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4 “GERMAN ART. tistic convictio&ig, aa Wel as of the pecattarities of is mind aod character, which unfitted bim for the task entrusied to him. | the most considerabie loty even assured me tl can artwts wno of late years have visited piace. Herr von Pt- at the young Amert- to Kaulbach’s artistic convictions, tt will | the Municn Academy be had ranked among his ined MEnaerstood that the new school of art, | most taleuted sud) industrious pupus, vand power and eeiitanes pg Md oe | that chey | fully deserve | the exceptional ‘ * i 88 al Interesting Sketch of the Modern thetic to the mun wno may be justly des- uae Ganiotnens: - aanttoae er Ptlowy ignated as the heir of Cornelius, Schnorr and Overbeck, and who brougit to tne highest possible periection that academical school or mannerisia which sacrificed picturesque effect and brilliancy 0: color to powerful conception and pe fauitiess design, Works*like those 0! Hana akart, which excite the rapturous entousiasm of the public, were, and are still, treated with scorn | and contempt by the older master; and Kaulbach Mimsetf, in former years, did anything but en- courage the rising generation of artista, which | averted itself, designediy and oiten ostentatiously, | from the acadi Micali tradition. It is but fair to State, however, that ibach afterward ad- mitted his error; he ‘Kuowledged the one- sidedness Of the old scuool, and its incapacity to | satisiy the Modern legitimate desire jor realistic confine his praise to our American students in bis own school, he extends i to aearly ail American students in the academy, Kaulbach, | one day betore he died, spoke in the most flatter- | ing terms of the young American stadents. “The Americans are taking the lead tu everything,” he said, Lehail alterward speak at greater length of the works of those American artists here, who. by verance, and vy the successes they dy achieved, have greatly shasen, in artistic circies of the city, the general prejudice that existed about America’s being the country of materiaiism, aud subject solely tu the rule of the almighty dollar. Certainly the readers of these letters will derive some legitimate pride from the fact that even the youngest o! these “sons of the New World,’? who 2 Munich Art School. BESISTANCE T0 BSTHETIC CENTRALIZATION aulbach’s Relations to the Ba- varian Academy. Serer ere ie as well a ideal and intellectual beauty. generally come over here almost unprepared, and se eRe e ‘ Tue head and most iliustrious representa: § 7 ‘ istic studies anew, are REALISM, IDEALITY AND COLOR, | ve of the academical school even bougnt | Mire ate reas tne competition of their German | tee sketch Of Makart’s first patnting and bad tt | hung Up in his Own studio to enjoy its marvellous colorisuc beauty! On the osher hand, the pecu- or Sclavouic colleagues. Only last year they | earned the greater part of tne prizes Offered lor | public competition by the acauemical authori- . tarities O1 his Character compietely prevent: a his | s mn art atter the Young American Artists Abroad—What having @ personal and beneficial tfuence upon | Metribuceie Or eae. prises these young the academy and the hundreds of young artists WhO | men come across the Ocean and beat the Should Be Done for Them. | dled and fil its halls, fm tact, he rather disliked | than liked rising young arusts, and they seldom or ‘odly support and beuevoent appreciation which are So necessary to youth, Tne poverty and musery of his younger ‘HERR VON PILOTY’S WORK. | fears, the privatious and humiliations he had | Rimself to endure before he reacued tae summit of | tortune and fame, left indelible traces upon his that tne new Director of the Academy makes it a M D | characver, Egotism, bitter scorn and a de- ruje to encourage merit wherever It 1s to ve lound, UNICH, Dec, 12, 1874. | cidedly pessinustic view of the world and of the | jp fact, it would be aiMfcult to find a master more After the establisbment of the German Empire, | human mind, estranged nim from his companions, | desirous of helping all his pupils, and one more I Beriin as toe capital, many people thougnt "8 Gspecially Irom the young, hopeful, warm: | successful in this respect than Karl vou Puloty. Political centralization would lead to social ° aE LEEE LAE adr IO RCE, | "een that ban ntralization; that the new capital would soon i bere ra. ee of eine than the dead, of the rising generation and the future of German Bttract every political, scientific or lterary ca- | fry, 'rather tial Ol ite past and o1 taat scuool wad and thus absorb the vital powers of the wuica is gradually going out of date, we cannot ation. They fancied that the sm iliercapitaisand resist saying a iew words about Kauibach’s artis- towns, like Munich, Dresden, Stuttgart and Frank- “!¢ Temains, which have been reproduced tu pio- fort, which nitnerco had been so many rocuses of Night and of culture, would gradually lose their Germans on their own grount. They come aud take away the great.r part ol the medals. I am giad of tt; ic will do thegooys good. “] am sorry to Bay, however, that M. Piloty has been now and then roughly criticised for his alleged “extreme partiality” for straogers. These attacks are, Ol course, Unmertted; and it is only tair to atate partial in any Case, is it not my duty to act as the Iriend and protector of those strangers who come nere from hom 8 thousands of miles away, trom New York, Cuicago or San bruncisco, led either by a@ genuine love ol art and by sue hope ot being able in Munich to cultivate and develop their talents? on this subject, “I! even I had been unconsciously | tography by Messrs, Brockmann, We see irom high position before the new star’s dazzling light, extra care tha: may heve been bestowed upon | has been now much enlarged, and Mme. Peschara par the part which was written for Mile. Dé- bg the song of the ‘Lily and the tas spirit, Dupius, too, was aa good best pleasures of tne Parisians this winter. | M. Lucas, dramause, and M. Membrée, musician, LES PARIAS,’” | for the Ch&tetet, which is now calied the Opéra 1s laid in India:—Tne widow Of a deceased rajab is destined, according to custom, to be burned she preiers death to marriage with a being of an impure oaste, and the pariah, overwhelmed of the first act Jalling upon his death. In the peconm: nomeren tue body of the dead man Who has just arrived, having prayed that the Hindoo might be restored. to le, effects this an convert; then the curtain fails again, When it rises the widow's iuneral pyre 1s ready, anda burned, She 18 about to be consigned to the flames, when the pariah and the missionary by the multitude aud all three are then led, tor some inexplicable reason, to the stake. Here a Portuguese ship, of which the arrival isannounced by @ salvo of artillery, and transports the three Deppiness, The music of the las” 18 rather Ol @ heavy character, and, as the Parisians em- dreary, they have very generally declined to wit- ness this production, aud consequeatly the chorus | night because there was no mouey fortacoming to pay their wg putting the finishing touch toan opera entitied “BLANCHE DE NEVERS,'" | Folies Dramatiques, and 1s exciting # good deal of | plea.urable anticipation. | engaged by M. Halanzier, of the Paris Opera, who is 50 good @ judge that his engavements are well NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. TALKS ABOUT NEW BOOKS. “The Love That Lived’— More Bedtime Sto- ries”—“The Treasure Hunters.” CHAT ABOUT DRESS. “What is that book you have been poring over al) day, Feliolat”’ said Miss Rachel, laying down her work and looking inquiringly at her cousin, FeLicila—This 18 one of Harper's last, “The Love ‘That Lived,” by Misa Eiloart. Miss RACHEL—I have just finisbed-the book ana must say I 1ouna it very absorbing. Mrs, NorTON—I should like to know something about this book that appears to interest you two young ladies so deeply. Miss RacHEL—Well, | can give you the story 1p a. few words, if you have not time to read the book. 1m the first place, there are two heroes and two heroines—an old couple and a young couple. The love that lived was between the old couple, whose early relations have resulted in a complicated plom The story opens in a country vil- lage in England, where, standing upon a bridge, talking radicalism to a journeyman printer, is the young hero, Robert Reed. Walle they talk the bridge is swept from under them and the two men are dashed into the water be- neath. The printer, Tony Byng, being a good swimmer, manages to save himself, while Reea 1s rescued by a young swell, Lionel Rivington, who zet. Paola-Marié was @ charming oremiee 08 4 ever, aud the piece promises to be among the have produced a piece, tn three acts, called Populaire. Here is a summary of the plot, which alive. A pariah who loves wishes to save her, but with grief, commits suicide. ‘The curtain 18 brought to als tribe, anda Catholic missionary miracle, and the grateiul pariah becomes a Jhris- solemn procession Cunducts her thither to be attempt to rescue her; vat they are overpowered second miracie transforms the iuveral pile into @ victims to @ place Of salety and, let us hope, of phatically resent uny attempt to mike them singers refused to appear upon the stage last M. Hervé which will be brought out next February at the | _M. Bourbouiesque, a new bass singer, has been worti beariog tn mind, A young Pole named | | Baoul in the “Huguenots.” He ts 4 tail, handsome | Maa, with a powerful tenor voice, the higher notes | o1 which are of excelieut quality. The high A and | them, by contributing largely to the fame of | B fat in the grand duet of the fourth act and in Being foreigners, tuey qoubiy need a helping and | Merzwinaki ons also produced @ sensation as | With the Rivington party 1s Sybil Cheyne, junior Was standing near by at the time o! the accident. heroine, a niece of Mr. Rivington, sentor, and nts two daughters Maud and Avic. Reed would almost ratner have been drowned than to be rescued by these publications that the aruist had notgiven proiecting nand. When their studies are termi- Up his peculiar method of composition, wuica in pated chey nearly all pay hundred fold the littie @nd would become as dull, monotonous and devoid Of intellectual life as any French provincial town former years excited such extravedinary entuusi- can be. In a word, they thought that Berlin would asm, whue modern critics and modern public Opinion in general baving been strovyly, although Monopolize Germany as Paris has monopolized France. { Munich and upholding it8 1eputation as the art | the septuorof the duel gave nim no embarrass- | | Ment whatever, and he sanz the rumance o1 the | renal baad ered Raia PORRe poor poCRRSersr first act with a Sentiment and feeling truly exqui- | !!Ving with his mother in @ cottage in the wood, site. M. Fernando 1s aiso anew tenor to whom he has been bola enough to look admiringly upon | the public wave given a tavorable reception; | sypii, who lives at the manor. Reed has an op- a8 iD paluting. Show the intuence of realistic progress to some degree; Laey must be considered rather as *‘pend- ants’ to than iuutations of bis loimer composi- tions. ‘The designs for bis ‘Deluge’ show con- Vula.vely agitated groups of meu and women, either struggling desperately for life or abandon- ing themseives Lo reckless debauchery in the face oldeath; kings scraping together their treasures With idiotic aviaity, heroes fighting with prents. torte monsters, and in the bacnground tue ark, co.ducied by two gigantic angels, waose wings unconsciousiy, influenced by moderu realist, | metropolis of Germany.” have more and more begam to fiua fault with it, | Herr von Piloty touched upon a subject which Such fuctustons of artistic taste are deserves, careful attention and discussion in by go meaus ditlicult to account for; we see them | the United States. Irefer to the subject of the constantly lu otuer departments, ip music as Well | guprORT OF YOUNG AMERICAN ARTISTS ABROAD. These apprehensions, however generally enter- tained, even by true an@ sound patriots, must be declared altogether erroneous, A somewhat Closer inspection of the state of things, as weil as of the minds of the people, will easily prove our assertion. The pecuilar disposition of the French Das uncoubiedly done more for the enormous superiority of Paris over all the rest of France than even the mantiold charms of their brillant | were uniolded to dotie Work Or sails, Wille above capital. The French see those charms, as it were, | the perisuing worid Jehovan ayerts his tace. The through a magnilying glass, and are so eagerin Sketches tor tiis work bear the master’s disunc- enjoying them iat one of their witty authors | “Y¢ Sluns, even to smallest details. said, wituout committing any very great exag- | Kauloach amounts to nearly 200, and ‘heir photo- geration, “My countrymen may be divided into. Sfaphic production Caunot but confirm and sanc- ton im wider circies the judgmeut which pubiic Kauibuci’s unfinished works | The humver of drawings and sketches left by | No country spends targer sums for the acquisi- tion o1 stavues, pictures and other objects of art than America. All the picture dealers of Munica complain of having 0ad @ baa season this year be- cause 80 few Americans nave been abroad. “One thing i# wa) ting,”’ said Herr von Puoty, “America does not, like almost every otuer Country of the Old World, give pecuniary support to young artists during the course of ther Studies. Im consequence of this many taientea young men ati im obtaining the highest possiole result of their eiforts; they must break Off their studies prematurely, im order to return to some more proiitavie occupation fur a while— | often ior lile.’? in this relation 1am reminded of @ young Bostonian who has just returned here after an absence of Over two years. He was here for two years oefore; then his funds ran out ana | he had to return home, where he taught school, wo classes—tnose who vi and has returned bere on the savings of that pe- be - : hive in Paris and opinion, as well a8 competeut and unbiased fod. Two things sbould not be iorgoteen in this those wio would like to do so, but can- | critics, have already passed upon that extruor- relation, An artist’s studies necessarily embrace Mot afford i.” Of the Germans, on tne nary gen.us, and which ackn wiedges him tube g period of time varying irom five to eignt years; bot the greatest, out the higiest aud most com- preheusive of coutemporancous artists. | KAULBACH AND HIS PUPILS. Itis strange that this great master left no pupils, Do school Of young men inspired by tis exampie, to mourn his ioss, In fact, so far as the prosperity contrary, it might be well said, reversing the French author's witticism, “The Germans may be divided into two classes—those who are com- pelled by their interests or by politics to sojourn @t Berlin and those wo can afford to live some- ‘where eise.”” CENTRES OF GERMAN LIFE. We do not say woo much in asserting that cen- ‘ralization in Germany will only be political, Social centralization, such a8 exists spontaneously, Without any effort, in France, a centralization ‘Which lies in the minds and in the habits of the people themselves, is as yet entirely unknown in Germany, and wil! most probably continue to be #0, ag the very spirit and genius o/ the nation are adverse to it. Goethe himseli wrote earnestly great has been the success of most Of bis scaolars, against it. So far as science, literature, fiUe that young artists consider themselves, with jus- arts, im short the whole vast domain of intel. , tice, very lortunate if they succeed in getting un- lectual culture, are concerned, centralization hag | 4¢! Piluty’s tutorsnip. KAULBACH’S SUCCESSOR. made no progress whatever since 1866 or 1870. | Piloty’s works are known to almost every | cerned the change which nas taken place in the dnectorship will no doubt prove to be a venefictal Kari von Piloty, the uew director, has been ve soul and ie Of ine Institution for Many year: He 18 an artist of the greatest merit, scarcely in- lerior in this respect to his predecessor, walle be- yond the latter he possesses unparalleled capacity Jor imparting bis method and knowledge tootuers, and that indefatigabie benevolence and sympathy lor nis pupils which must be considered as the most precious qualiues of any teacher, provessor or director of important educational establish- ments. So constaut has been his care jor tne young men once admitted to nis schoo! and so On the contrary, Dresden, Munich, Franklort, or ee Re Ue arnt) AE aL nee. of erianicus,” which © gach attraction Stuttgart, Leipsic and many other German towns 1 the Hall of Honor ta tne Vienua Exposi- are making great and successful efforts: not only tion, and @ small of which bas just | y been ordered by thy King of Bavaria. fui painung Was uot quite finished when the artist had to seud it to Vieana; be-ides, it had been | spoiled in certain parts by the carelessness of tne | photograpuers, Who exposed it to the 1ull sun for five or siX days, and, Moreover, tovk the strauge | Uberty of covering i twice with giycerine in or- | der to facilitate their work, When I called upon Herr vou Piloty | tound him busy in removing trom thie masterpiece tae last traces of this mis- toequai, but to surpass, in singie inte‘lectuai or soctal departments the capital of the Empire, and ‘thus to win back whatever they may have lost by adverse political events, Indeed, we are inclined to look upon it as a very good thing that political and military life have been centred in Berlin, thus leaving the minor capitals, or princes ratuer, ample time and excuse for devoting their atten- | management aud sacrilege. fion to the promotion of art and science and He Is about forty-eight years old, and was born music. | at Homburg, im the Palatinate. His iather, i | Ferdinand Piloty, was an eminent lithograpnic THE LITERARY CENTRES OF GERMANY, | arust. His most important pictures are ‘:Ine A few striking examples will easily prove the | Asvrolge Seni at | Walenstein’s Corpse,” truth of this assertion. To speak of science, it 13 Hitatine Dear." Neto chaene eTie Boise well known that the University of Berlinis not at | of Roms,” “Gailleo in Prison” and “The As- ail superior to other first rate German universi- braced Peary ene, beabephrat eres ties, Leipsic, for instance, greatly surpasses it by | tended for the Maximilianeum ut Munich. He 1s the number of the students as well as by the scien- | now engaged up on two new large pictures, the ago Herr Windscheid, the most celebrated teacher | was kind enough to explain tome the pln of these of common Roman law in Germany, having had _ higniy iteresting works. recess rofessorsiips at both universities offered to him PILOT'S. MEW Pt a uitlenccoses ‘aid not_hestvate to accept the po. | qyTR@ Sts of Piloty’s uew works will be double sition at Leipsic as being the better and more tn- fluential. Again, the literary movement of Ger- Many is anything out concentrated in the capital of the Empire. The publication and sale of books | are chiefly carried on in Leipsic and Stuttgart. The most important newspapers of Germany are published in provincial towns, far removed from the political metropolis. The Cologne Gazette and the Augsburg Gazette by tar surpass the other German papers. The latter has oeen very properly described as a German daily Saturday Review, GERMAN ART—DUSSELPORF AND MUNICH, the jargest paintings existing. It is ordered by | the City Council of Munich, and 18 destined to | adorn the large hail of the beautiiul gothic city palace recently erected on the Marten-Platz. excites "ne greatest interest in artistic circles, somewhat new and — aliegori in taat which Kaulvbacn to him, style of Germany vut in tne whole of Europe. inferiority of the German capital becomes even more appareot. Berlin may ve the paradise of German military men aud politicians, but it Is , perbaps the last place to whicha young artist would think of going in order tocomplete his studies. The Honenzollerns were never partica- larly notable ior their patronage of art, nor was it ever, nor 18 it now, necessary tiat they should be. Since the days 0! Von Muehier (or, as the Berliners degree. surpass THE Ss predecess PICTURE OF THE ““LITCLE MONK." the artist's oWn explanation to me, tne course ol seven centurie., n a x nected with the deveopment oi the city, andhave David, too, produced nothing so good as nis say, of arue a eagpeld PTE tad acest contributed in rome way or other to its lame and «Désert,”” and Victor Massé composed noth- | . ition an in rts, the B . erhaps e re a peiaete ot ast tas otk 20 ated insige | te long fe cr iliustrious personages ‘wil 126 equal to “Galatea,” walle Auver, Adam t be led turther than to tue end and Thomas may have sometimes regretted that nificance, and Dr. Falk has as yet not been able to | of the eiguteenth century, and will contain they excelled themselves in “La Muette,’ “Le make good the seventy years of Muehier’s inca- pacity. Municn and Dusseldorf are now the great art centres of Germany. Dresden, altiongh pos- sessing artistic treasures at leastequal to tonose met the artis. at every step, of Munich, excelled only pernaps by those of | Fiicn the rare avilities of the artist Will ind most Paris or Rome, takes actually little or no room tor disjlay. To the rigot will be the nymph part among the productive art centres of of tue Isar, that impetuous Aipine torrent whose Germany. It 18 Munich, however, which alone | [04ming waters sweep so swillly past the city. can with justice lay claim to the proud titie of San anunitie WEiex fhe tcan tien, ok iors being the artistic capital of Germany. Generation o: artists has sprung ap here, men full of vigor, talent and faith in the tuture of Ger- @ small quantity of of the ancient academical doctrines, and have brought a tresh impulse and new itfe Into the art which had been feeding, meagrely enough, upon the remains of Cornelius’, Uverbeck's and Kanl- “pack’s grandeur. [tis suMcient for the present with loud hailoging, the Maximilian bridge. the Corn Excaange. the lo lofty the and Franz Detregger, the best representatives of 9! Bavaria. this new school of realistic art. Impartial ana conscientious critics did not hesitate to piace the works of these artists exhibited lasr year in Vienna veside the master pieces of contempora- neous French art. | Belore we speak of the young artiats who have carried the reputation of the modern Munich art to all parts Oi the world it may be well to saya few words about the school itself and the man ‘ho, although himself a great and skilful artist, ‘thas gained more reputation and achieved greater Merit in caliing out or creating as it were the genius of othersthan by his own works. Hans Makart has long ago overtoppea his teacher, fart, which has Piloty. 1 the guilloune, \S§GFFEOTS OF THE DEATH OF WILLIAM VON KAULBACH. Strangers or foreigners may have been indaced — #0 believe that the present fourishing condition § own day in the “petroieases” ofthe Munich Academy of Arts is due to Kaulbacn, | among whom Herr von Pity nd that bis death last Apri! may nave givena ™0dels. Another of Plioty’s $20,000, The amount 18 not excessively Toit lor & Space of thre it WUi take Herr von Piloty vo gompiete It, A ACLURE # THE FRENC! Boy en. Anotief équally interesting pieture 1s that feariul, bloody drama which we cali French Revolation, wich changed the lace of the world. The “tricoveuses,” thos who sat, gayiy langhing ana atvering, and or central figures of this picture, Just arrived at the Dis assistants, These “tricoteuses,’ Oo ‘and development of the Munich Academy are con- | | the cost of uving has greatly increased nere dur- | Ing the past tour or five years. I think the ques- | tion of support, or rather the founding o1 stipen- | diums, given as a prize by American artistic bodies, Corporations or legislatures, 1s well worthy ol earnest consideration. Munich willin a few years offer still greater ad- vantages to pupils than she can to-day. The academy in the old Jesuit monastery 1s to be re- moved to a beautiul and commodious structure, wnhica is Lo be erected beyond tue eae ay of Vic- tory, on the Ludwig strasse, and for which the government set apart a gum of 2,000,000 | florins, The artists will doubtless gladly leave the old pailding, with its dreary rooms and thick walls, for the beautiiul | Renaissance palace, with high, commodions sa- loons and studios, which is in store for them, | There 18 at present wucn dissatisiaction among artistic circles about the choice of the site for the new academy made by the government. Some Want it near the two Pinakotheks, otners on tue | | Theresienwiese, in the neighbornood of the | Bavaria and the Hall of Fame; otuers, in the | Engush Garden; but the present sive is purchased and discussion therefore of no avail. | THE DRAMA ABROAD. This beautt- | | REVIVAL OF GOUNOD's ‘“‘MIREILLE”—FIRST OF i | bat he bas inaugurated his first appeurance i | by tremendous row with M, Vianesi, , portunity to save Lionel’s life some UUme after, 80 the conductor of the orchestra at tue they are quits. They bate cach other, however, | Italian opera, who stopped bis musicians and suffered the singer to go on alone Wituout any ace | companiment, ‘The quarrel, however, was 50 serious that M, Vianesi resigned his baton, and | under suc. circumstances 11s some comfort to Know that the old dispute between M. Faure and nis director has been made up; possivly the dis- | oes up to Wycheuolme, the Rivinytons! place, to pute between M. Fernando and M, Vianesi will be | made up aiso, Time works wonders. | “LA VEUV) is the name of acomedy in three acts by MM. Metinac and Halévy, which has just iailed at tne | wai, Gymnase. [1 has been well described by the ttle of | “tne Inree Deesses,”’ There is a Diack dress, | which an inconsolavie Widow wears a8 mourniug jor her deceased huspana; secondly, @ gray cus- tume, which ig intended to signity a cer- tam moderation ith her griei, and thirdly, a teseceniee dress, ‘ which is imtended | Tomakea long story shortit appears that twenty- to mean that tue etunct is forgotten, | ‘ 3; First. tis widow 13 too much overwhe.med by | 9¥¢ years ago Mary Reed married Robert Surtoun, her sorrow to dream of remarrying, and is fully | ® Poor young bank clerk, He became dreadiully | determined to order any genticiman out oi her | house who might presume to make her a matri- monial proposai; but gradually she changes her | | mind abd doubts whether solitude is, aiter all, | the most agreeabie condition Oo! existence, More- over, sue has to pay the bill of ber iate Lusband’s jeweller, and learns tu her amazement that he has | Bquandered part of her substance in trinkets | which never iound their way to lis conjugal resi- | dence. She is naturally indignant at tnis proot of | the infidelity of the deceased, and her auger tn- duces ner to put on @ rose-colored dress and tor- with remarkaole alacrity, Mme. Pierson played | | the widow, and woula have played it well had She been ten years younger. M. Emiie Zola has written a comedy called “LES HERITIERS REMBOURDIN.”’ Itis the story oi an uncle absu‘utely ruined, who | 1s believed to ve rich, and who lives On his beirs by .etting them hope tora large reward at his death. This is not an uncommon trick played by cunning old men in rea! lle, aud pernaps legacy | hunters who are deceived by it only get what chey | richly merit. But the plot has been put upon the | staze over and over again 1p the “Légataire Uni- | versel,” in the “Testameut de Oésar Giraraot,”’ | | and in a bundrea other pieces. Moreover, M. Emile Zola, though a man Of great abilities, has not deali successiully with tt, and Une piece Was @ iy | aecided tailure, notwithstanding that the dialogue ig worth study Jrom American and Eugilisn piay- ““GIROFLE-GIROFLA” IN PARIS.—A COMEDY IN THREE DRESSES—JULES VERNE'S “‘ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY Days” — A Very amusing piece calied | “LE TOUR DU MONDE EN QUATRE-VINGTS JOURS." | in five acts and an indefinite uuuwber of tapieuux, | has veen brought out at tue Porte Saint Marnn, the size of lis “ibusneija,” and will be one of it is universally acknowiedged to oe tue unrivaled interpreter, and the six large paintings in the Beriin Museum the very prototypes pot only in The com- | portion will be symbolical, but tue execution will | be done in Puoty’s master style; that 1s to say, it If we look at the department of fine arts the | Wilt be adorned With the rarest coloristic effects and that astvunding mastery of the smaiiest de- tals which Piioty possesses in such an eminent Hau Piloty Kauibacu’s great, high geatus he would, with bis Wonuerui power of color, far 1 shali endeavor to describe this picture after iu the cen- | tre, the weal figure o/ “Monacnia,”’ stepping forth from @ gothic hall, meets @ iarge assembiy, com- posed of ali great and illustrious men, who, in have been con- none of te modern iliustrious men of Munica. ‘Tais restrictiun will remove, of course, @ number of emoarrassing and pain.ui dificuities and ques- | most musicians, tons of etiquette wuich otherwise would uave ‘Tue toreground of the picture will contain two allegorical groups, in Man, pouring water from au urn. A single meagre A new | vein O! pure gold 1s ming.ed with the waters—a | | playiml allusion to the aurtierous quailty of tne sands Of Lhe river, Which in Jormer times yielded that precious -metai, but map art, who have shaken off the stiff pedantry | Whicn did not pay for the searco. The flowing | | waters bear upon their suriace a raft steered oy robust Mountaineers in Alpine attire, just as they fre seen at the present day, darting under, arches of lett we see Strong men are carrying tne played 181 times in London, and will therefore, sacks 0] grain and pigeons fy wither and thither, to recall the names of Hans Makart, Gavriel Max picking up the grain, sympoiical of the iruitiuness Yor this picture Direvtor Piloty will receive @ sum Of 50,000 florins, or # littie over large, perhaps, when we take into account the prodigivus outlay of une aad money Which must be devoied ears, ior tats 18 the time fouman monsters | quietly add.ng one mesh \o their kuitting tor each head failing irom the “bascule,’’ are the heromes Placed ona sort ol tribune they Contemp ate With saugninary | glee the contents of an overloaded two-wheeled loot the victims being dragged down one aiver the other by the executioner and 4 ROMANCE OF THE STAGE. Panis, Dec, 14, 1874. Mule. Lory has made her first courtesy to the people as Zerline, in “Don Juan,” at the French Opera. She is a smart littie lady, with gay, picas- | ant looks and black eyes, and sho wears the cos- | tume of Mazetto’s betrotned with a grace thai wilt one day turn the heads of ail the golden youth in New York. She has also the unusual advantage of being able to play equally weil on tne fiddle ana the piano, besides her gift of singinz, and sne was the favorite pupil of M. Eugene Gautier, Professor | of Harmony at the Conservatoire. Tye manner quite delicious, aid was rendered more so by the exquisite singtug of Faure, as Dun Juan. Sheis next to appear a3 the page, in the “Huguenots,” | and then as in , in the “Favorite,” so that Ameri- can managers will do well to keep an eye upon her. especially as 1s gives Piloty, the unrivailed nead , At the ol the coloristic and realisuc school, an opportu- | | nity of trying bis geuius im @ style watch 18 Gounod’s “Mireille” idealistic OPERA COMIQUE has been revived with the same success as when it first appeared at the Théatre Lyrique, in 1864, ana Mme. Carvaiho, who took the principal part, carried of another laurel. She was admiraoly seconded by Mme. Galli-Marié, MM. Duciene, Meicoissedec and Ismaci, But the great fault of “Mireille” is that one iceis boaud to compare it with ‘ Faust,” and it loses somewhat by the comparison, Gounod seems to have thrown the best part uf bis genius into the latter work; | and the public, spelibound by the memories of | that masterpiece, expected that his next produc. tion would be a@ still greater marvel. It was the misfortune of Halévy to be always judged by the standard of the ‘Jewess,” and he never composed anytiing equal to that grand opera. Félicien | Chalet’ and “Le Songe.” Rossini, wiser than rested upon his triuwph alter “William Tell,” aud it would have been better for M. Gounod’s iame had he also taken some repose. | The plot of “Mireille” is not very interesting, ana the masic ts far inierior to that of ‘Fanst.”’ Stil, | there are some Qne effects im it, and it may be | said that genius is never wholly without inspt- | ration. The new comic opera of | “GIROFLE-GIROFLA,’! which has bad so much success in London ahd Brussels, has now been brought vut at the Renuis- sance, In Paris, The music is by M. Lecocg, who has rather displaced Offenbach in the fickie favor of the Frencn public. “Giroflé-Girofa” has been probably, be exported very soon to New York. it 18 @ cheeriui and pretty opera, very sprightly And amusing, With just a litie dash of naughtness, 80 gay aud graceiui Liat even sover folk may try to jorgive it. #ib is @ pily Cat M, Lecoeq Is a litue g.Ven vo vorrowing tie ideas of uth composers Witdut acknowieug wen! ; LUC We must be thank | tui Jor amusement, pertaps, without louking too | closely to see Wual ib is made ol, Mie. Granier ordered played the ciilef Character with a good deal of froww Piloly by @ large art firm of this city, and | Will be ior sale, It wii represent an episode of the | vivacity and cleverness, She is 4 litle creavure whoui One might Wisiake for Tilapia in a summer twilight, and she has an arch, expressive ace, With # pleasing voice, though ver voice is net very strong. Mile. Alphousine, one Of The Stars Oo: the Paiais Royal, savg the part of Aurera, ana (he cur- tain Jeil amid that uproarious applause wita | which the Parisian puoie reWards merry songs | | An elderly man named George Harline, whose | girl who never stopped to play, aud 1s rewarded that they can t.ke humming away wich Wem, “LE PRE SAINT GERVAIS,” the new piece ol M. Sardou, has been represented at the Variéiés, contrary to (he will of that exact and rather cantankerous gentieman, Wav 1s of vpio- lon that uo play he Writes Can ve acced until it nas | Veryvody gone throuyn aruinous uumoer Of revearsals. knows, wave had very worthy successors i our the Commune, Will search for mis Jast great pictures, o1 whicn | Was snown the photographic reproduc- On this occasion he got into a fight with the man- ager of \ne theatre, and the manager cut it snort by putting the piece upon the stage without nis permission, cuyled with a drama called “La Haine,” which in which sne sang ‘La ci darem la mano” was | ‘The fact Was that he was much ve- | | It is the joimt production of MM. | D’Enoery. | wrote a tale turning on a wager made in | Lonaon that the hero of tue book would accom- | plish the tour oi the globe 1m eighty days, or reaily Only ib seventy-nine, because in travelling toward the sun he would jose four minutes degree be traversed, and as the earth is divided in 300 he has belore 1m 1,440 minutes, or twenty-iour hours, on arriving at the end of his journey. The piay follows the story of tue book, anu in so doing gives a series Of scenes placea on the siage with marveilous truth of decoration. From London the spectator 18 taken Lo the Suez Uanal; from Bombay to Calcutta, where a suttee Is about to | take place; then io the Malay coantry; irom San ¥rancisco to New York the train is attacked py a | band of redskins on the warpath; and finally, vy | steamer to Liverpool, Ou which passage the tray- eller goes turough the innocent intrigues and scenes usual On board the oig steamers, and the pilot ends in a London West ind ‘ne piece is one continual panorama of most vivid pictures of the different countries, and | to add to the life-like scenes a live elephant comes on the stage in the India part of the play anu per forins some tricks with great cunning and do- | city. On the whole, tnisis the vest piece now | playing in Paris; and it 1s sometning more than amusing; it 18 really instructive, and wiil teacn | the Parisians much more of foreign countries than trey would ever have Veen likely to find out with- out the guidance of M. Verne. ‘The other theatrical news just now current ts comprised tn a biography o! Mile. Kousse.l, who made such a sensation in Belot’s drama, *L'Articie 47,” at the Ambigu. it seems that she was burn at Niort of poor parents, who apprenticed her to a seamstress, and lor some years she lived @ hand-to-mouth existence on chance work Which Bhe got irom the shops, Once sue suid oranges on the Bouievard, at the corne: of Rue de Rouge- mont, being absolutely hungry dl iriendiess, Now She is the gieatest tragic actress in France, and @ salaried servant of the public who have recognized her genius by enroiling her in the so- ciety of thei: national theatre, tae Comedic Fran. | caise, | $f. JOHN'S GUILD RELIEF FUND. | received by tne Rev. Alvah Wiswali, Master of St, John’s Guild, to Andrew W . Leggat, Aimoner THROUGH FRANCIS M. JF | x. P., seve $2500 | for Reed knows that Lionel has more than a | get nim; also, to consent to a secund marriage passage in another steamer and landed safely in | daugoter Laura, although he never loved her, nor | | wrights, | Verne and | Yhe former of ihese gentlemen once | ior every | { | No. 62 Varick street, and paid over | husvand. | story. | Unnatural, 1 can readily imagine such a case, To ee | have her husband die in ber arms was as much as | The following additional contributions have been | Mary Reea cared tor, pour thing! One mother cousiniy feeling for Sybil, while Lionel is outraged that such a base born iellow as Reed dare even Speak tO @ woman tn her position. Mrs. Reed thank Lionel tor saving her son’s llé, and while there she sees @ portrait of the elder Rivington, taken in his early manhood, banging upon the She looks upon it and nearly faints, but manages to control herself and leaves the house in an agitated irame of mind, Later on she sees | the original of the portrait, now a gray haired old man, and her suspicions are confirmed. ill, and to get the necessary food to keep him alive | his wife took money belonging to his employers. For this she was tried, found gutlty and sentenced for seven years, In the meantime Robert, her hus- band, got worse and was taken away by his sister. He hears nothing of his banished wife until aiter the seven years of her exile are up, and then he learns that the ship she sailed tor home in was wrecked on the voyage. She, however, had taken England with her baby. But her husband was not to be found, and she mourned bim as dead, He, believing that she was lost at sea, is persuaded to take his uncie’s name, Rivington, and marry his She him, for that matter. The father dies and the son-in-law succeeds to the business and makes an | immense fortune. All the time bis heart is buried in the sea with his dead wife. After all these years of toil and poverty Mary Reed, a8 she now calls herself, and ber son Robert ariit to Wychester, where the Kivingtons live. The truth 1s soon discovered by mrs. Reed, Mr. Rivington and his sister Millicent, and finally made known to Robert Reea, Sybii, Tony Byng ana at last to Lionel, Mary, Reed»is repaid for all her | sufferings by finding that her husband still loves her more than iife, and she is happy. Mrs, NoRTON—And is she willing to keep quiet and say vothing about her rights—to live in | poverty while the other wife is surrounded by every luxury? Miss RACHEL—Yes; for she would rather have her husband’s Jove than his money, and she fecls a pity for the other woman. But Robert, her son, is not so easily satisfied. He thinks he has been treated shabbily and wants his rights, Fevic1a—I despise a man like Robert Reed, who | pretends to @ superiority over nis fellows, but Who, when he comes to be tempted, is as weak as the weakest. Tobe sure he resigned his right to Wycheholme, although ne knew it was his by right ofentail, but he would not have done tt but for Sybil, who was a splendid woman, too good for exact and | him py far. | Miss RACHEL—He would have been a thorougn- | going rascal ifhe had told innocent Mrs. Riving- ton and her daughter of the true state of the case, They nad done nothing and it would have killed them to have known the truth, Tnen he really had no right to the money, for tt was Mrs. Riving- ton’s irom her father, and his father had only in- creased it by inheriting his father-inJaw’s busi- ness. | Fevicta—Still it must have been very hard to have resigned everytuing im favor ol the man he hated. Miss Racwei—Not everything, for did not he win Sybil, who Was worth more than all of Wyche- holme and its weath ? and he would not have won her if he had acied differently. Mrs. NorTon—It seems to me that tnnocence and ignorance did « great deal of miscniefin that Although the plot at first appears quite lived only for her sun and the other only for her A More equal distribution of love might have had better resuirs, | FeLicia—The lituie glimpse we get of the two Rivington girls makes me sorry that they did not | aneiotren to figure more irequently upon the scene. And dear pa 40 Miss Millicent, sne is the kind of an old maid that i J B 1000 =I mean to be. | | Contents om Miss RACHEL—I thought that our election days Charles 2500 Were bad enough, but it must be awiul over in | wow Sale of waste paper 5 00 | Sym pachy @. 9 didate for Congress being followed through tne vated te “<___. | Btreets by a howling, bissing mob ready tu tear write for we sake Of notoriety. Total. 197 6 him limb from limo, or to offer him any indignity. 3 «$2,687 Ue Amount previously acknowledged. | Grand total... | Contributions are earnestly solicited, and may be sent tothe MgRaLp oiltice, or tu Mayor Wick- | ham, City Hall. | REFORMS IN THE PUBLIC TIES. | CHARI- | President Bailey was yesterday interrogated on | the subject of the reforms which the new Com- missioners intended to put into operation, While not entering into any specific details Mr. Isailey Said tuat ne Was airdid the Board would be greauy hiadered tu tueir eiforts at reiorm by tne poilti- cians, many of whom had axes to grind in the ue- | such a silly book as this,’? | copy of ‘Speaking L kenesses” | while, England at such times, Imagine a deieated can- | The trouble in this country is that @ defeated can- didate 1s not considered of even enough conse quence to excite a mob, If he 18 thought of at all it 18 only in pity. SPEAKING LIKENESSES. “I did not suppose that Miss Rossetti could write id the Doctor, with a (Roberts Bros.) in his hand. “It 1s too commonplace to be worth A little girl has a birtnday and everything goes wrong, and then she goes to sleep and dreams of enchanted children. One child 1s called Hooks and has hooks growing out of it which hook everybody; another 18 called Quills, wno partment, When asked avont i Weea he declared 4 ds , ane that he had not seen nim, aichough he bad peen bibs into everybody, another 1s ca Sticky a0 “where he might wave seen Mim,’ butentertamed Other Stimy, There 1s @ grand row and the | no doubt tuat toe orders that add veen eu to dreamer wakes up,” the Warden concerning Wis treatmeut bad veeu | 1CiA—it must be a relief to awaken out of complied wivh in every respevt. A MORSEL FOR THE MORBID. resideuce is No. 18) Hester stieet, wanted to com- mit suicide yesterday, He wanted todo itin the most public and starting way. precinct station house and said that be had tried to kul himsels in the Atiantic Garden, but taae toe | bullet missed its mark, and ne Was ejected irom the salvon beiore he could make another trial. He | was excited, and his iace, scarred and biackened | with powder, gave evideuce oi the truth o1 bis Story that @ pistol had veen discharged near to It. Harline then said that ve had bougnt a douvle- | barretied pistul irom David Luren, Of 0, 182 Taud street, Who had loaded tue weapon for him. | Finaily he drew the pistol from tis pocket aud announeed that he would end nis ite in tne sta- tion house. Before be could place it to his | Sergeant Polnamus caught wis short struggie, wrested it [rom nim, rariy insane, fe was, thereiore, sent vo Believue serious check to its further development. | tion by Piloty bimsei, and whien has | he has written for tue walté Theatre, and the man. joub! howev" oould oe more errorfeous, | found |i way across the Atiantic to an agement oi the Variétés reasonably complained | x fact aituough we do not wish to vio- | American private gallery, represents Henry VIII. | that ne would not give coougu time w the late respect due to the memory of Engiand at the moment wien be announced the | otner pie Then again Lecocg, who is eqnaily Of one.oi the test aitists Germany ever pro- | sentence of death to Anne B leyn, who sinks | busy, could not, or Would hot fuisu mis score Ul Gaced, our still greater respect for nistorical trath | down upon her knees, nov even daring to implore | he was roused up in tne middie of the night be- Qs to state that Kaulbach contributed | the tyranv’s \.ercy. | lore tue first representation, and torced by an en- Fit or nothing to the present flourishing state of PILOTY AS A TEACHER OF ART, | terprising friend to compiete his work under the the Muuwich Academy anu that the new school of After having spoken 0} Piloty the artist, we | influence o/ repeated doses oj strong cofiee. So Driliant youug artists spracg Ug and tvund its | must say & lew words O1 Piloty as a teacher and | M. Berirand, (ue manager of tne Varictés, at way Without tue assistance or even aguinst Wil- | professor, and more especialiy 01 his relations to | last gov his way, in spite of born author and music. | Reim von Kaulbach. This somewhat astounding | those of his pupils woo come trom foreign coun. | jan, aud the play, 80 hastily produced, fas beeu a Jah 14 Oxpieined by the study of Kaulbach’s ar) trea and amone Whom the Americans take | areat success, The vlot o1 the “Ure Sains Gervats’ | Hospital Apout eleven | o’clock in the morning he called at the Fourteenth | head | Dr. Sbannoa | macDonaid’s. was sent for, aud be pronounced Harline tempo. | | such a dream as that, “Here is anotner story,’’. resumed the Doctor, “that is not much better, It is about a good little jor her virtue, Such children are to me like the litue girl | whom it is written— There was a little girl. And she bad « hetle curl, and it hung on the middle of her forehead, And when sic was bad she was very bad indeed, But when she was Kood she was horrid. The book sightly suggests ‘Alice in Wonder- land,’ but 18 not so clever. ‘he pictures by Arthar | | Hughes are characteristic, but net up to his own mark. They don’t compare with his illustrations for MacDonala’s ‘rhe Back of the North Wind’ and “The Princess and tne Goblin.’ ” Miss Racnei—Perhaps it is because Mr. Hughes | coud not get up tne interest in this that he must | ooxfronted by rows upon rows of Dr. nd, and, alter @ | have had for those imaginative, wieid books of | ers? [hike to see ladies dressed neatly and land- \ | somely in tue streets, with their dresses well up He evidently sympatnizes with those exquisite, dreamy stories. i Feuicla—Dido't Miss Rospettl write a hook | “strong-minded,” which, im the way Unat term Is ee en Ow a called “Oommonplaces,” whose title exastly de scribed (ts contents? Miss RACHEL—Yes, I believe 80; but she also Wrote a book of “Sing Songs’ for little peopie, full of the most delicate and lovely fancies, ex- Dressed in the most musical manner—a little toe diMcult for chilaren, perhaps, but very charming to the older members of the family. The “sing Songs’ had a touch of Blake. : Mrs. NoRToN—I¢ 18 no easy matter to write for children, and few authors have made a success of that branch of literature. Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge is one of the few, and the author of “Alice im Wonderland” is another. MORE BEDTIME STORIES, “Here is Mrv. Mouiton’s ‘More Bedtime Stories? (Roberts Bros.), which are hardly up to the mark. When I read Lucy to aleep 1 want something of a more cheeriul kind,” continued Mra. Nortom. “The chtld cries over these and says they give her bad dreams. ‘Read me tnose stories in the morm ing, mamma,’ she said; ‘they make a lump come in my throat at night and I can’t get to sleep,’ ” Miss RACHEL—The stories are too sad for chil- dren. The first volume had the same fault. It ts hardly worth while to thrust sorrowfu! tates a¢ the youngsters, Let them read the “Arabian Nights" and “Robinson Craosoe” and “Tne Book of Nonsense.” They had much better laugh than cry. The crying 1s sure to come later in life, The Docror—Speaking of crying. I know ofa brother physician wo never iets his children cry, no matter what happens to them, His oldest child is eleven years of age and has never wept & tear in his life, Mrs, NortoN—That is brutal. Don’t the mam know that tears are often the greatest relief? I pity his children ana his wife, too. The Docrok—He 18 @ very good father, and the best of husbands. He never whips nis cblidren either. This crying business is merely a notion. He even carries it into the hospital where he ts surgeon, and has got the nurses into such good training that they in turn have aimost gotten their little patients under control, But to return to Mrs. Moulton. 1 thiuk she is a much better cor- respondent than a story teller. If she would oniy puta littie more iun into her stories they would be very good, lor they are well told, and certainly have good morals, ‘THE TREASURE HUNTERS. “If you want a bouk with an adventure in every chapter, here it 1s,” said Fred, pulling a copy of “The Treasure Hunters” (Harper & Brothersy out of his pocket. Miss RaCuEL—And the chapters are very short at that. L picked up the book the other evening aiter you had gone out, and read it through before bedume, Frep—It interests one in spite of himself; for, although the Incidents are oiten ridiculous, they are told with an air of sincerity which practically washes them down. I don’t know where Mr. George Maaville Fenn could have got all bis 1deas from. It mast have been a long time ago when ladies were surrounded by bloody miners in the streets of San Francisco, and shot at and insulted generally. limagine that such arow as that be- tween Dawson, Adams, Larry Carey and the Troughs must have been strange even in San Fran- cisco in its wildest times. Miss RacHEL—Did you ever Know anything as sudden as Vawson’s love for Ma:y Adams? It was worse than @ mushroom, jor it jumped up at & giance from her soit, dark eyes. No wonder Adams Was suspicious of tim at first, tor bis cone duct did iook @ little singular. Frep—Larrv is a good character, @ sort of @ Mark Tapiey. His blackthorn stick did good work among the Inaians and white ruflans. He thought no more of cracking a skuil than you or would think of cracking @ nut. Miss RacHeL—It ig wonderful how neatly they got out of all their tight places, Taree men Pee to ve @ plenty to put a tribe of Indians to nt. Pnep—The way they scooped up the gold made my mouth water, Ali they had to do was to pick it up. No wonder they got rich and built bi houses and enjoyed themseives to tne tuli, Witl gold ior the taking I would amass 4 fortune in ag short a time as they did. DRESS REFORM, “Those girls appear to be naving a lively discus- sion im the library; suppose we step in and see what it is afl about,” said the Doctor to his wie. FELICIA (as her mother enters)—Rachel and I are having it hot and heavy over this book on “Dress Retorm” (Roberts Bros). 1 think that it i Tidiculous, and Rachel says that there is a great deal of good sense init. The editor of the book, Abba Gould Woolson, thinks that the way that women dress is an outrage, and she wouid like to clap us all into Bloomer costume. Imagine me walking Filth avenue or situng in@ box at the opera dressed like Dr. Mary Walker. ‘Miss RacieL—You may laugh at the dress as muci as you like, I thiuk it 13 very amusing my- self, but when 1 was out shopping during Christ- mas week | quite envied Dr. Mary. Lcan con- ceive Of no greater biessing than dresses that do not touch the ground by haifa foot. Ilove to wear loug trains ata party or an evening at home. but it offends my sense of the fitness of thipgs to make w street Sweeper of my pettiwate, FELICIA—That is all very well, but there is nothing to be done about tt. If ladies are to wear Skirts at all they will wear them long. We Amert- cans tuInK that there is an air of reckless wealth abouta silk skirt that drags through the mud and slush, 1ti8 on the same principle oi some per- sons thinking it looks generous to fill your tea cup until it slops over. Mrs. NorTroN—I should say that there was con- siderable difference between this book and the “Ugiy Girl Papers” you were reading last week. FELICIA—A decided difergnce; and I believe more in the “Ugly Girl Papers” than in this vook, Itis much better fora womyn to make herself handsome than to rov her@elf of every trace of beauty, a8 She would U she followed the rules laid down here. Miss RACHEL—Felicia, I am ashamed of you; you do hot mean what you say, FeLicia—Well, perhups |1do not mean all th | my words seem to; bat! do hate this nagping at | girls about cheir dress. We are not so dreadiuily unneaitny, you We do not do the things these uress reformers recommend. MISS KACH#L—-1t 18 the hobby of these reformers to have the weignt of all Lue clothes come upon the sieuliers. ihat would never do for me. Do you remember, Feicta, the agonies we suflered im those rediugotes 01 ours. FeLicia—-indeed Ldo, . Life was @ burden witm all wat weight on wy Saouders; it seemed to drag me Lo the earth, Miss KacHEL—It may do for some people, but it does not suit my case, 1 like Syme of the weight to come upon my tips. Now that you have gotten over some oO. your indignation, my fair cousin, £ will confess that I do bot agree altogether with the opinions set forth in tals little volume. in the first place I believe in the use, not the abuse, of corsets. Ishouid tail to pieves without them, FELICIA—Lhe writer suys that sne hevec yet knew a giri or woman to say that her corsets were laced tightly. Miss RACHEL—Of course not, for those who do lace won't acxnowleuge it, and those who do not have notuing to acknowledge. Aunt Jane, what do you think of tas? Here is One Woman doctor Who Say8 that We should not wear our clothing apy thicker over the stomacn than any otner part of the body; that tuere is too mucn heat there any way, aud that ail our underc.othes snould be mauve in ohe piece, 80 Lnat no one part shail be any warmer than anotl Mrs. NoRTUN—All [ have to say is that the woman is crazy. [know that @ littie extra flannel over the stomach in culd weather is a great be Tnese reforming Women are iumbugs, Whu merely Lhave no iaith in them. Were no: our grandparents as healihy and 4s strong as any peojie heed want to be, and tne; wore corsets, hoous, thick quilted pelticouts an apy hing eise tuey Wanted tu ? FeLicia—Here is one woman who thinks that Opera singers even should dress in something like Bloomer clothes. Imagine the beauiufal Kellog, or the stately Nulssou in pantalvons aud snort skirts, With Der hair cut short and just reaching her coilac! bhese womeu rat! at the low-necked dresses o1 the girl of the period. Do you remem- ber unat party on Madison avenue not joug ago? The iady.on caat occasion Who wore the most dis- gustingly d’coUetd dress in the 100m was one of Lhe strong-unnded. Miss KACHEL—Yes, I remensber that was a most disgusting exuibition, Felicia, this book says that a young Judy, Wears aS muy as eight chickuessea around er waist. Festcra—Ridiculons! Miss KacHEL—Just count everything you have on, and see how many you hay PeLIcia, reflecuvely—One, two, three, four, ive— why Rachel, | have tweive inciuaing my belt. Weil, 1 would Not ave veweved that. Miss KacueL—Uncle, why have you not given us the benefit of your opinion on tis much agitated subject o1 dress relorm? ‘rhe DocroR—Because [ have been listening and learning. | tuimk tuat book runs into extremes, Uniess a woman is abusing lersei she need not be untealtiy with tne present style oidress. {am toid that itis the fashion to held your dress out Of the Wet, and thick Shoes and Warm stockings have been jashionable tow lor some time. 1 should be very sorry, my dear girls, to see you. aressed so a8 to look masculine or now understood, means everytuing tuat is un- lovely. Do you suppose thaticould have the saue leeling toward iy wile tf she wore her hair cut short and uressed in Bloomer costume ? Would sie grace tiese rooms dressed in that guise as she does now in ber soit, Noating draperies, wit her beauwul hait done ap in pulls aud plaits? What pleasure Would there be in going to the opera i, instead of the beautiiuliy dressed woe men posing gracefully in their boxes, We were ary Walk= over the dirt and mud, but 1 do not want to see | them in pantavons. Llove the beaauiul too welt | 40x that,