New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-01

the incest and most discriminating cfrcism And me
so,re. Lind Perhaps our enthusissm for great
DIST ia immensely heightened wren we are told tn.t
sisuor A. is a rood tather, or Nile. b. an ire
proschable Young lady" we insist lar more on tne
domestic virtues than On the artistic excellence and
The pride of a Every moral people 10 appeared BY
,stisisctpry fsnily stsfistcs-even in an artist For
those whe cannot tel one note from another, have
proper tense Of respectatiliy WHICH demands 70 DC
erassaed even when the ear IL dull
PINT we stick by public favorites We applaud octo-
ceparisn tenor a vehernently as Iamocrhk IN The
prime Of bis powers fact that would rather establish
he hearty tenacious aeconsteness OF the English char
scfer than tie artistic intelligence Of English audi
cree London IL not, whatever we may think the con-
,ecraton of an artists fame, and this all artists know.
We reward only with our money Just as Calcutta,
vh,re nlsny an EpgHshman wastes his liver, II no, his
life rewards only las Mr. Aiable Hawk would say With
an IN Calcnabs fortune, and as San Francisco with ia
Lyn1h law murders and ia wholesale connagranons
rewards the adventurous deserer oil an knghsn no NE
How are artists treated in English society," Very
well YOU ssy-too well for they are highly paid they
live hxurOusly and they are appauded 10 the echo
when successful But that is not enough Follow them
into society and how they are treated. They
received into great rooMs-apart; they are looked at
and listened To- clever birds may be, or the Indus
tlious Fleas Sometimes they raed of. Mostly ia
Tust OF their tameness they are suffered TO go loose
for they will only hang shout the panotorte and do no
harm They treated with sort of supercllious IN
diligence like creatures that, wheE well bred behave
! almost ike human beings Sometimes at feeding time
for the human Sird does not sing well when starving
they handed 'yver to the graceful Inequalities Of
| the Pantry
Now The artist IT, above all creatures human Devel.
opne1t OF the natural emotions Is the very object Of his
training 1t il the original impulse OF bis nature DE
seldom has any rOTdinate reverence for rank but ne
has an eIcuresn TO- all that Is tasteful splendid
uIauaIic guruttyU Hence ne Il ntad TO enjoy the
pleasures Of sOc9y but being amid hs fellow Creatures
he Graves their mpahy, he Graves opportunity TO ex
press HE own The artist hates TO be the mere ex
hhitOr or showboy to his art he deess even the
cold hloodtd vanity Of Csndsues; be would much
rah have the eer license OF gathering win others
OF his vaeabond race. where the mrth, the wine the
n,piratiOp tie enoyre nt their own without alien
eyes cold enlargement and hands that his are not 10
touch though the pulses beating in them are hall OF MS
| own creating.
lis not abroad as il is here. Adversely makes one
acouainted with strange bed fellow and many an artist
in Italy bis blood to high houses and soVe
| reign MOBILES With base foTgetfulness OF the true
spirit Of herBldry our mobiles know not their fellows
sunk ken in estate though their genius may blush with
the blood Of kIg aud queens. For our sristocracy
mostly parvenu, purseproud ailstocracy Aoroao
the piiiy lie not forgotten but even that be want
ING the nobility Of genius 10 welcomed and the tailor
who has the uttersnce OF an Amphion enjoys tne trl
umphs of an AmphioD. In Pars the artist Is AZ nome
In ST Petersburg itself the Great Bear orgets MS AUTO
cratic loneliness when he the realms OF art ana
is the real companion OF the wandering genius as more
than Of the brotherhood can vouch ~ petersburg
| has no ice ike English " good society. cOwardy
efro1ery which braves a real superiority because il is
licensed by the power 10 be iusolena yulg upstari
appreciation Of things material above human ielowshp
or arr-a conspiracy OF exclusive dealing in courte
sie,-s want Of life; such arc the elements OF the Ice
which covers good society in England not the craggy
ice and boundess of Russia the luscious truty
ice which tempers the burning OF Italy sut the Hat
| brittle, shallow ice over the muddy pond of wei
| Euelsnd-ice gsTnished In fog and casketed under
l.aden clouds MsIy hot Italian who has fallen, and
stunq bis freezing hands with the blow has execrted
il and las retrested find vent in the voice Of art
which the English envy and cannot initiate. The Ger
man Wagner Only philosophers he has caught the
mantle Of Mephhtophees.