot or will not make use of the advantages of regular school training.. They are beset by innumerable dangers, of which, perhaps, the great majority—certainly of those who through choice forego school advantages—are serenely unconscious. Young men and women without previous study or practice of either drawing or painting, in any legitimate sense, are contin- ually crowding into the galleries of paintings to copy the works displayed on their walls, automatically matching tints with as little con- sideration forthe reason of their juxtaposition as is exhibited by the kindergarten child who counts the canvass squares for its threads of Berlin wool. The one is aboat as advantageous: as the other as an elemeat in art training. Copying is only productive of good when it is intelligently pursued—when the student aims to discover the secrets of the painter's art, noting results and questioning means. The worst thing about this almless copying is the delusion that is apt to engender in the mind of the person who indalges in it. Producing a painting that, to partial and indiscriminating friends, apparently rivals the original picture, copyists are apt to conclude that the practice of art is a pretty easy matter, and to feel that they have fairly entered a profession whose ways, a3 the genuine student knows so well, are hard, long and tedious ways; a profession that demands the most serious, thoughtful and un- tiring devotion in him who would gai its legitimate honors. Of course I refer to this copying as a supposititious means of study. THE USE AND ABUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Probably the pitfall which is most likely to engulph the undirected or misdirected student is photography. I, will yield to no one in my admiration for this beautiful gift of science. It is the solace of many an idle hour. Sitting by our own firesides, we may have the riches of the whole broad earth laid at our feet. We can reckon the rude steps of the Pyramids, behold the sands, the palms and the low broad tents of the desert. The crumbling ruins 6f antiquity speak tous here, in the stillness of our rooms, of the inevitable ripening and decay of nations. We look upon the vineyards of the Rhine, the olive groves of the Mediterranean, the hills of Judea and the gnarled cedars of Lebanon. Every spot upon the face of the earth that has hepa er of or: pessoal events, where shave conspirators plotted, martyrs lod. oF poets loved, singing their passion and their bereavement, stands revealed to our untrayeled eyes by this magic i act. In its own way and within its own manifest) limitations it is a and invaluable art; ‘but encroach barn, with good light and | SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1882—DOUBLE SHEET. business of the student is to acquire knowledge; to gain the clear vision and the sure and respon sive hand. It is absolutely necessary that he shonid use his brain at the same time that he exercises his hand, for they must work inunison inthe matter. If an unused murcie wastes away, what may we expect of an unused faculty? The student who depends upon photography be- comes an automaton. following mechanically the camera's lines or shades. Unfortunately it is possible for aman of very ordinary ability, with some little experience, to produce, by the aid of the solar print, or other photdgraphic and me- chanical helps, portraits and other works that pass among art ignorant people fer very clever, or even masterly productions. There never was a time in the world's history I suppose, when untrained mediocrity could gain the attention and applause thatit so easily and often wins at this time. The young painter who wins this cheap and empty mockery ot success becomes 80 inflated with his sudden importance as to be practically out of the race so far as any serious or profitable study of art isconcerned. If he is honest it isa pity; if not it isa shame; and the growing intelligence of the people in reapect to art matters will finally, I trust, makesuch a per- nicious and demoralizing success impossible in the not remote future. FINALLY AS TO METHODS OF STUDY. The simplest is the best, and is to be judged by its success in securing results. There isa general agreement in the best schools, those of acknowledged merit, as to the large principles involved. Individual idiosyncrasies may pro- duce superficial differences, One thingsmay be confidently advised: The student should not be misled by this, that, or the other artist's brilliant manner. He should aim to express form or color in the simplest, most direct man- ner possible. The student who affects the dash- ing and brilliant handling of a master should know that without the master’s knowledge he has no claim to and no chance to win the mas- ter's modes of expression. Striving for that he will surely sacrifice accuracy of statement to its demands. There are popular illustrators whom T might name, of great natural cleverness, who disre- gard ‘or are ignorant of the simplest laws of proportion, of perspective, and of gravity; their one aim seeming to be to gain a contident, mas- terly handling of lines or striking decorative | and torpidity contrasts of valuea. Affectation is the bane of any art and the most hopeless characteristic of an art student. WHAT 18 THE OUTCOME TO BE? Just what is to come of the present divergent and more or less unsettled tendencies of Ameri- can art education, I do not venture to predict. T have an abiding, if sorely tried, faith that the art of our future will justify our best hopes and aspirations. 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