New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-18
given artistic presentation Of this ehads power in

gwen artistic presentau0n Vi this clau PV'ei ia
his Pearl
To different order of artistic merit belong Gus
tave Dores designs illustrative of passages In Dante
Inferno. Photographs of the drawings, destined ior
future cutting on wood, are now ON exhibition In
temporary charitable fDe-art gallery on the Douie
yardes des Itaeus. There are twenfy-eisht OF tnei
Take my word for H. that there have never hl'herIo
been any SUCH Any neoriy such ft approach I'D Iorn
and color to the grand conceptions OF Dante. Iney
have all the qualities of Gustave Dore, anu IeIo re-
your corr, spondent take the little credit 10 hiIse
of having been the first. years ago, to mention Dore
and bis works in American print, and nardiy M!
of bis defects They are to Dante's Inferno "hat
his work, mentioned seven years ago IN TINS corIe-
spOndence, is TO Rabelaiss Pantagrlel ana Gargai-
tua: whether be designed 10 RabeIais's and DAME :
text, or whether Dante and Rabelais wrote up 10
his desgns' would be an insoluble problem 70 any
connosseur freshly arrived from any part OF tne
universe uninfested by chronological and mstoric
prcjudices.
Edward Frere sends a charming SNOWFALL scene
to this years salon. OF other sendiDgs, IN winch
several Of our american artists take part and oi tne
Exhibition when finally exhibited, as II will be next
month, notes will be made in the near future. :.
The other day--say two weeks ago-an Italian
newspaper charged Alexander Dumas Ohe Great
with having made illegal pccuniary profits out OF
furnishings to the Garbaldian Provisional Govern
who is hghest-bn0wn French authority in matters
of the dleiio, makes known directly TO the editors
Of said newspaper that firstly, he gives them full
legnl time to 90 through the legal courts on the
question:; secondly, that that resulting as it may,
he then holds himself ready and then bound to
settlement OF the case by duel. This tom-ioors
nonsense reminds me to direct the attention Of 50
many of your readers as are curious in such mat
ters to really very curious volume recently pub
Gshed here. Id is entitled Historic dntcdotiqre da
Duel, and, which is much more to the purpose and
to the credit of lis author NJ. COlonhey, it IS the
nnecdotical history of the duel from quite remote
middle-nge renconters down TO the times and
affairs OF Col Webb and Mr. Bennett. IT is no.
ticcablc bow large representation among dueists
the French press has furnished: naturally enough,
the representation that some editors of New-fork
have declined 10 furnish il treated Of in VI. Co
lombey's book on the igcRS d non principle. And
since ! am ouce come 10 speak of books, and have
the space of three lines get free in this last page,
H.: me note: Galerie DIS Chdsssurs Wpsires-ke-
markable hunters from Ninrod to Monsieur Bonn
bound; characieristcaJy French IS the fact that OF
the nine famous hunters mentioned six are French;
of the remaining three, one is NimrOd, one st. Hu.
bert, aud one q forget the name) equally general
and nationally indefinite; and then in cleverer
sort, is In Grain de Sadie by jules Noriac, the
witty author of La Bets Humains