New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-28
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

The CRYSTAL Palace is inadequatey visited By our
CITY people while country people and those from other
towns than NewYOrk flock TO it. How is this Is It
the cid story that the stranger knows more OF the
" sights OF d town than residents p II So or from
whatever cause the City folks who do not throng the
CRYSTAL Palace are greatly the losers The chance TO
study these art and ndustrywOnders Of the world may
never occur again Some wseacres, never having seen
il. have called the Exhibition humbug. \ humbug
Why if the Cry stall Palace had nothing in it, not even
the Police on guard it would be a-Or heliOn of the
thirty-one States The building ia magnificent The
dome ranks only after such as ST. Peters at Rome.
The splendid innovation on stale precedent, in the ma
terials Of the buding--ron and glass the types OF
sodiry and lightness united would alone recompense
any person of ordinary taste and curiosity for long
Journey in order to reach the premises But once in
side what a splendid heroic revelation OF human SKILL
devotion industry combination versatility and genius
does il present What is not there From the huge
labor crushing, time-deridng machinery which prom
ses the millennium OF comparative repose to the under
fed oyerworked tolers Of thousands OF years-tO the
delicate and tiny missionary of beauty in diamonds,
gold silver or coOrs-What startling array there Is
of splendid works How rich and suggestive, too, IL
the contrast Of the various powers and performances
of different nations How naif the outwOrkings Of
their respectively indigenous minds-as natural the
forests growth or the waters fall How national
prejudice dwaris and dwindes in the contemplation Of
such works as Paris London Milan, or Berlin sends
foith
Lock al Wonder collection Of French skill. Examine
those Gobelin tapestres-so dwelt upon in novels and
trayels-but nov first revealed TO us in this new
world IN all the pleuitude Of bric color AMI design
What lesson DO they afford Of the extent Of human
perseverance Here is a great pointing copied faith
fully But every tint IN full and all its dying glories'
Is exactly inflated by the magical skill OF the loom.
Whole day will not exhaust the contemplation OF its
beauiies md then regard those Seyres Vases. What
perfection Can form or design, or color further 90
We say. 70 The PartheBon has never been eciPsef
in architecture neither bas a SevTes Vase in the
structiye and decorative beauty which it displays It
is perfection Contemplate IL for az least an hour
Tine well spent. There learn to respect the French
people wto can habitualy produce such Olympanlike
miracles OF ant Stop too before those French bronzes
Can ANYTHING be finer They are dminutive in size,
but gigantic in composition. That horse fairly leaps
and snorts that wounded bird seems lifted up in is
dying agouy and heavy bronze transmitted into athery
waves Of lowering tragedy WOnderous art Who is
he great ~ an VINO maze TT
he word knozs rot 70 EIeltes; men
Enter Likewise the department o. the sturd! bnton
How the Graces az last playing over the foggy Isl
and Just look at that Silyerware CncoTer yolr-
self .or you are in the holy temple OF ar AMI god OF
beauty present Look az those They seem 70 haze
beer made for the delicate hands Of HeJe- COntem-
plate that prize silver work Look az the men. the
horses tie pam-trees Ask yourself Is it mechanics is
it artists is it special inspirations which have produced
ills what has rather wha Las not been called into
action TO produce these radiaing spendors Of imagna
ton and execution But how are such men ho1orel
n England Gould The Herald Office tell us
BUtsep over 70 the Thorwaldsen Gallery Of Statues
Here IS the Christ and bis Twelve Apostles They
nay nct te-they are networks Of tie highest orier
Of orgnaiIy-but what lesson they teach OF artistic
devotion ard religious sublmity Marx the soft rays
IS they stream through the yelled skyght and reveal
tie figures placed against the dark background What
8 serCre, holy influence is thus east around How il
,elds up this onward inpalsye material epoch 70 the
dreamy mistness OF the Hilde-ages. when the sculP
tor ard architects skiIl taught the Redeemers love
I'd agony and life was seen through tie heaven
vresked spleudors Of the great cathedral unlow-cr
crar tyre Of eternity and usrrous mimic Of gsl It'd
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