New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-28

% surpose HobOdy has had since old Lord Lea,
laid down eis head, for the AS. The excitement
10 unriysied.
turn TO an entirely different subject. Waving
the fre-works-about which there lie nothing 70
say except that the preparations are on great
scale-l come TO the Royal Academy. The crit
ics-N confess don't think a literary man an art
critic by virtue Of bic profession, az many do, y
the critics ssy il is bad Exhibition, this year.
The public swsrm more than to any picture, 10
the StGpe- Goat of Holman Hunt, the pre-Raphael-
tie. He painted this Eastern subject on the spot
itself; and it 10 real, as only pre.Raphaete pie
lures are. There is great deal OF mi. taken non
sense talked about these pre-Raphaeltes. Now, it
so happens that know the men, and knew them be-
fore the moyemeutwas celebrated. The leading nel
oil young (uDder 30, / mean ARE three-Dante
Gabriel Roretti Holman Hunt, and John Everett
MiIlais EOsseti is a son of the late Unknown
Professor ROssetti, the poet, and commentator on
Dante. Hunt is LOndOner. Millais is from Jer
,ey, and no doubt of French ancestry. They were
fellowstudepts at the Academy together, and in
the course ola few years their ideas on the sub.
ject Of Art grew up among them and induced them
10 form an associaticn-the F. K. H., or Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood This movement is not
pietisic st all. aud has no connection with the
German School of Overlook. IL was simply the
result of feeling that modern art was unreal and
untrue, as art, compared with early art
and that closer and deeper and more accurate
observation Of Nature had become necessary.
Hence their elaborate detail and marvellous hdell-
~. They are admirers of Tennyson and Carlyle,
Browning and Thaokeray not welded, that
know Of 20 any sectarianism Of doctrines and not
meddlers with any branch of study but their
own and poetry. which is, indeed kindred
one. Rossetti is, perhaps, the most niuen-
tia mind spiritually and intellectually, in
the movement; Hunt and Mlllais are better
known, because Rossetti does not exhibit"
though his pictures are much admired, Especially
by Kuskin,) aid find private purchasers. These
are the authentic facts. which are net understood
here. and which therefore are still less likely TO be
understood so far away as NewYork. Ruskln Is
going TO bring out pamphlet, | believe, on the
present Exhibitions We shall have smother
"row; :" for hear that he is very angry with his
recent assaants in the reviews, and eager to brand
ish the cudgels and as il is certain that they are
very angry with him, we must expect cOmbats
Art is one of the subjects which most lively
now in England; and il is as we'll for there is no
oratory not much literature, and scarcely any
drama.
Tbackersy has returned to England, but Of his
next literary movements know nothing yet. Our
light literature il at low ebb-Puaeh dull ditch
water since 1hackeray left it, (or Shirley Brooks,
however smart is substitute for HIM; Lever has
had the best OF his run: Little bOrrll we reau
from old habit, and make no fuss about; aud there
is dead weight Of the old generation pressing
everywhere Oh the new and keeping them down.
BY way of novelty Household Words has sent
sala Gf you see any paper in II. W., Dickens
but not exactly by Dickens, it is this Sala's.) to
ST Petersburg to sketch our recent enemies
We are dull, Sir dull-as often have to complain
TO you-and bored and we can't get old Macaulay
out TO defend lis run" which might amusc u.s.
The Press pager tries squibs but they won't go of
and stink without sparkling. Few of the maya
zines, leyep, pay. There is no new comic journal
| hope VIC shall have a noble excitement in Car
lyle's Frederick before long-a work about which
Carlyle himself has fuctuated in intention once or
twice but which now believe he really will fin
ish. 1t may be out this year. Aytoun has poem
on BotL,ctn to appear soon; but though man of
real parts and humor lie is not poet, and / don't
think it will do. Mrs. Browning has long poem
in Ms. but when to be published, | know not