New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-30

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rass;ss;nS noet having annropriated that Quinets
two volumes will be called MeHia tEaeaah's@.
AZ slall have in due time to read and give sohe
notice of them, / omit using here the rev ind,ca-
t;ons of their theme and spirit that nave oech iu
ushsd me. Safe 10 predict that what Qn,nef writes
ana ules Siwon thinks it DO condescensioh 10 PROOF
rad. win be well worthy of our attention.
| What should you say 10 lie OF 1uius o@sai -
the most modern of modern EmperOrs A ruwor
! rms from no discoverabe clear source, that l.. N
Bonanarte has been at work upon such biography
for many years, which is now nearly ready for the
press The world-especialy the young worlds
IN want of an honest biography of the profoundly
corrupt, extremely able author of the cesp d'ctat
that put final end to the long agony of tae dying
Roman Republic. Emperor Napoleon's book (snp-
posing moments credence TO the rumOr) Will not
satisfy the want, but viii be well worth reading all
the same.
Speaking of lively adyenturers and literature,
Alexander Dumas the Great Ito distinguish hun
from A. Dumas ie fLS the most successful, and, all
things considered, the best perhaps or at least the
Electrically best of the 400 living writing French
dIamatists) is sailing to and fro on the Mediter
| ranean Sea, in his own Tor his creditors) yacht
| throwing OF to larboard and starboard ut the rat
| of two volumes per month, or per week, quit
| forget which. There was brought ont at tn
! Vaudeville last week five act comedy entitled
7 Timers dune CoaSpirdtiOn (mOsty borrowed from
play of Calderon) by Alexander Dumas. This week
has been brought out at the Porte st. Martin 1--WE
net drama entitled lie Gentilhomme de la Montague
| by Alexander Dumas. In the feuiletOn of tn 4:
Steele newspaper are published the memoirs 0
| Horace TO- Horatius Flaccus,) IN nSRm Poputi,
and in autobiographica form, by Alexander Dumas.
On the third page of the Steele newspaper are pub
lished in photographed form, the Memoirs de
| Go7ibaldi unfortunately for Garibaldi and the
public). The large and eminenty respectable
house of Michel Levy, Brothers, are republshng at
the rate of a volume per week, more or less en-
tire uniform edition of the works (so-caed original
which are really original, compiled, collaborated,
re-yamped disguised, aud stoen) of Alexander
Dumas.
Speaking of erroneous attributions, permit me to
correct an error that slipped into the columns OF
The TRIBUNE of May &c. The writer of an arti-
Gle there, with whose sentiments | respectfully beg
TO concur in full says: May went to Paris to
"paint WashiDgtOn's resignation at Annapolis for
"the State of Maryland" 1t was Mr.. White who
came to Paris to represent on canvas for the ben
eft of the State Of Maryland, our beloved Wash
ington in state OF resignation, which, 1 am con-
strained to say, does more credit to Gen. WIS
Christian humility than to painter WIS conception
of grand historical scene. On p. WIS canvas
G. W. seems not much resigning as backing ont.
Mr.. May came to Paris. to perfect himself In the
art of painting. How far he has attained his pur-
pose may be judged from works of his now in Phil
| adephia and New-YOrk, aud would be more favor
ably Judged from truly historical painting now in
his ateer, representing Columbus writing his last
will; so nobly large is this last named picture, his
toricaly faithful, but free from little distracting
| details. To me it is, past comparison, the
greatest of Mr. Mays works, and fit to
rank with the great works of modern art. | cannot
ftly talk of drawing and color and composition.
only repeat in general, Robert Feury's particular
lied favorable testimony to these qualities in Mr..
MAYS Columbus. TO me the worth of the picture
is, that with or despite of the incoming priest and
his acOyte, and Il presence OF friendly attendant,
and The table-furnishnes and drapery, etc. Gall of
which l came TO see aside, as it were) the great,
deep, first and last idea which this painted canvas,
gives to me is the moral grandeur that lay in the
words and works of the discoyerer of the New
| World. 1t prOyOkes sentiment as well as thought
And in its contemplation, thought and memory and
feeling harmonze: to the essential unity OF the pic
ture, the whole spiritual nature of the spectator
comes to correspond. So that the last summary
| impression which it makes upon and leaves with
| him, is not SO much a sense of definite forms and
cOlOrs, as "a sentiment of a great work done by
| great man, inspired by faith as much as by hope
and 4 HfeS never greater 3h s as aEHs
supereminently, not Mr.. May, not ingenious furn-
ture detail, but high, ideafzed, real Columbus
But thank Heaven am not critic in art, and have
/ not to describe nor analyze this admirable canvas
started to say that MIR. May never has received an
order from State or Federal Government-mores
the pity for the Legislative Halls of Washington and
State capitals.
| Speaking of criticisms Of pictures: note in the
| last number of The London Atheneum friendly
notice of our countTyman, Cropsey's 4" Autumn on
| the Hudson" now ON exhibition in the capital of
England. The well-informed critic begins his ar
| ticle thus: The view chosen is the mouth of the
:" great and beautiful river just where the noun
" tains 1.-THE Catskils1 come down to the at
"West Point" Now, so many of you as have
done laughing at this foreigners ignorance of geog
raphy, bound Germany" and say in which de-
paItments of France the towns antes and Nancy
| are situate.
Baron MERCER, newly appointed successor Of NJ.
| de Sartiges in the French Legation at Washington,
| leaves here for the United States next week.