The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1874, Page 3

TH DRAD EXPLORER. Livingstone’s Funeral Special Herald Cable De- spatch from London, The Pall-Bearers and Chiet' Mourners. A GRAVE IN THE The American Relief Gratefally Ac knowledged by the Press. Royalty, Scientists and the Na- tion Honor the Dead. Pen-Pointings of the Lone Pioneer | in the Wild. QRATITUDE, HOPE AND CHEER. Lonpon, April 20, 1874. The procession which accompanied Dr. ‘Livingstone’s remains to the grave yesterday | moved at twelve o’clock noon from the hall of the Royal Geographical Society, Saville row. There were twelve mourning coaches, which were followed by the carriages of the Queen, the Prince of Wales and numerous others of the nobility. THE PALI-BRARERS. The pall-bearers on the right were headed by Mr. H. M. Stanley; those on the left by Wainwright Then came Dr. Kirk, Horace Waller, Sir Thomas Steele, Colonel Gront, Mr. Webb, of Newstead Abbey, and Mr. E. Young. THE CHIEF MOURNERS. The chief mourners were Dr. Moffatt, Liv- ingstone’s father-in-law, and the sons of the explorer, Thomas Livingstone and Oswald Livingstone. Among the others present were the Dukes of Sutherland and Manchester; Lords Shaftes- | bury, Lawrence and Houghton; the Bishops of Linco and Sierra Leone; Sir Bartle Frére, Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir William Forguson; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, with twenty members of the Corpora- tion of London; Mr. Russell Gurney; the diplomatic representatives of America, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and other countries; the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Lord Provost of Glasgow and the Lord Provost of Hamilton; the Mayor and members of the Corporation of Southampton; the officers of the steamship Malwa, Admiral Sherard Os- borne and other explorers. SOLEMN SERVICE AT THE ABBEY. The funeral ceremony was impressive in a high degree, There was a full choral ser- vice, Dean Stanley, the sub-dean and canons of Westminster officiated. The dead march in “Saul” was given. TEARS AND FLORAL TRIBUTES. The ladies were much affected. As a mark of respect the coffin was covered with camelias and palm branches, sent by Baroness Burdett Coutts and others. A GRAVE IN THE SUNSHINE. ‘The grave ic situated in the central west nave of the Abbey, near the graves of Telford, Stephenson, Sir James Outram and General Wade—all favored with sunshine, THE POPULAR DEMONSTRATION. ‘There was an immense concourse of people assembled along the route and the stores were half closed, TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN ENTERPRISE AND HU- MANITY. The Observer and other papers pay high tribute to American enterprise. The Telegraph says:—‘“Stanley and Wain- wright in the places of honor signify America and Africa as chief mourners. Without American aid Livingstone, unheard of, would have died long back." THE EXPLORER'S LETTER TO MR. STANLEY. ations ‘The following is the text of the letter written by | Dr. Livingstone to Mr. H. M. Stanley shortly be- fore the great explorer’s demise, a brief synopsis | of which was forwarded to the Heranp by cable immediately upon the letter reaching the hands of the leader of the HERALD relief expedition, Several passages which are omitted are of a cun- Adontial nature :— ‘THE LETTER, LAKE BANGWEOLO, SOUTH CENTRAL AFRICA, My Dear Stantey--I wrote hurriedly to you when on the eve of starting from Unyanyembe, and the mind being occupied by all the little wor- ries incidental to the starting of the caravan [ | Jeit and still teel that I had not expressed half the Gratitude that welis up in my heart for ali the kind services you have rendered to me. { am de- voutly thankiul to the joving Father aiso for help- ing you througn all your manifoid musika (rainy Season) toils, and bringing you sa to Zanzibar, with your energies unimpaired, with a desire to exert yourselt to the utmost in securing all the | men and goods needed for this, my conciuding trip. 1am perpetually reminded that 1 owe a great deal to you for the men you sent. With one ex- ception the party is working like a mactine, I | give my orders to Manwa Sera, and never need to repeat them. I parted with the Arab sent without any disagreement. He lost one of the new don- keys at Bagamoyo. I then put two Strangers on the chain without fastening the free end, and they ‘wisely walked oif with the pridie, bits andali, then suffered a lazy Monbusian to leave ihe cocoa some- where and got five dotis at Unyanyembe as —. | Well, no one elther before or after that could get | any good outof him. Added to this, the Arab showed a disposition to get a second $600, auppos- ing we should be one month over the year, though he could do nothing except through my native beadman..! therciore let him go, and made Manwa SUNSHINE. | Sera, Chowpereh and Susi heade of departments at | yika andthe Albert Nyansa, overhung by high $20 if they gave satisfaction. This they have tried , faitniully todo, and hitherto Mave been quite a | contrast to Bombay, who seemed to think that you ought to please him. MAJWARA, THE DRUMMER. Majwara has behaved perfectly—but slow slow! and keeps your fine siiver teapot, spoons and knives as bright as if he an English but- ler; gets a cup of coffee at five A. M. or sooner, if 1 don’t advise bim to ic dowa again; walks at the head of the caravan a8 drummer, this instrament being the African sign of peace as well as of war. He objected at first to the office bsgmuse the drom had not been bought by either you or me. some Yeasons are profound—this may be of them. ‘The fruits, Osh, pork, biseuits, fowl, Rave been selected far better than 1 could Rave done. No golden syrup coula be jound, or you would have sent some. The tea was very nicely secured. Your wish for joy of the plum pudaimg was !ulfilled, | though it would have been better had we been | nearer to Zambez, where we spent Cnristmas, to | enjoy it. I keep most of your handsome presente of cham- pagne lor a special occasion, One ride was Injured at Bagamoyo; your other splendid rife and revol- ver were all I could desire tor eficiency. The fifteen-shooter cartridges are not satisfactory, but everything eise gives 30 much satisfaction that I could not grumble though I were bilous, 1 thank you very much and sincerely for all your kind generosity, ; TSETSE-BITTEN DONKEY. The new Zanzibar donkey came—iean, legsore and stif; go] leit him with Suiten bin Ali, Your two country beasts were im capital condition. Auother you leit died with all the symptoms of tsetse poison fully developed. He had the ran of all the patchea of cultivation around us, and Perfect liberty, but perished, the first of his species I had seen die lke @ teetse-bitten | OX, The larger country anim@l died from the | same cause, but had none of the symptoms except swelling of mouth and nose and above the eyes. He rallied twice, but when we leit the south end of the Tanganyika, where all was hot and dry, we suddenly mounted up into the rainy season of Urungu or Burunga, when the cold and wet acted | 98 the natives told us in former years they would doon allour cattle that had we poison in their systems, Ihad found, long before we had done with the excessive heats in the mountains that flank Tan- ganyika, that riding in the sun is more trying to the system than marching on foot, The perspira- tion caused by tramping moduties vhe effects of temperature somewhat as wakefulness does those of extreme cold, In the hurry of departure I neglected your ad- vice to buy others, but I was so overjoyed at hav- ing got the men that the idea of being Knocked up by marching found as little place in my mind as iv does in that of a boy going home from school, EXPLORATION. The Zambeze was crossed long ago by the Portu- guese, who have thus the merit of its discovery in modern times. The similarity of names led to its being put down in maps as “Zambesi” (eastern. branch) and I rather stupidly took the error as having some sort of autnority, Hence my first crossing it was as fruitless as thatof the Portu- guese, It took me full twenty-two months to eiminate this error. The Cazembe who was lately killed was the first who gave me a hint that Chambeze was one of a chain of rivers and lakes which probably forms the Nile; but he did it in rather a bantering style that led me to go back to the head waters again, and see that it was not the mere ‘chaff of a mighty potentate, There 18 Omar Island in the middle of Bang- weolo, with 183 degrees of gea horizon around. The natives, slowly drawing the hand around, | ‘gaia, “rhat is Zambége Mowing round all this Space, and forming Baggweolo, belore it winds round that headiand and changes its name to Luapu.a.”” That was the moment of discovery, | aud not the mere crossing of a small river. The | late Cazemve 1 found sensible and friendly. His empire has succumbed before a very small force of Arab slaves and Wanyamwesi, Pereira, the first Portuguese who visited the Cazembe eighty years ago, said that he had 30,000 trained soldiers, sacrificed twenty human victims every day, and the streets of bis capital were watered daily. I thought my late iriend had 30,0 (00) Giminishea by 00’s, and sacrificed five or six pots of pombe daily, bat U9 aust have been only a Cours scandsi—the streets oi nis village were not made. So 1 was reminded of the famous couplet about the Scotch roads :— If you had seen these roads before they were made You would litt up your nands and biess Co.onel Wade. Ihave been tne unfortunate means of demolish- ing two empires in Portuguese geography—the Cazembes and that of the Emperor Monomotapa. Iiound the last avout ten days above Lette, A THEME FOR YOUNG DEBATERS. He had too few men to make the show Uazembe di but I learned from some decent mother-looking women attached to his Court Zembere, that he hau 100 wives! Ihave wondered ever since, and have been nearly dumbiounded with the idea of what a Doisance aman with 100 wives in England would be. It is awiul to contemplate, and might be chosen as a@ theme lor @ young men’s debating | society. DEMOLISHING FABLES, Iwish some one would visit Mvesa or Uganda, without Bombay as an interpreter, He (Bombay) is by n0 means @sound author. The King of Da- homey suffered eclipse atter @ common sense visit, | and we seldom hear avy more of bis atrocities. | ‘The mightiest Airican potentate and the most dreadiul cruelties told of Africans owe a vast deal to the teller, You and | passed the islet Kassenge, where African mothers were said to sell their infants for a loin cloth each, This story was made to fit into anotier nice little story of “a mother bear’? that refused to leave her young. Achild that cuts its | upper front teeth before the under is dreaded as unlucky, and is likely to bring death into the family. It is called an Arab child, and the first Arab who passes is asked to | take 1% 1 never saw @ case, nor have the Arabs | have asked seen one either, bat they have heard o! 11s occurrence, The Kassenge story is, | therefore, exactly like that of the Frenchman who | asserted that the Engiish were so fond of hanging themselves in November you might see them | | swinging on trees along the road. He may have | seen one; I never did. English and American mothers have been guilty of deserting infants; but who would turn up the whites of his eyes, and | say, a8 our mothers at Kassenge did, these | people are no better than, or not so good as, she- bears? AFRICAN ELECTIONS—A WORD TO AMERICANS, | Three of the Banrangn chiefs have died since my | first visit, and the population all turned topsy- | turvey as the result of the elections, They elect a | | sister’s son instead of the heir. apparent— | the heathegd—because, say the sly dogs, the heir apparent may not be the heir | Feal. New stockades had been oniit on new | | Sites, cultivation on grass and forest iands neces- | | Sarily small, and food could not be got for love or money, Aslam of the old orthodox school, I dis- | approve of the election of chief magistrates every- whefe, When you find a good man iike General Grant why not call him Prince, as the Germans aid | their good man Bismarck, quintuple his salary | and live the rest of your days like Christians? You make the ladies think that your ranting at clec- | tions 1s perfect bitss, while {f you canght them anu | jorced them to vote only once you would hear no | | more of women’s rights. ‘They, bless their dear | hearts! would take to feeding the hungry, instead | Of palavering at public omnium gatherums, cHaRiTy, It sent a glow through my frame to read in the | Hera.p tne kindness of the good, kind-hearted souls in New York feeding the hungry peopie. Blessings on the donors. SCIENCE, ‘This lake, so far as I have seen it, is surrounded by an extremely flat country, though all 4,000 feet above the level of the sea. When firat discovered 1 was without paper, but borrowed a little irom an Arab, and sent a short account home. I had so | much troubie from attendants that I took only the barest necessaries. Yet no sooner was the discov- ery announced at the coast than the oficial de. scription was forthwith sent to the Bombay gov- ernment, that ‘the lake is like Nyassa, Tapgan- Mountains, sloping down to great plains, which, during the rainy season, become fooded, so that caravans march for days through waver knee deep seeking for higher ground on which to pass the night.’ ‘The only mountain slopes are ant hills, some of them twenty feet nigh. They could scarcely be called hign anless thought of as being built on the top of the 4,000 feet. These statements are equally opposed to the truth, aa the Cazemve town is built on the banks of the Luapula. People having crotchet for map-making traced every step of the Portuguese slaving expeditions to Cazembe, and built the village in latitude 8 deg. 48 min. south. That is in deep water, near the | north end of Lake Moero, and over fity miles from Luapula. ¥ found it in latitude 9 deg. 37 min. south, and on the banks of a Jagoon or och, hav- ing no connection with the Luapula, which river, however, falls six or seven miles west of the village Moero. - Now, it is very unpleasant for me to expose any Of these misstatements, and 80 appear contradic- tious. But what amido? I was consulted ‘by Sir Roderick Murentson as to this present expedition and recommended the writer of the above as a leader, Sir Roderick afterwards told me that the Offer was declined uniess a good salary and a good Position to fall back upon were added, as Speke and Grant had in their pay and commission. He ‘then urged the leadership on myself as soon as the work on which | was engaged should be published. My good, kind-hearted iriend added, in a sort of | pathetic strain, “You will be the real discoverer of the source of the Nile.” Idon’t wish to boast of my good deeds, but I need not forget them. . . . * * . Signed on envelope, DR. LIVINGSTONE, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Miss Anna Louise Cary has apartments at the Everett House. Two hours’ fun is promised to any one visiting Dan Bryant’s Minstrels, Clara Morris appears to-night in “Article 47,” at Mrs. Conway’s Brooklyn Theatre. Fox is quite at home in bis new Broadway house and keeps his audience in the best of humor. “Old Sleuth, the Detective,” a new sensation | drama, will be produced at the Bowery to-night. Mme. Junauschek has accepted an engagement at the Germania Theatre, To-night she appears as Medea. Mr. L, J. Vincent, the stage manager of Niplo’s Garden, has a farewell benefit at that theatre this afternoon, Miss Cnarlotre Cushman begins her Shake- Spearean readings at the Academy of Music on Wednesday next. , The New Park Theatre, Brooklyn, will be taken Possession of to-night by Holman’s English Opera Bouife Company. Mme. Niisson-Rouzaud, accompanied by her hus- band, arrived at the Windsor Hotel last evening from Philadelp hia, Mme. Pauline Lucca, who has been warbling to the good people of Boston, yesterday returned to the Metropolitan Hotel, “The Drankard’s Fate; or, The Curse of the Ine- briate,”” will furnish a moral lesson to the audi- ence at the Metropolitan to-night. Theodore Thomas’ sixth and last symphony con- | cert takes place at Steinway Hall on Saturday evening. Miss Adelaide Philips will be the soloist, ‘The Olympic offers a varied programme for the ensuing week. Music, song and dance will be com- bined with new sensations to please and delight the public. Dr. Spencer, who nas met with flattering suc- cess aa a Dickens reader, will give an evening Teading next Thursday evening at Association Campanini’s benefit to-morrow night will intro- duce Nilsson, Lucca, Cary, Torriani, Del Puente, Nannetti and Scolara, besides the distinguished bénéficiare himself. A new actor, Mr. P. Sullivan, is spoken of by the | English journals as a great success as Cox in the celebrated “Box and Cox.” He is said to be a “humorist of the first water.” Professor Cromwell continues his series of art entertainments at Robinson Hall. He takes his audience on agrand tour through the most in- structive scenes in the Old World. Davy Crockett has at last gone to his hunting ground, and his place will be usurped by the pantomimists and varicty artists. Niblo’s has re- lapsed toto the pantomimic spectacular entertain- ments, “Love's Penance” forms the attraction at the new Park Theatre. It offers Mr. Fechter some strong situations for the display of dramatic power, of which this careful actor makes the best use, “Paris by Night’? will give way this evening to “London by Night.” It is said to be a still more striking illusion than the one it replaces. It rep- resents the great British metropolis as it exists in our own day. Mr. John Brougham will reappear to-night as the great Of-an-agan. So great has been the favor with which the public have received the “Veteran” that the novelties in preparation have been post- poned until further notice. “Lohengrin” will be presented at the Academy of Music this evening with the superb cast which characterized its firat performance, nameiy, Elsa, Mme. Christine Nilsson; Ortrud, Miss Cary; Lohengrin, Campanini; Frederick, De! Puente; King Henry, Nannetti; Herald, Blum. Dominick Murray makes his appearance at Wood's Museum this evening in bis own sensational drama, “Tie Gambler’s Crime; or, The Murder on the Huason.”” in the afternoon Mrs. Sophie Miles appearsin ‘Lady Audiey’s Secret‘’ ior the first time in New York. The Fifth Avenue Theatre comedy company will play a four weeks’ engagement at Hooley’s Opera House, Chicago, commencing June 4. They will be under Mr. Daly's personal direction, ‘Al- phonse,” “Charity,” &c, will be the dramatic | attractions, : Dumas’ ‘Monsieur Alphonse” enters to-night on its second week. It promises to be one of the most successful plays of the season; the puplic show their appreciation by filling the house nightly. The child actress, Bijou Heron, has made a mag- | nificent hit, and saddenly won a high place in | popular favor. Mr. and Mrs. Florence have attracted such iarge | audiences at the Grand Opera House that the management have re-engaged them. They appear this week in “The Ticket-ol-Leave Man,” ‘Insha- vogue,” “Eileen Oge” and “The Keturned Voiun- veer.” The capacious theatre on Thursday oven- ing was thronged as if it were a holiday night. ‘The public are fo be congratulated on the restora- tion of Booth’s to its legitimate dramatic use, The banjo comedy retires to give place to Shake- speare’s magnificent tragedy, “Romeo and Julies,” with Miss Netison in herfavorite rdle of Juliet, in which this charming actress has won an enviable snecess. ‘The triends of the management of the Di Murska Opera Cotnpany wish to state that there was no difficulty between the management and the tronpe which could have prevented the matinée perform. | ance on Saturday last, but as, during the entire week, only $1,800 were received, and the expenses amounted to $8,000, the management conciuded that it was better to discontinue such ominous business. All tne money received at the box oMfice, and a large som besides, bad to be paid out to the company. There was little use, indeed, in continuing a season of such unexampled finuncial mistortune. The very successful season of Sunday concerts at the Grand Opera House closed last night with a musical performance of unusual attraction and an audience that filled the entire house, Down- ing’s Ninth Regiment Band, in their handsome uniform, made @ very dashing appearance, and played very commendably selections from Meyer- beer, Weber, Verdi, Bosquet, Godfrey and Down- ing. Mile. lima di Murska was, however, the chief feature of the occasion, singing a glittering waltz song, Artot’s variations and a acene from “Iucia,” with the marvellous brilliancy of style and thor- | oughly artistic finish for which she is so famous. Wieniawski was another attraction, and after playing his fine fantasie on “Faust” he was en- cored several times, Signor Ferrapti, the cele- brated busfo, was anotber reavure, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1874——TRIPLE SHEET, THE ACADEMY OF DESIGN. Some of the Gems of the Present Exhibition. THE HANGING COMMITTEE'S WORK Although much success hag attended the mem- bers of the National Academy of Design in their efforts to secure an exhibition worthily represent- ing American art culture, the inevitable grum iers have turned up, refusing to be satisfied. But the public see with gratification the marble palace which adorns the corner of Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue at last fulfilling its ap- propriated mission. We do not purpose championing either the Academy or the Hanging Committee against the grievance. mongers, Many of the complaints are only too well founded, and, on the other hand, the griev- ances alleged againat the Hanging Committee are acts that, in the minds of all liberal-minded per- sons, Will meet with approval, The rejection of over 200 pictures has made as many sorcheads, who see in the Hanging Committee only so many bloody-minded executioners, bent on sacrificing aspiring genius to their own and friends’ advantage. Of course people who know David Johnson, Irving and Brandt will refuse to believe them capable of doing intentional injustice to any brother artist; bus ‘this will not ssve them from the flery darts of ridi- cule hurled by the disappointed. We are inclined, however, to believe that no picture was refused which could fairly claim a place on the Academy walls. We judge so from the number of works of no particular merit which have been admitted without having any real claims to the distinction, Still, the number o! poor works, compared with former exhibitions, is small indeed; and for this ‘we are much the debtors of the Hanging Commit- tee. HOW THE COMMITTER DID THEIR WORK. The arrangement of the pictures, too, 1s ex- every effort has been made to harmonize the col- lection 80 that the whole shall form one vast, pleasing picture. Most of the works have been hung with special regard to the quality of light which they required, and especial attention has been paid to so place each picture that they re- ceive aid rather than injury from the surrounding works. This is & most important consideration for artista who often find their works tajured by being placed in proximity with others with which they do not harmonize. But even where the com- mittee bave been most thoughtful they have not always succeeded in satisfying the exacting views of the artist or his trends. TELESCOPIO VIRWS. A picture is placed in an admirable position, and 80 arranged that its beauties are heightened by {ts surronndings, but some | over-oMiclous friend comes along and finds that he is “shipwrecked agaimst a heater’? in try- ing to get far enough away to examine the work through a telescope, Of course it Is very sad that people have not sense enough to avoid 80 Patent @ danger as “shipwreck on a heater,” but are the Hanging Committee to blame for it? Then, | the Hanging Committee have put their own pic- tures on the line, while they put much bet- ter works away up in the clouds, where only people armed with telescopes can see them. All that can be said on this score is that it 18 hu- man nature, and, though not in the best taste, still 1¢ 1s a Very common falling to look @rst alter one’s own personal interest. This being so, we do not desire tobe too severe on poor artists, who have to take care of their own affairs like other men, MERIT OF THE COLLECTION. Something over 400 art works make up the exhibition, and their general standard of exce}- lence is far above that of any previous year’s, Vis- itors will be pleased to find works from artists who have long been missed in the annual exhibi- tions. Prominent among these will be noticed Mr. | Chureb, who contrivutes a large and important | work of much technical merit (320). CHURCH'S SfORY OF THE PAST. It gives a view of the building in Petra known 2s dition that one of the Pharaohs hid in large amount of treasure. The building 1s seen bathed in yellow sunlight through a dark, rocky pass that remains steeped in shadow. In the pass a group of Arabs are crouching, evidently wate! ing the approach of some unwary traveller. Like | most of Mr. Church’s later pictures the taterest of this work is chiefly monumental. Those ruins of the present call up to the mind vividly the story of the past and help us to recognize something of | the glory of a civilization that has passed away, | leaving monuments in presence of which the monaments we build seem frail and perishable i indeed, In this work the sense of loneliness and | desolation is increased by the calm quiet of the | sunshine playing on the fagade of the deaa temple as it might on the petrified face of a corpse. It is | perhaps well that we°have some one to preach to ! us amid our feverish lise the sermons that lie | hidden in stones. THE NORTH ‘ROOM. Here we have a clever painting by Elihu Vedder (135), a sete champetre in the days when men ana | women were worth painting, and had not reached the commonplace level of tweed shooting coats | and sun hats and other modern abominations, | Just over it is an important landscape with figures, from the ease! ofan American artist who has made an excellent reputation In Europe, and | has now roturned to his native land with artistic | honors thick upon him. “A Brookside in Nor- | mandy” (136) is the unpretentious title of a work by Crawiord Thom, full of ten- | derness and sympathy with nature. The com- | position is #0 unobtrusive that the scene | |. pears photographic in its truthfulness, as if th \ i ! | | artist had transcribed some bit in nature and pat. it wholesale on bis canvas; and yet it is strictiy a studio picture, only the work is so well done that we do not perceive it, There are & breadth of treaiment and an atmosphere of reality, colored by a subtle sentiment, that we do not find tn any orher canvas in the exhibition. ‘There 18 something more than the usual tree and water and bit o1 sky in Mr. Thom’s work—a com- pleteness and harmony whicu is THE VERY KS3ENCK OF ARr. “Miles Standish and His Men’ (157) is not a new picture, nor ts 1t in the best style o: Boughton. Whatever value it has is bistorical; and, though the group of pilgrim soldiers is weil patnted and strongly, there is neither masterly drawing nor absorbing dramatic mterest to give value to the work. painted, but the violet landscape in the back- ground is not quite so satisfactory. “Octoper on Jounson’s quiet pictures. It is & picasing bit of road and sky, with a@ little more-coior thau we usually find tn this artist’s work, Wittiam Haro has two poetic landscapes, “An Autumn Hifect” (169) and “Morning im the Mountains,” very brill- | lant and pleasant to look upon, with such gor- | Beous tinted trees and leaves and shrubs as we sel- | dom see in nature, but having a charm peculiarly i | | 4 the Erie Road’ (161) 1s the title of one of Davia | j | | thelr own, The two works of most importance | in this room are marine subjects, “A New Eng- | land Coast,” by Richards, and Moran's “Tempest,” Both, have the flavor of the sea about them, and ave painted with @ truth and power of sea effects that wonld entitle them to a bigh place in any vol lection of art works, A WAVE Plorunr, | In Mr. Richards’ picture tic sea, bathed in peace- ui sunshine fltered through silvery clouds, rolls in with a heavy swell on the peach. The form of the wave is well rendered, but there is something artificial in the neatness and trimness of the can- vas, which consorts ill with the subject. It is the nature of the sea to be grand and terribie; Mr. Richards has made it pretiy. The public like pret- tiness because tf does not require any great inte- Nectnal effort to understand or appreciate what is | ice merely, and hence Mi. Richards has repro- duced this selisame wave, with its pretty silvery ) Sky, time and again. We regret thatan artist with / 80 Much real power and techniga) Skil ax Mr, Richards has shown himself to be possessed of should waste his powers in reproducing pretti- nesses when there are 30 many subjects waiting to receive worthy treatment. In one respect Mr. Moran has shown a truer art feeling. THE TEMPEST, PROM DAVID COPPRRVIELD. ‘This is a botd and conscientious effort to picture the terrific scene suggested rather than painted to our imagination by Dickens. It is no easy task to attempt to paint a scene of human passion amid the awful conflict or the elements. In preseuce of the anger of the heavens man becomes so dwarfed that his passions and hopes and (ears sink into insigniqi- cance, So it {s in the picture before us. The human crowd drawing Peggoty lifeless from the fierce embrace of the sea are simply accessories having tittle or no Influence on the grandeur of the scene, In this the artist has shown bis reverence for the sea. MORAN’S SUCORSS. It is a bold undertaking to represent on can- vas the graudeur and sublimity of a storm, and only & man in the closest sympathy ; With nature in all her moods could hope even for partial success, Mr. Moran’s picture is full of power, and we can almost hear the rush of the mountainous waves as they dash in thunderous shock on the beach and are dashed into infinite spray. The artist has caught something of the magnificent power and majesty of the tea The dazing snow-white spray flakes scem to mingle with the storm clouds that rush on ominousiy as if the elements had broken loose from control 1p that dread hour and were sweeping out of the infinite space to annihilate creation. Those who have seen the sea in anger and the rush of moun- taiuous waves with spray clouds breaking over thelr crests in feathery grandeur will be abie to appreciate the admirable qualities of Moran's pic- ture, in which the ever changing form, unstabie yet massive, of the waves, are rendered with a truth{uloess that iew artists have ever attained, THE SOUTH BOOM. ‘The place of honor is this year assigned toa for- eign picture, ‘‘Lost-Souvenir of the Mountains of Auvergne” (282). Itis a large sheep picture, ad- mirabiy composed. It is executed in black and white, but the dramatic interest of the canvas is SO great that we forget the absence ot color. The helplessness of the huddled sheep and terror de- cellent, and, witn the exception of a few cases,-| picted on their faces has something almost human | in its expresstveness, ART JEALOUSIES. There has been expressed a guod deal of dis- content that the place of honor should be assigned to the production of a foreigner when so many excellent American works were available. Such @ sentiment is unworthy of any one having real art sympathy, and if acted on Would soon have the effect of withdrawing all for- eign support from the Academy. Asa great deal of what passes as American art is the work of men not native born, the attempt to draw a line be- tween native and foreign art might produce some very unpleasant consequences. But even where it otherwise there is a want of dignity and sense of justice in the suggestion that the place of honor 18 to be given, not because of merit, but of favor. We are sure the public would never become par- ties to such Chinese exclusiveness. It is too late to establisn Know Nothingism in art, when it hag been banished even from politics. The Ranging Committee deserve the best thanks for having in where honor was due. INNESS’ “WASHING DAY.”? Ohurch’a picture, which we have already referred to, occupies a prominent place in this room, George Inness sends from Italy a large canvas, a | ‘Washing Day” near Perugia (310), It is a mere | transcript of a bit of landscape, and shows very this matter done their duty and awarded honor | | peculiar work of chis artist, whose very fanite | Teveal strong qualiues, It would be tov much to expect our academicians to understand @ man Ike Whistler. He does not belong to the tin and vars nish school of Dttsseldorf, and bis mode of laying on paint so startled gentlemen accustomed to regard nice smooth sarface aa the acme of art that! they naturally put the strong work of Mr. Whistler where 00 one could see it, TROUBLING THE ACADEMIC MIND, We know what Mr. Whistler can do to upset ma | academical mind. We remember very well his “Woman tn White” and some strong paintings ofthe muddy Thames, with which he started the sleepy London academicians, We will not do tbe Hanging Committee the injustice of suspecting that they put Mr. Whistler’s piccure out of exam- ‘nation distance from any improper motives. They did not quite understand it, that 18 all. Besides, the work is not one of Mr. Whistier’s best, but it has qnailities which entitle it to much more re. Bpectiui cousideration than has been shown io it, SHELVING MERIT. A similar complaint must be made in the case of | @young Amertcan actist of remarkable power, wha | sends two works (331 and 338), “A View Near | Dordrecht, Holiand,” and “An Old Mill in the Jora | Mountains, Switzerlana.” The former (831) i# , one of the most admirable works im the | exhibition, painted with a force and soliaiuy | that argues 4 most brilliant future for Mr. Du Bois, Why such a picture should be hung up almost out of sight, while so poor | @ picture as Bierstadt’s landscape (287) 19 put , OD the line in a@ place of honor, is one of those little acts of favoritism which teud seriously to | injure the Academy in the eyes of the people who | look at art from a disinterested standpoint. Bridgman’s “Bringing im the Corn’ (260) has | fared better, and found & Place on the line, it | ts every way a remarkable picture. ‘Ine treat. ment is unusuaily broad and the @tmospherie and daylight effects magnificently rendered. The group absolutely seems to move on the canvas, 262—288 are important works by a youug ior- eign artist, Pietro Vaini, resident of this city. They both give evidence of power, but of power not fally under control. There is a strong dramatic feeling in those works, but its expression has noe been altogether happy, The technical work, how- ever, is very good, the figures are painted with a freedom and breadth of touch quite remarkabie | and the coloring ts strong and solid. A clever little Picture by Beaufrain Irving, styled “The Book- worm”? (237), calls up memories of Meissonier. it 1s full of character and painted with great care, The artist has succeeded in that most diMcult feat—making us forget the size of the canvas by the admirable proportion and finish of bis work, MUSICAL REVIEW. after a winter and spring of unusnuai duiness ig their business the music publishers show somd signs of activity, and a large number of new com- Positions have been added to the apparently end~ Jess list on the various catalogues, The propor- tion of trasn, it may be said, is less than ever before, and some really great and meritorious works have been pnblished and already command popularity. The opera seems to have claimed the attention of some of our most eminent composers for the piano, Among the firat | we find a very handsome and tastefully gotten up publication, in sheet music, en- | ited “Aida Marcta del Trionio,” arranged | for four hanas, by Ranieri Vilanova. The warm, glowing messures, 60 well adapted to tilustrate the triumphal entry of a successful general Into am Eastern city, so suggestive of the grandeur and little skill in composition, It is by no means so | magaiticence of Egypt in the days of tie Pharaohs, ; Strongly painted as some of this artist’s lesser | 80d SO {ull of martial fre, lose none of their works, but it has the merit of being harmonious in | vitality in Mr. Vilanova’s hands, although it might color, quet in toue and with a sense of atmosphere | dé Supposed that sucha march could not be well El Khaseé, or the Treasury, so called from the tra- | ita i perfectly natural. If the artist had rubbed out the badly drawn figures of the women, which cut up i his foreground and take from the repose of the | pleture without lending to it any real human in- | verest, the effect of his work would have been more Striking, One could thea have lain down in im- | listened to the rippling of the stream over the 1s broken by the women, intrasion of chattering SHAKESPEARE N2W CREATED. We have already expressed our opinion that Mr. Page’s new edition of ‘Shakespeare’ (301) will scarcely induce the pubhe to adopt the ; modern William imagined by Mr. Page. On closer examination of the work we are strongly inclined +O maintate our first formed opinion, Neither can we bestow any high praise on this production as an art work. Whatever interest it possesses is j due to the novelty of the taea of building up a new Shakespeare to wipe out the person handed down | to us, There is nothing of the grandeur with which we would invest an ideal Shakespeare, Mr. | Page presents to us rathera mamby pampy per- | sonage with a weak rather than poetic expreasion. | ‘There ts neither in face nor figure that commanding dignity of person which might be put in an ideal | | creation as the outward symbol of the genius | | and majestic thought of the man. The position of | | the figure is awkward and unnatural aud un- | | pleasantly suggestive of a lay tigure. M. F. H. De Haas contributes a large and im- i adapted for the piano. agination under the shade of tho grand trees and | | Stones, and enjoyed the sense of peace which | The transcription, how- ever, 18 an evidence of what musical knowledge, taste and skill can effect. The themes are well handled and the masstve character of the music preserved without becoming monotonous. Edward Schuberth & Co. publish the ioliowing:— “Across the Sands.” Song. Millard. A very gracelul and artistically constructed little tone poem. Mr. Millard has a happy style in his songs | of uniting melody with descriptive eifect. |. “Oharity Ball Waltzes.” Charles Haas. The | first subject seems to have been taken vodily from | Strauss, and the treatment of the others gives an impression of monotony. “Tne Rivulets.” song and chorus. E. P. Chase, A very commonplace work, founded on a theme of “The Daughter of the Kegiment,” which might have been profitably permitted to repose in peace. | G, Sobirmer publishes the tollowing :— “Far Away,” nocturne, and “Illustration aur dea Airs Americains et Anglais,” Joseph Commelilas. The former work is very pretty and takmg, | although rather conventional and reminding oue at umes of Jungmana. But the fantasia on ‘“Hait, Columbia i?’ and “God Save the Queen” is.» superb work, and one which even Rubinstein would ad- mire ‘and place in bis répertoire, The composer shows proois of being & thorough musician and one who can combine effect with taste and grace with strength, “To-Morrow, Love.!? se A neat, charming little composition, of which the author may be proud, although his or her name is unaccountabiy withield trom the title page. William A. Pond & Co. publish the following :— “Alda.” Transcription, E. Marzo. The prineipal deiect in this work is in the selection o/ themes totally unsuited for the piano and attempting to give the orchestral effects in such a strangely colored air as ‘Celeste Alda’? on the piano. The other themes, selected from the opera, notably that of Amneris, are more happily treated than the one we frst mentioned, but for piano pur- portant marine picture “The Becaking up of a Storm at Star Island’? (304). lt is oreezy and the | composition ts decidedly good. There’s a swell of the sea about the picture quite invigorating. | LOW abr. | | “club Life” (316), by W. H. Beard, is one of those | satires which this humorous artist loves to paint. | He, however, plays with dangerous weapons, for | some one May suggest that the artist “drew from | himself.” It is rather a pity that so much talent | should be wasted on subjects which are humorous, | but certainly not elevating. Mankind, one might | suppose, could furnish the artist with subjects | | calculated to interest, or if not he could find tnem | in the nobler side of animal life, for every life bas its | noble side. “A Breezy Day on the Road” (617), | by James Hart, is an excellent example of this | artisi’s work. It is @ landscape with cattle and | | trees. Itis quietin sentiment, The break in the | clouds isoneof the most charming sky effects | we have seen for @ long time. AMERICAN ARTISTS ABROAD. “Christmas Eve in Italy (297), by W. Whitt- redge, belongs to @ class of work we seldom | get from American artists, The effect of the il- | ‘ lumimated charch in the night gloom is very | | fine, ana, though we think the facade onght to | have been painted in deeper shadow, the general | | treatment is very satisfactory. Just above tuis | work is anotber, very diferent in every respect, | being rather novel on the Academy walls, | Venus” (298), @ nude female figure resting on the | | surface of a caim sea, in whion she contemplates | her own reflection, It appears that there exists in the minds of some exceedingly modcst people — | an objection to the admission of nude figures to | | the exhibition. That ts to say a desire to exciude the very hguest class of art rrom an art academy. | | Itis dificult to write patiently of such persous, | especially when found among artists. In the latter | case they are generally those who could not paint | even a lay figure, and who naturally look with | horror on the introduction of @ class of work | | which would soon educate the people beyond | | much of the shapeless rags which now pass as | | pictures. It is therefore with sincere pleasure tat | wesee Mr. Perry’s Venus” admitted to a place | on the walls. The work 18 well drawn and the | | modelling ts arm and good. The color treatment | | ia not so successinl, but the work 18 a welcome | entrance on a path comparatively untrodden by American artists. Boughton is represented in room | | by an important work in his best manner. “The | Confidants” (272) represents two young ladies of | the past century walking ip @ meadow nnburden- | | ing toeach other heart secrets hidden trom the , | rest of the worid. WHISTLBR’S CONTRIBUTIONS. H Itis80 seldom that we have an opportunity of | examining any of Mr. Whistler’s works that we | regret the academicians did not give us a chance | | of looking at bis ‘Scene on the Coast of Brittany.” { | | | | | i | | So far as we can Judge from visuai observation the | work by no means presents Mr. Whistler at ms | best. Still he has won fairly so wide a European | notoriety it would only have been reasonabie, on | the part of the Hanging Committee, to have al- | Jowed the public to get a fair jook at the most poses “Aldi” is entirely unsuitable, except, ‘per- haps, the march in the second act. “Scherzo,” “Waltz Poem’ aod “Mazurka.” F. Brandeis, The three works, differing materially | in subject and treatment, are characterized by u grace, finish and delicacy of style that make them entirely charming. Such compositions do honor to American art and tend to elevate the pubilc mina +o what 1s really meritorious iu music. Ditson & Co. puvlish the grand, spirited “Chant de Guerre” of Gottschalk, one Of the posthumous works of the lamented pianist who deserved tue name of the American pin. “La Danza.” Tarantella Napolitaine. Sydney Smith, This ia one of those sparking little works that please alike by their dasa and Orvo and by the clever manner in which the themes are handled, William Hall & Son have some elegant editions of the works of William Vincent Wallace and George F. Bristow, especially of the operas of those shining luminaries of the English opera siage, WATERING PLACE NOTES, The Mansion House, Long Branch, is being én- larged. ‘The Newport News reports rents at Newport this | season to be very moderate, 1 Garrison’s Highiana House, on the Hudson, wil open about the middle of May. The owners of the Clarendon Hotel, Saratoga, are erecting private gas works, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's cabin this month is the Grand Hotel, Jacksoaville, Fia, Fliiy 01 the best suits of rooms at the © Saratoga, have been already secured, June 16 ts fixed for tae opening of the Mountain House and Prosvect Park Hotel, Catskuil. Hamiitou Hoppin, of this city, has takea posses- sion of his villa at Beach View avenue, Newport. The old Orcoard House, at Old Orchard Beach, will be conducted this season by FE. C. Staples. There are many cotcages tm course of erection there. The only hotel Stonington, Conn., can boast of, the Wadawanuck, ne in June, We hope this year the stockholders will not monopolize the best rooms. We have not learned of any material changes in the management of the Long Branch hotels siuce last season, The same faces will doubticss welcome the visitors. Gimore’s Twenty-second Regiment Band is un- derstood to have been engaged for the season at the new United States Hotel, Saratoga. Lander’s Band goes to the Grand Union, Of late years Virginia's White Sulphor Springs has become a very popular and fashionable sum- mer resort, We hear that a new and very fine hotel is being built there, The abundance of rag money likely to be in circnlation this yesr will doubtless enable many to air themsvives at the seaside Who never before could do 0, except as deadheads, The carrying away, ‘ast fail, of the bint at Long Branen lessens the distance between the hutela and the sari very materially. This will be appreciated by those who have an antipathy to walking. Nothing has been decided yet as to the propri- etorship this year of the Palisade Mountain House, at Engiewood-on-the-Hudson, It was kept last year by Messra, Sylvanus 1. Cozzens and Charles ky Murray. ndon,