Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1856-08-30

The largest picture in the present show, is Les
sings "Huss on the scaffold." 1t is much in
Ward style as to choice of subject and treatment
and perhaps the grouping of the figures is even
somewhat more easy and natural than is usual
with our master.
Lessing is equally at home in landscape There
is a subject called 'The Hostile Attack" where
quiet country village feels for the first time the
devastatiOns of war. There is a contrast in the
sky and landscape, dark and bright part and
where the clouds are lowering, and the winds rising
the smoke of the first houses that are burnt rises
also. Acherbach Is an artist Of genius and origi-
nality. s. A Strand Scene-storn coming on" is
sufficient evidence of this. The grouping is ex-
quisite. Here again is contrast. All the placid
occupations OF the foreground seem taken by sur
PRISE by the storm. The sea is covered with little
boats, and the strand with fowery herbagr on
which women and children are lying about. There
Is one model infant perfect in his roledup POSTURE
and the earnest yet mischevous expression that
sits upon his poll, if expression can be, correctly
speaking, anywhere but on the face. The Dutch
school, or the school which initiates the Dutch
masters, appears still to flourish. There is a capl-
tai genre picture by Karl Hubner, "The Obsti-
nate Father he is obstinate about agreeing to the
marriage of a daughter, as fathers are in nine
cases cut of ten, because they do not like to
lose them, quite as much from mercenary mo-
tves. The very curl of the smoke of his pipe has
character strikes us, "A Hunting Adventure by
Leutze; the adventure consisting in the chasseur
suddenly Lighting fair maiden when least ex-
pected.
| There is good landscape by Guide "The Ap-
proach of Night" There is a beautiful serene
light in the heavens and the dark trees which rise
up against true to the life in their perfect ab
sence of motion. Nothing can be finer in It's way
than the truth with which Rodde conceives the
DSc 10 Huht of inta I ,
The foreground is dark and rugged, and there are
sportsmen prowling about as foreground figures.
The greys and volets and puppies Of this picture
blend in a wonderful manner into the conception
of the whole. There is also an evening land
scape by the same artist, well worth studying.
Moonlight scenes abound always clever if well DONE
because they must be drawn more or less from re-
collection. We remember ina ginning once that we
could sketch the Coliseum by the glorious full
moonlight of Rome, but found that, although the
sky appeared blue and the trees green, we could
not distinguish the cOlors we used. One of the
most remarkable of these moonlight pictures is
scene where black bluff stands out over a lake,
and intensifies the light. There is 4 pretty little
piece called En- PasSant," by Refine, well known
in England by the engraving taken from it; lack
ey salutng handmade as he passes, to the great
peril of the trays which they bear, and for the nom
resistance to which salute her handess position
would be her probable excuse. Good as the pic
lures are, there q great number which scarcely
rise above mediocrity; and although there is enough
to show that the school is alive, we could have
wished that those who 90 to Dusseldorf on purpose
had more to occupy their attention. To indemnify
US for this disappointment, we have good play at
the Theatre in the evening, which, after the sens-
bic German plan, releases us at nine O'Clock. Der
Universal Erbe-" The Heir to all the Property
is the name of the piece. A rich manufacturer is
dead and the scenes where the expectant relatives
meet, embellished as they are by petty jcalOuses,
and the different phrases which avowed or conceal
led selshness assumes ARE ludicrous the extreme
The heir is the foreman, who least Of all dreamed
of legacy; he is honest-hearted and simple mind
ed The difficulty is, how to dispose of his mas
ter's daughter. He offers to share the property.
\ blunt, hearty, rough-andFeady friend interpOses
and makes offer for him, which the lady readily
accepts Then dandiied cousin, who had with
drawn from his former suit when he found that she
had no property, pursues her. Her tastes are more
refined than those of her husband, and the Lotha-
rio appears to prosper. The .fdus Achates interpos
es and awakes her real interest in his friend and
her husband. There is a fracas and the report of
pistol outside. The husband is only wounded
but the wife is pcnitent, and now fully awake to
his sterling qualities, so oil ends happily. The
amusing part of the dialogue the glib illustration
of his conversation by the friend in Proverbia ex-
pressions, which he attributes to different nations
day is ours-Victorial as the Englishman say when
they see the Queen" We cross the Rhine N
steamer on a beautiful winter morning, knocking
aside the still floating ice-focs with the paddles,
and take the train to
AIx-LA-CHAPELLE
This place is singular, as presenting mixture
Of a manufacturing town and fashionable bathing
place Being the winter time its utihtarian chardc-
ter appears at present to prevail About the white
and unsubstantial residences of the butterfly popu
lation swarm the denizens of the hives of industry
stcaming suphur-bath, which appears necessary
TO be taken for the value Of experience, Is laxuri
Gus enough at the time, but seems to leave behind
it an enervating effect the system. But the IN
dustrial and pleasure-hunting associations Of
Aachen are nothing in comparison with It's histOri
cal "reminiscences and architectural monuments
The cathedral is certainly the centre of all Its IN
terest. As built at different times, 1t illustrates
three distinct ages of architecture. The most I'M
portant part is ante-(fothic-that dark round sep
ulch1al nave, which is the mansoleum of Charlie
magne, and was so in times before France or Eng
land existed as nations It is built 1t is said, on
the plan of the Holy Sepulchre Church at Jerusa-
lem Its style is the Byzantine or late Roman.
Its predominant features are masslveness and So
lennity Large round arches, resting on pillars,
form clOister beneath, which runs round the nave
and the vaulti formed by the intersections of round
arches Larger round arches in the superior sto-
ries include smaller ones within, resting on small
er pillars strange impression is produced by
standing in this nave and looking out on the servi
ces in the choir, which is more like lanthern of
glass than any choir we have ever seen, built in
lanceolate Gothic of a much later date. This
choir is now undergoing process of decoration,
by which the light is to be multiplied by profu-
sion of colored glasses. On Sunday morning there
is grand musical mass The music is exceeding
ly impressive. 1t has always struck US that the
music of the Roman Church has IN 1t a ooastiui'
world-eopouering element, which is wanting in
those more sedate melodies which are recognized
Thora