The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-10

straight avenues, you pass on until you ar
rive at the second circular intersection, which
is devoted to the liberal arts, viz:-printing,
book-binding, drawing, and modelling, as
applied to the mechanic arts, music, photo
graphy, medical arti geography, etc. etc.
After making the tour OF this dc.
partment, you. take the same means az
before described to reach the third circular
avenue which is devoted TO the display of
household furniture of all nations How tame
1t seems to catalogue, as IL were, such MARVEL
lous beauties as this specially containsl What
Imagination is there capable of ooniurinp mn
such ideas of brilliant fantasy as are actuallv
realized by what here we see spread ont
on either hand2 The next circle tthe fourth) h
devoted TO the clothing, and the mate rails that
enter into the construction thereof of all lands
that receive the suns broad light, Fantastic
capriciousness, such as here displayed, may be
imagined, but not written. The various colors
and make of material are truly wonderful, and
bring, as it were, the universe before our eves
Such poetic costumes such ideas of dress or a
verify, one would think their inventors were
possessed of a splendid madness. After making
the circuit of this department, we again
take one of the straight avenues and
walk towards the exterior Of the building,
until we arrive at what we shall term the fifth
circular avenue of the Exhibition, Here is to
be found the most wonderful productions of the
vegetable, ANIMAL and mineral kingdom 8.
How shall we venture to describe the wonders
of wonders that here abound in lfmitless pro-
fusion? The heauteous minerals, torn from the
bosom of mother earth, would call for volumes
of description, and then failure to convey an
idea of what may here be seen would be the
result; and knowing this. we pass o to the
sixth avenue, where we find the magnificent
machinery. Around all passes an extensive
boulevard that will do much to facilitate travel,
and upen which magnificent euuipages may be
displayed. Mine, however. hasten To assure
the reader, will not be seen there; dislike
ostentat
There is much that is still unfinished in every
part of this great worlds gathering; but in
short time, say three weeks from now, there is
every posi- ibhtty that most enchanting, ravish-
ing, delightful, unimaglnable fairy land will be
found upon the Champs de Mars. With ali the
excitement that attends an examination of so
many wondrous and unheard-of displays, we
must still confess that it is the people who visit
Paris az the present time in whom we are most
interested. Such varieties of costume, such
marked and extraordinary physiognomies were
probably never before seen together, and
in our times will, in all probability, be
never seen again. Poles, Tartars Russians
from the Crimea, all, however, sink in interest
in comparison with our own bright. eyed sharp
faced Yankees and the very ohtnt;P
of them recalls a serio.comic affair that han.
pened to the well known Mr.. William H or
Philadelphia, The gentleman in question was
oos,,,,c, -, "Pnnt deA Arts" the nfhAr night Tor
morning) about O'Clock. Everything around
was dark and lonely, the plaintive wind could
be heard moaning around the chlmneys of the
French Institute, and the gurging waters of
the Seine murmured as an accompaniment.
Our friend was half way across the bridge when
he observed man, who, until then had been un.
observed by him, spring rapidly into the rush
ing river below. Excited beyond expression, Mr..
H ran to the railing of the bridge and
shouted, "Man in the water-help! helpW His
stentorian cries soon brought Two gendarnes
e the spot, Not ER3wng ggn the NuT
in" etc. etc, pointing to the waters below. The
policemen did not understand him, thought
him crazy, and finished the matter by escorting
him TO the station house as drunken rowdy.
He passed, as may be Imagined, q, very unplea-
SAINT night, and it was not until the middle of
| the next day that he was released with apollo
| gies. OF course, the miserable man who threw
| himself into the water was never taken out
"But why all this gossip" says the reader;
! and, really, we suppose we ought to apologize
| for not keeping TO the great text OF the day,
| namely, the Exposition. In relation to this
may say, that nothing gives me more true plea
| sure in that immense bazaar than'the picture
| galleries. There Is no mistake about 1t, the
| French school of art is the greatest in the
| When think OF hin an image springs TO my
mind, classical and antique-beauty that is a
very joy to think upon. mean his figure of
the beauteous Phryne, as she stands in all the
simplicity of her glorious form before the tri-
bunal. To use the common phrase, we will
say that every schoolboy knows the story of
| Phryne (athough we are fully convinced that
| very few of them know anything about it).
She was lovely creature, who for some ottense
| The judges, who were stern, hard old fellows
| would, no doubt have dealt hardly with her,
| had not her advocate seized her flowing drapery,
and with energetic action left her in Eve-like
| simplicity. The effect OF her beauty was so
| wonderful that she was unanimously acquitted.
Gerome has treated this subject with splendid
| power, and the sensation that this picture has
| created wherever exhibited has been immense.
| In the Exhibition of 1862 it aroused an immense
excitement. The girl who posed as model for
the "Phryne" was we'll known to the artist.
| She was person of queenly beauty, and,
blythe way, remarkable singer. Her rendi-
tion of Henri Murser's pathetic ballad of
Bohemian world of Paris. She died about two
years ago, but has left in Gerome's mastery
work an immortal souvenir of herself.
| The same artists production of "AVe, Cesar;
morituri te salutanJ." is magnificent in con-
ception and great in execution. The gladiators
about to engage with each other in mortal
| combat in the arena are passing in review be-
fore their brutal and sensuous master and
| raising their voices they cry with one accord
"Hail, Cesar; the dying salute thee" A picture
small in size Is this, but had 1t been ten times
as large the idea gwen of vast perspective could
not have been better. But of what beauties o
art that are here arrayed shall we venture tC
the very contemp mplation of which oVerWhelms
the mind with admiration. Look at the speci
mems of Messonter, that wonderful man whose
pictures actually sell Tor more than twice theil
thirty thousand dollars for his last picture. II
is an exceedingly small production. repre-
minuteness of the detail divides admi
ration with the wonderful expression O
character that is given to the figures. Tall
| about the cavalry charges that the old Dutch
masters paintedI Why, their pistol shootinl
Z gallery effect is childs play compared with tht
/ terrible energy OF Messonier's chef d'dltre
| Cabanel, the painter of the "Poete Florentin
is likewise a lion among painters; but why
attempt to particularize further at the present.
e Enough to say the works of Jules Breton, ,Brion
: Flassan, Gleyre Fleury, Bouquereau and hun