New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-22

We bee 10 assure The Boston Transcript tina, our
remarks On that city deliberately and heslthiy
pepned wit lew Of oOing thriving community ser
vice If they are taken in bad spirit, =, much the
wore for ose to whom they wers drec'@d We do
noet empbstcally consider the Bunker Hill Monunenr
local abortion ard astiona disgrace, arisiciy view
ed md remembering the time il took TO BE- built
about ffse years or more-,omething worthy the ui-
mo' 10 dea and be INTEL gent living m got have beea
put up ~ community comparatively til. richest in the
world. is greater source a regret to US than
ever fa' pOus offering to illstrous names was
only TO be finished by Fanny Ellsler's dancing. We
have sufficient contempt for charity concerts given
by travelling European artists among but eleem0.yns
~ dancing TO help out the memory Of Warren aud hi
fellow martyrs is little below low-water mark
As Boston sesup the claim for matchless eloquence
and 80 FORTH We think il should be kept in company b,
some good att which The Transcript has Lot pon'el
out in ts An Athens of this century sholll
have at least equal claims the age of Percles before
it bears the II possible for the literary or
a community to be 20 consumed With sdniration 70
nero literature to forget the claims Of art Such
tlnk is the position Of Boston Greece represented the
Olympian games not satisfied with the readings of
HerodOtus orthe yrcs fPndar Athens the beauti
fu arts were all represented and xted and progress
constantly insisted upon II well remarked, in re-
cent article in one Of the British Reviews that human
Intellect acntey displayed than in per
iecting the proportions Of the Patthenon Greek art
constantly advanced up to the time that annexation de-
stroyed the State giving the mother country the trouble
Of controlling and punderng colonies, and superin
ducng distant wars and foreign invssions We de not
find that Athens with great model achieved in art
fell back on worse one. Now the Egyptian Obesk il
the loves prm of early art II is without grandeur
without grace without significance. When the mate
rial i. Of coarse granite adds to nanty in
its appearance. Precisely this lowest form Of art was
set ced for the perpetuatOn Of the memories Of the
early and noble martyrs Of revolution, sn ars,ca
~ speaking, i is than nulty. We assert that
pile of bricks would have been equally appropriate
Tie Transcript NUT not attempt knock US down with
political or literary names. They are both good in their
way but they have proved in the example in question
that they are not up 10 the standard in art What the
future may do for statues in the Boston Common We
cannot tell we have to deal with the pre- cent. One
fountain which has no claims to art 10 such place is
not worth mentioning
We are equally or more interested in improving the
art of this city with that of Boston Our efforts have
been unceasbg to GET two parks for this city and we
hope that the public will demand them, spite of small
oppositons and contracted views AMI in the assertion
Of the need of such parks have hesated char
acterize whatever present want Of taste lberaty
there 10 in cur arrangements. We would hint to Tie
Transcript that chief doty Of the Press is indicate
deficiency and suggest reforms not apologize for
vacuty and glorify baroness.