New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-09

I'm. Thor. a, mn telling what may happen one Is % for
tnna.a. u, ,ecure mountain seventeen miles high to
mon II the reader doubts our statement as
to tho hight we have only say that we tooka pine
tree ~ in the immediate foreground and used IL ~
rod first applying 1t TO the elevations "a
recy across the river and then applying them to the
mountain itself; doubt If any other result can De
reached, by whatever system Of computing
But Mr. Martin, sitting uneasily on the point Of
dilemma which We selected, prefers the other for
change. This plain he says is only five miles across
and the mountain is just as high ms the geography
peases This admission oblges to take the plain by
the ears and ask 1t how it dares to try and pass itself of
for big boy of fifty miles when is but tenth OF that
size To which 1t answers, as It must that what We
took for pine trees and hills nothing but horse-ta
and ant hills for it plain enough that If standard
Of measure which we took for pine-tree ras pine
tree then calculation Of the distance was nsIheu
and also that Of the hight of the mountain What
becomes by the decision Of the trees on the noun
tain sde' Surely at five miles of could see them
plainly enough At all events they would dalRen anu
spot and tuft the mountain If only with patches OF
shade. which we should know by experience TO mean
trees.
But in reality there trees no foliage OF any
kind on all this mountain side Here is artist WHO
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and brings back this absurd messages that the Adiron
dacks picturesque but not lofty spur outlying range
Of the Aleghanies presents phenomenon that is not
shown by the Hottest mountains Of the word-the An
des or the Himalayas That is to say the bare rock
rises at once from the plain without much little
starveing cedar for companion, and soars away TO mid
heaven in the very fanaticism OF desolaon. Now.
mountain has to make prodgious efforts at climbing
and get long way up above the earth before 1t can
fairly rid itself of green things AT the first setting
out there 10 not hill of such repulsve manners. 70
utterly orlorn destitute Of grace es to be quite With
ont friends of the bush and tree variety Indeed the
way Trey crowd about it is quite embarrassing and IN
nine cases ont Of ten they in such troops that
outsiders have.to get good way of TO be sure that the
hill has actually got o start toward heaven. However,
of il goes and though by one. the fret fnends
drop away and say goodbye and cling 10 their pleas
ant lowly places and shuider at the stealing cold the
growing hight and loneliness Others take their places
and keep pace with the aspiring one; and when they
too forsake him. others again, but smaller now ahu
few hold fast him and WHISPER words Of cheer 'an
him with their ministeriDg breezes revive him win
their gathered dews, and remain steadiast tn tie
yaiing shroud of is folded over his silent head
WHY need we 60 furtheri What remains 10 be
provedi Let the reader look for himself lie viii ma
no truth anywhere In this picture He cannot explain It,
No one part consistent with another. 1t is painted
wi,bou, care get single truth OF statement We are
not quarreing with tho entire refusal TO be realistic.
But we are quarrelng with the refusal the deliberate
refsual for the rnth Every line Of the picture
says plainly IT written In so many words,
am going to be imaginative. IDEAL abstract and Ia
these qualities truth has share" Ii 10 eaailow
thought that deyises such things. 1t is the argument
Of incidence and ignorance and the result is Of course
disastrous II 30 strong word can be applied to such
feeble work.
But how are we to blame artists. especially our
young men, they persist in throwing themselves away
such performances this when they are battered into
beevinethat their work s great, poetic, imaginative
Tho Academy is full Of the very worst possible teaching
by conspicuous men, whose works honored with The
very best places Such picture as Derstadts such
picture Ggnouxs such portraits as those We have
already described-woIk deep and widespread In
Jury TO the public TASTE and far they looked
by the younger artists simply ruinous. Mr.
Martin. last year, had work that promised well Ibis
year be has painted picture he ought to regret In no
unfriendly spirit have endeavored to show him why
We think SO.